"The birds, which weigh just 25g (0.8oz), travel from sub-Saharan Africa to their Arctic breeding grounds. "

"Surprise surprise - after years of rumours, infectious salmon anaemia has finally been confirmed here in B.C.Despite the salmon farming industry's smoke and mirrors the smoking gun leads straight back to the Norwegian-owned companies who control 92% of B.C.'s salmon farms."

Read more: http://www.canada.com/Ottawa+must+close+open+salmon+farms/5572035/story.html#ixzz1bKRJ8Qy1

-i am against the pipeline in the first place, and, it certainly is on the wrong side of Nebraska as well.

"The results show that angry crows don't just recognize individual tormentors, but they share that information with friends and family. Most notably: They remember it for years and years and years -- even when the person in the caveman mask appears far away from the scene of the original crime."

"The Serengeti, once gone, will never return. The potential for collapse of the entire ecosystem exists, should the Serengeti Highway ever become a reality. "

"Scottish lairds and grouse moor owners face £5,000 fines or jail terms if they allow their gamekeepers to illegally kill birds of prey, under tough new measures tabled today.The powers would, for the first time in the UK, make landowners directly liable for wildlife crimes committed by their employees, after an upsurge in cases where rare birds of prey have been deliberately killed to protect grouse stocks on shooting estates."

“I find a lot of junk in the river, too, the last few years,” added Thacker, four years older than his vessel and a resident of “Fort Chip” since birth. “Pipes, timbers. Last weekend, I was at the dock [at Fort McKay], watching an oil slick go by like someone was sitting up-current with a pail of oil, just dumping it slowly. An hour we watched it. With all these new oil plants along the river, obviously it’s coming from their places.” But even these are not the most distressing changes he has witnessed the past few years."

"He said he didn't talk to environmentalists or aboriginal people who live downstream from the oilsands"-nice to hear that he spoke to all involved not just the business interests so that he could form a well-rounded opinion!-;)

"A rich area for marine biodiversity, the Mediterranean is extremely sensitive to pollution. Almost a lake, its waters take up to 90 years to mix with the Atlantic through the narrow Strait of Gibraltar.The effects of oil pollution are felt high up in the food chain. Plankton store and concentrate hydrocarbons from the surface and pass them on all the way to top predators. Whales and dolphins were found to have accumulated high levels of oil-derived compounds in their blubber two years after the Haven oil tanker exploded off Italy in 1991, spilling 140,000 tonnes of oil."

"Vancouver city council, scientists, oil-tanker experts, and NGOs meet today (July 5) at city hall to discuss oil tankers in Burrard Inlet in light of the BP oil spill catastrophe. In Vancouver, the clearest first step is to stop any further expansion of oil travelling through Burrard Inlet, and then take the steps necessary to reduce and eliminate the more than 100 oil tankers that navigate these waters annually. "

"The administration was for the first time held to account by Congress for the rigour of the Minerals Management Service (MMS), its regulatory body for offshore drilling."-as well they should be!

"Scientists have discovered enormous plumes of oil in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, in an indication that the leak from an underwater well could be far worse than previously estimated, The New York Times reported late Saturday."

"Government officials in the Northwest Territories said a hunter, David Kuptana, shot an unusual-looking bear during a hunting trip April 8 near Banks Island, in the Inuvik region. "-WTF!!! -just quit hunting Bears!! Support your right to arm Bears!

"The oil slick could become the nation's worst environmental disaster in decades, threatening to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez in scope. It imperils hundreds of species of fish, birds and other wildlife along the Gulf Coast, one of the world's richest seafood grounds, teeming with shrimp, oysters and other marine life."

-don't do it!-just don't!

"More than 38 million sharks are killed each a year just for their fins,"

"There is now evidence Asian carp may have slipped into Lake Michigan, a development that could dramatically transform all of the Great Lakes because the large fish are known for dominating the waters they inhabit."

-once again overfishing is going to cause more trouble than money it makes. And! anyone who pays $100 for a bowl of shark-fin soup really is a bozo!!

"In the bird world, an American kestrel is considered a "top gun," since this smallest member of the falcon family can easily reach aerial diving speeds of 96 km/h when locked on to its prey -- which, by the way, seldom escapes."

"The Finding Coral Expedition is the first of its kind in B.C.: an expedition specifically designed to study deep water corals and document threats to their well being."

"Delicate forests of deep-sea corals under Hecate Strait and the Queen Charlotte Basin are virtually unprotected from destructive fishing methods such as bottom-trawling for groundfish, says the executive director of a marine environmental group"

"Extra nutrients allow fast growing plants to dominate a habitat, blocking smaller species' access to vital sunlight, researchers have found."- do use less fertilizer and be careful where you use it!

"After reading the headline article in the Echo (Feb. 10) about the Fanny Bay Oysters plant turning over the reigns to the Vancouver Island University for the installation of a new shellfish research station I became concerned about what this new facility would be doing in our region."-christ, just quit messin' with genetics already!! causes more problems than it fixes!!

"Few species have come as close to extinction as the milu (Elaphurus davidianus) and survived. For centuries, the rare Chinese animal, also known as Père David's deer, has existed only in captivity. Now, more than 100 years after the species disappeared from its homeland, it is taking its first steps back into the wild."

"The coastal waters of the Great Bear Rainforest in Northern British Columbia, home to hundreds of salmon spawning rivers, grey whale migratory routes, the feeding grounds for orca and humpback whales. It is an area teaming with life and steeped in the culture of BC's coastal First Nations. For over 35 years these waters have been protected from the threat of oil spills by a ban on oil tanker traffic. This ban on tankers is now under threat. Plans to build pipelines and a supertanker port in Kitimat by Enbridge are moving forward with support from the BC and Canadian governments. But there is still time to save our coast."