Western Europe, Central Asia, and beyond: Border Fences meant to Stop Humans Kill Millions of Non-Humans | TakePart

Scientists find that a spate of fence building is interrupting the migration of wolves, bears, and other animals and poses a long-term threat to their survival.

See article at TakePart:
http://tak.pt/i/_t6wwNxc

The new study is published in the journal PLOS Biology:

http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002483

Mokugift

Plant a Tree

Innovative new program for businesses, school fundraising, and citizens to help restore climate by planting trees all over the world.

This is the PRWeb (Vocus) Press Release from Mokugift dated April 11, 2012:

1,000 Ways To Plant A Tree Campaign Launch; Goal: Absorbing 5 Million Pounds Of CO2 Per Year

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Orangutans

4/1/12: Please click to go to 

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 Thanks to LoPelYr ‏ @LoPelYr on Twitter for spotting

Football can HELP save the Orangutans

Online Petition: Enforce the law protecting Tripa Peat Swamp and its Orangutan populations

Demand for survival

Tripa Peat Swamps and their Orangutans being cremated to annihilation:  Government of Indonesia must uphold law or face international shame We, Walhi Indonesia, Greenpeace Indonesia, Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari, Sawit Watch Indonesia, the Coalition Team for Saving the Tripa Peat Swamps, are here today to demand the following: The immediate enforcement of laws protecting the Leuser Ecosystem, including the Tripa Peat Swamps, namely: The Spatial Planning Law (UU 26/2007) and subsequent Government Regulation (PP 26/2008) which establishes the Leuser Ecosystem as a National Strategic Area with an environmental protection function; and the Law of the Governance of Aceh (UU11/2006) which obligates the Government and the Government of Aceh to protect the Leuser Ecosystem.

Dear Ministry of Forestry @zul_hasan you have to make sure JUSTICE is served in Tripa protected forest http://ow.ly/a0kaL#savetripa

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3/30 POST
This is a huge unforgivable crime. From the United Kingdom's Daily Mail, this article was updated March 30th. Hundreds of orangutans have been killed by fires deliberately set by palm oil companies.

"Shocking: Hundreds of orangutans are believed to have died in fires deliberately lit by palm oil companies in Tripa forest on the coast of Aceh province in northern Indonesia"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2122544/Hundreds-orangutans-killed-north-Indonesian-forest-fires-deliberately-started-palm-oil-firms.html#ixzz1qdonhngO

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Rhinoceros

Katie Falkenberg, For The Times / February 18, 2012

Federal wildlife investigators crack rhinoceros horn smuggling ring in Calif, other states

By Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Federal wildlife investigators have broken up an international smuggling ring that trafficked in sawed-off rhinoceros horns for buyers in Vietnam and China who believe they cure cancer, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
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