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Soiuth African white rhino. Courtesy of gapafricaprojects.com

Rhinos without Borders: Now or Never!

January 18, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Emmy-award-winning filmmakers Derek and Beverly Joubert have stalked big game for years – with cameras — for beautiful National Geographic specials. Now they are staking claim to create a future […]

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Animals at risk, Conservation, Endangered species, Extinction
Courtesy of Mission Blue

Oceans in Deep Trouble: No Oceans, No Us

August 19, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

The ocean is dying.” So says Dr. Sylvia Earle, internationally known oceanographer and advocate who is spearheading Mission Blue —  a 90-minute documentary film on NetFlix, a book and new […]

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Animals at risk, Conservation, Extinction, Oceans, Science
Forest elephants in the Congo. Courtesy of Wildlife Conservation Society

Today Is World Elephant Day Take the Pledge

August 12, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Celebrate the life of earth’s largest land mammal –and pledge your support – to stop the poaching of elephants for their tusks and loss of their habitat. Take the pledge: […]

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Animals at risk, Conservation, Elephants, Endangered species
At the International Conservation Center (Pittsburgh Zoo) a biomass burner can dry, resize, store and burn elephant waste. It's a great alternative to the landfill. An elephant produces 100-125 pounds of poop a day. The burner can produce 2000 pounds a day.

Aug 12 World Elephant Day Take the Pledge

August 6, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Celebrate the life of earth’s largest land mammal –and pledge your support – to stop the poaching of elephants for their tusks and loss of their habitat. Take the pledge: […]

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Animals at risk, Conservation, Elephants, Endangered species

Earth Week Heroes: Osprey Thriving in Wash DC

April 23, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

This is a success story that involves two continents, youths in troubled neighborhoods, a raft of community volunteers, good science and a cleaned up river in Washington DC. But it […]

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Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Endangered species, Rivers, Toxics, Water
Red bellied woodpecker coutesy of Rachel Wood Ohio

Great Backyard Bird Count: Results are in!

March 30, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

The Great Backyard Bird Count just had another record-breaking year. People in 135 countries participated in the four-day count – Feb 14-17 – and observed a total of 4, 296 […]

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Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation
WWF Anti Poaching Campaign

Animals at Risk: Elephant Slaughter, Circles of Death

March 4, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

ELEPHANT GENOCIDE IS UGLY.  What can you do ? It’s a crime of epic proportions:  At least 35,000 African elephants were slaughtered  last year for their tusks, according to experts who […]

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Animals at risk, Biodiversity, Conservation, Elephants, Endangered species, International
Monte Belo Dam demonstrators

Environmental Heroes of 2013

January 3, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

As our environmental heroes of 2013, we selected 10 enduring stories of people – young, old and no longer with us – whose love of the planet, scientific knowledge and […]

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Biodiversity, Climate change, Conservation, Discovery, Ecology, Research, Sustainability
Wiehnacht-Christmas in Bern, Switzerland

Happy Holidays: Peace and Thanks

December 24, 2013by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

To our readers and followers — What would we be without you ? Just another blog. Green News Update  (greennewsupdate.com) is just a little over a year old as a […]

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Art & Design, Biodiversity, Books, Conservation, Sustainability
Royal Star Fish -Astropecten articulatus, Daytona Beach Shores, Fla. Copyright Marc Walz. (Posted on the Encyclopedia of Life)

E.O. Wilson: Do More – Preserve Life on Earth

December 23, 2013by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

“ The remainder of the century will be a bottleneck of growing human impact on the environment and diminishing biodiversity. We bear all of the responsibility of bringing ourselves and […]

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Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered species, Sustainability

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