wwf:

Infographic: How Much Of The Earth Will We Eat By 2050?

nrdc:

Help save Alaska’s beluga whales from the Pebble Mine

The proposed Pebble Mine threatens two of Alaska’s beluga whale populations, including the last 340 belugas of Cook Inlet. You can help save them. Send a message to mining giant Anglo American Corporation urging them to leave Bristol Bay and its beluga whales alone.

kirstenwrites:

1000 Pilot whales are being slaughtered in Torshvan, Faroe Islands today Tweet @BBCNews! We must get the word out and get some news coverage now! In defiance of the world the ferocious Faroe Islands continue their gluttonous slaughter of these sentient sensitive beings please help!!

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neiture:

Conservationists have called on the Indonesian authorities to take urgent action to save the orangutan after a report warned that the endangered great apes were being hunted at a rate that could bring them to the brink of extinction.

Erik Meijaard, who led a team carrying out the first attempt to assess the scale of the problem in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, said the results showed that between 750 and 1,800 orangutans were killed as a result of hunting and deforestation in the 12 months to April 2008.

The numbers, which were higher than expected, indicated that most orangutan populations in Kalimantan could be in serious danger “within the foreseeable future”, said Meijaard, of the Jakarta-based People and Nature Consulting International. “At that rate… you’re talking about 10-15 years until pretty much all orangutans [in Kalimantan] are gone.”[read more]

gailthewhale:

Canada, which is home to two-thirds of the world’s polar bear population, is taking steps to better protect the endangered bear.

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wwf:

South Africa – More rhinos have been killed in South Africa in the past 10 months than were killed in all of 2010, new poaching numbers reveal. Statistics from South Africa National Parks show that…