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The Last Liberal in Central Florida[The Last Liberal in Central Florida] ESA foe Pombo took two trips paid for by anti-animal-welfare foundation The ever-widening net of Republican-corruption busting may have snared a green bête noire: Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.). It seems Pombo took two trips, to New Zealand in 2000 and Japan in 2002, underwritten by a nonprofit foundation notable for opposition to environmental and animal-welfare protections. Problem is, tax laws prohibit private, nonprofit foundations from financing international travel by government officials. According to the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity, Pombo, his wife, and a staffer have taken $23,000 worth of international travel paid for by the International Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources, whose backers include the Japan Whaling Association and the International Fur Traders Association. "This is an organization that has made a cottage industry out of opposing any animal-welfare reform," says the Humane Society's Michael Markarian. Pombo claimed he didn't know the...

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Marketplace.publicradio.orghttp://marketplace.publicradio.org [Marketplace.publicradio.org] Marketplace: Congressional travel ”” in a gray area: The group that paid for Congressman Pombo's questionable trips is called the International Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources, or the IFCNR. The nonprofit's website says its mission is to quote "communicate, educate, and advocate for the environmentally sound, ethical, socially just, and sustainable use of Nature's resources."

http://geari.blogspot.com [Geari.blogspot.com] Animal Rights Information and News Resource Blog - Companion Blog ...: Syndicate us via RSS. Add us to your favorite blog or RSS feeds via the address: http://geari.blogspot.com/atom.xml

[Commonsblog.org] The Commons Blog: July 2005 Archives: Jonathan's post below reminded me of an interview that I did with the man who protected Grandfather Mountain from a federal road plan that would have destroyed much of the mountain to build the Blue Ridge Parkway. Hugh Morton, who recently stepped down as President of Grandfather Mountain, debated the head of the National Park Service Conrad Worth back in 1957 about the proposed road.

Webapp.utexas.edu[Webapp.utexas.edu] Sarkar Lab WebLog: War against the Environment Archives: For some audio-visual entertainment, here is a TV broadcast interviewing the Minister for the Environment and the shadow candidate about the logging of Tasmanian old-growth forests (in Real or Windows Media format). If you don't want to watch the entire thing, just tune into the six minute mark, where the interviewer fillets the Minister about which percentage of forest will be destroyed.

Capitalresearch.orghttp://www.capitalresearch.org [Capitalresearch.org] CRC-GreenWatch Blog - Monitoring environmental groups, non-profits ...: Congressman Richard Pombo has introduced a long-sought rewrite of the Endangered Species Act that promises at last to stop penalizing private landowners for being good stewards of their lands and enabling them to seek compensation if they are prevented from using their land, harvesting their trees, or building a home because of the presence of listed species or habitat. This would finally create an ESA that would be good for people and thus good for species. 

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