http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.phpArticles from TheWildlifePetition.comhttp://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/rejuvenation/Oil-Spill-Wildlife-Rescue-Efforts <p> As cleanup of the Gulf Coast oil spill drags on, it's distressing to see pictures of oil slicks along the coastlines, especially photos of wildlife covered in oil... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/Re-Evaluate-Our-Relationship-with-Water <p> We Americans have a long history of treating our nation's bodies of water with little or no respect. The ongoing Deepwater Horizon disaster is yet another page in the story of America polluting its water... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/Sealing-the-Deal <p> The Canadian fishing industry is aiming to knock out the competition - literally, with bludgeons and clubs. Canada, home to the world's largest and longest running annual seal hunt, is entertaining a proposal to slaughter the seal population on Sable Island, Nova Scotia... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/rejuvenation/When-All-the-Laughter-Has-Drowned-in-Oil <p> Everyone had been laughing. They were laughing at the all the environmentalists out there who have been saying that it's time to cut our dependency on fossil fuels. They were laughing whenever Sarah Palin said "Drill, baby, drill." They were laughing at all the oil rigs out in the Gulf of Mexico making money and creating jobs... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/Ocean-Pollution-Harming-Sea-Creatures <p> If you were to ask a gray whale what it eats, it will tell you this: it feeds off the bottom, mouthing in huge amounts of mud, then literally pressing all of what it just mouthed through its baleen plates... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/The-Basics-of-Organic-Gardening <p> I began organic gardening in the very early eighties, more or less on a dare. Since I always had some type of regular garden with a few tomatoes and peppers, and I lived virtually in the middle of the city, I got into an argument about this subject with my in-laws... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/I-m-Mellltinggg!-Melting!!! <p> New naming contest for Glacier National Park announced! The name will be instated after the glacial melt. Officials say it's not too soon to be thinking of new names; the glaciers might be gone within the next ten years... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/Obama-s-Expansion-of-Offshore-Drilling <p> In late March, President Obama announced his plans to open water along the Atlantic coastline from Delaware to Florida, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/Tree-House-Hotels <p> Want to really connect with nature on your next vacation? Make like Tarzan and head for the nearest tree house hotel. Swing through the trees and go ape over the accommodations at these rooms redefining "high-rise" hotel... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/The-Cove <p> This is a thrilling documentary that is difficult to watch, yet everyone should see it. </p> <p> It takes place in Taiji, Japan, situated inside a little picturesque cove along the sea. Dolphins are herded into this cove... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/No-Tree-Left-Behind <p> Tiiiiimmbeeeeerr! If a logging company falls in the woods, does anyone miss it? That depends on the forest... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/International-Conference-Denies-Endangered-Sharks-Protection <p> Delegates at the Conference on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) rejected measures to protect scalloped hammerhead and oceanic whitetip sharks during their recent March meeting... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/Garbage-Patches-Multiplying-Fast <p> We've already got a massive trash island, the size of Texas (and growing), known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Isn't that enough? </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/Bluefin-Tuna-Consumption-To-Ban-or-Not-to-Ban <p> According to a February <i>New York Times</i> article, Japan, the world's largest consumer of Atlantic bluefin tuna, will not support a ban on the fish that will be proposed at the this month's meeting of the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/Grass-Fed-Beef-Not-on-the-Menu <p> If I ever get the hankering for a good steak, which is rare (pun intended) I have a couple of options. I can go to my local co-op and get an organically grown grass fed cut of beef, or I can do the old wine and dine routine and go out to a steakhouse to indulge my sense of taste... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/Tigers-and-Polar-and-Panda-Bears-Oh-My! <p> According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) also named the tiger as an animal of the year - but on a list that's not cause for celebration... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/The-Truth-About-Global-Warming <p> The world is changing right before our eyes, but some people refuse to see it. There are a lot of people out there that would sooner say bah-humbug about global warming than actually get into the facts involved... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/How-Will-Global-Warming-Effect-Cold-Blooded-Animals <p> <i>I'm hot blooded, check it and see, I got a fever of a hundred and three, I'm hot blooded...</i> </p> <p> As a "hot-blooded" mammal, I don't rely on external temperatures; cold-blooded fish, amphibians, insects and reptiles, however, rely on specific temperatures in their environments to function... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/Harming-Animals-In-the-Name-of-Sport <p> I consider all kinds of life forms sacred and I'll bet that most of you out there do too. I don't hunt and I despise all of those weekend hunters... </p> http://thewildlifepetition.com/index.php/communities/ba/categories/wildlife/preservation/Adopting-Animals-Internationally <p> If you're struggling for ideas for a loved ones' birthday or hoping to spread some goodwill at the start of the new year, here's an idea that benefits wildlife and doesn't even require getting up from your computer... </p>