Instead of using GonaCon, it must also implement a fertility control program with PZP that has a 35-year history of being reversible and safe even for pregnant mares.
Although the Theodore Roosevelt wild horses are not protected under the 1971 Wild Horses and Burros Act, they’re a significant part of the historical and natural heritage of the park and the state. Equally important, they’re a huge tourism draw for North Dakota.
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Worse yet, despite scientific evidence showing that wild horses are a native, species, the NPS refers to them as an invasive or non-native species.
The Theodore Roosevelt wild horses deserve better! Moving forward, the NPS must adopt a management plan that uses current science and herd data to keep the number of wild horses large enough to have a healthy breeding population and maintain vital bloodlines – this means a minimum of 150 horses.
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The Theodore Roosevelt horses have roamed the badlands for centuries, and many believe they are descendants of Sitting Bull’s horses and related to the rare Nokota breed.
Yet the NPS classifies the wild horses as “livestock” even though it provides no care for them – as it does for the longhorn cattle – and the horses fend for themselves alongside the bison, elk, and other wildlife.
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Currently, the 180 horses who reside in the TRNP are managed by a 1978 Environment Assessment.
While a new management plan is needed, the NPS’s plan is not acceptable as it proposes six alternatives that range from limiting the herd to an unsustainable 35-60 wild horses to eliminating both the wild horse and livestock herds altogether.
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HALT THE HELICOPTERS
The fate of the only wild horse herd left in North Dakota is in jeopardy. The Theodore Roosevelt National Park is home to a historic herd of 180 wild horses who are believed to be descendants of Sitting Bull's horses and are related to the rare Nokota breed – but the National Park Service (NPS) has made clear that they want to eliminate the entire herd.
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In this region, Chevron has a net daily average production of 303,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
In the last several years, the effects of climate change have become increasingly impossible to ignore.
In the same way, the tools used by oil companies to maintain the status quo are also making their way home. Yes, it’s hilarious that Chevron is spending millions of dollars on what amounts to a fuck-you Tumblr dedicated to a single guy.
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Take the Bay Area city of Richmond, where Chevron maintains an oil refinery. Under the “Incidents” section for the refinery’s Wikipedia page: “1989 explosion and fire,” “1999 explosion and fire,” “2012 fire,” “2014 incident,” “2016 incident.” In the wake of the 2014 incident, Chevron brought something else to the town: a news outlet, called the Richmond Standard. In 2022 they launched Permian Proud, a news outlet for the area between Texas and New Mexico around Lubbock, Midland and Odessa.
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(Google ranks websites based on the number of other websites that link back to them — manufacturing “backlinks” is a way to boost credibility and visibility). Calculating the price of an effort like this is difficult. But with a reasonable price per backlink at about $500, it wouldn’t be unrealistic to estimate total spend on promoting the Amazon Post at north of $4.5 million dollars — that’s before factoring in fees paid to an agency providing these services.
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For fourteen years, Chevron has played Regina George by using the Amazon Post (and its Spanish-language affiliate websites) as their Big Oil Burn Book. Their mission statement of sorts is viewable on the Wayback Machine:
The false news and misleading information [30,000 Indigenous Peasant Farmers] put out deserves to be corrected-and the public has a right to know the truth. This is Chevron’s blog to set the record straight!
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https://web.archive.org/web/20100128201513/http://theamazonpost.com/
To date, the Wall Street Journal has run nine pro-Chevron, anti-Donziger opinion pieces. Plenty of other major outlets have argued in their favor.
Chevron is still putting paid spend behind the website on Twitter. Spend too much time researching Steven , you’ll likely start to see them. As recently as October 2022, academic (and NeoliberalHell pod co-host) Matthew J. Donovan confirmed that Chevron had created approximately 9,000 backlinks to the Amazon Post.
In 2009, an internal memo at Chevron spoke of a “long-term” plan to “demonize” Donziger. The same year, Chevron created The Amazon Post. Skimmed in a Twitter Feed, the name is obviously designed to look like some sort of news outlet. But clicking through, you’ll see the subtitle: “Chevron’s Views on the Ecuador Lawsuit.”
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https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6661647-Demonize-Donziger.html
For fourteen years, Chevron has played Regina George by using the Amazon Post (and its Spanish-language affiliate websites) as their Big Oil Burn Book. Their mission statement of sorts is viewable on the Wayback Machine:
The false news and misleading information [30,000 Indigenous Peasant Farmers] put out deserves to be corrected-and the public has a right to know the truth. This is Chevron’s blog to set the record straight!
