Radical ’30 x 30 Plan’ Will Ensure That This Land Will No Longer Be Your Land
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Moving rapidly to transition the United States away from fossil fuels in the name of combating climate change, the Biden administration is employing a mix of executive authority and legislative action to force the transformation.
While much attention is focused on which climate-related provisions ultimately make it into the administration’s massive infrastructure bill, a little-noticed White House initiative launched a few days after the Biden Inauguration seeks to restrict the use of lands and waters both public and private to activities that serve the administration’s green objectives.
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Trump s border wall scarred sacred lands, displaced wildlife and drained water. Can it be taken down?
While the long-term effects are uncertain, researchers say the construction of the wall has cut through habitats already threatened by the changing climate.
Erin Stone, Anton L. Delgado and Ian James, Arizona Republic
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4:03 pm UTC Apr. 15, 2021
While the long-term effects are uncertain, researchers say the construction of the wall has cut through habitats already threatened by the changing climate.
Erin Stone, Anton L. Delgado and Ian James, Arizona Republic
Published
4:03 pm UTC Apr. 15, 2021
Along the southernmost edge of Arizona, where the San Pedro River once flowed freely over the border from its headwaters in Mexico, a 30-foot steel wall slices across the channel. The barrier resembles a fortress, with massive floodgates, a concrete bridge and light poles that tower over the riverbed.
April 6, 2021
50 Organizations Call on President Biden to Protect Tongass National Forest and Carbon-rich Forests Under U.S. Climate Commitments Biden administration expected to release international climate commitments ahead of Earth Day summit on April 22
Contacts Juneau, AK (Tlingit / Áak’w Ḵwáan lands)
50 organizations representing national and local conservation groups, commercial fishing interests, and the outdoor recreation industry, submitted a letter last week to the Biden administration calling for carbon-dense forests, including the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, to be specifically protected in the United States’ Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), a plan for climate action that is integral to the international Paris climate agreement. The NDC, which is currently being drafted by Biden’s climate team, will be presented to the United Nations later this year.
For Immediate Release, March 17, 2021
Contact:
Michael Robinson, Center for Biological Diversity, (575) 313-7017, michaelr@biologicaldiversity.org
Kerry Skiff, Defenders of Wildlife, (202) 772-0253, kskiff@defenders.org
Scientists Identify 20 Million Acre Habitat Area for Jaguars in Arizona, New Mexico
New Study Finds Habitat for More Than 150 Big Cats, Lays Groundwork for Potential Reintroduction
TUCSON,
Ariz. A team of scientists has identified a wide swath of habitat in Arizona and New Mexico 20 million acres, or about 32,000 square miles that could eventually support more than 150 jaguars.
In a study published in
Oryx The International Journal of Conservation, the team says that the central mountains of the two states, which they call the Central Arizona/New Mexico Recovery Area or CANRA, offers new opportunities for the United States to contribute to recovery of the species.
Jaguars could roam across wider areas of the United States than once thought, a new study has found, potentially raising the chances of survival for the endangered cat.
The study, published in conservation journal Oryx on Tuesday, identified a swath of land the size of South Carolina in parts of Arizona and western New Mexico that could potentially support more than 150 jaguars in the future. Since 1996, seven jaguars, all males, have been documented in the U.S.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s jaguar recovery plan, published in April 2019, identified a narrow strip of habitat in the Arizona and New Mexico borderlands that the agency determined could support just six jaguars. The service placed the onus of conservation primarily on Mexico and countries in Central and South America because the majority of existing populations remain south of the border.