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• Huge landowner gets a closed-door deal
We have 40 years of Forest Service history that has been reversed in the last three months," said Pat O'Herren, an official in Missoula County , which is threatening to sue the Forest Service for forgoing environmental assessments and other procedures ...
• Uber-agency for earth sciences urged
The United States faces unprecedented environmental and economic challenges in the decades ahead. Foremost among them will be climate change, sea-level rise, altered weather patterns, declines in freshwater availability and quality and loss of ...
• Companies begin quest for oil, gas off Florida
The early activity here stems from a 2006 Congressional compromise that allows drilling on 8.3 million acres more than 125 miles off the Panhandle — an area that had been covered by the moratorium, which was enacted out of environmental concerns.
• Venice Beach Contamination Remains A Mystery
Under those conditions, about 20 people out of 1,000 would report an illness after contact with the water, said Charles Henry, environmental administrator at the Sarasota County Health Department.
• Radio's 'Car Talk' guys tinker with TV show
I hope that people look at it mercifully,” says the younger, stockier, talkier Ray (Clack) about “As the Wrench Turns,” a half-hour series that wraps social and environmental messages inside an animated sitcom.

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» The Australian Orangutan Project - AOP - Supports many orangutan conservation organizations.
» BOS - Balikpapan Orangutan Survival Foundation - Supporting the orangutans and their reintroduction to their natural habitat in Kalimantan. Profile, news, informations on orangutans and background environmental information about Kalimantan.
» BOS UK - The Balikpapan Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS) helps sponsor a reintroduction program for confiscated orangutans on the island of Borneo.
» CIFOR - Center for International Forestry Research - Concentrates on research and publications about tropical forestry and sociology in developing nations. Research abstracts, publications, job opportunities and software downloads.
» Friends of the Environment Fund - An Indonesian not for profit and independent organization aiming at implementing sustainable development concept and assisting various conservation efforts.
» KEHATI Foundation - Grantmaking foundation for programs in the area of Indonesian biodiversity conservation. Bilingual site.
» Volunteers Alliance for Saving the Nature (Arupa) - NGO based in Yogyakarta who fights to revise inappropriate national forestry, resource management paradigms and policies. Contains profile and description of publications. Publications themselves are in Indonesian and Javanese.
» WARSI - Conservation Information Forum - Network made up of twelve NGOs from four provinces in Sumatra whose focus is biodiversity conservation and community development. Presentation of the organization and of its various projects.
» WWF Indonesia - Site of the Indonesian chapter of the WWF For Nature, an independent conservation organization. Includes e-card, merchandise, news and online activity kit.