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Groups Fight to Protect Fish, Wildlife, and Wilderness Areas
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - 2 hours ago
Today the Center for Biological Diversity, The Wilderness Society, Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club, Red Rock Forests, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, ...

Canada.com

President Bush to add marine reserves; not all are applauding
Los Angeles Times, CA - 37 minutes ago
Said Brendan Cummings of the Center for Biological Diversity, in a BBC News story: "Ultimately, Bush's legacy as a climate criminal will far outweigh his ...
US vows 'huge' marine protection BBC News
Bush Announces Huge Pacific Area Now Protected From Drilling RedOrbit
all 546 news articles

WIldlife Coalition Sends Letter to Vilsack
SustainableBusiness.com, NY - Jan 5, 2009
Members of the coalition--comprised of Big Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, Creation Care Study Program, Christians for Environmental Stewardship, ...

Center for Biological Diversity to fight for ribbon seals
KTUU, AK - Dec 24, 2008
by Channel 2 News staff ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The Center for Biological Diversity says it will keep fighting for the ribbon seal. ...

AlaskaReport

Center for Biological Diversity Warns of Intent to Sue Government ...
Environmental News Network (press release), CA - Dec 23, 2008
ANCHORAGE— The Center for Biological Diversity today notified the National Marine Fisheries Service of its intent to file suit against the agency for ...
Group vows to keep pushing for ribbon seal listing Fort Mills Times
NOAA Determines Ribbon Seals Should Not be Listed as Endangered NOAA
US won't put ribbon seals on endangered list MSNBC
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Environmentalists oppose logging project
Nashua Telegraph, NH - 14 hours ago
The Center for Biological Diversity and the Vermont and New Hampshire chapters of the Sierra Club filed an appeal Friday to halt the proposed Mill Brook ...

Endangered Animals' Sounds Liven Up Ringtones
TreoCentral, FL - Jan 2, 2009
An Arizona environmental group, the Center for Biological Diversity, is celebrating the success of their program that put the calls of endangered species ...
Free wild ringtones bring out the animal in your phone Examiner.com
all 2 news articles

Oregon conservationists hope for greener 2009
kgw.com, OR - Jan 4, 2009
Big Wildlife and the Center for Biological Diversity are hoping that some of the 251 candidates for Endangered Species Act protection -- including the ...

Center for Biological Diversity Encouraging the closure of Red ...
ATV Quad News - Dec 23, 2008
"The Center for Biological Diversity is urging it's members to write letters encouraging the closure of the entire 27, 000 acres of Red Rock Canyon to ...

MiamiHerald.com

Statement by Center for Biological Diversity on New Inspector ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Dec 15, 2008
... has been a disaster for the nation’s endangered species,” said Noah Greenwald, biodiversity program director for the Center for Biological Diversity. ...
Emperor Left Out in the Cold as Other Penguins Get US Protection Discover Magazine
Lawsuit Challenges 11th Hour Cuts in Endangered Species Protections Environment News Service
Bush Administration Regulations Gutting Protections for Nation's ... UN Observer
International Animal Rescue - Business Green
all 415 news articles

CBS News

Statement From the Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Dec 11, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national nonprofit conservation organization with 200000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection ...
Major changes to Endangered Species Act San Francisco Chronicle
Bush Administration Issues Final List of Candidates for Protection ... Read It Here
Bush administration takes independent scientific reviews out of ... Los Angeles Times
Seattle Post Intelligencer - eFluxMedia
all 512 news articles

AZFamily

Pipeline opponents crank up pressure
Sun Shopper, AZ - Dec 29, 2008
Diverse interests including the Salt River Project, US Fish and Wildlife Service and Center for Biological Diversity ratcheted up their demands in 2008 for ...
Top 10 Stories of 2008: No. 3 - ADWR ruling buoys pipeline plans ... Prescott Daily Courier
all 17 news articles

New York Times worried by Ken Salazar's niceness
Westword, CO - Jan 5, 2009
... Obama's Choice of Ken Salazar as Interior Secretary," organizations such as Tucson's Center for Biological Diversity regard him as too pro-industry. ...

Right path for Riverside County's Mid-County Parkway still in dispute
Press-Enterprise, CA - Jan 4, 2009
The negative impacts to residents are only one part of the problem, said Ileene Anderson, biologist with the Center for Biological Diversity office in Los ...

