“Bristol Bay Alaska save the endangered whales, salmon and other wildlife”

June 13, 2010 at 8:12 pm (ancient animals, animals, Environmental crisis, mammals, saving native fish, sea life, water/ice, working together)
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Another mega-company Anglo American and Mitsubishi wants to turn the pristine area near Bristol Bay, Alaska area over to be mined.
The Pebble Mine is run by another Japanese mega corporation the Mitsubishi Corporation.

Please sign our new Petition of Protest so that your voice can be heard loud and clear at Mitsubishi’s annual Shareholders Meeting in Tokyo on June 24, 2010. Click here to let your voice be heard.

Killer whales may go extinct

Mitsubishi and its share holders wake up!
SAVE BRISTOL BAY

Bristol Bay is a unique American natural treasure.

Beluga whale

  • Home to orcas and beluga whales, wild moose and caribou, and one of only two populations of freshwater harbor seals in the world

It’s world-class salmon runs that support thousands of sustainable jobs in fishing and tourism as well as Alaska Natives who depend on the salmon for food. Click here to let your voice be heard.

What do they propose to do?

  • Put a 2,000-foot-deep open-pit mine in the heart of America’s wilderness in a known earthquake zone.
  • The Pebble Mine’s colossal earthen dams are supposed to hold back some 10 billion tons of mining waste mixed with toxic chemicals. These dams never work forever. These dams are  disasters waiting to happen.

Problems  in the exploration phase

In April 2010 even without the mine in full swing, the companies had taken water from 45 unauthorized stream segments, the Anchorage Daily News reported. The exploration was temporarily halted.

Permits have been reinstated allowing Pebble Limited Partnership to continue exploring copper and gold deposits in southwest Alaska, the state Department of Natural Resources said Friday.
But the partnership still needs permission from the state’s Department of Fish and Game to work in fish habitat in order to begin drilling again this year.
All ready the Pebble Mine before it goes into full-scale operation, it will permanently destroy over 60 miles of salmon habitat.
If salmon runs collapse, so could the entire ecosystem and the communities that rely on salmon for their very subsistence.

Please stand with the Alaska’s Native communities and lovers of nature everywhere by making your voice heard at Mitsubishi’s Shareholders Meeting.

Don’t allow this mega corporation that sells so many cars, trucks, and electronics in the United States sacrifice one of America’s most spectacular pieces of endangered wilderness and the bioms dependent on it.  Click here to let your voice be heard.

Will Mitsubishi rethink this destructive venture when faced with worldwide opposition?

It did 10 years ago. Click here to let your voice be heard.


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Excerpts courtesy of NRDC.com

Images 1 & 2. courtesy of  NC library

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“Bleeding the Grand Canyon”

May 8, 2010 at 8:17 pm (children, Environmental crisis, saving native fish, working together)
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The US strip mining operations are doing to the land what the oil companies have so adeptly done to change our oceans and coastal areas.

It is time to stand up and be counted and stop this destruction

Keep the Grand Canyon  wild and free of mining pollutants.

Roger Clark from the Grand Canyon Trust takes an EcoFlight over four uranium mines situated near the Grand Canyon National Park.

Look through the looking glass into the possible future of what’s in store for the region and its watersheds that bring water to more than 25 million people.

Can we afford the equivalent of the Gulf oil “spill” in our Grand Canyon?

It will also show you the “Arizona 1″ uranium mine, which is by far the greatest threat to the health, cultural integrity, and economic well-being of the Havasupai People; perhaps even their very existence.

Can we afford to destroy the waterways through mine pollution into our headways and tributaries?

According to media reports, the Calgary-based company Denison Mines has re-opened the Arizona 1 mine “In defiance of legal challenges and a U.S. Government moratorium,” says Indigenous Activist and musician Klee Benally.

Benally explains that “U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar initially called for a two-year moratorium on new mining claims in a buffer zone of 1 million acres around Grand Canyon National Park, but the moratorium (didn’t) include existing claims such as Denison’s.” Nor did it address mining claims outside of the buffer zone.

Because of the recent increase in the price of uranium and the absurd push for nuclear power, more than a thousand mining claims have been staked in the region.

