Did climate change really kill billions of snow crabs in Alaska? Here’s what experts say

by PEER | November 19, 2022
“During the past few years, as the numbers of some major Bering Sea crab stocks have approached the vanishing point, climate change and ocean warming have received most of the blame in the news media,” Dew said by email. “Overfishing and trawl bycatch have gotten relatively little ...

Report: Livestock, not wild horses, have degraded public lands

by PEER |
Not much, a conservation group’s analysis of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) data found earlier this month — raising questions about the value of ongoing efforts to reduce the number of horses inhabiting federal lands used for livestock grazing, which has a significantly bigger ...

Groups Ask National Park Service To End Use Of Lead-Based Ammo And Tackle In Parks

by PEER | November 18, 2022
“Banning lead from our national parks would be one of the single biggest conservation advances in a generation,” said Rocky Mountain PEER Director Chandra Rosenthal, noting that early in the Obama years the NPS briefly announced such a ban, called “Get the Lead Out.” but reversed ...

Ban Lead Ammunition and Tackle from National Parks

by PEER | November 17, 2022
Groups Petition to Protect Wildlife, Human Health and the Environment ...

Petition to Sec. Deb Haaland – Ban Lead Ammo in National Parks – 11-17-2022 (PDF) 

by PEER |
DESCRIPTION: Rulemaking Petition to Secretary Deb Haaland to ban the use of lead ammunition and tackle in national parks TO: Secretary Deb Haaland FROM: PEER, American Bird Conservancy, Union of Concerned Scientists DATE: November 17, 2022 TAGS: NPS, lead ammo, wildlife protection ...
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