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Bad idea: change the Wilderness Act to respond to climate change
2014-07-10 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Berkeley Blogs: The Wilderness Act is one of the iconic pieces of environmental legislation, and it is 50 years old this year. It created a process and management standard by which millions of acres of relatively undeveloped federal land were protected from development and most forms of active human management. These lands are to be managed, as the Act puts it, to ensure that they are "unimpaired for future use and enjoyment as wilderness." Millions of Americans have enjoyed the solitude and natural beauty available...
Should wilderness get the axe?
2014-07-08 21:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Should wilderness get the axe? | Grist Skip to content Skip to site navigation How our fear of "wilding" colored the Central Park Five case "It`s raining renewable energy loans!" shrieks DOE, racing to the dance floor Should wilderness get the axe? Support Grist's nonprofit mission Follow Grist News / gristmill Cool / gristlist Topics Climate & Energy Food Cities Living...
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Chile Patagonia Celebrates Decision Against Wilderness Dams
2014-06-11 02:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The Chilean government rejected Tuesday the controversial HidroAysén project for the construction of five hydroelectric dams on rivers in the south of the country. The decision came after years of struggle by environmental groups and local communities, who warned the world of the destruction the dams would wreak on the Patagonian wilderness. "This is a historic day," Juan Pablo Orrego, the international coordinator of the Patagonia Without Dams campaign, told IPS after the decision was announced....
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"Simmering conflict": delicate balancing act protecting India's wilderness
2014-05-13 21:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Western Ghats of southern India, one of the worlds top biodiversity hotspots, is a 1600-kilometer (1000-mile) mountain chain that runs parallel to the western coast of the Indian subcontinent. It traverses six Indian states (Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu) and is home to as many as 250 million people. In the twentieth century, about 40 percent of the original vegetation cover was destroyed; at the same time, research began illuminating the ecological significance...
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Yukon Government Opens Vast Wilderness to Mining
2014-01-24 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Canada's Yukon Territory announced on Tuesday that it has opened one of the largest unbroken wilderness areas in North America to mining and mineral exploration. The government's decree stunned indigenous leaders, who support a 2011 plan developed under Yukon land claims treaties that would have maintained the wilderness character of 80 percent of the area, which is known as the Peel watershed region. The government's new plan all but reverses that figure, opening some 71 percent of the watershed...
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