The New Age of Extinction

By BRYAN WALSH / MADAGASCAR
Planet on the Brink
Time Magazine

As the globe warms, more than the climate is endangered. Species are vanishing at a scary rate. We're the cause--but we're also the solution...

Join the National Outcry to Save Wolves

Add your voice now to our campaign. Tell Interior Secretary Salazar to reverse his decision to kick wolves off the endangered species list.

This is absolutely the wrong time to rip away federal protections from these struggling wolves. Over the past year, the wolf population in Yellowstone National Park has declined by 27 percent, with more than 70 percent of wolf pups succumbing to disease.

One pack alone lost all 24 of its pups!

If the federal protections are lifted on May 4 as planned, newborn wolf pups and their nursing mothers traveling outside national parks will be in the line of fire.

That's why NRDC and our partners are filing suit in federal court to block this disastrous policy. But we must do more: we must raise a nationwide outcry that the Obama Administration cannot ignore.

Honoring César Chávez--and His Call to Stop Eating Animals

This week activist César Chávez's birthday was celebrated in California and across the country. Animal Rights blogger Stephanie Ernst laments that, in all of the hoopla surrounding the event, there wasn't a word about his opposition to exploitation of animals on all fronts, including research, sport, food, and entertainment.

Syncrude Duck Deaths Triple

Although noise-producing duck deterrent systems are supposed to be in place at these waste ponds a snowstorm had delayed their deployment in this instance. As all other bodies of water in the area were still frozen, the ducks were left no other place to land than the toxic pond.