Wildlife Conservation Press Releases
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CITY OF CHICAGO FIRST TO SUPPORT EARTH HOUR 2008
Other Cities Soon Follow Suit and Will Turn Off Their Lights Saturday, March 29 at 8pm to Signal Action
Pittsburgh, PA—March 4, 2008—Three more major U.S. cities announced today that they would join Chicago in celebrating “Earth Hour 2008,” a program sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund that aims to reduce cities’ energy consumption on a daily basis. The World Wildlife Fund, in collaboration with these cities, hope to voice their concerns about the recent climate change across the planet.
Atlanta, Phoenix and San Francisco will join Chicago by darkening their skylines on Saturday, March 29, 2008 from 8pm-9pm. The World Wildlife Fund introduced this program in an effort to show that working together and collaborating throughout the world really can make a difference in the fight against global warming.
Cities throughout the world are participating, including Sydney, Bangkok, and Copenhagen. It will mean a lot to see some of the most famous skylines in the world with a completely blank canvas for an hour.
The World Wildlife d is working together with local utility companies and public safety to ensure this hour of darkness will be made possible. The pledge for Earth Hour is not just to darken the cities but also to replace older light bulbs with eco-friendly ones. Local corporations are also showing their support for their city’s involvement in the project. The main claim for Earth Hour 2008 is that an individual action on a mass scale can better our planet.
To see if your local city is participating, go to www.earthhour.org. All cities have three more weeks to join the roster of participating cities. Requests for your city to participate can also be voiced on the website. For more information on Earth Hour 2008 and for tips on how individuals can help fight global warming visit www.wwf.org.
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If you are a city official who wishes to add your city to the list or for more information on the collaborative efforts between Earth Hour 2008 and the World Wildlife Fund, contact Bryn Shamey at 724-555-5555 or at generic1@pitt.edu.
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SUMATRA FOREST DESTRUCTION
Palm Oil Plantation Replaces the Forest and Leads to Excess Gas Emission and Endangerment of Elephants and Tigers
Pittsburgh, PA—March 4, 2008—Throughout the pas25 years in the Sumatra region, over 10.5 million acres of tropical forest have been cleared. This destruction is causing a dramatic loss in the elephant and tiger population as well as environmental problems contributing significantly to global warming.
Over the past 25 years, the Sumatra region has lost about 65% of its forests. This destruction has caused a loss in over 84% of the region’s elephant population and a loss of over 70% of the tiger population. A total of 210 individual elephants and a mere 192 individual tigers now inhabit the area.
The clearing of the forest has brought new palm oil plantations into the region, which now uses more energy than before in the area and cause many more gases to be emitted into the environment. This forest now gives off more gas than all the Netherlands, a drastic increase as it used to barely give off anything but the natural gases released by the forest.
This is a prime example of why action needs to take place in order to stop this dramatic loss. It is also the first real time that the loss of forests and rise in gas emissions can be directly linked to the rapid loss of wildlife species. If this process continues again in the next 25 years, the tiger and elephant will become extinct and a lack of biodiversity will be seen in the region, leading to untold consequences. The lack of biodiversity would cause devastating effects to the entire planet including a loss of medications and species, a lower air and water quality, and an increase in gas emissions across the globe.
The loss of more forests like the one in the Sumatra region and the creation of more industries in previously green areas will have a worldwide effect. The dramatic decline in the elephant and tiger population is a mere step in the disappearance of an environment. To find out what you can do to help or to learn about other tropical forest and animals that are in danger, visit www.wwf.org.
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For more information on the Sumatra forest decline or for ways to take action, please contact Bryn Shamey at 724-555-5555 or at generic1@pitt.edu.
Contact: Bryn Shamey FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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COMMUNITY-BASED CONSERVATION
Rural Communities Play Huge Part in Wildlife Conservation Policy
Pittsburgh, PA—March 4, 2008—Community-based conservation is a new idea in ways to integrate people into a wildlife conservation policy. The program has local communities participate in resource planning and management so they can gain economically from wildlife utilization. This would be a great new way to use wildlife conservation to make an economy thrive.
In community-based conservation, rural people are made a constituency for wildlife so they become backers of the wildlife protection in their area. Done globally, everyone would soon be made a protector of endangered species by actively creating wildlife refuges and national parks in their local area.
The main problem in the application of the community-based conservation act is the economic problems that are facing the rural communities where it needs to be implemented. Because of the threats of war and the severe issues such as poverty and population growth, community-based conservation is a very hard process to implement. Those who are against this type of conservation sight overly wishful planning as a main cause for the lack of success along with an insufficient amount of resources.
While community based conservation is not a widely used process, it has been effectively implemented in three rural towns in Africa that are outside of war zones. The success in these three areas causes backers of this effort to believe that it would work in any area that is not facing severe conflict or immense population growth. To discover communities that have successfully implemented this process or to learn how community-based conservation can be implemented in your area please visit www.communityconservation.org.
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For more information on how community-based conservation can help and how a rural community can implement it into their lifestyle, please contact Bryn Shamey at 724-555-5555 or at generic1@pitt.edu.
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DISAPPEARANCE OF SEA OTTERS LEADS TO RAPID GAIN IN URCHIN POPULATION
Biodiversity Problem in Sea Otter and Kelp Population
Pittsburgh, PA—March 4, 2008—A lack of biodiversity in the Pacific Ocean is now having dramatic effects on the underwater habitat. The enormous decline in the sea otter population has lead to an even bigger problem off the Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada. The rapid hunting of the sea otter population has now turned the great kelp forest in the Pacific Ocean into a barren desert of ocean water.
Because of declining otter populations, the sea urchin population is now at an all time high. The otter consumed to sea urchins and since the otters’ population is so low, the sea urchins are now thriving and eating more and more of their food, kelp. This has caused kelp population to become extremely endangered in the ocean as well. If this continues, the urchin population will eventually become endangered due to the lack of food they have to consume.
This is a prime example of biodiversity and how the ecosystem is a delicate balance. Without the restoration of the sea otter population, the urchin and kelp will greatly suffer. A lack in biodiversity throughout the planet would have a dramatic effect and could result in the loss of certain medicines, industrial materials, food, and crops
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For more information and what to do to prevent this from happening in other parts of the world or to get more information and what could happen in your area, please call or email Bryn Shamey at 724-555-5555 or generic1@pitt.edu.
Contact: Bryn Shamey FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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NEW MUSEUM EXHIBIT IN TOWN
New Exhibit Teaches Kids About Wildlife Conservation, Animals at Risk, How They Can Help
Pittsburgh, PA—March 4, 2008—A new exhibit is coming to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The exhibit will focus on wildlife conservation and shows extinct animals from the past as well as ones that are on the brink of extinction today. It will create an interactive experience on wildlife conservation and will show what the children can do in their everyday lives to help prevent the extinction of these animals as well as educate others on what to do.
The Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium will also be collaborating with the exhibit to provide statistics and facts on the information signs focusing on the specific number of individuals in a species throughout the world. It will also contain statistics in the yearly increases or decreases of a population from the past years. These exhibits are a collaborative effort to raise awareness in wildlife conservation and environmental factors.
This exhibit will debut in Pittsburgh and will be here from April 1, 2008 through September. The unnamed exhibit will also focus on biodiversity and what the consequences will be when the balance between the different plant and animal species is lost. Global warming will also be discussed with tips on what the individual can do to help protect the environment and wildlife species worldwide.
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For more information on how to set up a fieldtrip for your school or to find out more about the exhibit, please contact Bryn Shamey at 724-555-5555 or at generic1@pitt.edu.
