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White House Taps Conservationist Tracy Stone-Manning to Lead BLM
2021-04-23 15:40:00| OGI
As BLM director, Tracy Stone-Manning would be central to the Biden administrations effort to address climate change through management of public lands, including a current review of the federal oil and gas leasing program.
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World governments failing Earth's ecosystems, says top conservationist
2014-11-09 14:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Governments are lagging behind on international commitments to safeguard the planets ecosystems, with politicians failing to grasp that economic growth depends upon environmental protection, the head of the worlds leading conservation organisation has warned. Julia Marton-Lefvre, director general of the IUCN, the body that advises the United Nations on environmental matters, told Guardian Australia that conservation needed to be properly embraced by political leaders. I think world leaders...
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A Conservationist Sees Signs Hope for the World Rainforests
2014-10-30 15:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale 360: In the mid-1990s I visited a magnificent tract of lowland rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Some of my fondest memories are from that forest: hiking under the towering trees, wading in the crystal-clear streams, and delighting in its spectacular wildlife, including hornbills and endangered orangutans. But a few months after my visit, those trees were torn down, and the forest was obliterated. Today that area is an oil palm plantation. The destruction of that forest set me on an odyssey that led...
I am a conservationist: Tony Abbott says no friction w/ Obama on climate change action
2014-06-14 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Prime Minister Tony Abbott has described himself as a ''conservationist'' who has no disagreement with US President Barack Obama on the subject of climate change. Speaking after his meeting with Mr Obama in Washington, Mr Abbott played down any differences between the two leaders, saying that both he and the US President took climate change ''very seriously''. Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he is a conservationist and there is no disagreement between himself and Obama on climate change. Photo:...
Australia: 'Conservationist' Abbott links himself with Obama on climate change
2014-06-14 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Prime Minister Tony Abbott has described himself as a ''conservationist'' who has no disagreement with President Barack Obama on climate change. In an interview with Fairfax Media in Washington, Mr Abbott said any divisions between Australia and the US over climate policy were overblown, insisting both he and the US President took climate change ''very seriously''. Mr Obama is understood to have told Mr Abbott that while his administration wanted more co-ordinated international action on global...
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