Word: speciesism
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Obama’s memo will encourage the spirit of free debate and may help lead to the greater dissemination of apolitical findings. But, more importantly, it promises that policymakers will accept and grapple with scientific evidence, not ignore or censor it when it clashes with the president�...
In a world first, Xstrata, a $28 billion Swiss global mining company, has agreed to fund an endangered species' recovery. In exchange for spending millions on the marsupial, Xstrata's name will appear on everything wombat: from websites to educational DVDs to shirts worn by wildlife workers. Xstrata execs will...
Branding endangered species rankles some greens, but Michael Bean, chief of the Environmental Defense Fund's wildlife program, sees it as a positive trend as the list of imperiled animals grows and other funding falls. "Potentially, it can do a lot of good," he says, "as long as there are...
It rises out of the tidal murk of the Meadowlands - the polluted northern-New Jersey wetlands on which the sports complex of the same name was built some 33 years ago - like a garish species from a monster movie. What is that swamp thing? It's a mishmash of big...
7 | Washington Endangered-Species Reversal Blocking a change made during his predecessor's final days in office, President Obama called for a review of that Interior Department order, which wildlife experts say could weaken protections for endangered species. The rule had waived a requirement that federal agencies consult ecologists before...