“Lonesome George”: Lonesome no more?
The last of his species: Giant Galapagos Tortoise, “Lonesome George”, dies at age 100.
Bad Fences make Bad Neighbours
US Republicans support Bill to build border fences through protected ecosystems and across key mammal migration routes.
Rio: +20, Earth: -20 [“Peter Can’t”]
Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent says the lack of solid commitments, timelines and numbers at Rio Earth Summit is a “good thing”.
Enbridge: “It’s a path to our Future”?
a “slick” 5-million-dollar media campaign.
Drier Summers in Vancouver will require adaptations to conserve water?
Storm drains, parking lots and roads will need to be modified to replenish aquifers
Red Deer River now Black Deer River? Pipeline comes “A-Sundre”
Pipeline leak spills 475,000 litres of crude into pristine wilderness area north of Sundre, Alberta
Something Fishy?
Canadian Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield tells Parliament that municipalities support gutting of Fisheries Protection Act despite near-unanimous opposition.
“Out of the garbage-can, into the Fire-Hall?”
Port Moody citizen snaps photo of bears dining on fire-hall’s unlocked garbage in contravention of citys “Bear-aware” bylaws.
Animal Liberation Front “comes to Pappas”
Four Vancouver fur stores, including Pappas, splashed with red paint by anti-fur brigade. {Pappas “furmilias”}
David Booth: “He shoots, he doesn’t score!”
Vancouver Canuck boasts on Twitter of killing trophy bear using unsporting “bear-baiting” technique.
