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Adriana Trujillo

JetBlue, U.S. Fish And Wildlife Partner To Protect Caribbean Species 03/08/2016 - 0 views

www.mediapost.com/...ldlife-partner-to-protect.html

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 23 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 23 Mar 16
     
    JetBlue is teaming up with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to help Caribbean vacationers avoid contributing to the illicit trade of threatened and endangered species.
Adriana Trujillo

New Disney Facility in Santa Clarita Faces Hurdles - The Hollywood Reporter - 0 views

www.hollywoodreporter.com/...-facility-santa-clarita-616692

disney golden oak facility hurdles

shared by Adriana Trujillo on 28 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • removal of 158 oak trees
  • Planning and the Environment
  • We’re considering our options.”
  • ...14 more annotations...
  • The Ranch, which will take up 58 acres of Golden Oak Ranch
  • an 890-acre piece of land owned by Disney that already hosts about 300 days of production each year.
  • six soundstage buildings
  • 2,854 people and contribute $533 million in annual economic activity throughout Los Angeles County.
  • Full build-out, though, could take years, even after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the project during a vote Tuesday. Still ahead are meetings with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board
  • SCOPE and other environmental groups have been addressed
  • plant 1,600 new oak trees in the area, and argues that 637 acres of Golden Oak Ranch will remain a natural backdrop area. Disney also touted several “green design features” for reducing energy consumption, traffic and storm-water runoff.
  • Plambeck, though, isn't satisfied,
  • "to a voluntary project condition that places a conservation easement over the remaining undeveloped portions of the Golden Oak Ranch as a condition precedent to any permit issuance."
  • not develop 637 acres,
  • but if that's the case, why won't they put it into a conservation easement to assure everybody of their intentions?"
  • The Sierra Club, for example, has taken a neutral position on the
  • SCOPE
  • Santa Clarita Organization
  • Adriana Trujillo on 28 Aug 13
     
    A local environmental group slams the plan for the just-approved 58-acre facility, which will eventually employ 2,800 people but faces months of hearings before breaking ground
Del Birmingham

The U.S. Just Announced an Unprecedented Ban on African Ivory | Smart News | Smithsonian - 0 views

www.smithsonianmag.com/...ed-ban-african-ivory-180959291

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shared by Del Birmingham on 02 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • Del Birmingham on 02 Jun 16
     
    What's the best way to protect elephants? One way is refusing to buy ivory-demand for the material stokes poaching, which has demolished elephant populations in Africa. Now, the United States is taking an even stronger stance on ivory in a bid to protect the majestic creatures. As Jada F. Smith reports for The New York Times, the United States will now almost totally ban the sale of African elephant ivory.
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