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U.S. Interior Dept rejects deal on road through Alaska wildlife preserve
2013-12-24 00:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Department of the Interior, after a four-year environmental analysis, on Monday rejected a deal proposed by the state of Alaska and an indigenous group to swap 61,000 acres for conservation in exchange for the right to build an emergency road through a wildlife refuge. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said she sided with the conclusion of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reject the proposed land exchange and prevent the construction of a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge....
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United Kingdom: Wildlife groups criticise green farm subsidy move
2013-12-20 05:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Wildlife groups have accused the government of caving in to big farmers over planned changes to farm subsidies in England. The government proposed increasing the proportion of farm payments transferred to protecting wildlife from 9% to 15%. But it backed it down to 12% after farmers said this was not fair. The government said it would be spending a bigger share on the environment despite a smaller overall budget for subsidies. Farmers get 50bn of taxpayers' money a year based mainly...
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What does our warm winter mean for Britain's wildlife?
2013-12-19 07:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: In the north London park overlooked by my bedroom window, morning sounds as if winter has not yet arrived. Dunnocks and blackbirds trill in full song from trees still bearing yellowing leaves. In between gobbling mouthfuls of beechmast, a wood pigeon hoots in satisfaction. Normally these are the quiet months, a robin the sole soprano of the season; other birds are too busy foraging for food to waste energy singing. Yet from a nearby perch one heaves its red breast just to be heard over the din....
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Helping Wildlife
2013-12-12 12:21:00| Country Lines Online
Great Lakes Energy vegetation management staff have planted crabapple seedlings in a state game area in Kent County that will one day provide food for wildlife. As part of an Energy For Wildlife project, 100 Roselow Sargent crabapples were planted last fall along a Great Lakes Energy power line right-of-way (ROW). The seedlings will grow […]
NSW bushfires: conservationists hopeful for healthy recovery wildlife
2013-12-10 05:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Conservationists are hopeful that wildlife coped better with the NSW Blue Mountains fires than first feared after a koala was spotted in the upper reaches of the mountains for the first time in 70 years. The koala was seen crossing the Great Western Highway near Wentworth Falls, which is 900m above sea level. The sighting is the first of its kind in the upper Blue Mountains since the 1940s. It is thought that the koala, and others, managed to escape October's fierce bushfires, which burned...
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