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Colombian Reserve to Double in Size, Aiding Critically Endangered Parrot

The Fuertes’s Parrot is endemic to Colombia.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The critically endangered Fuertes’s Parrot and 11 other globally threatened species of birds, mammals, and amphibians will receive greater protections thanks to a joint effort by several advocacy groups.

They joined forces to acquire about 356 acres of land to double the size of the existing Giles-Fuertesi Nature Reserve.

10,000 Birds Die as `Everglades of West` Dries, Spreads Disease

The problem is that it has been a dry year and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) hasn't allowed water into the refuge since December.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) are estimating that over 10,000 migrating birds have died so far this year because of reduced water flow to the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and California.

Officials say the final death toll may be close to 20,000 birds.

Viola and the TSE Bears

THE CANADIAN SHIELD March 7, 2011 Volume 1, Issue #1

(SASKATCHEWAN) - Circa 50 years ago, when stock fraud was in its infancy, there dwelt in Toronto a comely mining promoteress named Viola MacMillan.

With her compliant husband in tow, she promoted a stretch of moose pasture that bore the fanciful name of Windfall Oils and Mines, hard by Ontario's celebrated mining district.

75-150 Pheasants Liberated in Oregon by Animal Liberation Front

The ALF issues claim about release of birds from property in Scio, Oregon.

(LOS ANGELES) - On the night of March 14th, we infiltrated the property Queener Ridge Pheasant Company, which breeds ringneck pheasants primarily to be murdered in commercial canned hunts.

After jumping a barbed wire fence, we made our way to the main breeding facility where we dismantled a huge section of an aviary that held between 75-150 pheasants; liberating them into the night sky.

American Bird Conservancy Response to Speaker Gingrich`s Statement on Energy Industry Killing of Migratory Birds

In 2009, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that about 440,000 birds per year are being killed by wind turbines in the United States.

(WASHINGTON DC) - On September 11, 2011, American Bird Conservancy, issued a press release entitled: Oil Companies Prosecuted for Avian Deaths but Wind Companies Kill Birds With Impunity.

ABC has taken numerous press calls over a letter Newt Gingrich sent to the Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary referencing this same issue, and would like to re-iterate its position on the issue of enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

Scientific Studies Reveal Brutal Truth of Bear Farming Industry SHOCKING VIDEO

“Though tortured by human beings for many years, they always express a kind and forgiving nature...” - Rocky Shi, Animals Asia’s China bear sanctuary

(SAN FRANCISCO / BEIJING) - Scientific research into bears previously farmed using the “free drip” method of bile extraction was revealed today at an Animals Asia press conference in Beijing.

The detailed medical evidence was based on analysis of 165 bears that had been rescued and brought to Animals Asia’s bear sanctuary near Chengdu.

Japanese Whaler`s Injunction Against Sea Shepherd Denied in U.S. District Court

Judge vows to examine the legality of ICR’s whaling operations.

(SEATTLE) - A Seattle district court has denied a preliminary injunction in the case of The Institute for Cetacean Research (ICR) vs. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

This injunction was an attempt by the ICR to immediately halt Sea Shepherd’s anti-whaling activities in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

No Explanation for Pennsylvania`s Purple Squirrel

"I kept telling my husband I saw a purple one out in the yard. 'Oh sure you did' he kept telling me," - Connie Emert

(STATE COLLEGE, Pa.) - AccuWeather.com reports a Pennsylvania couple trapped, of all things, a purple squirrel on Sunday.

Percy and Connie Emert, of Jersey Shore, Pa. caught the unusual animal when trying to keep birds safe from the rodents.

Environmental Protection Agencies: Federal and State Versions Under Siege

Reducing Power and Lowering Standards of Environmental Oversight Is Fiscal Stupidity.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - They pitch the battle as environment vs. jobs, it is a phony argument using economic recovery through ecological laxity as the key to our nation’s fiscal woes.

This type of “Zero Sum Game,” is a winner-take-all scenario that will create more jobs---More jobs in the remediation and restoration career sectors after we’ve destroyed our country’s ecologies.

Washington Western Bluebird Reintroduction Effort a Success

Birds Now Thriving on San Juan Island Following Completion of Five-Year Project.

(WASHINGTON D.C. ) - A five-year cooperative effort involving several organizations has succeeded in returning the Western Bluebird to Washington’s San Juan Islands.

The bird had historically inhabited the islands, but changing land use practices and a paucity of nesting sites meant the species had not nested there for over 40 years.