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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: September 5, 2015, 6:04 pm
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[center]Care2 Success! Mother Deer With Arrow in Her Face Is
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September 3, 2015
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A mother deer who suffered for more than nine months with a
bowhunter’s arrow lodged in her face has finally gotten help,
thanks to the efforts of thousands upon thousands of caring
people from around the world who signed a Care2 petition
launched on her behalf.
The doe, who has been named Grace, was first spotted late last
year in Marlboro, New Jersey, bearing an arrow that was
presumably intended to end her life. Like many others who aren’t
killed by bowhunters, she was callously left to suffer with a
tragic injury.
Not only has she miraculously managed to survive, eating and
navigating her environment without getting caught on anything,
but she also gave birth to a fawn earlier this spring.
Even though wildlife officials had known about her since at
least December 2014 the state’s Division of Fish and Wildlife
said in a statement that they tried unsuccessfully to help her
over the winter and put efforts on hold in May after she became
pregnant over concerns intervention could harm her fawn.
Thankfully, her advocates kept the pressure on to help her.
After Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) shared a
video of Grace earlier this spring, her story took off.
A Care2 petition started on her behalf urging officials to
uphold their promise to help her has gathered more than 106,000
signatures
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major news outlets including USA Today, CBS and NBC.
This week their efforts to give Grace a voice paid off when
wildlife officials finally located her, tranquilized her and
removed the shaft of the arrow. According to a statement, a
veterinarian present recommended the arrowhead be left because
her wound had healed and removing it could cause further injury.
They said Grace, who is believed to be about three to four years
old, was released back into the wild with her fawn and is
expected to be fine.
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“We thank all of the New Jersey residents and people from all
over the world who have expressed concern about the deer, as
well as local residents who have been very helpful in providing
information on her movements throughout the community and even
set up bait stations on their properties,” said David Chanda,
Director of Fish and Wildlife.
Poh Yeh Holmes, who created the petition to help Grace after
seeing SHARK’s video on a friend’s Facebook page, told Care2 she
is humbled by the number of signatures that came in and is “over
the moon” that help finally came for her.
“If something bad happens to us, we can take ourselves to the
doctor but sadly, Grace is not able to. She is not able to ask
for help either. I can only imagine how difficult it must have
been for her to graze on grass or to pick up an acorn, to reach
higher up for greenery that she wanted to eat. I thought a
petition to help her plight, may help,” she said.
Holmes said Grace’s advocates will now be using the petition to
push lawmakers in the area to turn her range in Marlboro into a
no-hunting zone to make sure she and the rest of her herd can
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If you know of an animal in need in your community or elsewhere
who could use some advocacy on their behalf like Grace, you can
help them by starting a petition.
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: September 28, 2015, 6:27 pm
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Friday, September 25, 2015
Washington, D.C.
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United States to end the poaching crisis and ensure their
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U.S. President Barack Obama and People’s Republic of China
President Xi Jinping have announced a commitment to “take
significant and timely steps to halt the domestic commercial
trade of ivory” in their respective countries, according to a
fact sheet released by the White House at the close of President
Xi’s State visit.
The two presidents, acknowledging the importance and urgency of
combating wildlife trafficking, have agreed to cooperate in
bringing additional training, technical expertise, information
sharing and public awareness to the poaching and wildlife
trafficking crisis. The announcement comes at a time when as
many as 35,000 elephants are poached every year for their tusks
to supply the ivory market in China, the United States and other
countries.
“We are seeing an important, public commitment from the world’s
two largest economies to work together to bring an end to the
elephant poaching crisis,” says Dr. Patrick Bergin, African
Wildlife Foundation CEO and member of the White House Advisory
Council on Wildlife Trafficking. “President Obama and President
Xi are sending a clear message that they intend to throw the
weight of their countries behind the elephant crisis.”
China and the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong are
home to the largest ivory market in the world. An estimated 90
percent of ivory for sale in China and Hong Kong is reportedly
illegal, with the legal trade helping to disguise the illicit
industry. The legal trade further complicates law enforcement
efforts to crack down on the black market. The United States is
one of the world’s largest wildlife markets, and until recently
domestic ivory trade was legal. The U.S. government has now
enacted a near-total ban on the interstate trade and commercial
import of ivory, and a number of U.S. states have banned or are
working to ban intrastate trade of ivory in their states.
