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Aloha Koala Friday!
The koala or, inaccurately, koala bear is an arboreal
herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only
extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae
and its closest living relatives are the wombats, which are members
of the family Vombatidae.
A bouncing baby orca boy! And other promising killer whale news from Puget Sound
On the day the orca baby was born, the whales partied into the night.
Islands
Trust Conservancy gets funding for protection of at-risk
species
With $597,000 from the federal government, Islands Trust
Conservancy will be able to launch a program for endangered
species protection.
An
Alaska Mine Project Might Be Bigger Than Acknowledged
Executives overseeing the development of a long-disputed copper
and gold mine in Alaska were recorded saying they expected the
project to become much bigger, and operate for much longer, than
outlined in the proposal that is awaiting final approval by the
Army Corps of Engineers. Alaska
mining executive resigns a day after caught on tape boasting
of his ties to GOP politicians Tom Collier, who stood to
get a $12.4 million bonus if Pebble Mine went ahead, resigned in
the wake of secretly recorded talks with environmentalists
posing as potential investors.
As
wildfire smoke endangers health indoors and out, questions
arise about government response
The massive smoke waves that engulfed the Pacific Northwest this
month are likely only a start to a climate-fueled health crisis
in the Pacific Northwest of staggering breadth and depth.
So
there’s going to be a fall election in B.C.: has the NDP kept
its environmental promises?
The NDP rose to power in 2017 vowing to take action on climate
change, old-growth logging, the Trans Mountain pipeline,
endangered species and more.
Little
Action from Canadian Government as Deadline to Remove Salmon
Farms Looms Eight years ago, the Cohen Commission gave
Fisheries and Oceans Canada a deadline to prove salmon farms do
not threaten wild sockeye. B.C.
First Nations demand removal of open-net salmon farms near
Campbell River, B.C.
A total of 101 B.C. First Nations, wilderness tourism operators,
and commercial and sport fishing groups have united in a show of
solidarity to demand the federal government take action on the
collapse of Fraser River salmon stocks by ordering the removal
of open-net fish farms near Campbell River.
Climate
action will be ‘cornerstone’ of Canada’s economic recovery
plan: throne speech
From creating thousands of jobs in energy efficiency building
retrofits to cutting the tax rate for green manufacturing
companies, the Trudeau government has amped up its commitments
to tackle climate change.
Fisheries officials seize 316 Canadian crab traps set in U.S. water as part of annual sting
Officials from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans have seized 316
crab traps they claim were illegally set in U.S. water this month, as
part of an annual enforcement operation coordinated with their American
counterparts.
President Trump has initiated the most aggressive environmental deregulation agenda in modern history, but as his first term drives to a close, many of his policies are being cut down by the courts — even by Republican-appointed jurists who the administration had hoped would be friendly.
These news clips are a selection of weekday clips collected in
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