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Save the Gray Whale Fund Protection for mammals with the longest migration to birth. www.savethegraywhale.com Total donation to date, from the Body Mind Gifts community: $200.96 In 2000, thanks to national and international pressure, the Mexican government cancelled an industrial salt production project, which would have devastated Laguna San Ignacio in Baja Del Sur. But this victory did not mean permanent protection of Laguna San Ignacio: a new salt production federal concession, mega-resorts, and land speculation threaten to dramatically alter the pristine lagoon, and hundreds of square miles of wetlands, mangroves, and the last remaining place on the planet where Gray Whales can mate in safety. WILDCOAST's Save the Gray Whale fund, Pronatura-Noroeste, International Community Foundation and Natural Resources Defense Council joined forces with local organizations and community members to form the Laguna San Ignacio Conservation Alliance to provide alternatives that allow sustainable development and conservation. The Alliance's goal is to preserve more than 890,000-acres of coastal ecosystems The Alliance's mission is to permanently protect one million acres of pristine coastal ecosystems that surround Laguna San Ignacio, a UNESCO World Heritage site. To achieve this goal, the Alliance needs our help to raise 10 million dollars to save the last undeveloped gray whale birthing lagoon on the planet. Your donation helps create an opportunity to save a global treasure and one of North America's most biologically significant coastal sites. |
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Environment New Jersey Clean air. Clean water. Open spaces. www.environmentnewjersey.org Total donation to date, from the Body Mind Gifts community: $ 200 Environment New Jersey is a statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization. Our professional staff combines independent research, practical ideas and tough-minded advocacy to overcome the opposition of powerful special interests and win real results for New Jersey's environment. Environment New Jersey draws on over 30 years of success in tackling our state's top environmental problems. We all want clean air, clean water and open spaces. But it takes independent research and tough-minded advocacy to win concrete results for our environment, especially when powerful interests stand in the way of environmental progress. That's the idea behind Environment New Jersey. We focus exclusively on protecting New Jersey's air, water and open spaces. We speak out and take action at the local, state and national levels to improve the quality of our environment and our lives. Environment New Jersey is working to create a new energy future for New Jersey growing the amount of clean, renewable energy sources like wind and solar, and bringing focus to the advantages of energy efficient technologies to reduce our overall energy demand. The Corzine administration has released its 15-year energy master plan for the state. Unfortunately, the plan falls short on clean energy and conservation solutions and falls back on traditional power plants. It's the opposite of a visionary plan. Fortunately, the plan is still a draft, and Environment New Jersey is organizing public support to tell the Governor to rehaul the plan. |
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NRDC Natural Resouces Defense Council www.nrdc.org Total donation to date, from the Body Mind Gifts community: $208.57 The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends; working to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life -- air, land and water -- and to defend endangered natural places. Working to foster the fundamental right of all people: to have a voice in decisions that affect their environment and to break down the pattern of disproportionate environmental burdens borne by people of color and others who face social or economic inequities. Ultimately, NRDC strives to help create a new way of life for humankind, one that can be sustained indefinitely without fouling or depleting the resources that support all life on Earth. Founded in 1970 by a group of law students and attorneys at the forefront of the environmental movement. NRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action organization, using law and science to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. With the support of our members and online activists, NRDC works to solve the most pressing environmental issues we face today: curbing global warming, getting toxic chemicals out of the environment, moving America beyond oil, reviving our oceans, saving wildlife and wild places, and helping China go green. "One of the nation's most powerful environmental groups." -- The New York Times |
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CASA Court Appointed Special Advocates www.nationalcasa.org Total donation to date, from the Body Mind Gifts community: $206.3 In 1977, a Seattle judge conceived the idea of using trained community volunteers to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. Because this initial program was so successful, soon judges across the country began utilizing citizen advocates. In 1990, the US Congress encouraged the expansion of CASA programs with passage of the Victims of Child Abuse Act. Today, with a network of more than 50,000 volunteers that serve 225,000 abused and neglected children through 900 plus local program offices nationwide. Advocates, also known as volunteer guardians ad litem in some jurisdictions, are appointed members of the court. Judges rely on the information these trusted advocates present. The mission of the CASA, together with its state and local members, is to support and promote court-appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children so that they can thrive in safe, permanent homes. Since the inception of CASA advocacy, volunteers have helped well over 1,000,000 children. "To give a child a CASA is to give them a voice. To give them a voice is to give them hope. And to give them hope is to give them the world." - Pamela Butler, former CASA foster child |
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WWF World Wildlife Fund www.wwf.org Total donation to date, from the Body Mind Gifts community: $200 WWF addresses global threats to people and nature such as climate change, the peril to endangered species and habitats, and the unsustainable consumption of the world's natural resources. We do this by influencing how governments, businesses and people think, learn and act in relation to the world around us, and by working with local communities to improve their livelihoods and the environment upon which we all depend. WWF uses its practical experience, knowledge and credibility to create long-term solutions for the planet's environment. In China - re-linking disconnected lakes, supporting local economic development and creating a network of protected areas. In Colombia - promoting the creation of protected areas including forests, rivers and wetlands, supports the development of low-impact whale watching, and aims to improve protection of nesting beaches for turtles. In East Africa - working to ensure that the marine resources, regional economies and the livelihoods of coastal communities are protected. In the Himalayas - tackling causes of habitat fragmentation, creating forest corridors between the region's protected areas, and involving local people in forest management. In Namibia - demonstrating that properly managed wildlife resources can bring social, environmental and financial returns to communities through schemes such as responsible tourism. In the north-east Atlantic region - working in nine countries, including the UK, to maintain important natural resources. In Tanzania - helping to develop a program to restore the Great Ruaha River so it flows all year round once again. The year-round water supply will improve the long-term prospects for millions of people as well as for substantial numbers of wildlife. In the western Mediterranean - working to protect, manage and restore the natural wealth of cork oak landscapes, for people and nature, by influencing the policies, practices and markets that affect them. |
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