Letters to the Editor
Lake Berryessa News, CA - Jan 3, 2009
In Oct. 2006, the Pacific Rivers Council and the Center for Biological Diversity sued the Department of Fish and Game over fish stocking programs it has ...

Conservationists Oppose Destructive Logging in
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Jan 1, 2009
RICHMOND, Vt.— The Center for Biological Diversity and the Vermont and New Hampshire chapters of the Sierra Club today submitted an appeal to the US Forest ...

Center for Biological Diversity (press release)

Watershed Wednesday Movie, Presentation Affirm That Water Is Life
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Dec 31, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity coordinates Watershed Wednesday events to publicize threats to the Verde River that include off-road vehicle damage, ...

"Trout War" continues over fish planting
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Dec 11, 2008
Four lake managers said they will defy the threat of a lawsuit from an environmental group, the Center for Biological Diversity, and announced they will ...
Fishing the North Coast: Finally, rain in the forecast for the ... Times-Standard
Trout stock on the decline Scotts Valley/San Lorenzo Valley Press-Banner
Lake Tahoe area waters have a temporary order to halt sotcking of fish North Lake Tahoe Bonanza
Sacramento News & Review
all 10 news articles

Novelist's new collection due
Arizona Daily Star, AZ - Jan 1, 2009
Husband Kierán Suckling is at work running the Center for Biological Diversity, a national group based in Tucson. Millet has a moment — no matter how ...

Christian Science Monitor

Feds asked to reconsider 'poster wolf'
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - Dec 23, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity and 15 other groups sent a letter to Fish and Wildlife director Dale Hall on Monday, asking that the image of the female ...
Howls of protest greet Mexican wolf reintroduction Christian Science Monitor
Conservationists Request Feds Replace Photo of Wolf Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
all 11 news articles

Bringing the sounds of wildlife to your cellphone
International Herald Tribune, France - Jan 4, 2009
The Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group based in Arizona known more for litigating on behalf of endangered creatures than for building a ...

New Zealand Herald

Alaska Sea Otters Gain Habitat Protection
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Dec 15, 2008
Today’s action comes under court order resulting from a lawsuit against the Service by the Center for Biological Diversity. “Critical habitat has a proven ...
Habitat protection proposed for Alaska sea otters Fort Mills Times
Protected habitat proposed for sea otter in Alaska The Associated Press
Otter may gain protection International Animal Rescue
Juneau Empire
all 124 news articles

Montano: Protections of California red-legged frog are misguided
Lake County News, CA - Dec 15, 2008
It is time clear-thinking people put a stop to eco-terrorists alike the Center for Biological Diversity. It seems like they have discovered that they can ...

Bay Area Indymedia

Court Decision Banning Trout Plants Will Have Wide Ranging Impact
Bay Area Indymedia, CA - Dec 29, 2008
The ruling is result of a lawsuit filed in 2006 against the DFG by the Pacific Rivers Council and the Center for Biological Diversity, represented by ...

Walruses in our midst ...
Vallejo Times-Herald, CA - Jan 3, 2009
The Center for Biological Diversity reportedly sued the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne last month for failing to act on ...

Yolo County ranch's sale of water prompts lawsuit threat
Sacramento Bee,  USA - Dec 29, 2008
16, the Butte Environmental Council and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice that they plan to sue the US Bureau of Reclamation and the US ...

Endangered Species Ringtone Downloads Exceed 200000 Milestone;
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Dec 18, 2008
Those who say imperiled species don’t have a voice of their own might want to reconsider after visiting the Center for Biological Diversity’s endangered ...

Groups Sue to Protect Endangered Bighorn Sheep
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Dec 18, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club and California Wilderness Coalition filed suit in federal court today challenging a flawed Bureau of Land ...
Bighorn sheep lawsuit over habitat protection filed San Bernardino Sun
Lawsuit filed to protect Bighorn sheep Inland Empire News
Lawsuit filed about bighorn sheep The Desert Sun
all 8 news articles

Obama's Appointments Reveal What's Wrong with the Environmental ...
CounterPunch, CA - Dec 19, 2008
In contrast the Center for Biological Diversity – which is a product of the movement by grassroots environmental activists to create alternatives to the ...

Federal group proposes protection rules for endangered smalltooth ...
Naples Daily News, FL - Dec 28, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit group based in San Francisco, sued the federal government over its failure to designate critical habitat ...

