Tag: conservation
Secret of rare 'spirit bear' revealed by First Nation community
A First Nation community in British Columbia hopes exposing the rare white black bear will help protect the species from threat of a planned oil pipeline project....
Secret lives of animals captured by hidden camera
Conservation International used hidden cameras to collect 52,000 images of mammals in the wild from Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia....
Lawmakers: Remove EPA's enforcement of water standards
A bill passed by the House would revise the Clean Water Act to give states more authority to determine water quality standards....
Fish farming may be answer to depleted oceans
Fish populations are so depleted that when today's children are adults, there may be no fish left to eat....
Would you eat lion meat?
Butcher shops that sell lion meat may not be breaking any laws, but they're delving into a murky area of exotic meats with little regulation....
Indigenous people dress like Avatar, protest deforestation
A group of indigenous people in Cambodian have traveled to the capital Phnom Penh to protest deforestation of their sacred forest....
Undercover with the world's most notorious butterfly smuggler
Writer Jessica Speart uncovered a world of sex, betrayal and money in the underground crime world of illegal butterfly smugglers. ...
Post-BP oil disaster: Not much has changed, right?
One year after the BP oil spill, the US energy policy hasn't changed much, but the effects on the Gulf Coast won't be known for some time....
Environmental groups sue the EPA to save species
Laws protecting endangered species and regulating pesticides could drastically change because of a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency....
Test tube sheep save endangered species
The SVF Foundation farm in Newport, Rhode Island, freezes animal embryos to save endangered heritage species from extinction....
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