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March 11, 2008

• Action Alert: Protect international wildlife crossings by supporting HR 2593, the Borderlands Conservation and Security Act, and opposing HR 4987,the Fence By Date Certain Act.

March 8, 2008

• News: Premier Will Block Western Provinces Capture and Export of Live Dolphins in Solomon Islands

February 15, 2008

• Event: Artists’ Vocal Ensemble’s “1508” choral music program will celebrate Earth Island Institute’s 25^th anniversary.

January 29, 2008

• Action Alert: Support for reforestation of Strip Mines in Appalachia Needed

January 10, 2008

• News Room: The Autumn 2007 Earth Island Journal is now available online.

January 2, 2008

• Event: Creating a Sustainable Food System in California by 2030…
  Roots of Change and Eco Village Farm Learning Center present an educational forum.
• Event: A Free Fruit Tree Planting Day for High School Students and Community Residents

December 20, 2007

• Action Alert: Free the Cuban Four!
  We need your help to confiscate and return these four dolphins to their home waters!

December 6, 2007

• Press Release: Energy Action Coalition Youth Applaud House for Passing a Strong Energy Bill as a Down Payment for their Future
• Get involved: Intern with the New Leaders Initiative
• In the News: Articles of Faith: We are all 'accidental ambassadors' abroad
  From the Seattle Post Intelligencer.

November 28, 2007

• News Room: Reality Check on the Nuclear Industry

November 27, 2007

• Get Involved: Accounting / HR Associate, Earth Island Institute

November 13, 2007

• Press Release: Dolphin export from Taiji, Japan, to the Dominican Republic is cancelled!

November 12, 2007

• Get Involved: Visit the Earth Island Journal Online Auction!

November 8, 2007

• In the News: Japan Times, 11/03 – Activists comfort dying dolphins
• In the News: National Geographic, 11/2 – Japan's Dolphin Hunt Protested
• In the News: Entertainment Tonight, 11/1 – Stars Try to Save Dolphins
• In the News: Sky News, 11/1 – Heroes Star In Japan Dolphin Cull Clash

October 31, 2007

• News Room: Surfer and dolphin defender Dave Rastovich made a bold declaration against the ongoing commercial slaughter of dolphins in Japan

October 24, 2007

• News Room: The Summer 2007 Earth Island Journal is now available online.

September 6, 2007

• News Room: An open letter to the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums
• In the News: Councilmen From Japanese Whaling Town Break Code of Silence

September 5, 2007

• News Room: Preview of the Autumn 2007 Earth Island Journal is now online.
  Mountaintop removal, the Fission Division, Native wind…

August 31, 2007

• News Room: Iceland stops whale-hunting quotas after low demand
  "Nearly a year after ending its ban on commercial whaling, Iceland will not issue new whale-hunting quotas until market demand increases and it gets an export license from Japan…"

August 24, 2007

• Event: Japan Dolphin Day
  Tuesday, September 25^th in a City Near You! Join the Action Against the Dolphin Slaughter
  

August 21, 2007

• Get involved: Programs Associate, Bay Area Wilderness Training
• Event: OceanFest
  Discover Your Marine Sanctuaries! Bring your friends and family to OceanFest to enjoy sustainable culinary seafood delights and organic vegetarian fare by celebrated San Francisco restaurants including Chez Panisse, Zuni Café, Nopa, Oliveto, Greens and Hog Island Oyster Company, in addition to local brews, fine wine, free music, kids’ activities and a beachfront view of Fleet Week festivities.

August 8, 2007

• Event: SF CriagsList Foundation Non Profit Boot Camp
  Join Craigslist Foundation for a day of knowledge, resources and networking, all focused on how to start and run a vibrant nonprofit. Nonprofit Boot Camp is designed to educate and empower the next generation of nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs, connecting them with valuable industry resources, peers and potential supporters.
• News Room: Elaho Valley saved!
  "The British Columbia government and the Squamish Nation today" (8/2) "jointly announced a land use plan agreement for a large portion of the Sea to Sky Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) of the Squamish-Whistler Region of southwest BC. The new agreement designates new protected areas in one of BCs most famous 'War in the Woods' battlegrounds."

