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Oh my god….not double stuf…

king-lobo

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“Extinct is forever. Endangered means there is still time.”

The orcas are starving. Time is running out for the Southern Resident Killer Whale population.

Please visit the following links to find out how you can help the endangered orcas of the Pacific Northwest.

www.orcanetwork.org www.orcasalmonalliance.org www.srkwcsi.org www.whaleresearch.com www.whalemuseum.org

king-lobo

Un-dam The Snake River!

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stumpyx163:

king-lobo:

The Southern Residents are in dire need of our help. We have lost J-14 Samish, J-28 Polaris, little J-54 Dipper, and now J-34 Doublestuf. These whales need our help immediately or we WILL lose them.

Contact lawmakers! Let them know why destroying the four lower Snake River dams is imperative to the survival of the Southern Residents. You can find phone numbers, email, and physical addresses here as well as important talking points to include in your letter. Please keep in mind that even if you are not a U.S. Citizen, you CAN still contact President Obama and Washington state Governor Jay Inslee!

Also, sign the petitions here, and visit these other sites to find out about more ways you can help. If anyone has any other links or ways to help, please feel free to add them!

Hope you don’t mind a long addition

General Help:

Don’t eat salmon, this is taking away the orca’s food supply. This includes farmed salmon is extremely detrimental to the environment. Reduce water usage, electricity usage. Stop Toxic run off. Storm drains take harmful chemicals straight to the ocean. Use natural cleaning products that do not contain harmful chemicals. (Recently Ace Hardware began including signs for Orca Safe products! See Here. All the safe products are easy to identify and the advise written might help you find options in other stores too!)

Donation Help: The Whale Museum, Center for Whale Research, Orca Network. Adopt a southern resident orca! Become a member of the Center for Whale Research! Petition Help: Support a Whale Protection zone for them Things Nearby/Visiting People can do! Responsible Whale Watching Heck- Land Whale Watching Citizen Science Let the Orca Network and Salish Sea Hydrophone Network know where they have been/are! Get involved in restoring Salmon Habitat in your area

Spread the Word! Reblog this, talk to people, reblog any source- sign petitions - GO CRAZY

(Taken and updated a little from my old post but some stuff I missed links may be broken)

king-lobo

The US Army Corps of Engineers are the ones who own all four of the lower Snake River dams. If you feel like contacting lawmakers isn’t enough, please go here and contact the USACE and tell them why the Snake River dams need to come down!

stumpyx163

THEY'RE LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK - TELL THEM ABOUT THE DAMS AND ORCA IMPACT

Comments received during the public scoping period (September 30, 2016-January 17, 2017) provides anyone who is interested an opportunity to help the agencies identify issues and concerns that could be analyzed in the EIS.

king-lobo

Un-dam The Snake River!

The Southern Residents are in dire need of our help. We have already lost J-14 Samish and J-28 Polaris, and little J-54 Dipper will not survive without his mother and will likely suffer the same fate as Polaris - if he has not already. These whales need our help immediately or we WILL lose them.

Contact lawmakers! Let them know why destroying the four lower Snake River dams is imperative to the survival of the Southern Residents. You can find phone numbers, email, and physical addresses here as well as important talking points to include in your letter. Please keep in mind that even if you are not a U.S. Citizen, you CAN still contact President Obama and Washington state Governor Jay Inslee!

Also, sign the petitions here, and visit these other sites to find out about more ways you can help. If anyone has any other links or ways to help, please feel free to add them!

stumpyx163

Hope you don’t mind a long addition

General Help:

Don’t eat salmon, this is taking away the orca’s food supply. This includes farmed salmon is extremely detrimental to the environment. Reduce water usage, electricity usage. Stop Toxic run off. Storm drains take harmful chemicals straight to the ocean. Use natural cleaning products that do not contain harmful chemicals. (Recently Ace Hardware began including signs for Orca Safe products! See Here. All the safe products are easy to identify and the advise written might help you find options in other stores too!)

Donation Help: The Whale Museum, Center for Whale Research, Orca Network. Adopt a southern resident orca! Become a member of the Center for Whale Research! Petition Help: Support a Whale Protection zone for them Things Nearby/Visiting People can do! Responsible Whale Watching Heck- Land Whale Watching Citizen Science Let the Orca Network and Salish Sea Hydrophone Network know where they have been/are! Get involved in restoring Salmon Habitat in your area

Spread the Word! Reblog this, talk to people, reblog any source- sign petitions - GO CRAZY

(Taken and updated a little from my old post but some stuff I missed links may be broken)

volk-morya

A #NoDAPL Map

This pipeline could endanger the drinking water of millions.

When I decided to become a cartographer, I didn’t just want to make pretty and useful maps. I became a cartographer to make maps that change the world for the better. Right now, no situation needs this kind of map more than the current drama unfolding around the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline’s crossing of the Missouri River.

Thousands of Native Americans and their allies have gathered on unceded Sioux land delimited by the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie to try and stand in the way of the “black snake” that could poison the Standing Rock Reservation’s water supply. Many have noted that the pipeline corridor was repositioned from its original route north of Bismarck after white citizens spoke up against the threat a spill would pose to their drinking water ― a threat duly recognized by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Yet the Corps failed its federal mandate for meaningful consultation with the Standing Rock Tribe before signing off on a route that moved the pipeline to their doorstep.

This is not to say that the good citizens of Bismarck and Mandan were wrong to protest. What’s wrong with the picture above isn’t the routing of the pipeline. What’s wrong is that the pipeline project exists to begin with. Some say it’s a good alternative to dangerous oil-by-rail shipments of Bakken crude. Those are bad too. We don’t need more fossil fuels making it to market to be burned and burn up the planet in turn (I am typing this in Wisconsin as the temperature nears 70 on the first of November). We do all need clean water. As the Sioux say, mni wiconi (”water is life”).

To keep to its construction schedule, the pipeline company, Energy Transfer Partners, has met nonviolent water protectors with private security guards using attack dogs in a scene reminiscent of 1963 Birmingham. It has worked hand-in-glove with law enforcement and the National Guard to create a militarized response straight out of apartheid South Africa or occupied Ireland. It has locked up hundreds of protesters in wire cages like those used early on at Guantanamo Bay. Those on the ground fear something like another Kent State, yet they keep coming, and the worldwide solidarity has gone viral.

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