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Razz Gormley volunteered to to go join Greenpeace and rappel off the bridge to block the Shell oil icebreaker in Portland.  Fracking gas companies and oil companies drilling in the Arctic corrupt our courts, legislatures, elections,  governor, and Congress. So he asks  us to help, and says there is a great group of people who will support you.

Here is the article. He is a leader in this group: Frack Free Colorado.

Posted on August 21, 2015 

Hundreds of kayaktivists delayed the gargantuan Shell arctic drilling platform in Seattle.  1500 people  shut down the largest machine on earth, a giant coal excavator in Germany. link

Posted on August 21, 2015

Community conservancies provide  jobs as rangers and income to poor local people. Then the clans protect the elephants.  Elephants are being killed faster than they can reproduce.  Their range has decreased from 3 million square miles in 1978 to 1 million square miles in 2007. The Russian mob, Irish organized gangs,  the Chinese mafia, and African and Asian gangs control the $ 188 million per year illegal ivory trade.   This is part of the huge, $ 19 Billion per year illegal trade in  plants and animals: illicit timber, animals, birds, rhino horns, animal pelts, …. There are many good groups working to save elephants: the Environmental Investigation Agency,  Born Free USA, Wildllfe Direct, Save the Elephants, the park and wildlife wardens, Kenya’s Northern Rangelands Trust (that do the community conservancies), the International Fund for Animal Welfare, WWF’s TRAFFIC, the Project for the Application of Law for Fauna, Wildlife Direct, Maisha Consulting, ConflictArmament, C4ADS, Wildlife Conservation Society,  WWF, Elephant Listening Project,  Global Witness,   Eagle Wildlife Law Enforcement, the Max Planck Institute, and Greenpeace. link ( some of the groups come from the other articles: New Yorker and Earth Island.)

Posted on August 13, 2015

Only a few thousand forest elephants remain in the Central African Republic.  62 %   of them were killed and they lost one third of their range between 2002 and 2011.  Peter Canby wrote in the New Yorker about Andrea Turkalo, a biologist who has observed them for years.  Activists, groups, game wardens, and researchers try to protect the elephants.    Militias and armed gangs poach them to sell to Chinese profiteers.  Chinese logging companies log the buffers around the parks, and the logging roads and trade  in conflict timber  to China allow the poachers to get  access to the elephants and to export the ivory.  link

Posted on August 12, 2015

A Boulder activist with Frack Free Colorado hung from the bridge with other Greenpeace activists, delaying the Shell icebreaker ship from getting up Alaska.  The activists  who were hanging  100 feet below the bridge and  100 feet above the water and roped together.  After 3 of them were removed by police, lots of kayaks tried to block the ship.  When the police grabbed the kayaks, some of the kayakers dove into the water and swam out to try to block the ship.  This delay might keep the drilling from happening, the ice free season is short.  Save the Arctic, Block Shell

This reminds me of Ben White of the Animal Welfare Institute.   He would swim next to navy ships with super loud sonar and next to oil prospecting ships with super loud sounds, to put his body in the way these tests that would harm whales, dolphins, and fish. He also would cut the nets that trapped dolphins and whales that were being trapped for aquariums. Link  Link

Posted on August 11, 2015