Posts Tagged ‘conservation’
Roughly 20,000 pounds of trash cleaned from Oakland on Creek to Bay Day
Early Saturday morning, almost two thousand volunteers participated in the 23rd Annual Creek to Bay Day in 58 sites around Oakland to collect trash and debris from shorelines, water creeks and parks.
Read MoreCalifornia Coastal Commission fires executive director Dr. Charles Lester
Earlier this February, the California Coastal Commission voted during a 12-hour public hearing in Morro Bay to fire its executive director, Dr. Charles Lester.
Read MoreThousands of trees may be planted in Oakland with funds from California’s first cap and trade program
Oakland may receive funding for environmental projects from California’s eighteen-month-old cap and trade program, which has already generated $872 million in state revenue.
Read MoreOakland Zoo giraffes “happy and healthy,” says visiting expert
Over 100 zookeepers, animal enthusiasts and conservationists gathered at the Oakland Zoo on Tuesday to attend a lecture by leading giraffe conservation scientist Dr. Julian Fennessy. Fennessy praised the zoo’s giraffe program as promoting “lots of natural behaviors.”
Read MoreMeet Pythagoras and the Oakland Zoo’s other baby boom arrivals
Hundreds of new baby animals were born at the Oakland Zoo over the last few months in what biologists at the facility describe as one of the zoo’s biggest baby booms in many years. The zoo, a sanctuary for more than 660 native and exotic animals located at the far eastern end of Oakland, has recently become home to more than 200 newborn animals including a squirrel monkey, milk frogs and a giraffe, with a few more births expected in the coming weeks.
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