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Clean
Water Act Celebrates 35th Anniversary
- October 2007
Thursday,
October 18, 2007 marks the 35th anniversary of the Federal Clean Water
Act. While the implementation of clean water laws has not been as
ideal as planned, the immense achievements in cleaning pollution
impairing our waters has created notable change. The necessity for
these changes continues to swell as water resources become more
limited and impacted by widespread polluting practices.
Although
many of our state’s waterways remain contaminated, the Clean Water
Act forms the foundation of water laws in our country. Benefits of
healthy, clean water - suitable for fishing and recreation - is a
resource we cannot afford to compromise.
Please
contribute to your local Waterkeeper organization to help keep a major
force for resource protection a vital and effective.
Please
click here to Donate
to the Ventura Coastkeeper.
Chumash
Village
Progress!
- April 2007
Please view our Chumash
Village Project Update
to see the great progress being made at the Chumash Demonstration
Village in Malibu! We thank all those who are helping with the
tasks of construction!
Wishtoyo's
Mati Waiya Participates in Condor Segment on PBS
-
December 2006
Mati
Waiya, Executive Director of the Wishoyo Foundation - lead plaintiff
in a condor lawsuit (see below) against state agencies - was invited
by the Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) to participate in their
special segment on the condor endangerment situation in
California. Please follow link to view Endangered Condor broadcasts:
See Videos: Mati
Waiya's PBS Broadcasts
Wishtoyo
Files Condor Lawsuit
- December 2006
Wishtoyo Foundation, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Natural
Resources Defense Council, and Center for Biological Diversity, along
with representatives from the hunting community, brought
suit under the federal Endangered Species Act.on
Nov. 30, 2006, against the Calif. Fish and Game Commission and Dept.
of Fish and Game for continuing to allow toxic lead ammunition
to poison rare California
condors although safe and effective alternatives are available.
The California
condor is one of the most imperiled animals in the world. In 1982, the
last 22 wild birds were rounded up in a captive-breeding program. The
government began releasing them back into the wild in 1992, but
scientists say lead poisoning is probably responsible for killing as
many as 46 of the 127 birds released in California.
Condors
are exposed to lead in carcasses or the remains of animals cleaned by
hunters in the field. Condors mistake
bullet fragments for the calcium-rich bone they require.
“Condors
are critical to our culture and to our religion,” said Mati Waiya, a
Chumash ceremonial leader and the executive director of the Wishtoyo
Foundation, a Native American organization in central
California
. “But they will not survive so long as we continue to allow them to
be poisoned by lead. We can solve this with the use of safe and
effective nontoxic ammunition that will allow hunters to continue
their activities and, at the same time, protect condors.”
WISHTOYO
WINS L.A.'s APA 2006
SPECIAL PROJECT AWARD FOR MERIT for
Nicholas Canyon Chumash Village and
Stream Restoration Projects!
- May 2006
Wishtoyo
won a Special Merit Award from the
American Planning Association for our Chumash Demonstration Village
and Stream Restoration projects in Malibu. We are very pleased and
honored as the projects have been a great endeavor and gratifying
effort for Wishoyo over the past four years.
"AGRITOXINS:
Ventura County's Toxic Time Bomb"
- Wishtoyo Pesticides Study
Wishtoyo Foundation's Agritoxins study quantifies the hazardous effects of
agricultural pesticide use on the habitants and environment of Ventura
County.
To view a pdf version
of the paper, please click here: Agritoxins:
Ventura County's Toxic Time Bomb (Please
note, it may take a moment for it to appear on your
screen.)
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For Project Updates,
please click on
the following links:
Chumash
Village Update
Agritoxins:
Pesticides Program
Nicholas
Canyon Creek Restoration
Ormond
Beach Wetlands
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