News Room

2006

• Some Really Good News from Japan
  Major Japanese Supermarket Chain Bans Sales of Dolphin Meat
  — 30 December, 06
• Winter 2007 Earth Island Journal on newsstands now!
  Special Environmental Education Directory supplement included.
  — 13 December, 06
• Weblog updated on saveTaijiDolphins.org
  "The bluish-gray dolphins are locked up in three separate areas of the killing cove..."
  — 13 December, 06
• Corporate Responsibility and Sacred Sites
  Recognizing the impact of corporations on Native American sacred lands, the Sacred Land Film Project has produced a comprehensive new report exposing the enormity of this threat.
  — 28 November, 06
• Rumah Nyawin victory: "We will not be evicted!"
  The longhouse, farmlands, and protected forest of an Iban Dayak community of Rumah Nyawin, bordering the Similajau Forest Reserve, Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia have been saved, at least for now!
  — 28 November, 06
• Preview of the Winter 2007 Earth Island Journal
  — 22 November, 06
• Intelligence Of Dolphins Cited in Fight Against Hunt
  — 21 November, 06
• Earth Island responds to Washington Post story
  — 21 November, 06
• Court considers dolphin-safe labels on tuna
  From Bay City News Wire
  — 20 November, 06
• Dolphin kill dogged by mercury, activists
  From the Japan Times
  — 1 November, 06
• Dolphin trainers join in massacre
  The ugly secret is that the international trade in dolphins for aquariums and "swim-with-dolphins" programs is subsidizing the dolphin slaughter.
  — 31 October, 06
• Taiji, Japan: Dolphin hunt underway
  “After being driven into the killing lagoon, the confused pod of dolphins spend the entire day swimming in a tight circle near the mouth of the lagoon. The fishermen have cut off their escape with two large nets…”
  — 25 October, 06
• Tales of the City
  Animal rights activist speaks for the voiceless
  — 24 October, 06
• Beware smoke that hides Proposition 90's aims
  News laws, already signed by governor, fix California's eminent domain problems. From the Sacramento Bee.
  — 24 October, 06
• Leading CA Green Groups Embrace Planktos Ecorestoration to Erase Their Carbon Footprints
  Two Premier Enviro Communities Take Ecorestorative High Road to '07 Carbon Neutrality
  — 11 October, 06
• MTV and the Campus Climate Challenge battle global warming
  "...designed to educate students on global warming and to challenge them to stop it."
  — 4 October, 06
• Reports from around the world; Japan Dolphin Day
  Demonstrations in 30 cities...
  — 27 September, 06
• California Sues GM, Ford, Toyota Over Global Warming
  From Bloomberg.com
  — 20 September, 06
• Roadless Rule Victory!
  Judge rejects Bush rule on logging roads - from the Washington Post
  — 20 September, 06
• Nature in the City wins 2006 Bay Guardian 'Best of the Bay' award
  "Best local land lover"
  — 19 September, 06
• Safe Food and Fertilizer's Patty Martin in E Magazine
  Toxic Sludge: Is it Good for You?
  — 19 September, 06
• 2005 Brower Youth Award winner Zander Srodes: Teen shares passion for sea turtles
  From Southwest Florida's Herald Tribune
  — 19 September, 06
• Billy Parish: Mother Jones’ Student Activist of the Year for his founding of Earth Island project Energy Action Coalition
  — 7 September, 06
• Toxic Mercury Taints Tuna in Chicago Sushi Restaurants
  Findings Suggest Women and Children Should Avoid Tuna, Affirm Efforts to Reduce Mercury Pollution (.pdf, ~1M) From GotMercury.org
  — 30 August, 06
• Struggle to Save Old-Growth Sites in North Carolina
  — 30 August, 06
• New shrimp farm rules aim to save Asian mangroves
  "It's ridiculous to think that a multi-billion-dollar industry can be stopped," said environmentalist Ben Brown, who works for the Mangrove Action Project in Indonesia...
  — 29 August, 06
• New Alaska tax cracks down on cruise lines. From The Seattle Times.
  Cruise Ship Ballot Initiative Passes! Background in the Summer 2006 Earth Island Journal
  — 25 August, 06
• Reservations and RSVP for this year's Brower Youth Awards!
  The New Leaders Initiative is now taking reservations for the VIP Reception and for the Ceremony. Don't miss it!
  — 25 August, 06
• Giant Sequoia National Monument Logging Plan Stopped Pending Further Study
  — 25 August, 06
• Hawaii Judge Reverses Permit for More Mauna Kea Telescopes
  Judge Hara held that, "The resource that needs to be conserved, protected and preserved is the summit area of Mauna Kea, not just the area of the project."
  — 15 August, 06
• US Tuna Industry's Dolphin-safe Fishing Practices Result in Tuna with the Lowest Mercury Levels
  — 14 July, 06
• In the News: John Muir Project’s Chad Hanson
  — 5 July, 06
• The Toll of Superfund Neglect
  Today, the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) includes 1,244 sites awaiting cleanup. Many have languished on the list for well over a decade and some have awaited cleanup for almost a quarter century…
  — 15 June, 06
• Update to Critical Hour
  Earthhealing has released an update to Critical Hour: Three Mile Island, The Nuclear Legacy and National Security, published by Earth Island/Yggdrasil in 2004.
  — 14 June, 06
• ECO, The Whale Activists’ Newsletter – Now Online from the International Whaling Commission Meetings in St. Kitts, The Caribbean
  Earth Island Institute's International Marine Mammal Project will be hosting the daily activists' newsletter ECO, posted online from the International Whaling Commission meetings in St. Kitts, June 16-20, 2006.
