November 2008 – Rising Tide North America

UNITED NATIONS – Calls for greater participation of the world’s indigenous leaders are on the rise as another round of talks on global climate change opens in the Polish city of Poznan next week.

In a study released last week, MRG researchers warned that a new climate change agreement would be “seriously compromised” if policymakers continued to shut out the voices of those most affected by global warming.

More than 8,000 delegates from around the world are expected to participate in the meeting at Poznan. The two-week meeting is supposed to hammer out further international commitments to fight climate change, including climate-related financial assistance for developing countries.

Public-Lands Cattle Ranching an Ongoing, Little-Discussed Tragedy

By postMigrator November 29, 2008 November 29, 2008 RT Newswire

Nov 29, 5:19 AM EST

Wildlife group seeks help from Texas oil tycoon’s wife to ease grazing on public lands

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Conservationists are looking to the wife of Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens to help push for federal reforms that they say will help thousands of wild horses and save rangeland in the West.

Madeleine Pickens recently announced plans to create a refuge for wild horses. She came up with the idea after hearing that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management was considering euthanizing some of the animals to control the herds and protect the range.

WildEarth Guardians wants to take Pickens’ plan further by proposing a solution the group believes would resolve public land grazing conflicts that have resulted in the horses needing a home.