Along with colleagues from Syracuse University and INCAE, Costa Rica’s main business school, CLC Executive Director Christian Freitag recently co-authored an article concerning Nosara, Costa Rica, one of only five “blue zones” in the world.
Read MoreThe Conservation Law Center is proud to announce the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust has continued their support of CLC’s Clean Water Indiana Program with a grant of $180,000. This grant represents a longstanding partnership between the Pulliam Trust and CLC, with a shared goal of improving water quality in the state of Indiana.
Read MoreThe Conservation Law Center is excited to announce the creation of a new position - the Constance and Terry Marbach Conservation Attorney. Indiana University Maurer School of Law Class of 2021 Alum Kacey Cook has accepted this inaugural position.
Read MoreThe Conservation Law Center seeks applications for a Program Coordinator to join our team based in the beautiful Midwestern college town of Bloomington, Indiana. This is an exciting opportunity to join an organization and broad partnership focused on providing solutions to some of the most important and challenging conservation and environmental issues in Indiana. The Coordinator will work with a diverse group of public and private partners to achieve various natural resource conservation goals within the Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape geographic boundaries. These goals include land and soil conservation, water quality and riparian corridors, threatened and endangered species, and the critical goal of maintaining military readiness in southern Indiana’s four defense bases.
Read MoreThe designation of more than 3.5 million acres in southern Indiana as a Sentinel Landscape will protect critical habitats and species, conserve natural resources, strengthen military readiness, and help the state prepare for environmental change. Southern Indiana is one of 3 new additions to the federal program, bringing the total to 10 nationwide.
Bats are often still seen as pests or disease spreaders but they actually play important roles in pollination and pest control. Here in Indiana they are especially helpful with pest control as bats can eat up to 1,000 mosquitoes an hour. That not only protests us from these pests, but also helps farmers protect their crops.
Read MoreIn 2020, Conservation Law Center partnered with Hoosier Environmental Council and the Indiana Audubon Society in a suit against Natural Prairie and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Contrary to its name, Natural Prairie is a confined animal feeding operation (CAFO) with over 4300 cows in the bed of the former Beaver Lake…
Read MoreThis report, requested by the Macaw Recovery Network (MRN), details the ways in which the rapidly growing pineapple industry in Costa Rica threatens the survival of the Great Green Macaw, an already endangered species. It specifically examines the impacts of the pineapple industry on the environment, labor rights, and public health. It also provides overviews of several initiatives aimed at amending the pineapple industry and offers suggestions for enhancing Great Green Macaw conservation efforts. Finally, the report outlines potential next steps for continued research that may be helpful to MRN’s conservation efforts.
Read MoreI know what you’re probably thinking, how is already the middle of March? Well, we are feeling the same way. Since Spring is going to be here before we know it, we wanted to talk about the bumblebee!
Bumblebees are in great danger due to loss of habitat, disease, pesticides, and climate change. As a result of these problems, the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee, known as Bombus affinis by scientists, has been classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. These insects call grasslands and prairies their home, but much of this land has lost, degraded, or fragmented in recent years. Climate change is one of the biggest, most salient issues regarding the declining population of these fuzzy insects.
Read MoreHere are some great events happening throughout the state for World Wetlands Day.
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