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Last weekend, the who's who of Western entertainment gathered in Los Angeles to cheer on the winners of coveted Oscar awards. The winner of the best documentary Oscar, "The Cove," got a much different reaction from the residents of the town that served as the film's location. That's because the docu...
LOS ANGELES, California, March 8, 2010 (ENS) - "The Cove," an American film documenting the annual killing of dolphins in a cove near the Japanese village of Taiji, was awarded an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Sunday night by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Directed by former N...
WASHINGTON, DC, March 8, 2010 (ENS) - The greater sage-grouse "warrants" the protection of the Endangered Species Act but listing the species at this time is "precluded by the need to address higher priority species first," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Friday.
A special working group working to save the International Whaling Commission met in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida to propose a "package" that could bring whaling and anti-whaling countries closer together. Notes from the Chairman, which clearly state that "nothing is agreed until everything is agree...
LIHUE, Kauai, March 4, 2010 (ENS) - Four conservation groups today advised the St. Regis Princeville Resort on Kauai's North Shore of their intent to sue over the resort's failure to prevent the deaths of rare native seabirds, in violation of the federal Endangered Species Act.
The St. Regis is own...
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 2, 2010 (ENS) - The first breeding population of one of the world's least known birds, the large-billed reed-warbler, Acrocephalus orinus, has just been discovered in the remote, rugged Wakhan Corridor of the Pamir Mountains in northeastern Afghanistan.
On Sunday, Afghanist...
Conservation groups are lobbying with the federal government to preserve a stretch of coastline they say is vital to the nesting of the endangered leatherback turtle. According to The Sierra Club, a 3,200 acre preserve is needed to ensure the species' continued survival. While Puerto Rico's last gov...
In a compromise intended to ease tensions surrounding Japanese and Icelandic whaling, the International Whaling Commission is suggesting that they will end the decade-old whaling ban to bring back regulated whaling. While this move would end the practically unregulated research whaling carried out b...
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a November ultimatum for Japan to cease its whale hunt in the Antarctic ocean. Rudd, who is the federal leader of Australia's leftist Labor party, has long been an anti-whaling advocate and says that he would prefer to solve the whaling issue politically r...
The Japanese government reported that three crewmen were injured when members of the anti-whaling activist group Sea Shepherd struck them in the face or head with butyric acid stink bombs. Sea Shepherd stated that the aggression originated from the Japanese vessel when they turned their water cannon...
