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Conservation advocates worry for the future of Kohler-Andrae State Park
MADISON (WKOW) — A conservation group made its way to the Capitol from Sheboygan Thursday afternoon to bring attention to a Walker-era land swap agreement. Members of Friends of the Black River Forest (FBRF) say they hope to get the governor and the state to heed their warnings that a dangerous precedent could be set…
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Water clarity: The murky management of Rakaia River
Fish & Game, Environmental Defence Society and several other parties have been engaged with ECan for about two years over who is responsible for monitoring and managing the Rakaia Water Conservation Order. Photo: Fish & Game NZ / Supplied It was hoped withdrawing a court case trying to work out who is responsible for looking…
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Southern California’s largest pristine environment preserved and protected by new partnership
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County and The Nature Conservancy have partnered with Vandenberg Space Force Base to execute a $15 million conservation easement over the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve. The Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve, a 24,341-acre nature preserve located along the Gaviota Coast, is the largest…
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Social media helping to protect biodiversity
image: Red-base jezebel (Delias pasithoe). view more Credit: Dr Shawan Chowdhury Nature photographers posting to social media are helping improve biodiversity conservation mapping in South Asia, and the method could go global. Dr Shawan Chowdhury from UQ’s School of the Environment led an international team which scoured images on Facebook nature photography groups in Bangladesh, to add to…
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Fresh critical water
Rebecca Flitcroft is on a quest. And she wants you to join her. As a research fish biologist with the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, she cares about water a lot. Specifically, she wants to shine a light on the need for freshwater protection because biodiversity in freshwater is declining at an alarming rate.…
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Volunteers work around the clock to protect eggs of pied oystercatcher
“It’s a pretty amazing experience. This is the second time in about 30 years that we’ve managed to hatch these birds on a public beach,” she said. Keating added she hopes people won’t write off the birds, and will learn about their environment and how to better support it. The pied oystercatchers are endangered in…
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Global Boiling: Strengthening Conservation Amid Rising Climate Crisis
With a predicted dryer than average summer ahead, the ACT Government is applying lessons learnt from the 2020 bushfires to protect the Canberra environment from devastating decline. Minister for the Environment Rebecca Vassarotti said that she is focusing her efforts on environmental protection and conservation strategies to respond to a difficult summer ahead. “A bushfire…
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Conservation and Fishing Groups Condemn Approval of Sites Reservoir EIR by Project Authority Board
SACRAMENTO, CA – Regulatory capture by Big Ag and Big Water is a sad fact of life in the “green” and “progressive” state of California. That’s why the Newsom administration has promoted the environmentally destructive Delta Tunnel project and “voluntary agreements” — and why today members of the Sites Project Authority Board, comprised of representatives of the water agencies that will…
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Notification of Construction on Pinewood Water Treatment Plant November 20 to November 24, 2023
Kawartha Lakes – The Pinewood Water Treatment Plant is set to undergo construction from Monday November 20 to Friday November 24, subject to equipment delivery. The Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA), on behalf of Kawartha Lakes, operates and maintains the Pinewood Water Treatment Plant for the community of Pontypool. As part of life cycle replacement work…
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Opposition grows to major road project in AK’s iconic Brooks Range
Opposition is growing among hunters and anglers to a proposed road in Alaska’s iconic Brooks Range. The state has invested millions in the project, eyeing it as an economic development tool. The Brooks Range extends from Alaska’s Arctic into Canada’s Yukon. The Ambler Industrial Road would cut a 211-mile-long east to west swath through the…
