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Special Big Year Incentives for the Month of January Announced
Special Incentives for January!
The Wild Equity Institute is proud to announce a special Big Year prize for the month of January, specifically for competitors new to the Endangered Species Big Year. For a limited time, new competitors entering…
More Ways to Help Coho Salmon
Coho Population Collapse: More Ways to Help
The Coho Salmon found in the Golden Gate National Parks are on the brink of extinction, according to this article in the Marin Independent Journal.
The Wild Equity Institute’s Endangered Species…
Big Year Kick-off a Success!
GGNP Endangered Species Big Year’s Kick-off a Success!
The 2010 Golden Gate National Parks Endangered Species Big Year began with a wonderful bike ride this past weekend in partnership with the San Francisco Bike Coalition. As we rolled…
Join Us for the GGNP Endangered Species Big Year Bike Ride & Kick-off Celebration!
The 2010 Golden Gate National Parks Endangered Species Big Year has begun! Celebrate the incredible diversity of life around you by participating in the 2010 GGNP Endangered Species Big Year Kick-off Celebration on January 9, 2010 at 1pm at…
Coho Population Collapse Continues
The Coho Salmon found in the Golden Gate National Parks have suffered a third consecutive year of low reproductive success, and federal biologists are now restructuring the species’ recovery plan into an extinction prevention plan, according…
Bay Climate Defense Project Seeks Partners & Volunteers
The San Francisco Bay is the largest estuarine system on the West Coast of the United States. About one-third of the Bay was lost to infill development by the mid-1900s, and plans were underway to fill another third of the Bay. But a grassroots…
Congresswoman Jackie Speier’s Orwellian Turn at Sharp Park
Thanks to your support, Congresswoman Jackie Speier sent this constituent letter to Wild Equity Institute members and supporters on December 4, 2009, announcing that there is “no federal money available” to bailout Sharp Park Golf…
Endangered Species Big Year Kick-off Celebration Just Days Away!
The 2010 Golden Gate National Parks Endangered Species Big Year begins January 1, 2010! Celebrate the incredible diversity of life around you by participating in the 2010 GGNP Endangered Species Big Year Kick-off Celebration on January 9, 2010…
Onward to a Restored Sharp Park!
Despite thousands of letters and 60% of the public testimony in favor of restoring Sharp Park, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission rubber-stamped the Recreation and Park Department’s all-golf vision of the future for Sharp…
Big Year Kicks-Off; Big Victory at Sharp Park!
Folks,
Mark your calendars! The 2010 Golden Gate National Parks Endangered Species Big Year kick-off celebration will begin January 9, 2010, 1pm at the Sports Basement in the Presidio, San Francisco. The GGNP has more endangered species than…
IUCN Puts Endangered Species Big Year in the Mix for Best Conservation Idea of the Year!
The United Nations has declared 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity, and now the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed the Golden Gate National Parks Endangered Species Big Year as one of the best conservation…
All in April: Threatened Owls, Endangered Butterflies, Secret Ridges
The Wild Equity Institute has some great GGNP Endangered Species Big Year trips scheduled in April. Come check them out for your chance to win the GGNP Endangered Species Big Year!
Sunday, April 11, 2010, 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.: Join Kevin…
How Do You Spell Tax Relief? W-E-I
Federal tax returns are due this week, and there’s no better way to reduce your tax exposure than by donating to the Wild Equity Institute today!
The Wild Equity Institute depends on support from people like you, and our 2010 membership…
Big Year Travels to Kids Near You
The Wild Equity Institute is proud to announce new Golden Gate National Parks Endangered Species Big Year programming that can travel to kids near you!
WEI has developed endangered species-themed puzzles and games for elementary school children,…
Strange and Sorrowful: Golf Ball, Other Ocean Debris Found in Dead Gray Whale
The Cascadia Research Collective reports that a dead Gray Whale stranded in Puget Sound this week contained a large amount of ocean debris in its stomach when it died: including a golf ball.
This is the fifth Gray Whale stranding in Puget Sound…
Earth Day the Wild Equity Way
You could buy an eco toothbrush holder with that extra $10 in your pocket this Earth Day. Or you could get the best bang for your environmental buck by donating to the Wild Equity Institute today!
We run a lean, mean, equity machine over here…
WEI Collaborators in the News
At the Wild Equity Institute we are fortunate to collaborate with some of the most accomplished environmentalists on Earth, and many of them have been making wonderful news recently.
Dr. Peter Baye was recently featured in this article about…
REI Loves WEI, Heats Up Big Year
Download Your Big Year Checklist
and Start Seeing and Saving Endangered Species
REI’s San Francisco Store is partnering with the Wild Equity Institute’s GGNP Endangered Species Big Year by providing a slew of interim prizes for…
5/22 Tidewater Goby Trip Cancelled–by Oil Spill
As the Gulf Oil Spill crisis enters its second month, the scale of the oil spill is requiring more hands on the ground then ever.
This week our local Tidewater Goby expert, the National Park Service’s Darren Fong, was called to Mobile,…
WEI Engages Allies to Restore Sharp Park
As San Francisco proposes massive cuts to city services, more and more residents are demanding that San Francisco close the money-losing, endangered species-killing Sharp Park Golf Course.
WEI Allies: Bring Our Money Back
San Francisco is proposing…
Win Prizes on the Tiburon Paintbrush Conservation Trip May 29!
Just in time to help you win Jack Laws’ Pocket Guide to the Bay Area, the Wild Equity Institute is organizing a trip to help save the Tiburon Paintbrush. Remember, the first four 2010 Endangered Species Big Year competitors to complete…
June 2: Hump Day Habitat Restoration
Can you think of a better way to get over the mid-week blues than by helping save the diminutive wildflowers endemic to San Francisco? Neither can Michael Chasse of the National Park Service or the GGNP Endangered Species Big Year: and that’s…
SF Weekly Exposes Park Department’s Dishonesty
UPDATE: SF Weekly Exposes Park Department’s
Dishonest Assessment of Sharp Park Golf Course
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