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Bird lovers flock together—and combat the oil sands: NRDC
By Alan Septoff
Thursday, February 11, 2010
NRDC and the Cornell Lab of Orinthology have created a new interactive online community for bird enthusiasts: WeLoveBirds.org. It's a place to share your love of birds. It's also a place to take action to protect birds from threats to their survival -- like the oil sands.From Susan Casey-Lefkowitz’s blog at the NRDC Switchboard:
“Through the site, NRDC will provide you with actions that you can take to help save birds and bird habitat. The current action is about protecting a one of the world’s most important nesting grounds for migratory birds – the Peace-Athabasca Delta. The Delta is downstream from the world’s largest industrial project—-Alberta’s tar sands oil mines. Tar sands oil is a more recent, dirty and expensive form of petroleum extraction to fuel American cars and trucks. It is already having devastating impacts on the delta and on migratory birds. More than 1 million birds, including tundra swans, snow geese and countless ducks nest in the delta. For many waterfowl, this area is their only nesting ground. But Canada is ramping up tar sands oil extraction in the Boreal forest just south of the delta, which could contaminate and reduce water flow into the delta, kill fish and disturb habitat. Tar sands oil development and use also contributes to global warming, which has reduced ecologically important flooding in the delta.”
For more information:
- Read the full blog post (which includes more links): Bird-Lovers Flock Together
- WeLoveBirds.org
Tagged with: natural resources defense council, boreal forest, wildlife, birds, cornell
