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"Wildfires consumed about one-sixth of the Chimalapas rain and cloud forest in Chiapas, where at least fifteen hundred of the world's most endangered species live. Rare howler monkeys and panthers fled the flames, and rare orchids and lichens were incinerated. The spindly black trunks of thirty-meter trees rose like splinters from the charred land. Smoke drifted above the dense forest canopy like a delicate veil as the racing flames left thousands of trees brown-leafed and singed." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Importing an endangered species, even a sustainably harvested one, is a process fraught with preemptory guilt. As the plane descends into Montreal's airport, a bubble-butt of a coco-de-mer throbbing in my checked luggage, I take a deep breath, trying to steady my mildly irregular heartbeat. Staring at the declaration form, I consider lying. In the event of a search, I reason, I could try to convince them that it's a sculpture—some sort of exotic erotic folk craft. I then realize that the permits would inculpate me were the nut to be unwrapped. So I check the box, still uncertain what to say." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "CITES [the Convention on International Trade in endangered species of Wild Flora and Fauna] and he didn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. I was falsely accused. I never even fathomed anything like this illegal plant-and-seed smuggling interdiction service existed." It's becoming clear that some of these fruit lovers can be pretty intense about the objects of their desire. The Fairchild garden's director Mike Maunder, who seemed a bit freaked out by the crowd, describes the fixation with tropical fruit as a prime example of horticultural fanaticism. " - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"What ought to be the basic unit of good health care, the primary care doctor-patient relationship, is at risk of soon becoming an endangered species. Third, policy makers and payers should focus their attention on health care systems (groups of doctors, hospitals, and other medical services)—especially on figuring out how to reward them for providing the right care in the right amount, for achieving high levels of patient satisfaction, and, most important, for improving the health of the people they serve." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"This attitude extended even to endangered species. The rose-colored periwinkle, for example, is a plant in danger of extinction on Madagascar but, as Timothy Weiskel noted, the morality of this situation has been typically assessed in terms of the periwinkle's use as a source of a natural anticarcinogen. There is also another kind of value, however, known as intrinsic value. Traditionally, intrinsic values have been assigned only to humans: human life, as Immanuel Kant made clear, must always be an end in itself and never a means to something else." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Endangered Species Coalition Works to protect and recover at-risk species by defending and supporting the endangered species Act; invites and encourages public participation in decisions affecting the fate of endangered species. 1101 14th St. NW, Ste. 1400, Washington, DC 20005; 202-682-9400; www.stopextinc-tion.org Farm Animal Reform Movement (FARM) Promotes vegetarianism and advocates for the well-being of farm animals through national grassroots educational campaigns, massive media blitzes, and participation in government decision-making processes. P. O." - John Robbins, Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world (Get the book.)

