Biodiversity - Solutions

MILLIONS OF CITIZENS COUNTERING MONSANTO'S BUSINESS PRACTICES
Given Monsanto's ongoing, criminally irresponsible record of disregarding human health and the environment, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is stepping up the pace in our "Millions Against Monsanto" campaign. If you're talking about Agent Orange, rBGH, water privatization, PCBs, or DDT, you're talking about Monsanto.
Sign the "Millions Against Monsanto" petition now.

Help Save the Last Wild Places on Earth
http://www.savebiogems.org/

Campaign for America's Wilderness
http://www.leaveitwild.org

Friends Of The Earth
http://www.foe.co.uk

Biodemocracy or Biotechnology?
http://www.organicconsumers.org/gelink.html

Help Protect the Amazon Rainforest
http://amazonwatch.org

National Parks Conservation Association
www.npca.org
Help protect this and all our national parks by writing to Congress today to increase desperately needed funding for national park operations. Currently, Congress has begun work on the budget for the next fiscal year. Your voice is needed to remind them what these national treasures mean to you and how years of inadequate funding have placed these treasures in jeopardy.

Audobon Take Action
http://www.capitolconnect.com/audubon/

International Fund for Animal Welfare
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=17768

UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
http://www.unep-wcmc.org/
This center provides information for policy and action to conserve the living world.

NatureServe
http://www.natureserve.org
Nature Serve provides scientific information and tools needed to help guide effective conservation action. A leading source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems.

The Environmental Health Coalition (EHC)
http://www.environmentalhealth.org
is dedicated to the prevention and clean-up of toxic pollution threatening our health, our community and the environment. They promote environmental justice, monitor government and industry actions that cause pollution, educate the community about toxic hazards and toxins use reduction, and empower the public to join our cause.

Global Stewards provides resources for sustainable living and environmental activism. http://www.globalstewards. org

Help fight Global Warming and save Old Growth Forests at the same time http://www.ancienttrees.org

California Wildlife Center is currently the only licensed facility providing marine mammal response as well as full term rehabilitative care for native wildlife including coyotes, deer, raptors, pelagic birds, songbirds, squirrels, opossums, bobcats, etc. in the Greater Los Angeles area. www.californiawildlifecenter.org

Statistics on childhood illnesses since 1980 are staggering. Asthma has increased 142%; cancer continues to rise at 1% per year; birth defects are rising; and 17% of all children under age 19 have some form of developmental disability. Check out www.safefoodandfertilizer. org to learn more about hazardous and other industrial wastes in fertilizer that currently has no regulation.

ParksWatch is a watchdog and monitoring organization that works through partnerships with in-country NGOs and individuals to conduct on-the-ground evaluations of national parks and other protected areas.
http://www.parkswatch.org/main.php

Alberta's grizzly bear population is one of the most threatened in North America. Numbers have dropped from an estimated historic high of 9,000 to 16,000 bears just 200 years ago to an estimated 500 bears today (ASRD, 2002). The primary causes of this decline include increasing rates of human-caused mortality, habitat fragmentation, and increasing amounts of human activity (recreation, forestry, oil & gas exploration, development) in grizzly bear habitat. http://www.grizzlybearalliance.org/whatsnew.html