planetwild.org

There are thousands of wild animals dying every day. They die in our oceans, our deserts and in our jungles. They die due to pollution, man-made disasters, loss of habitat and human depredation.

What We Do

planetwild.org is a new organization that contributs to the conservation of wildlife in the world. Our goals is to educate and promote the view that mankind's responsiblity is to preserve and protect wild life across the world.

See the Sea Shepherd action against illegal whaling:

 http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/video.html

Video on polar bears

http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wildlife/polar_bear_video.php

Earth Clock: http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks3.htm

Starving polar bears are eating one another in the Arctic. Flowers are blooming too soon and dying. The ice caps are melting so swiftly that rising water levels will threaten coastal towns as far away as Florida within several decades. These are just a few examples of the dire consequences of climate change supported by a new analysis in Nature that paints a dark portrait of what a warming world will look like in the years to come.

The researchers assessed 829 geologic phenomena—including melting glaciers—along with nearly 30,000 changes in plants and animals (from bird migration patterns to plummeting penguin populations), and found that about 90 percent of them are in sync with scientists' predictions about how global warming will alter the planet.

In the past three decades, average global temperatures have risen about 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.6 degree Celsius) and are projected to jump by about 3 degrees F (1.7 degrees C) by the end of the century, says study lead author Cynthia Rosenzweig, who heads the Climate Impacts Group at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University in New York City. "We've already seen that a relatively low amount of warming," she says, "can result in a broad range of changes."

The unnatural warming spurred on by man-made greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide spewed by cars and coal-powered plants, spell trouble for entire ecosystems. In North America alone, scientists have identified 89 species of plants, such as the American holly, that have blossomed earlier in the spring. In Spain, apple trees bloom 35 days ahead of schedule in response to the higher temperatures. Other wildlife, like the insects that use certain plants for food and the birds that feed on the insects, must then move forward their seasonal stirrings and mating patterns to survive.

from  Man-Made Warming Altering Nature's Clock By Adam Hadhazy