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https://web.archive.org/web/20100128201513/http://theamazonpost.com/
In 2009, an internal memo at Chevron spoke of a “long-term” plan to “demonize” Donziger. The same year, Chevron created The Amazon Post. Skimmed in a Twitter Feed, the name is obviously designed to look like some sort of news outlet. But clicking through, you’ll see the subtitle: “Chevron’s Views on the Ecuador Lawsuit.”
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https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6661647-Demonize-Donziger.html
Chevron responded by suing Donziger in the U.S. for $60 billion — for scale, that’s roughly one Koch brother. The Intercept and others have noted that Chevron’s case against Steven hinged on a witness that Chevron had paid “hundreds of thousands” of dollars, and a judge with “a soft spot” for the oil company. Though damages were dropped, Donziger was found guilty, disbarred, imprisoned, placed on house arrest, and remains unable to leave the country.
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https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-steven-donziger/
The legal moves Chevron has made against Donziger are no laughing matter. On the other hand, their attempts to beat him down in the court of public opinion are… different.
“They had to create a fake narrative,” said Donziger. “At that point, they really crossed the line in terms of the things they started do… to lie, to deceive the public, to deceive journalists and their own employees.”
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Chevron responded by suing Donziger in the U.S. for $60 billion — for scale, that’s roughly one Koch brother. The Intercept and others have noted that Chevron’s case against Steven hinged on a witness that Chevron had paid “hundreds of thousands” of dollars, and a judge with “a soft spot” for the oil company. Though damages were dropped, Donziger was found guilty, disbarred, imprisoned, placed on house arrest, and remains unable to leave the country.
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https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-steven-donziger/
Hot Gossip From A Global Warmer!
This is some seriously underrated tea on #Chevron, the oil company acting like Regina George (actually though).
By Eamon Levesque | Jul 31, 2023
From the article:
Donziger’s three-decade legal battle with Chevron is a pain to summarize. Key to understand is that he represented 30,000 Ecuadorian indigenous residents of the Amazon in a lawsuit against oil giant Chevron.
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https://www.bylinebyline.com/articles/hot-gossip-from-a-global-warmer
Per coverage at the time, Donziger and his team argued that a company Chevron purchased dumped “18 billion gallons of toxic waste… leading to 1,000-plus deaths from cancer and to ecological damage beyond repair.” In a landmark 2013 victory, courts in Ecuador ordered Chevron pay $9.5 billion in damages.
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Hot Gossip From A Global Warmer!
This is some seriously underrated tea on #Chevron, the oil company acting like Regina George (actually though).
By Eamon Levesque | Jul 31, 2023
From the article:
Donziger’s three-decade legal battle with Chevron is a pain to summarize. Key to understand is that he represented 30,000 Ecuadorian indigenous residents of the Amazon in a lawsuit against oil giant Chevron.
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https://www.bylinebyline.com/articles/hot-gossip-from-a-global-warmer
The neighbours are helping with the transport, the vet is happy to help and I'm happy to make their lives better and to give them as much as a chance of survival as I possibly by covering the expenses. If more people could help and do this it can make such a difference. Just think of all the litters of puppies and of the hard life these precious animals face everyday 🙏🐾
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Another option is to research local organizations and to get them involved.
I'm living in Bali at the moment and contacted the local vet. We're organising for two young females who had already had litters despite being teenagers themselves to be neutered and vaccinated.
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One way to help is to support local organizations to neuter them and to provide vaccines.
For example #SoiDogFoundation has neutered and vaccinated close to one million dogs and cats in the past twenty years.
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Of these puppies, more than half will die before they reach adulthood. For those who do make it, they are bound to a miserable life of suffering.
Every day is a struggle as they live in constant fear of hunger, disease, injury and the risk of cruelty.
Overpopulation and uncontrolled breeding leads to a never-ending cycle of abandoned and neglected animals.
No animal deserves to suffer like this.
Sadly, this is the tragic reality for stray animals in Asia.
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Did you know that one female dog and her offspring can produce a staggering 67,000 #puppies in just six years?
On average a female dog can have two litters a year with 6-10 puppies. 67,000 figure is based on all puppies surviving to adulthood. (numbers via #SoiDogFoundation, correct as of 30 June 2023)
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