  — 8 June, 06
• Letter from the President of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums
  “…to express WAZA’s condemnation of this inhumane practice and urging them to immediately terminate the dolphin drives. I shall, of course, also be writing to our colleagues at the Japanese Association of Zoos & Aquariums…”
  — 7 June, 06
• John Muir Project Legal Victory
  Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Issues Injunction of Eldorado National Forest Post-Fire Logging
  — 23 May, 06
• House Votes to Protect Water and Wildlife
  In a giant victory for clean water, the House of Representatives voted [May 18] 222-198 to accept an amendment to the FY 07 Interior/EPA Appropriations bill that will force the U.S. EPA to stop using a policy that has put millions of acres of wetlands, st
  — 23 May, 06
• TIME Magazine on captive dolphins in the Solomon Islands
  The International Marine Mammal Project's Mark Berman is featured.
  — 10 May, 06
• Landowner confesses to paying for murder of Dorothy Stang
  “…worked in the region for 30 years as an activist protecting the land rights of the poor and the environment.” From Agencia Brasil.
  — 27 April, 06
• Radioactive School Site is Tip of New Jersey Toxic Iceberg
  “…the former uranium processing facility is one of as many as 200 contaminated sites that have been expedited for school construction…” From PEER.
  — 27 April, 06
• Putin Orders Pipeline Moved Away From Lake
  “The route should be moved more than 25 miles north of Lake Baikal, Putin said at a discussion with regional governors over Siberia's development.” From AP & the San Francisco Chronicle.
  — 27 April, 06
• Evidence links “built green” homes to destructive logging in Grassy Narrows
  A Rainforest Action Network report confirms that building products and new homes marketed in the United States as environmentally friendly use wood clear-cut without consent from treaty-protected indigenous territory&
  — 20 April, 06
• Double Language from the French Defense Ministry on the Consequences of Nuclear Testing
  “Without citing the commission’s report, the defense ministry repeats all the worn-out arguments on “clean tests” while promising transparency and consultation. It is unacceptable,” states Roland Oldham, president of Moruroa
  — 6 April, 06
• A Victory for Whales!
  Japanese company Nissui agrees to divest itself of whaling interests
  — 4 April, 06
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Confirms Tibetan Antelope “Endangered” Status
  — 4 April, 06
• New Website for Consumers About Dolphin Safe Tuna: www.DolphinSafe.org
  — 30 March, 06
• Groups Urge Removal of Logging Executive from Forestry Panel
  Weyherhaeuser Has Obvious Financial Conflict of Interest…
  — 30 March, 06
• The Red Panda Project has renovated thier Web site
  — 30 March, 06
• Court Rejects EPA’s Loosening of Air Rule
  New Source Review law upheld
  — 30 March, 06
• Scientists Urge Government to Keep Protected Areas for Endangered Sea Turtles
  We would be abandoning our responsibility to do everything we can to prevent them from slipping into the oblivion of extinction
  — 30 March, 06
• We Can Do It: When it comes to the environment, women lead the way
  Earth Island projects Ma’at Youth Academy and Women’s Global Green Action Network are profiled.
  — 30 March, 06
• Key vote to ban taking krill from federal waters
  Without their krill, the Cassin’s and rhinoceros auklets abandoned eggs in their nests, and common murre, the most populous seabirds in the Farallones, had lower numbers of fledglings.
  — 30 March, 06
• Buffalo Betrayed by Official Cruelty and Indifference
  — 30 March, 06
• Tasmanian Forests Falling
  Global outcry over falling forests and failing democracy on Australia’s island state of Tasmania
  — 30 March, 06
• Endangered Species Act 93% Successful in Northeast
  Study Finds Species Recovery Will Take Decades, but Progress is Steady
  — 3 March, 06
• Bush Promotes Drilling Proposal
  … his stance would allow exploration in waters now protected
  — 23 February, 06
• National Park Plan Allows Game Farms and Predator Reduction
  Wildlife, Wilderness & Water – at risk in massive park policy rewrite
  — 23 February, 06
• Wal-Mart shrimp certification seen as threat to mangroves
  “...farmed shrimp utilizing very faulty standards will threaten the vital coastal wetland areas, including mangrove forests, according to a press release from the Mangrove Action Project (MAP).”
  — 14 February, 06
• Spring 2006 Earth Island Journal is now available online
  — 9 February, 06
• Canada Commits to Legislate Protection of more than 5 Million Acres of Great Bear Rainforest
  The total area protected from the chainsaw equals 5 million acres…
  — 7 February, 06
• Interior official official responsible for a scientific fraud promoted
  — 7 February, 06
• Budget proposal revives Arctic drilling
  — 7 February, 06
• Natives To Protest at Calpine against Power Plant Proposed at Sacred Medicine Lake near Mt. Shasta
  Pit River Indian Tribe members to be joined by community and environmental justice groups in protest and cultural gathering at Calpine corporate offices
  — 25 January, 06
• Reference to Sonar Deleted in Whale-Beaching Report
  — 24 January, 06
• Another right whale calf killed off Florida – tail sliced off…
  Petition to the Coast Guard for Safety Zone to Slow Ships Crossing Whales’ Habitat
  — 12 January, 06

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