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Bear gallbladders fetch about $18,000 each in Asia, where they are converted into tablet form and taken as a panacea. Conservation officials are worried that high prices for bear parts will bring an increase in illegal bear killings. Most endangered is the grizzly, of which only 1,000 are...
The Environment President proposed an energy policy that didn't call for alternative fuels, or mandatory conservation or anything so sensible, but for more exploration to fuel our consumption. Our environment president who promised that there would be zero loss of wetlands decided to redefine what a wetland was so...
Although few restoration projects are more than a decade old, many have already begun to generate encouraging results. In Costa Rica, University of Pennsylvania biologist Daniel Janzen is helping rebuild a nearly extinct tropical dry forest in the 110,000-hectare (272,000-acre) Guanacaste Conservation Area, which until five...
"They didn't increase their price, they didn't increase their output, they didn't lower their costs except for energy conservation," he said.
Nationally, Clinton said he would like to see "a strong Clean Air Act... firmly and fairly administered," as well as changes in policy "from a reliance on imported oil and oil developed in environmentally sensitive areas to far greater reliance on internationally competitive rates of conservation and the development of...