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Re: Defending Wildlife
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: January 22, 2015, 2:51 pm
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The Chinese are doing their part to STOP the murder of elephants
for ivory. That means that soon NO MORE chopsticks (or anything
else) will be made from it and sold at a premium. GOOD!
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Re: Defending Wildlife
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: February 3, 2015, 5:18 pm
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Eastern Screech-Owl (Otus asio)
Hero Freed Dangling Owl with Tree Branch, Then They Rested in a
Hotel Together
by Laura Simpson
February 2, 2015
5:30 pm
A guest at the Bel Air Inn in West Springfield, Massachusetts
was startled to lay eyes on an Eastern screech owl who was
hanging upside down from a crevice in the corner of the
building. Our hero, who goes only by the name Jose, didn’t waste
any time. He immediately phoned wildlife rescuers for help, but
he was unable to reach anyone for help. Rather than sitting on
his hands, Jose decided to get resourceful.
Fullscreen capture 1312015 91122 PM.bmpThe owl’s foot had
somehow become wedged into a crevice between the first and
second floor on the exterior of the building. Though Jose
couldn’t reach the owl overhead, he was able to find a tree
branch and began offering it to the owl. The owl was able to
right himself on the branch, and with a bit of gentle
maneuvering from Jose, the animal was soon able to flutter to
the ground.
Jose felt a rush of relief when he saw the owl perch in a bush,
but the sense of relief was short lived. Jose soon noticed the
owl was bleeding.
Though some might have shook their head and walked away, Jose
had a better idea. He decided to take the owl into custody. He
gently scooped up the small owl and carried it back inside and
all the way into his hotel room.
While the owl found a lovely perch on top of the kitchen
cabinets and surveyed the room from a safe height, Jose made
some more calls and was able to find a wildlife rehabilitator
who was willing to help. It would be a few hours’ wait, but the
owl was soon fast asleep
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We don’t know Joes’s full name and we probably never will.
There’s something about anonymity that makes a hero seem ten
feet tall. In this case, that was exactly tall enough to save
the life of one desperate little bird.
Do You Rescue Too?
If you have an uplifting and inspirational animal rescue
experience, please share it here.
Read more:
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Re: Defending Wildlife
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: February 7, 2015, 2:55 pm
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A drone camera put to excellent use. ;D
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[move][size=18pt]Free Lolita!
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She was stolen from her pod as a calf and imprisoned in a tiny
pool. >:([/size][/move]
We know exactly who Lolita’s family is and exactly where they
are. She is a member of the L pod and her mother, L25 (Ocean
Sun), is still believed to be alive and with the pod, along with
a few others who were present the day Lolita was taken.
According to the Orca Network, she still calls out in the unique
language used only by her family members – she remembers.
Lolita the Loneliest Orca Finally Gets Endangered Species
Protection
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by Alicia Graef
February 6, 2015
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Re: Defending Wildlife
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 10, 2015, 12:30 am
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Virunga Park is in DANGER from poachers AND Oil Corporation
fostered WAR! >:(
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A team of Virunga National Park Rangers arrest a wildlife
trafficker at Goma Airport, DR Congo. A member of Virunga
National Park staff poses as a buyer in order to lure the
trafficker to an ambush. The baby gorilla was rescued and the
trafficker was arrested. Wildlife trafficking is just one of the
many threats to the animals that live in the park and one of the
many challenges faced by the rangers. To find out more about
life on the front line of African conservation visit
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.
WATCH the Trailer at the link below:
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NETFLIX Trailer about Virunga Park Oil Corporation sponsored
DEATHS.
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> Urgent investigative report and unforgettable drama, "Virunga"
is a work of heart-wrenching tenderness and heart-stopping
suspense."
>
> LA TIMES
> "Showcasing the best and the worst in human nature, von
Einsiedel’s “Virunga” wrenches a startlingly lucid narrative
from a sickening web of bribery, corruption and violence."
>
> NEW YORK TIMES, CRITIC'S PICK
> “Extraordinary”
>
> "...enough action, pathos, suspense, venal villains, stalwart
heroes and endangered gorillas for a dozen fiction films”
>
> VARIETY
> 2015 Academy Award® Nominee
> Best Documentary Feature
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Re: Defending Wildlife
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 21, 2015, 4:24 pm
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Circus Lion Freed From Cage Feels Earth Beneath His Paws for
First Time
Cole Mellino | May 21, 2015 10:48 am
Lions are majestic and, sadly, exceedingly rare creatures.
According to Defenders of Wildlife, their numbers have dropped
by half since the 1950s, so that today fewer than 21,000 remain
in Africa. Due to habitat destruction, poaching and climate
change, lions could become extinct by 2020.