"Our import operations are in full compliance with the Convention on International Trade in endangered species, to which the United States is a party. We are also committed to following the laws of the countries of origin for the tropical wood products we purchase, especially those laws that apply to the harvest, acquisition or export of these products. As a member of the International Wood Products Association (IWPA), BlueLinx supports IWPA's efforts to promote compliance, by all parties, with national, state and local laws and regulations pertaining to logging and forest management." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act, the endangered species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and also established the Environmental Protection Agency." You have to stand for something or you will fall for anything. So figure out what you stand for and don't back down, especially with your back at the gates of hell. But be smart. Here's a story that will illustrate what I mean. George Simeon was chief executive of Organic Valley, a cooperative of mostly small organic dairy, cattle, hog, and livestock farmers." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Help them save elephants, orangutans, and other endangered species by adopting a portion or all of a wildlife corridor or preserve. www.wwf.org Home and Office Furniture Lifekind Products Lifekind is the single largest purchaser of organic cotton for mattresses and the only certified organic mattress manufacturer in the United States. Lifekind mattresses are also made with Naturally Safer?wool from American organic certified farmers. And what really distinguishes Lifekind is that they use an exclusive nonchemical sterilization process to sanitize the raw materials." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"In a world where information on the health and safety of workers remains locked up in company files, wrapped in the protections of confidentiality, independent information and independent experts to make sense of it are an endangered species. We have seen repeatedly how some people in industry, whether tobacco, asbestos, benzene or vinyl chloride, understood risks long before the rest of us were able to learn about them." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"These broad-winged fliers are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Eagle Protection Act, and endangered species Act," writes Kate O'Rourke from the AVMA. "Maximal fines for killing a bald eagle or another bird protected by the EPA or ESA can run as high as $100,000 for an individual and $200,000 for an organization."24 Raptors are not the only wildlife suffering secondary sodium pentobarbital toxicosis. The National Euthanasia Registry cites a case reported by Terry Grosz, a retired U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"Viewed globally, humanity need not face a stark choice between eating and saving endangered species. Protecting biodivetsity does not necessarily require sacrificing productive agricultutal land because soils with high agticultutal productivity tend to support low biodiversity. Convetsely, areas with high biodiversity tend to be areas with low agricultural potential. In general, species-rich tropical latitudes tend to have nutrient-poor soils, and the world's most fertile soils are found in the species-poor loess belts of the temperate latitudes." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Stephen Meyer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded, "Anecdotes notwithstanding, the data compel us to reject the argument that higher numbers of endangered species are associated with poor economic performance."13 Meyer went state by state to simultaneously rate states by how strict their environmental regulations were and how much economic strength they exhibited in terms of job generation and building and construction projects." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Buckbean is considered an endangered species in some regions. ment or poultice to treat bruises and snakebite and to stop bleeding. Edible Uses The young shoots can be consumed fresh in spring salads. The roots are edible raw or cooked, but they are not very tasty and are considered only a survival food. Other Uses A black dye can be made from the plant." - Brigitte Mars, A.H.G., The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide (Get the book.)

"Bukan Barisan is the home to many rare and endangered species, including the Sumatran tiger, elephant, and rarely seen rhino. Monkey life was active and evident in the trees all around, but we didn't see any of the dwindling population of Sumatran orang utan (forest people). We pulled up to the iron gates of the processing plant at the compound of C. V.Trimaju inTakengon. Here, farmers from throughout the surrounding hills brought their red cherries to be soaked and fermented, depulped, and dried in the sun on Trimaju's huge cement (that's semen in Indonesian!) patios." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"Any known endangered species must be left alone; do not harvest it from the wild. With any species, identify the grandfather/mother plant in a stand of plants—it's usually the largest or the first to flower— and leave it to ensure the continuation of the strongest of the species. Never take more than 10 percent of what's there. Vary the places you collect from. Collect plants in a way to ensure the continued survival of the species. If all you need are the leaves and flowers, take only some tops from the plants; cutting back plants in this manner can actually help promote new growth." - Brigitte Mars, A.H.G., The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide (Get the book.)

"In the early 1990s, Bryony worked for a conservation organization on protecting endangered species habitats. Through that experience, she also became all too familiar with the male-dominated culture of environmental organizing. There were hardly any female leaders in the work, even though women from polluted communities seemed to be the ones who had the most passion for the issues. "I would see women come to meetings and get engaged but they wouldn't stay engaged," Bryony said. "They would be very concerned and they would say, 'What can we do?" - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"As with carbon credits, land developers and owners can satisfy the law through "conservation banks," which protect land containing endangered species, and "mitigation banks," which protect wetlands and streams. In both cases, businesses putting habitats or wetlands at risk are required to purchase credits from other landowners who have legally committed to protecting their land permanently through the "banks." The "bankers" can sell these credits on the open market, sometimes at levels far exceeding traditional real-estate values." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "For landowners in the United States (developers, utility companies, state transportation agencies, farmers, retailers, and others), ecosystem credits can help turn land-use conflicts into win-win relationships that protect both the environment and companies' bottom lines. The endangered species Act and the Clean Water Act both require land developers to make up for any harm they do to streams, wetlands, or habitats critical to endangered and threatened species." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"In May 1994, TRAFFIC USA and the World Wildlife Fund published Prescription for Extinction: endangered species and Patented Oriental Medicines in Trade}9 This report gave insight into the vast number of endangered species being used in natural medicine. Bastyr University's Department of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine has been conducting an in-depth study of the endangered species used in the practice of Chinese herbal medicine." - Michael T. Murray, ND, Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1 (Get the book.)

