Unconventional Sources

There’s bad news for bighorn sheep tonight, at least for the peninsular bighorn sheep that live to the south of Palm Springs in California. The Obama Administration just slashed their protected habitat to a third of its previous level.

Here are a few sources you can use to learn more about the peninsular bighorn sheep and the efforts to protect it:

- Bighorn Institute
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Desert Survivors
- Zip Code Zoo profile

People, living on the land, are not aware of the enormous crisis facing life in the water. Of course, water covers most of the surface of the Earth, and if you take into account that the livable medium in the water is not as flat as terrestrial environments, you’ll realize just how much more the Earth is a water planet than it is a planet of dry continents.

It makes sense, if we’re trying to live more in accord with the natural world, to understand the tremendous value of aquatic and marine life. A good place to start on that quest is Image Quest Marine – a catalog that samples the tremendous variety of life that exists in the waters of planet Earth.

2008 is an important year. Reactionary industrialists like Ron Paul are still out there claiming that there’s no big problem with global warming, that there isn’t anything that they do that harms the environment at all, and that if there ever is any problem with the environment, market forces ought to be left to deal with it, or leave the Earth in the dust, if that’s what’s profitable.

Then there are the people at places like the Natural Resources Defense Council. They want to cherish the Earth, and save it for future generations, not just exploit it for short term gain in the present generation. The NRDC has set up a beautiful web site called BioGems, highlighting the most biologically critical places on Earth.

Visit these BioGems online to remind yourself what’s really worth working for.