Conservation rangers from an anti-poaching unit work with locals to evacuate the body of Senkwekwe, a 530-pound silverback, one of four mountain gorillas killed in mysterious circumstances in Virunga National Park, Eastern Congo. The alpha male was shot and three females were also killed. Two of the females had babies and the other was pregnant. The two babies were not found and it’s thought that they will have died of stress and dehydration.
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On second thought…U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman said it’s unlikely that BLM auction monkeywrencher Tim DeChristopher would serve the maximum 10 years if convicted of the two felonies for disrupting the December 19 oil and gas lease sale—and he’s already negotiating with DeChristopher’s lawyers to work out a plea bargain.
Turns out feds are feds when it comes to monkeywrenching. Any hopes that BLM auction disruptor Tim DeChristopher was going to get off with a nod and a wink were dashed when a grand jury indicted him on two felony counts, followed by Interior Secretary’s Ken Salazar’s immediate denunciation of the civil disobedience.
President Barack Obama signed the biggest lands bill in a generation today, protecting 2 million acres permanently. For all you wilderness wonks, here’s the full transcript of what he had to say: “Today I have signed into law.
The largest fish in the sea wasn’t known to science until 1828. For the next 160 years, there were only 320 confirmed sightings of whale sharks—that’s how rare the creature is. And while the world’s best-known spot for these massive fish (up to 40 feet long) is Nigaloo reef off Australia’s west coast, they’re also found in Thailand’s Similan Islands, where Wicked Diving runs regular commercial scuba trips.
With a grinding of steel on steel, the eco-warrior ship Steve Irwin smashed into the stern of a Japanese whaler a few days ago, bringing a new level of violence to the annual Southern Ocean “whale wars” between the Japanese government-funded fleet and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society anti-whalers.
UPDATED 3:45PST 2/4/09: The Obama administration isn’t messing around: Just 15 days after taking office, it’s canceling the disputed and controversial Bureau of Land Management auction of 77 leases on December 19 that opened lands near Arches National Park, Dinosaur National Monument, and Nine-Mile Canyon to oil and gas exploration.
After a bit of legislative smackdown, two million acres of land and a thousand miles of rivers moved a step closer to permanent protection on Sunday when the Senate voted 66-12 to move a big public lands bill to a full vote.
Wanna save millions of acres of public land and 1,000 miles of rivers? Just pick up the phone: The Senate is voting at 2 p.m. EST in special session tomorrow, Sunday, January 11, on a bill that would protect 1,000 miles of rivers and two million acres of public lands.
The hand-painted signs are posted on trees, mail boxes, and front porches all across Molokai. “No to La’au Point”, they say, or simply, “No”. Living’s not so easy on the Friendly Isle, where jobs are scarce for the 7,500 residents, as I found out when National Geographic ADVENTURE sent me there last November to shoot a cover. But the people cling to their way of life, resisting the tourist pox of other islands, and have doggedly fought the proposed La’au development on the pristine southwest corner of the island.
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