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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (5406)	9/2/2005 12:31:56 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

THIS is the real issue that Roberts is gonna make VERY SCARY... basically to GUT the entire ability of the Federal govt to PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT and it's ANIMALS....of course WE being animals as well US Sued over Toad at Center of Roberts' Case By Dan Whitcomb Reuters Wednesday 31 August 2005 Los Angeles - An environmental group and a Christian prayer network have joined forces to sue the Bush administration over the fate of an endangered toad - the same "hapless" amphibian at the center of a legal opinion by US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. The Center for Biological Diversity and Christians Caring for Creation claim in their federal lawsuit that the US Fish and Wildlife Service has failed to protect the California habitat of the endangered arroyo toad. Roberts issued an opinion in a separate case involving the arroyo toad in 2003, while sitting as a judge in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, an opinion that has been criticized by liberal groups as evidence of his "radical" views on states rights and environmental laws. In that case an appeals court found the federal government could use the Endangered Species Act to stop a developer from building on land that had been designated part of the arroyo toad's habitat. Roberts disagreed, questioning whether "a hapless toad that, for reasons of its own, lives its entire life in California," could be subject to federal laws. He suggested that it should be up to California legislators to protect the toad. The current lawsuit, filed last week in Riverside, California, claims that in cutting the number of acres set aside for the toad from 478,000 to 12,000 in April, the Fish and Wildlife Service has threatened to drive the toad into extinction. A spokeswoman for the US Department of the Interior, which oversees the the Fish and Wildlife Service, could not be reached for comment. "It's an unfortunate commentary on the willingness of this administration to undermine the Endangered Species Act," said David Hogan, a spokesman for the Center for Biological Diversity. "Despite its small size this toad needs a lot of land to complete its life cycle." Hogan said the center has been working since 1999 to save the arroyo toad and called it a coincidence that the amphibian has also surfaced in the debate over Roberts' nomination - but added the group was happy to take advantage of that to gain publicity for their issue. They have named their Web site devoted to the issue Hapless Toad (www.haplesstoad.com) - a reference to an aside by the justice in his dissenting opinion on the 2003 case. The liberal People From the American Way, which has opposed Roberts' nomination, has said his "radical" view on the toad case could extend far beyond environmental laws to areas of federal authority including Medicare and Social Security.

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (5406)	9/5/2005 2:43:01 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 36917

205.188.130.53 Suddenly IT IS ALL ABOUT OUR ENVIRONMENT....gee...another SURPRISE for BUSH....seems like EVERYTHING is a friggen SURPRISE to this CLOWN and everyone in his 'administration'

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (5406)	9/10/2005 1:45:07 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

UN launches new project to conserve Mt. Kilimanjaro Ten million more US dollars have been granted to finance the conservation project of Mount Kilimanjaro and its surrounding ecosystem, according to reports reaching here on Saturday. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) launched this week the second phase of the Community Management of Protected Areas Conservation Project in Moshi of northern Tanzania. The conservation project, known as COMPACT, runs from 2005 to 2009 and gets the 10-million-dollar grant from the United Nations Foundation and Global Environment Facility. The first phase of the conservation project was a response to an aerial survey conducted in 2002 by the UNDP in collaboration with the United Nations Foundation, Global Environment Facility and United Nations Environment Program. The aerial survey found that Mount Kilimanjaro had lost approximately 55 percent of its glaciers in a period of 38 years between 1962 and 2000. Mount Kilimanjaro is best known for its snow-caps despite the fact that the mountain is situated right along the Equator. The mountain is one of the six World Heritage Sites which are protected and conserved under the COMPACT projects. The other World Heritage Sites are Mount Kenya in Kenya, Sian Kaan Reserve and Belize Barrier Reef in Belize of Latin America, Morne Trois Pitons in the Dominican Republic, and the Puerto Princesa River in the Philippines. Nehemiah Murusuri, COMPACT national coordinator, explained that only six out of the current more than 400 World Heritage Sites in the world get protection and conservation from COMPACT due to financial constrains despite the fact that United Nations Foundation and Global Environment Facility have since 2001 been actively involved in COMPACT projects. Source: Xinhua