The announcement by Presidents Obama and Xi to deepen their
cooperation to combat wildlife trafficking was confirmed in a
section of a White House fact sheet released on September 25,
shown here:
Wildlife Trafficking-—The United States and China, recognizing
the importance and urgency of combating wildlife trafficking,
commit to take positive measures to address this global
challenge. The United States and China commit to enact nearly
complete bans on ivory import and export, including significant
and timely restrictions on the import of ivory as hunting
trophies, and to take significant and timely steps to halt the
domestic commercial trade of ivory. The two sides decided to
further cooperate in joint training, technical exchanges,
information sharing, and public education on combating wildlife
trafficking, and enhance international law enforcement
cooperation in this field. The United States and China decided
to cooperate with other nations in a comprehensive effort to
combat wildlife trafficking.
“If these commitments translate into meaningful cooperation and
action by these geopolitical giants on tackling poaching and
wildlife trafficking, the future will be bright for Africa’s
giants,” says AWF’s Bergin.
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Continuing the building momentum around fighting the illicit
wildlife trade, the Royal Thai Government destroyed 2.1 tons of
confiscated ivory on August 26.
This follows similar ivory destruction events that have taken
place throughout 2015, including in Kenya, Ethiopia, the
Republic of the Congo, the United Arab Emirates, China, the
United States and Mozambique.
“Increasingly governments around the world are making the very
public statement that there is no future to be had in the ivory
trade,” said African Wildlife Foundation CEO Dr. Patrick Bergin.
“By destroying ivory, the Thai government is sending a message
that ivory is only valuable when attached to living elephants,
rather than as jewelry, statuettes or other trinkets. We commend
the Thai government for taking this strong stance against the
illegal ivory trade.”
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Thailand has
become one of the largest ivory markets in the world and
organized criminal syndicates are reportedly involved in
trafficking ivory between Africa and Thailand. The illegal ivory
trade is estimated to result in the deaths of between 25,000 and
35,000 African elephants each year.
In addition to governmental efforts to shut down the global
wildlife trafficking industry, AWF has implemented a number of
initiatives to stop the killing, stop the trafficking and stop
the demand associated with the illegal trade. These have
included:
Providing financial and technical support to partners in Africa
to supplement anti-poaching efforts. Currently AWF support is
enhancing protections of 32 populations of elephants, rhinos,
large carnivores and great apes on the continent.
Training and deploying detection dogs to key trafficking hubs in
Africa. The first class of detection dogs and handlers graduated
from AWF’s Conservation Canine Program last month. They will
soon be deployed to trafficking hotspots in Mombasa, Kenya, and
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Sensitizing the judiciary and criminal investigators in African
countries on wildlife trafficking and the available laws to
convict known traffickers. Thus far, these judicial workshops
have been held throughout Kenya, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and
in Kampala, Uganda. Plans are underway to hold similar
sensitization trainings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the
Congo. All reports indicate these trainings have had a visible
impact on the sentencing of convicted poachers and traffickers.
Conducting a public awareness campaign in Asia and in Africa to
educate the general public about wildlife trafficking. AWF and
partners WildAid and Save The Elephants recently posted
billboards in the Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport that reminds
locals and tourists not to purchase ivory in Thailand and
attempt to take products out of the country. In Africa,
Swahili-language billboards have been posted in Tanzania to urge
citizens to protect their natural heritage against poaching.
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: October 8, 2015, 3:11 pm
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The Truth Behind That “Crappy” Cup of Coffee
by Elizabeth Claire Alberts
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Civet cats caged and force-fed in large numbers to feed the
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I saw my first civet cat on the last day of my holiday in Bali,
Indonesia. It was tethered to a wooden tabletop outside of an
upscale coffee shop, squinting at the afternoon sun as it
struggled to sleep. Tourists swarmed around the animal, poking
its fur and snapping photos. It didn’t take much to see that
this civet cat was scared, and very stressed.
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coffee farm in Sumatra, Indonesia. World Animal Protection
carried out an investigation on the practice of civet farming to
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When I approached the coffee shop owner to express my disgust at
the animal’s treatment, he brushed me off. Then the owner thrust
a pamphlet into my hands about “kopi luwak,” the type of coffee
he sold inside the shop. “This is how we make our living,” he
said, gesturing to the civet cat on the table.
As I came to learn, kopi luwak is a specialty coffee made from
beans that have passed through the digestive tracks of civet
cats, or “luwaks” in the Indonesian language. Despite it
repulsive origins, coffee aficionados claim that kopi luwak has
an extraordinary taste resembling chocolate or caramel. This
translates to an extraordinary cost: a cup of kopi luwak can
sell for $30 to $100 in the United States. But what many people
don’t realize is that kopi luwak is produced at an even higher
cost to civets.
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[i]World Animal ProtectionA caged civet cat at a "Luwak" coffee
farm is fed coffee cherries in Sumatra, Indonesia.
