Wildlife Protection

PEERMail | Saving Rare Sea Turtles

by Tim Whitehouse | July 31, 2020
International recognized Turtle Science and Recovery Program helps rescue loggerhead and green sea turtles but is being threatened by cuts to program funding ...

New Federal Licenses May Sink Lobster Fleets 

by Susan Sargent | July 29, 2020
NOAA’s Past Accommodations of Lobster Industry Come Back to Bite It ...

Park Service Slashes Sea Turtle Rescue Program

by Susan Sargent | July 16, 2020
Hatchling Releases, Stranding Response, and Research Cut at Padre Island ...

Plan for National Cormorant Slaughter Nears Takeoff 

by Susan Sargent | July 15, 2020
Permits Would Quintuple Double-Crested Cormorant Kills to 123,000 Yearly ...

PEERMail | NOAA is Choosing Extinction

As the North Atlantic right whale careens toward extinction, NOAA leaders refuse to act on the findings of the agency’s own scientists to protect them ...

NOAA Balks at Steps to Save Remaining Right Whales  

by Susan Sargent | July 9, 2020
Scientists Ignored as Agency Delays Entanglement and Ship Strike Relief ...
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