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      U.S. Navy shock test

      US Navy Detonates 40,000-Pound Bomb Off Florida Coast

      In addition to concerns about harm to sea life, progressives said the money would be better spent on healthcare and other human needs.

      Brett Wilkins
      Jun 23, 2021

      Marine mammal experts this week expressed deep concern over the potentially devastating effects of the U.S. Navy's recent detonation of 40,000 pounds of explosives off the Atlantic coast of Florida on sea life, while progressive observers blasted what they called the government's misplaced spending priorities.

      "Some smaller species of marine mammals would be expected to die within one to two kilometers of the blast, and... [others] would suffer injury including hearing loss out to 10 kilometers."
      --Michael Jasny, NRDC

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      'Unprecedented' Decline of Plants and Animals as Global 'Red List' Reveals Nearly One-Third of Assessed Species Under Threat

      'Unprecedented' Decline of Plants and Animals as Global 'Red List' Reveals Nearly One-Third of Assessed Species Under Threat

      "We must act now both on biodiversity loss and climate change."

      Julia Conley
      Jul 18, 2019

      Calling on global policymakers to act immediately to preserve biodiversity and save tens of thousands of species from extinction, the group behind the world's most definitive list of endangered animals and plants has added more than 2,600 threatened species to its annual report.

      The Red List, published Thursday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), revealed that one third of all species the group has assessed are now under threat due to overfishing, pollution, illegal logging and trafficking, threats to water sources and habitats due to the climate crisis, and other factors, including many human activities.

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      Statement on Japan's Resumption of Commercial Whaling Within Japanese Territorial Waters

      Sea Shepherd has been opposing whaling since the 1970s and remains committed to seeing an end to whaling in the world's oceans.

      Newswire Editor
      Jul 01, 2019

      Despite a global moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986, since 1987, Japan has continued to kill whales in the Southern Ocean as a member body of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in the name of scientific research.

      Sea Shepherd stands firm that Japan's whaling in Antarctica has always been a commercial operation permitted only by the International Whaling Commission under the guise of scientific research.

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