The Heartland Institute

Activists to Sue EPA over Ocean Acidification
The Heartland Institute, IL - Dec 19, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity has notified the US Environmental Protection Agency of its intent to file a lawsuit to force EPA to act on speculative ...

Seeking the secret to walrus reproduction
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Jan 2, 2009
... while walruses have been overlooked - although the Center for Biological Diversity, a conservation group, sued the US government in December to force it ...

Prescott wins a battle in groundwater fight
Arizona Republic, AZ - Dec 22, 2008
"I think it's essentially a political decision," said Michelle Harrington, rivers program director for the Center for Biological Diversity, ...
ADWR's Prescott ruling elicits appeals Sun Shopper
all 5 news articles

Why does Dirk Kempthorne hate polar bears?
Plenty Magazine, NY - Dec 15, 2008
Attorneys at the Center for Biological Diversity claim that the regulations seem designed to drive the bears into extinction. They certainly have reason to ...

State trying to protect the lush Fossil Creek
Arizona Republic, AZ - Dec 26, 2008
"Fossil Creek remains one of our major concerns," said Michelle Harrington, rivers-program director for the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity. ...

Conservation Group Calls for California To Reduce Greenhouse Gas ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Dec 18, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity submitted comments today on a timber-harvest plan up for state approval, highlighting the failure of the plan to address ...

Utah now focus of push for lead ammo rules
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Dec 28, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity also has chimed in on the issue. It notified the US Bureau of Land Management and the National Parks Service earlier ...

BBC News

Shunning Environmental Groups, Obama Taps Colorado Sen. Ken ...
Democracy Now, NY - Dec 20, 2008
[includes rush transcript] Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. This transcript is available free of charge. ...
Gas industry, state environmental groups support Salazar Glenwood Springs Post Independent
Salazar at Interior: For Greens, Not a Dream Choice TIME
Obama's Interior pick considered a centrist San Francisco Chronicle
CNNMoney.com - Arizona Daily Star
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Folsom Telegraph

Public comment sought on Delta smelt
Folsom Telegraph, CA - Dec 11, 2008
... striped bass – the warning bells are ringing loud and clear,” said Jeff Miller, spokesman for the Center for Biological Diversity non-profit. ...

Scientific American

California joins groups in species-act suit
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Dec 30, 2008
"We'd like to give the new administration a chance to respond," said Noah Greenwald of the Center for Biological Diversity, which filed the first suit. ...
California sues Bush administration to protect endangered species Scientific American
California challenges endangered species rule changes Reuters
all 245 news articles

Something's fishy about this lawsuit
Modesto Bee, CA - Jan 1, 2009
... filed by a group of Stanford law students on behalf of Oregon-based Pacific Rivers Council and the Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity, ...

The Independent Weekly Line on Durango and Beyond
Durango Telegraph, CO - Dec 17, 2008
These acts of omission drew a lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity, Grand Canyon Trust, and Sierra Club. However, Bush’s rule change would ...

Imported Beetle Threatens Endangered Songbird's Survival
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Dec 12, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a notice of intent to sue the US Department of Agriculture and APHIS for failing to consult with the US Fish ...

E/The Environmental Magazine

Groups Ask Fed to Replace Photo of Killed Wolf
E/The Environmental Magazine, CT - Dec 30, 2008
... a responsibility to accurately portray its management of the Mexican gray wolf,” said Michael Robinson of the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity. ...

Sierra frog's plight worsens, study finds
Carson Times, NV - Jan 3, 2009
In October 2006, the Center for Biological Diversity and Pacific Rivers Council sued over the practice, insisting the introduction of hatchery-raised trout ...

Wildlife groups seek update of manatee habitat maps
Tampabay.com, FL - Dec 19, 2008
... who wrote the petition for the Save the Manatee Club, Defenders of Wildlife, the Wildlife Advocacy Project and the Center for Biological Diversity. ...

City files appeal on ADWR Big Chino ruling
Prescott Daily Courier, AZ - Dec 12, 2008
For instance, the Center for Biological Diversity sent out an e-mail late Friday, reporting that the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest had filed ...

Environmental group calls for investigation into tortoise plan
Desert Dispatch, CA - Dec 29, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity sent a letter to the US Department of the Interior’s Office of the Inspector General Dec. 24 asking for a probe into ...

California Public Utilities Commission Approves Sunrise ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Dec 18, 2008
“The Center for Biological Diversity and its allies fought hard to stop SDG&E from spoiling Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and we succeeded,” said Steven ...