Lions have become prized possessions with the rise of trophy
hunting and circuses, which have come under repeated fire for
animal abuse. Big Cat Rescue, the largest big cat sanctuary in
the world, says circuses should be banned for their cruelty to
animals. “Often the cats are beaten, starved and confined for
long periods of time in order to get them to cooperate with what
the trainers want,” says Big Cat Rescue. “And life on the road
means that most of a cat’s life is spent in a circus wagon in
the back of a semi-truck or in a crowded, stinking box car on a
train or barge.”
Watch this circus lion’s elation
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when he is released
from his cage:
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Re: Defending Wildlife
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 23, 2015, 6:39 pm
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The End For Elephants?
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Gangsters use poachers to make a killing in the ivory trade.
What can stop the bloodshed? By Tristan McConnell
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Re: Defending Wildlife
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 28, 2015, 5:13 pm
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Dentist From Minnesota Pays $50,000 to Kill Cecil the African
Lion >:(
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Re: Defending Wildlife
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 28, 2015, 5:23 pm
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Powerful New Film Exposes the Horrors of Captive Lion Hunting
Article at link:
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Re: Defending Wildlife
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 8, 2015, 4:46 pm
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Photo @coryrichards Lioness and cub sharing a quick Okavango
shower. Shot on assignment for @natgeo with @intotheokavango
going source to sand on the Cuito River. The water that becomes
the Delta originates in the Angolan highlands and forms a
complex web that relies heavily on management by Angola,
Namibia, and Botswana. Use of the waters that flood the delta
every year sustaining wildlife such as this is key to its
longevity as a cohesive ecosystem. @thephotosociety
@natgeocreative @eddiebauer #okavango15 posted from the field
​7 Instagram Accounts Every Nature Lover Should Be
Following​
Cole Mellino
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Re: Defending Wildlife
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 22, 2015, 3:19 pm
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Humans:
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The Worst
Predators on the Planet
John R. Platt, TakePart | August 21, 2015 12:22 pm
Watch any nature documentary and you’ll see the same story
unfold time and time again: A predator approaches a group of
potential prey and ends up taking down a single animal, perhaps
the youngest, the weakest or the oldest among them.
Watch human beings doing the same thing and you’ll observe
something different: They’ll either take the biggest animal—the
strongest and the most charismatic—or they’ll just go ahead and
take the entire group.
That fundamental difference in behavior, according to a paper
published Thursday in the journal Science, makes humans the
worst predators on the planet.
The paper—more than 10 years in the making—surveyed 2,215
predator species around the world. It found that humans kill
adult animals at rates up to 14 times higher than any other
predator. Not only that, but we also target an abnormally high
number of other predators, not just for food but also—as with
Cecil the lion—for sport.
“We are a predator of predators,” said the study’s lead author,
Chris Darimont, Hakai-Raincoast professor at the University of
Victoria in British Columbia and science director for the
Raincoast Conservation Foundation. That position high above
everything else on the food chain led the researchers to use the
term “super-predator” to describe humans.
Darimont acknowledged that “super-predators” is a catchy term,
but he said it has more than one meaning. “We also use
‘super-predator’ because of our enormous dietary breadth. What
other predator has thousands of prey species that it preys upon?
What other predator impacts entire food webs? None.”
Although land-based hunting by humans affects species all over
the world, the researchers found that our greatest impact takes
place in the oceans, where fishing vessels can take thousands of
pounds of fish from the water at once. Here again, fisheries
target the largest adult specimens. “Fishers don’t tend to brag
about the small ones,” Darimont said. “Industrial harvesters are
after the big ones because they’re in fact more economical to
process. You have less waste per fish.”
This focus on adult fish is considered “sustainable” because it
supposedly allows smaller, juvenile fish to have greater access
to food—and then to grow large enough to also be caught. But
Darimont said it has ecological repercussions. It leaves too few
fish for other animals to eat and removes nutrients—in the form
of dead or digested fish—from the ecosystem. “It’s one of the
reasons why there is less biomass in the ocean now than there
used to be,” he said, pointing out that many fish species and
entire fisheries have become depleted in recent years.
Industrial-scale fishing also results in a large amount of
bycatch, or the killing of not just targeted fish but other fish
species, as well as sea turtles, marine mammals and birds. “I
would hazard to guess that we are the only predator that
commonly and at very high rates kills animals we are not
intending to kill,” Darimont said. “What a sort of grotesquely
sloppy predator we are that can do that.”
Although the timing of the paper is not intentional, Darimont
said he is glad it comes so soon after the death of Cecil.
