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 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 | Nov 20, 2019 | Animals, Conservation, Environment, Nature, Organizations, Programs, Wildlife
Late in 2017, in the small salmon-fishing town of Dillingham, Alaska, a mining firm filed paperwork to obtain a permit for the development of a new open-pit gold and copper mine upstream. Residents in this town of 2,300 people, whose livelihood centers on fishing, are...
by LouiseGund | Nov 15, 2019 | Animals, Conservation, Environment, History, Nature, Organizations, Programs, Wildlife
A nonprofit law firm focused on defending the earth and its people, animals, and natural resources, Earthjustice has won numerous court battles since its establishment in the 1970s. These lawsuits have halted air pollution, increased protections for Arctic lands and...
