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The Latest by Kari Birdseye

Advocacy Communications Manager

Kari Birdseye worked at Earthjustice from 2011–2016, as a national press secretary and on advocacy campaigns protecting our health and the environment from the impacts of pesticides and toxic chemicals.

One of the newborn bison calves, born at Montana's Fort Peck in the spring of 2012.
August 23, 2013

More Wild Bison Return Home To Montana

By Kari Birdseye  /  Northern Rockies Office

Some extra thunder rumbled into north central Montana, when wild bison finally set hooves on the ground at Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. The return was the culmination of legal efforts to restore the animals to their historic prairie habitat. Members of the Assiniboine and Gros Ventre tribes were eager to receive them.

wolf portrait
June 14, 2013

Narrowing the Chances of Gray Wolf Recovery

By Kari Birdseye

Federal agency proposes handing protections to the states

March 22, 2013

Arctic Whales, Shell Execs & Spider Legs

By Kari Birdseye  /  Alaska Office

This comes on the heels of a report from the Department of Interior, which summarized a 60-day investigation into Shell’s 2012 Arctic Ocean drilling season and was highly critical of the oil giant’s operations.
At a press conference announcing the findings, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar declared that Shell had “screwed up,” and the report concluded:

February 28, 2013

A Wise Pause On Arctic Drilling

By Kari Birdseye  /  Alaska Office

Shell announced that the company is hitting the pause button on oil exploration and drilling in the Arctic. Mother Nature graphically demonstrated this summer what conservation groups have been saying for more than a decade—the extreme weather and conditions of the Arctic, with its stormy, frozen seas make the Arctic environmentally treacherous for oil drilling. …

January 18, 2013

Going to Extremes In Arctic: Is it Worth It?

By Kari Birdseye  /  Headquarters Office

As Royal Dutch Shell continues to make perfectly clear, industry is not prepared to safely explore for oil in the pristine waters of America’s Arctic. Shell’s Arctic operations have been called the “gold standard” of the oil industry and if this is the best they’ve got, the industry is not Arctic ready. Beyond the arguments …

December 20, 2012

Strong Start To Protecting Key Alaska Habitat

By Kari Birdseye  /  Alaska Office

Interior announces a final plan for managing the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

October 19, 2012

Too Close to Risk It

By Kari Birdseye  /  Alaska Office

Shell Oil has until the end of October to wrap up drilling operations in the Arctic.

October 8, 2012

Open Season in Wyoming Threatens Wolf Recovery

By Kari Birdseye  /  Northern Rockies Office

In Wyoming, wolves that were federally protected on Sept. 30 became legal vermin overnight—subject to being shot on sight in approximately 90 percent of the state as of Oct. 1. In the remaining 10 percent of Wyoming, wolf hunting season opened for the first time since the gray wolf was eradicated from the state in …

September 27, 2012

Major Oil Company Opposes Arctic Drilling

By Kari Birdseye  /  Alaska Office

The “Big Oil” companies are breaking ranks. The fourth largest oil company in the world

September 14, 2012

Shell's "Happy" Mood Smashed By Ice

By Kari Birdseye  /  Alaska Office

Hours after Shell began drilling in the Artic, operations were forced to shut down