Critical habitat proposed for smalltooth sawfish in Ten Thousand ...
Naples Daily News, FL - Dec 22, 2008
The proposal is the product of a settlement of a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, based in San Francisco, that charged the Bush ...

Swans

Top Predators
Swans, CA - Dec 28, 2008
... duck president gutted the Endangered Species Act. He will be a top candidate for the Center For Biological Diversity's Third Annual Rubber Dodo Award. ...

Coral protection falls short, critics say
Orlando Sentinel, FL - Dec 25, 2008
But the Center for Biological Diversity, a San Francisco environmental group that had filed the original petition to have these species protected, ...

Voice of America

Obama Said to Tap Vilsack for Agriculture Secretary
Bloomberg - Dec 16, 2008
... reform-minded secretary,” Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement yesterday. ...
Video: Obama Names Interior, Agriculture Secretaries AssociatedPress
Obama Names Salazar As Secretary of Interior Washington Post
Salazar and the Tragedy of the Common Ground CounterPunch
Idaho Mountain Express and Guide - AFP
all 1,612 news articles

Wildlife groups ask feds to revise critical habitat zones for manatees
Naples Daily News, FL - Dec 29, 2008
The Wildlife Advocacy Project, the Save the Manatee Club, the Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife filed the 64-page petition in ...

The Skinny
Tucson Weekly, AZ - Dec 31, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity reveals that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has been running a breeding farm for the endangered Rocky Mountain ...

Federal Government Considers Ban on Imported Swordfish to Protect ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Dec 15, 2008
Today’s announcement, published in the Federal Register, comes in response to a petition filed in March by the Center for Biological Diversity and the ...

Plumas County news on-line
Plumas County Newspapers, CA - Dec 24, 2008
... mostly in northern California, as part of an agreement with conservation groups Center for Biological Diversity and Pacific Rivers Council. ...

Conservation Groups Threaten Lawsuit Over Central Valley Water ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Dec 16, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO— The Butte Environmental Council and the Center for Biological Diversity today filed notice of intent to sue the US Bureau of Reclamation over ...

Fishing, hiking, skiing their way to fame
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Dec 27, 2008
Frogs vs. fish: Noah Greenwald of the Center for Biological Diversity; Fish and Game Deputy Director Jordan Traverso; and Fish Sniffer editor Dan Bacher ...

Obama misfired with Interior pick
Arizona Republic, AZ - Dec 27, 2008
Kieran Suckling is executive director and founder of the Center for Biological Diversity, a Tucson-based conservation organization.

Durango Telegraph

The Independent Weekly Line on Durango and Beyond
Durango Telegraph, CO - Dec 10, 2008
As a step toward “restoring this balance” in Colorado, WildEarth Guardians, the Rewilding Institute and the Center for Biological Diversity filed their ...

Feds rework BLM conservation standards
Desert Dispatch, CA - Dec 19, 2008
Lisa Belenky, senior attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, argued that the designation process is too wide-ranging and will ultimately hinder ...

2008 REWIND: Everglades restore getting land infusion
KeysNet, Florida - Dec 27, 2008
While supporting the designation, some critics such as the Center for Biological Diversity say the measures don't go far enough to counter major threats ...

New West

Speculation on Salazar Nomination
New West, MT - Dec 31, 2008
Among those who view Salazar as a half empty cup is Kieran Suckling of the Center for Biological Diversity. Suckling notes that Salazar voted against ...

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
TIME - Dec 22, 2008
—Kieran Suckling of the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity, NPR, Dec. 16, 2008 • "He is a moonfaced fellow whose modest demeanor belies his ...

San Diego Union Tribune

Powerlink foes weigh legal options
San Diego Union Tribune, CA - Dec 19, 2008
Steven Siegel, a lawyer for the Center for Biological Diversity, a Sunrise opponent, said the commission ignored most of the evidence presented in the case. ...
Powerlink battle lines drawn San Diego Union Tribune
all 180 news articles

Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Obama's liberal problem - or not?
Washington Times, DC - Dec 25, 2008
... forward looking, reform-minded Secretary," said Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity. ...

Forest-thinning plan would clear brush, cut state's fire risk
Arizona Republic, AZ - Dec 11, 2008
... agreement that we've been able to pull together," said Todd Schulke, senior policy analyst at the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity. ...