Maneka Gandhi on India’s vanishing wildlife and the “race to the finish”

Maneka Gandhi is an ardent animal rights activist, politician and former journalist in India. This inspiring and brilliantly eloquent woman has been a minister in four governments, and has written a number of books.
She is the Chairperson for People for Animals, India’s largest animal welfare organization, which runs a large animal rescue centre in Delhi, [...]

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No Tankers

An alert from Dogwood Initiative
For 37 years the northern coastal waters of British Columbia have been protected from oil tanker traffic. This ban is now under threat.
Plans to build pipelines and a supertanker port in BC to service the Alberta Tar Sands are moving forward with support from the BC and Canadian Governments.
But there is [...]

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The Hawthorn Elephant Rescue

Rescuetheelephants, a site dedicated to the rescue of the Hawthorn elephants, and created by an international group of individuals, closed down in January 2008, three years after it was launched. Rather than lose the documentation in that site, the content was moved here, with the text left at the point when we last edited it, [...]

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A National Day of Action to Demand a Canadian Energy Strategy

With Bush out and Obama in, Harper’s Canada has the feel of an echo growing more faint each moment.
In Canada, we are fortunate to have the Council of Canadians fighting for us. (COC Chair, Maude Barlow is an inspiring Canadian hero and was recently appointed as Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the [...]

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Remembering the campaign to “stop the plant”

I’ve been watching the enthusiastically billowing Thai-built smokestacks at the new Portlands Energy Centre. (I saw the ship carrying them arriive.)
The natural gas-fired generator is almost ready to swing into full gear to save Toronto from the spectre of another blackout such as occurred in 2003.
(The truth be known, many said it was the [...]

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Sarah Palin’s contempt for wildlife includes beluga whales

Continuing on her quest to drill for oil in fragile ecosystems, the bloodthirsty Sarah Palin is now after nearly extinct Cook Inlet beluga whales. As per this press release from the Center for Biological Diversity, Palin is making the state of Alaska sue to strike down protections for the whales provided under the [...]

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The North Pacific Gyre: deadly plastic debris soup

“What have the albatross, ‘distinguished strangers who have come down to us from another world,’ ever done to us?”
(November 2007 in the Shambhala Sun, Writers and the War Against Nature)

I recently touched on the plight of the highly endangered albatross in relation to devastating longline fishing practices. Drowning through being hooked and dragged under kills [...]

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Ample space to roam?

At Whole Foods this week, I passed by the butcher counter and noticed again the sign, “with ample space to roam” that refers to their chickens. It reminded me of Rosie, the Whole Foods “naturally raised” chicken that Michael Pollan buys and eats in The Omnivore’s Dilemma and whose “farm” he visits.
The organic broiler Pollan [...]

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