About the Foundation: Wilburforce Foundation protects wildlife habitat in Western North America by actively supporting organizations and leaders advancing conservation solutions. We are a private, philanthropic foundation that supports efforts to create a network of protected core reserves, corridors and buffer zones across Western North America that will support ecologically effective landscapes and viable wildlife [...]

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The metal dome hasn’t worked. What do we do to stop the oil now? That’ the question BP executives are desperately mulling over as hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil are being leaked into the ocean following the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion last month.
New York Times Op-Ed editors asked five different experts what they [...]

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A potentially deadly strain of fungus is spreading among animals and people in the northwestern United States and here in British Columbia, report Reuters. “Cryptococcus gattii” usually only effects those with compromised immune systems, such as transplant and AIDS patients, however the newly-identified strain is different, according to researchers.
Findings presented in a new document indicate [...]

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A massive oil slick from BP’s drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, has reached the coast of Louisiana. A fire and explosion occurred on the rig April 20, killing eleven crewmembers. It sank two days later.
The event could become the worst U.S. environmental disaster in decades, threatening to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez in scope, reports The [...]

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Kenya wildlife rangers are attempting a historic mass relocation of zebra and wildebeest across the country in an attempt to provide food for starving carnivores. Extreme drought in the region has caused many herbivores such as zebra and wildebeest to die, leaving little to no prey for hyenas and lions to feed on. The starving [...]

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DOHA (AFP) – Atlantic bluefin tuna is in crisis and meets the criteria for a total ban on international trade, the head of the UN wildlife trade organization said this past Saturday in opening a 13-day meeting, reports the AFP.
Besides the sharply disputed proposal on bluefin, the Convention will debate the status of African elephants, [...]

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SFU’s Graduate Public Policy Program Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series proudly presents:
“Forests for a Cooler Planet” with Ben Parfitt, Forestry Expert and Author, and George Heyman, Executive Director, Sierra Club BC.
Thursday February 4th 2010 at 12:00 – 1:00pm at SFU’s Vancouver Campus at Harbour Centre, room 3000.

Overview of Topic:
BC has had long standing conflicts between [...]

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A new map illustrating the global consequences of failing to keep climate change to under 2 degrees Celsius was launched today by the UK Government. With just 45 days to go before international climate change talks begin in Copenhagen, British ministers are pressing for the most ambitious deal possible in order to avoid these dangerous [...]

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It’s time to wake up, freak out, then get a GRIP! Check out this great video by Leo Murray that summarizes how dangerously close to the tipping point in the world’s climate system we are, and the scenarios the all species of the planet will face if we don’t anything about it.
“This is not the [...]

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Climate change is being blamed as a major contributor to flattening of the complex, multi-layered architecture of Caribbean coral reefs, which provide a natural defense against tropical storms and a home to hundreds of species of aquatic flora and fauna.
A study published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, authored in part by researchers from [...]

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