August 7, 2007

• Action Alert: Tell CITES – Take Action for Dolphins

August 2, 2007

• Press Release: Federal Court Ruling on Dolphin-safe Tuna Becomes Final
  Bush Administration Forgoes Supreme Court Appeal

August 1, 2007

• News Room: Japan Times, 8/1 – Taiji officials: Dolphin meat ‘toxic waste’
  Assembly pair break taboo, warn of acute mercury risk in school lunches

July 27, 2007

• Get involved: Administrative Assistant, Earth Island Institute
  In our San Francisco offices
• News room: Spring 2007 Earth Island Journal is now available online
• News room: Beach lighting a big problem for sea turtle hatchlings
  Texas builders and homeowners should learn from the mistakes made in Florida

July 17, 2007

• News room: High mercury levels in whale meat served to school lunch programs
  Statement by Several Members of the Taiji City Council.

July 3, 2007

• Press Release: Dubai should prohibit importation of live dolphins From Solomon Islands
  Import would violate Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). From the Save Japan Dolphins Coalition.

July 2, 2007

• Action Alert: Protect the Teghut Forest
  "Teghut, with its thousands of acres of virgin forest and rich ecosystem in Northern Armenia, is home to hundreds of species of birds, mammals, reptiles, fish and plants, including many that are registered in the International Red Book of Endangered Species." From the Armenia Tree Project.

June 13, 2007

• Press Release: Endangered Sea Turtles Recieve Vital Protections from Drift Gillnets
  Proposed permit for deadly nets off California and Oregon denied. From the Sea Turtle Restoration Project.
• Action Alert: Solomon Islands Dolphin Captures (here we go again!)
  Read more in the Herald Sun, 'Dolphin Ban in Doubt'.

June 12 2007

• News Room: New Video: Mercury Poisoning from Dolphin Meat!
• Get involved: Kids for the Bay, Environmental Educator / Program Coordinator (.pdf, ~99k), Kids for the Bay, Environmental Educator / Program Director (.pdf, ~99k)

June 7, 2007

• News Room: Solomons capture sparks fears of live dolphin exports
  From the Sydney Morning Herald.

May 25, 2007

• Event: Press Conference
  Mercury in Dolphin Meat: The New Minamata Plague in Japan. Background available here.
• News Room: ECO, the environmentalists' voice at the International Whaling Commission's annual Meeitng
  From Anchorage, Alaska is now online.
• News Room: ASISERVY Restored to Dolphin Safe Company List

May 24, 2007

• News Room: Tolerance not Slaughter
  Groups Ask Agencies to Use Discretion to Protect Bison. From the Buffalo Field Campaign.
• Action Alert: Beluga Whales Need Your Help to Survive
  "...list the Cook Inlet beluga whale as an endangered species, and designate critical habitat to insure its recovery." From the Ocean Conservancy.

May 17, 2007

• Action Alert: Tell Your Representative to Cosponsor the Rahall Mining Reform Bill
  "The Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, Nick Rahall, introduced the bill on the 135^th birthday of the 1872 Mining Law." From Earthworks.
• News Room: Vodnjan Rejects Dolphinarium
  From Animal Friends Croatia
• Action Alert: Don't let drilling destroy the Upper Green
  "Home to the longest wildlife migration corridor in the lower 48, the Upper Green River Valley is quickly being consumed by gas drilling, resulting in hazy skies, heavy traffic, and greatly reduced populations of wildlife." From The Wilderness Society.
• Action Alert: Northern Spotted Owl Recovery Plan Highjacked by Bush Administration, Old-Growth Forests at Risk

  "Your help needed to attend hearings, write comments to let them know you still care about threatened wildlife and ancient forests!" From Oregon Wild.

May 10, 2007

• News Room: Winter 2007Earth Island Journal is now online
  The Autumn 2006 edition is archived with full content.

May 8, 2007

• Event: EcoVillage's Earth Day and Spring Festival
  Keynote speaker is Carl Anthony, Senior Ford Foundation Fellow. Ten environmental and social justice workshops including beekeeping, healing plants and herbs of Africa, and beyond organics. Farm to table luncheon. Adult donation $25, Seniors and Students $15, Children under 8 free. May 19, 2007 – 10:00 a.m., EcoVillage Farm Learning Center, 21 Laurel Ln, Richmond, California.
• In the News: Of dolphins and decency
  "The bottom line is that we’re both at the top in our separate worlds, cetaceans in their watery domain, we on land." From the Panama News.

May 3, 2007

• Action Alert: Help Stop Panama Dolphin Captures
• News Room: Plutonium and the French elections
  "Royal has promised to repeal the authorization for construction of an EPR and to launch a new debate on the energy future of France. Sarkozy favors strengthening the nuclear industry in France." From Yggdrasil.

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