Michael, It is not my personal email mail that is in your box, you are
subscribed to a discussion post and reply list called Ecofem. You can see
the address below. You will need to contact the administer of this list if
you want to unsubscribe. Good luck.
kim
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> From: weps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: 'Dolphin-safe' label disputed/Amazon replanting effort
underway
> Date: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 10:52 PM
>
> Kimberly & Brett wrote:
>
> > 'Dolphin-safe' label disputed
> >
> > SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Environmental groups sued Wednesday to block a
> > federal
> > decision allowing tuna to be sold as "dolphin-safe" even when it is
> > caught
> > with the huge, encircling nets once blamed for killing hundreds of
> > thousands of dolphins. "It's a death warrant for dolphins," said Sam
> > LaBudde, a marine biologist who led the "dolphin-safe" campaign in the
> >
> > 1980s after posing as a cook on a Mexican tuna boat for six months and
> >
> > videotaping the slaughter. The decade-old "dolphin-safe" standard,
> > which
> > bans such nets and requires observers on the tuna boats to certify
> > that no
> > dolphins are harmed, has dramatically decreased dolphin deaths. But
> > the
> > Latin American fleet has generally not complied and therefore is
> > barred
> > from selling its tuna in lucrative U.S. markets. See full story
> > <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560769749-5c9>
> >
> > Amazon replanting effort underway
> >
> > PORTO TROMBETAS, Brazil (AP) - As a 12-mile conveyor belt carries
> > freshly
> > mined bauxite through the Amazon jungle, the rust-colored earth
> > suddenly
> > turns green with thousands of tiny saplings planted in 1998. When it
> > reaches an area replanted in 1982, the forest is so tall and thick
> > it's
> > hard to distinguish it from the original. The reforestation project,
> > initiated by the Rio do Norte mining company, is changing the notion
> > that
> > the jungle must be destroyed to tap its riches - and offers an
> > opportunity
> > to learn how to repair degraded forests. See full story
> > <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560768029-5d6>
>
> Dear K&B,
> for some reason all of your "chat" and "E-Mail" ends up in our "Inbox"
> and what a lot of mail you and your friends generate! Without meaning to
> offend I was wondering if there was a way that your mail could by pass
> our school as it clutters up our system. I'm not even sure how you found
> a primary school in the south west of Victoria, Australia in the first
> place!!!! Maybe it's our service provider.
> Hope you can do something from your end
> Cheers, Michael (Grade 5/6 teacher)
