Kieran Suckling
Kieran Suckling
Kierán Sucklingis one of the founders, and executive director, of the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit conservation group known for its innovative approaches to the protection of endangered species, wilderness, clean air and clean water...
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Species on the candidates list are allowed to languish for decades without protection. This is an agency policy used to prevent people from filing listing petitions.
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The Endangered Species Act has been remarkably successful. Humpback whales, bald eagles, (and) brown pelicans ... are just a few of the species that are recovering quite nicely.
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Illegal logging is driving dozens of birds and mammals to extinction. American corporations have the power to stop illegal logging by refusing to buy the wood; instead they are encouraging it. Shame on them.
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I'd go to a timber sale before it was cut and walk around, then I'd go back and see what happened to the beautiful forest, and it was completely trashed. All the big trees were cut and the ground was ripped up by tractors. It looked like a war zone.
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The Forest Service has a theory that goshawks need forest openings to catch prey. Therefore they encourage mini clear cuts throughout the forest to provide openings.
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At a time when deformed frogs are being found in lakes and rivers across the nation, it is a dangerous travesty to exempt pesticides from environmental review.
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If it's voluntary, there are no teeth, no limits. If someone wants to protect habitat, we're all for that. But why choose one or the other?
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We realized that the graph does not represent the population increase.