Andrew Wyatt serves as CEO for the United States Association of Reptile Keepers, a trade association battling the Defenders of Wildlife in a federal rule making at US Fish & Wildlife Service that could turn over 1 million American citizens into potential felons and negatively impact $1.4 billion in safe, legal trade; costing thousands of American jobs nationwide. He has lived on the Outer Banks of North Carolina for 25 years.

The Clean Beaches Coalition today released its annual list of beaches which have been officially certified as clean, healthy and environmentally well managed. This year beaches in twenty states and U.S.

--March 1st Broadcast To Take Students Nationwide To Gulf Islands National Seashore To Learn About The Science Of Understanding Human and Natural Change In An Eco-System-- --Educators Invited to Register NOW At: WWW.ELECTRONICFIELDTRIP.ORG-- WASHINGTON, Jan.

Sites in AL, FL, LA, MS and TX Highlighted - "Special Places" in Grave Jeopardy Today; Potential Impacts Underscore the Steep Cost of America's Addiction to Oil. WASHINGTON, May 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- From Padre Island National Seashore in Texas to the Everglades National Park in Florida, the 15 national parks, wildlife refuges and state parks in Gulf states most threatened by the ongoing BP oil blowout are identified in a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization (RMCO).

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Padre Island National Seashore in Texas, the world's longest undeveloped barrier island, now looks as if people have been living - and dumping - on it for decades.