Look at a video showing the bleeding of the Grand Canyon and the pollution and scarring of one of our most treasured resources.

Did you know any foreign government can mine in our nature parks and then take the ore and not be held to environmentally sound practices. Why should they care? -It is not their mother country’s greatest treasures?

What about the wildlife that call the canyon home both on the land and in the waterways. Do we want to sacrifice them big and small to death either fast or slow from pollution?

We must stay informed to keep our water supplies clean and health or ultimately we will pay for it with our health and the lives of our children. We must keep our lands and seas clean to insure our life.

Get involved. Send us your comments and questions we will keep you posted.

Sign the petition to protect the Grand Canyon today. Mother Nature and Nature’s Crusaders thanks you.

Video click here

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Video courtesy of YOUTUBE.com

Image courtesy of   http://bit.ly/9YGjVo

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“Can condoms help save the endangered rainforest?”

April 15, 2010 at 12:37 am (working together)
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The Brazilian Government is the largest single buyer of condoms in the world, importing around a billion of them every year. The sales of these government supported condoms funds a high profile advertising campaign targeted to reach  high risk populations.Brazil has also developed a highly effective anti-HIV/AIDS campaign, which is widely credited with having prevented the type of epidemic that has devastated other developing countries.

Brazil has driven down the cost of antiretroviral drugs.  The condoms are make with sustainable rubber. This supports the growth of local industry, while controlling the spread of infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS. The government opened its new factory in May of 2008. Located in the northwestern Acre state its goal is to produce 100 million condoms a year.

The latex comes from the Chico Mendes Reserve, named after the celebrated conservationist and rubber tapper who was killed by ranchers in 1988.  He gave his life fighting conditions under which the rubber tappers worked and lived, and he grew into an activist fighting to change those conditions.
Supporting People Helping People improve the health of our world-one person, plant or animal at a time. -Nature’s Crusaders
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Excerpts courtesy of  http://bit.ly/cMOpUa

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Excerpts courtesy of  http://nyti.ms/eiybh

Image 1. courtesy of  http://bit.ly/9y4Uci

Photo of rubber sap collection courtesy of Flickr photographer zaza_bj under the Creative Commons license.

Image 2. courtesy of  http://nyti.ms/eiybh

Image 3. courtesy of  http://bit.ly/aN4MCa

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“Soccer teams supporting cheeta conservation-who is next?

December 7, 2009 at 10:52 pm (animals, mammals, working together)
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So which sport will be next

to support the endangered cheetah or another endangered animal?

Threatened or endangered species and the forests, oceans and natural habitats around our world

can use all the help they can get. The world needs all the Usain Bolts, soccer teams or local school and individual or families we can get to help save our world. You can and are making a difference.

Soccer teams embrace the cheetah

The school’s decision to change the boys’ team name to the Cubs and rename the girls team the “Cheetahs” was part of the school’s effort to support the Otjiwarongo-based organization whose Bush project has been chosen as one of the finalists in the BBC’s World Challenge 2009, a global competition aimed at projects showing enterprise and innovation at grassroots levels.
The name changes were announced as part of a ceremony at the school on November 10, 2009 by Dr. Laurie Marker, Founder and Director of Cheetah Conservation Fund and supported by Dr. Anne Schmidt-Kuentzel, CCF geneticists.

The school’s decision to christen the boys’ team the Cubs and the girls team the Cheetahs was part of its effort to support the Otjiwarongo-based organization whose Bush project has been chosen as one of the finalists in the BBC’s World Challenge 2009, a global competition aimed at projects showing enterprise and innovation at grassroots levels.

Cheetahs may run free in India

The NGO has been in existence since 1990 under the leadership of Dr Laurie Marker and the patronage of His Excellency Dr. Sam Nujoma. Its mission is to be an internationally recognized center of excellence in research and education on cheetahs and their eco-systems the largest and healthiest population of which can be found in Namibia. For more information on the CCF Bush Project and the integrated community model of success click here.

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Excerpts and Image 1. courtesy of http://www.economist.com.na/cheetahs-and-cubs-to-play-soccer

Image 2. Files of Natures Crusaders

More information on CCF Bush project ccf-save-a-cheetah-time-is-running-out

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