“People are becoming increasingly well informed about the scope
and implications of hunting large carnivores,” he said. “I think
it’s a good time to consider reevaluating what we consider
sustainable exploitation.”
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INTERESTING comment thread...
Carbonicus
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Hmmm. As a waterfowl hunter, I can tell you this story is not
accurate. We don't take the "biggest animal" or "the entire
group". We try and take only males so as to minimize impact on
reproduction. And on a typical fall day in central Saskatchewan,
where I go each year, we take 8 birds each and have hundreds
come within range and escape unscathed (and wisened for the fall
migration through the states, which helps survival rates), and
literally tens of thousands pass over our heads.
Mass staging and fall migration of north American waterfowl is a
sight all "environmentalists" should behold at least once in
your lives. So is the aurora borealis. So is the vastness of the
boreal forest - by air and on foot.
What most "environmentalists" actually know about the
environment could fit in a Starbucks cup (with room for cream).
Shame, too, because that lack of knowledge leads to things like
the US wasting well over $100 BILLION taxpayer dollars on
"climate policy" since 1999. A fraction of that could clean up
all mines abandoned before mining laws (Silverton, CO recently,
for example), or many of the 1,200 Superfund NPL sites. I say
all this as a 26 yr environmental professional.
And the headline is wrong. We're not the "worst" predator. We're
the best (at it).
Nelson Petrie reply to Carbonicus
Your reasoning is hollow and you sound very arrogant, Mr
Carbonicus (which I'm sure is not your real name). Your response
to the article shows you are ignorant of the basic reality that
is causing thousands of species to be endangered or wiped out.
What you are implying is that poaching of elephants, rhinos,
lions and other animals is fine because they are killing only
one or two and not the whole herd of animals.
What you are implying is that lions should be shot one day and
one lion at a time. You are talking about waterfowls? You say
you take 8 birds each. How many of you are there in the hunting
group?
You haven't mentioned that and assuming that there are but five
of you, which means you'll be downing 40 birds at one hunting
season. In Saskatchewan, there must be hundreds of similar
groups, hence the overall impact on the birds will be just as
big. And this number is not big? 40 birds is a huge number.
You haven't counted the birds flying over you. You think there
are millions of water fowls like the human population?
Carbonicus, you are actually a disaster for our planet. Shoot
yourself and not innocent birds and animals.
Agelbert reply to Nelson Petrie
Well said. Let me add that Mr. Carbonicus [I]Homo apex
moronicous[/I] does a disservice to all predators by claiming he
is "best" at predation.
As any biologist familiar with the term "evolutionary dead end"
will agree, any animal that causes his prey species (this is NOT
limited just to animals) to be depleted by his behavior is a
FAILED predator doomed to extinction.
I'm sure you know this and the following but I am stating it for
the benefit of other readers who don't. Trophic levels in our
biosphere, starting with the phototrophic autotrophs that
basically "eat" photons have, at each subsequent level that
depends on the one above it, LESS biomass. This means that
predator species require a much larger mass of prey for them to
be successful predators.
This is because at each trophic level most of the energy stored
in the previous level is lost. The most efficient capture of
energy occurs with the phototrophs, whose "prey" is solar
photons. So, Photosynthetic organisms are the most successful
eaters in the biosphere, even though biologists hesitate to call
the them the most successful predators (which, technically, they
are). Perhaps that is a Darwinian bias at play. Darwin was
rather fastidious (and wrong) about placing humans at the top of
the food chain. It's the other way around.
Being an allegedly sentient species, we humans should have
figured this out by now. We need to promote life on every
trophic level above us if we wish to avoid extinction. Instead
we worship permanence in a biosphere that requires the recycling
of everything for the preservation and expansion of living
organisms.
We degrade the biosphere we cannot live without with our
polluting industries and then we have the nerve to call
ourselves "apex" predators.
We have even corrupted the vocabulary. The word "biodegradable"
has a negative connotation, as in "DEgrading". It is testament
to our worship of permanence, as if that was a good thing in a
biosphere that requires 100% recycling. It's not. The proper
word should be "bioRECLAIMABLE" or "bioUPgradable". But the
moronic permanence worshippers among us love tokens of
permanence, arrogance and egocentric idiocy like "preserved"
(another asenine term) trophies of dead animals.
A successful predator eats to live and stops right there. A lion
or a hyena will not bother prey animals grazing right next to
them if they are full. THAT is the mark of a successful
predator. Carboniicus and his pals kill without need. They, like
our destructive and polluting industries, deplete the biosphere
that a sentient being is required to preserve, promote and
expand.
Carbonicus is more [I]Homo SAP[/I] than [I]Homo sapiens[/I].
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