Species Archives - Page 8 of 10

Wildlife populations are thriving

Despite what you may have heard.

By Rob Gordon |2023-02-18T12:39:39-05:00February 19th, 2023|Comments Off

Run-ins with wildlife on rise: How should governments respond?

The facts on animal encounters.

By Rob Gordon |2023-02-16T23:07:26-05:00February 18th, 2023|Comments Off

Whale hell looms in Massachusetts

Vineyard's location is whale country, including the summer breeding ground of the severely endangered North Atlantic Right Whale.

By David Wojick |2023-02-14T15:03:25-05:00February 16th, 2023|Comments Off

Why are whales dying off the East Coast?

There is nothing like a cluster of large whales washing up dead on the shores of New York, New Jersey, and Virginia.

By Collister Johnson |2023-02-13T13:17:07-05:00February 14th, 2023|Comments Off

Concerns grow over listing lesser prairie-chicken under the Endangered Species Act

Listing a plant or animal under the ESA – either as threatened or endangered – triggers strict land-use restrictions that could have devastating economic consequences.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2023-02-13T13:11:35-05:00February 14th, 2023|Comments Off

Biden Administration throws lobstermen under the bus

The dilemma is how to pretend that it is doing everything it can to protect the critically endangered Right Whale, while at the same time green-lighting massive wind energy industrialization of the ocean waters off the East Coast.

By Collister Johnson |2023-01-31T14:29:20-05:00February 2nd, 2023|Comments Off

Polar bear kills Alaskan mother and baby

Polar bears are neither cuddly friends, nor drowning or starving because you live in freedom and prosperity. It is well past time to end polar bears as propaganda.

By Craig Rucker |2023-01-26T15:12:01-05:00January 26th, 2023|Comments Off

Evidence says offshore wind development is killing lots of whales

The humpback death rate roughly tripled starting in 2016 and continued high thereafter.

By David Wojick |2023-01-22T21:11:49-05:00January 23rd, 2023|Comments Off

The American Chestnut Tree: From near-extinction to recovery?

Standing as tall as 100 feet and measuring as much as 10 feet in diameter, the iconic American chestnut tree once dominated forests from Maine to Georgia and could be found as far west as Illinois with a few stands showing up in northern Louisiana.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2023-01-04T10:06:22-05:00January 3rd, 2023|Comments Off

UN COP15 on biological diversity: A lesson in climate mission creep

"A gradual shift in objectives during the course of a military campaign, often resulting in an unplanned long-term commitment.”

By CFACT Ed |2022-12-22T12:18:22-05:00December 22nd, 2022|Comments Off

Ten whale groups slam Atlantic OSW

"There is reason for grave concern."

By David Wojick |2022-12-20T13:19:38-05:00December 21st, 2022|Comments Off

Press release: Public interest groups file comments to protect endangered right whale

Reasons to protect the endangered Right Whale from offshore wind in Virginia.

By CFACT Ed |2022-12-08T10:06:38-05:00December 8th, 2022|Comments Off

Official Coalition Comments on BOEM right whale offshore wind strategy

The proposed right whale Strategy fails to properly address the clearly great risks to the whale population posed by offshore wind operational noise. It also does not address the extensive research required to accurately assess these risks.

By David Wojick |2022-12-05T08:26:24-05:00December 5th, 2022|Comments Off

CFACT official submission on Right Whales and Big Wind

BOEM cannot research, collaborate, minimize, mitigate, monitor, avoid, evaluate, or otherwise strategize its way out of a zero take marine environment for the North Atlantic Right Whale.

By Collister Johnson |2022-11-30T15:33:13-05:00November 30th, 2022|Comments Off

Collister Johnson on “Joe Thomas in the Morning” shreds Dominion’s wind project

"They're gonna be over 700 feet in height; the blades themselves are gonna be longer than a football field. And the right whale is right in the middle of all this and they're very much gonna be in danger."

By CFACT |2022-10-12T13:22:44-04:00October 12th, 2022|Comments Off