"But I can test the opposite proposition: Medicinal plants tend not to be rare and endangered; in particular, they tend not to be on the endangered species list. Only two of the 659 taxa listed on the U.S. endangered species list were used medicinally by Native American people;* if all were random, we would expect about 10 percent of them to be so used, or about 65 of them. This difference is highly statistically significant (%2 = 73.4, p = 0.0000). I can also directly test the proposition that drug plants are more widespread than others." - Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"On the endangered species List there are 988 species, 276 more are threatened, and 58% of the species have gone extinct since the list began. The Sierra Club says the average length of time species recovery plans take to be effective is 30 to 50 years." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"He calls them "Grocer-saurus," considers them an endangered species, and identifies them by their motto, "We can't, we don't, we never . . ." Changes in the industry are happening, he says, but most come too little, too slow, and too late. As I do, he blames Wall Street for much of the pressure on publicly traded companies: "Many Wall Street analysts, merciless in their hunger for rising 'comps' [sales figures compared to those from a year earlier], give no quarter to the public companies, making the process harder than it need be, with their relentless short-term focus." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "In that sense —and because cultivation of palm oil trees in Indonesia and Malaysia destroys tropical rain forests and threatens endangered species of land mammals and birds—palm oils are decidedly worse than butter. You would never know this, however, from reading palm oil industry materials such as those I picked up at a nutrition meeting in Durban, South Africa, in 2005. Pamphlets and fliers extol the virtues of palm oil, among them "no cholesterol, no trans fat, no GMO, no sodium, 100 percent vegan, and attractive natural color" —all true of any vegetable oil, of course." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Sudan and Ethiopia Record-setting wildfires around the globe Polar ice shelves breaking away and melting in days instead of eons Nearly 1,000 animals on the endangered species List are considered "threatened" The outbreak of AIDS, Bird Flu and a variety of primitive microbes and viruses that have yet to reveal their destructive power This is just the natural side of the balance sheet." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.) "Endangered Species Act to bring back animals from the brink of extinction. Thus, the effort has gone global with all nations around the planet participating with amazing success. Nearly all of the 1,000 species endangered or threatened have made a recovery, including salmon, steelhead trout, grizzly bear, whooping crane, jaguar, bald eagles, gray wolf, American alligator, Sumatran rhino and numerous other less known, but crucial members of the environmental balance. Natural diversity is restored." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.) "The Aleutian Canada goose previously on the endangered species list is one of these. Such graceful creatures fly long distances to arrive in their various summer and winter habitats refreshed and renewed, finding abundant food, flora and clean water. The world's wetlands and deltas have been restored to their former vitality and health, creating great nesting grounds for all species that reside there or visit. The health of the winged populace gained strength when natural fertilizer replaced pesticides, removing the toxins preventing healthy reproduction." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"Thousands of acres of ancient trees and complex habitat were being cleared at an alarming rate that could lead to the collapse of the resident endangered species in our lifetimes. Unscrupulous growers and traders were mixing the illegal crop with the legitimate robusta beans of the surrounding Lampung province and selling the tainted harvest to unwitting American and European coffee giants, including Kraft, Nestle, Lavazza, and possibly Starbucks (which denied the allegation)." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"According to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body made up of the world's leading climatologists and other scientists, the predicted level of warming—up to 10°F by the end of this century—will bring on a disaster of biblical proportions: a rise of sea levels by nearly 3 feet; unendurable heat in many parts of the world; a vast increase of vector-borne diseases; raging floods and storms. A change upward of ten degrees may not seem like much until one realizes that lowering it by the same amount would bring on another ice age." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Indians. endangered species: 0. avita subsp. eurekensis, deltoides var. howellii - both Cal f. -, psantmophila - Idaho - and sessilis - Ark. Meeastomataceae Rhexia (D-H 2) Meadow Beauty Classical name of a plant, possibly a species of Echium, Boraginaceae. E. N.Am. A few species, such as R. aristosa and virginica, have tuberous-thicke led rootstocks which could be eaten raw. The young leaves of R. virginica (m.a.) are sweetish and slightly sour. F aw, they make a good addition to salads. Endangered species: R. parviflora - Fla., Ga." - Francois Couplan, Ph.D., The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America (Get the book.)

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