California's Lost Coast Redwood Forests are still largely privately owned. Save the Redwoods League has a shot at buying and preserving a chunk of them. From their donation page:
Originally published on my blog: Hanna Writes.com
It’s Christmas bird count day. In the 19th and much of the 20th Century Christmas was celebrated by the mass slaughter of birds to some extent for food but mostly for sport. Groups would often form teams or shoot individually sometimes for a prize slaughtering birds by the thousands and most often just letting them lie where they fell. What fun.
I received an e-mail from Point Blue Conservation Science (formerly Point Reyes Bird Observatory) announcing a conservation agreement concerning the Ross Sea. The gist of it is that
the 24-nation Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) unanimously agreed to establish the Ross Sea as the world's largest marine protected area.
Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. this is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. I am watching the news in North Dakota. I am there in spirit since it is impossible for me to be there in person. As part Cherokee I am proud that my people are there with our brothers and sisters trying to stop the desecration of our lands.
Conservation International Presents
Nature Is Speaking
There are a whole series of thought provoking videos - like this
