• Sustainability

37% of UNESCO Heritage Sites Damaged by Climate Change

• #30x30
• biodiversity
• climate change
• fishing
• Great Barrier Reef
• hunting
• invasive species
• IUCN
• tourism
• World Heritage Sites

Many of the world’s most well-known treasures are UNESCO heritage sites, from the Great Barrier Reef to the Taj Mahal. Yet dozens of these sites are under threat from climate change. Flooding, droughts, fires, and the bleaching of coral reefs have marred 83 of the 252 World Heritage Sites.

Why this Matters: UNESCO World Heritage sites are incredibly important ecosystems and cultural symbols, and it would be a tragedy to lose them.

• Animals

Trump Administration Moves to Ease Restrictions on Hunting Alaskan Bear Cubs and Wolf Pups

• Alaska
• Bears
• hunting
• trophy hunting
• wolves

Yesterday, the Trump administration overturned an Obama-era ban on hunters in Alaska national preserves baiting bears or killing denning bear cubs and wolf pups and other practices that have been declared barbaric by environmental groups and the Obama administration. As Reuters reported, “Under the new National Park Service rule, effective July 9, hunting on natural […]

• Animals

Trump Administration Killed Big Game Hunting Advisory Council

• animals
• big game trophy
• hunting
• trophy hunting
• wildlife trafficking

Wildlife and environmental groups scored a legal victory last week when the Trump Administration admitted in court filings that it had disbanded the Interior Department’s International Wildlife Conservation Council, an advisory committee of hunting advocates charged with promoting the “benefits of international hunting,” when the advisory committee’s charter of the expired in December of last year.  It was the influence of panels like this one that led to the President reversing himself to allow big game trophies to be imported into the U.S. the agency after initially supporting the Obama Administration’s moratorium on bringing tusks and other elephant parts back home.

• Land

Theodore Roosevelt and the Cowboy Conservationist

• conservation
• cowboy
• hunting
• oil and gas drilling
• public land
• Teddy Roosevelt

By Ty Loft It’s hard to imagine Theodore Roosevelt sipping kombucha. The beloved former President spurned his New York urbane upbringing, pausing his career at 25 to find adventure in the Wild West by ranching cattle and hunting bison in North Dakota. By 40, he returned to the East to become Governor of New York. […]

• Politics

Republican Members of Congress Form Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Caucus

• conservation
• hunting
• parks
• Republicans
• Teddy Roosevelt

On Wednesday, a handful of Republican Senators and Congressmen formed their own conservation caucus saying that they wanted to demonstrate that their party cares about the environment and even climate change.  They call themselves the Roosevelt Conservation Caucus and their priorities are reportedly public land access, water quality, and ocean pollution.

• Animals

Whales Face Triple Threats: Plastic, Ship Strikes and Hunting

• hunting
• Iceland
• International Whaling Commission
• plastic pollution
• ship strikes
• whales

Whales around the globe face numerous threats as has become apparent in recent weeks.  Just this past weekend a young Cuvier’s beaked whale that was weak and vomiting blood washed up on the shore in Mabini, Philippines and eventually died.  When the government performed a necropsy yesterday, it found a gruesome sight — 88 pounds of plastic in the whale’s stomach.