by LouiseGund | Mar 13, 2020 | Conservation, Environment, Nature, Organizations, Programs, Wildlife
A founding member of the International Waterkeeper Alliance, San Francisco Baykeeper has worked for three decades to safeguard San Francisco Bay and its network of waterways from the threat of pollution. Baykeeper, the only nonprofit organization of its kind to...
by LouiseGund | Mar 5, 2020 | Conservation, Environment, History, Legislation, Nature
These days, when do Democrats and Republicans in government agree on anything? Apparently clean water is a relatively non-partisan issue. The nonprofit environmental legal aid group Earthjustice is celebrating a rare instance of bipartisanship with the passage...
by LouiseGund | Mar 2, 2020 | Animals, Conservation, Environment, Nature, Organizations, Wildlife
There are only two species of gorillas known to humankind, the eastern and the western gorilla. They live along Africa’s equatorial belt about 500 miles apart. Each of these two species consists of two subspecies, one inhabiting lowland areas and the other inhabiting...
by LouiseGund | Dec 17, 2019 | Conservation, Environment, Legislation, Nature, Organizations, Programs
In October 2019, the nonprofit Clean Water Action praised the vote by the California State Water Resources Control Board to reduce the previously established timeline to end nitrate water pollution in California’s Central Valley by 10 years. The 3-1 vote in...
by LouiseGund | Dec 12, 2019 | Conservation, Environment, Legislation, Nature, Organizations
The only nonprofit organization of its kind that monitors local waters in its own pollution patrol boat, San Francisco Baykeeper has spent the past 30 years playing a lead role in protecting the health of the San Francisco Bay and adjacent wetlands. Baykeeper focuses...
by LouiseGund | Dec 9, 2019 | Animals, Conservation, Environment, Nature, Wildlife
The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts (COLT) works to serve the interests of the land trust community in the state and to strengthen its collective ability to preserve the environment for the benefit of people everywhere, now and in the future. Through its many...