Many traders and cafes sell the coffee as sourced in the jungle
from the droppings of wild, free-roaming civets. However,
undercover investigations by animal rights activists and
journalists have shown that in many cases, the animals are held
captive in cages where they are force-feed coffee cherries to
keep up with the growing demand for kopi luwak.
Civets are shy, nocturnal creatures, which find being held in
tiny cages is incredibly stressful. Ashley Fruno of PETA
Asia-Pacific explains that video footage has shown caged civet
cats exhibiting neurotic behavior, such as spinning,
head-bobbing, and pacing. “This shows that the animals are going
insane with boredom and depression,” Fruno says. A 2013 BBC
investigation even revealed caged luwaks chewing their own legs
off.
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[center]World Animal ProtectionA caged civet cat at a "Luwak"
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In addition to being stressed, civets experience medical
problems from the copious amounts of coffee they’re force-fed.
Anthony Wild, author of Coffee: a Dark History and founder of
the Facebook campaign “Cut the Crap!” has worked out that luwaks
ingest the equivalent of 120 double espressos each day to
produce kopi luwak. While this caffeine over-consumption is
known to contribute to malnutrition and fur loss, Wild believes
it’s also responsible for the displays of neurotic behavior. “If
you drank that much espresso, you’d be pacing around, chewing
your own leg off,” Wild says.
Coffee farmers only started caging these animals in the last 25
years. Prior to the 1990s, kopi luwak was a rare drink produced
from the scat of wild civet cats living around coffee
plantations. Then in 1991, Wild imported a kilo of kopi luwak
into the UK, which he used to generate media coverage. Kopi
luwak was an instant hit, going on to be featured on the Oprah
Winfrey Show, and mentioned by Jack Nicholson in the 1997 film
The Bucket List. “It had become a global phenomenon,” Wild says,
“and with it came the arrival of caged kopi luwak.”
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who source wild civet faeces in Indonesia. [/center]
The animal cruelty issues of kopi luwak have been well
documented, but the environmental consequences of producing this
coffee are often overlooked. Captive luwaks usually die within a
few years, so farmers poach wild luwaks from the rainforest to
keep their operations running. The poaching of wild civets goes
largely unchecked, and it could have a huge impact on the
natural environment if not curbed, explains Jan Schmidt-Burbach
of World Animal Protection.
“Civets are very opportunistic in their food habits, but they
mostly eat fruit,” Schmidt-Burbach says. “As a result, civets
are prime contributors to the dispersal of seeds such as palm
tree seeds, and they contribute to the regeneration of forests.”
Schmidt-Burbach also points out that civets prey on mice,
snails, scorpions, and other animals considered “pests.” So when
civets are taken out of the ecosystem, these pest species
proliferate.
Once Wild discovered how civets were being abused to produce
this coffee, he felt guilty for playing his part in introducing
kopi luwak to the western world. This motivated him to get
involved with the BBC investigation, and to initiate the “Cut
the Crap!” campaign. According to Wild, both ventures have been
successful in raising awareness about kopi luwak, and prompting
suppliers to stop selling this cruel coffee.
Wild and World Animal Protection are both campaigning for the
introduction of wild-sourced, cage-free kopi luwak. As Wild
wrote in an article published in The Guardian, companies like
Rarefied have set up coffee plantations near patches of elevated
rainforest, where wild luwaks wander onto the farm to feast on
coffee cherries. Rarefied employs about 40 local farmers who
collect civet scat containing coffee beans, and transport them
to a central processing factory. The workers are closely
monitored. If they try to sell beans by caged civet cats,
they’re banned from the industry. Wild believes these genuine
wild kopi luwak plantations have an environmental advantage.
“These plantations need to be next to virgin rainforest, so
there’s a value in retaining the rainforest. You can’t have a
monoculture coffee plantation and expect luwaks to thrive,” he
says.
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Yet, it appears that the practice of caging civet cats is
continuing :(, and has perhaps even increased, in Indonesia.
PETA’s Fruno says that it’s virtually impossible to maintain a
profitable business using coffee sourced from wild civets. “This
is why farmers are driven to keep civets in cages,” Fruno says.
“When there is a demand for an animal product, the reality is
that profit will always prevail.” Fruno also explains that many
farmers falsely advertise their beans as “wild-sourced” when
they actually come from caged civets. “Two Indonesian farmers
who cage civets told our investigator that they’d be able to
manufacture coffee bearing the “wild-sourced” label,” Fruno
says.
As international demand for kopi luwak continues to grow, it may
become more difficult for coffee buyers to assess whether or not
the kopi luwak they are drinking is genuinely wild-sourced. In
2014, Newsweek reported that 500 tons of kopi luwak were being
produced each year, which is a thousand times more than what can
be produced from wild harvests. Wild says there’s every reason
to believe that number has gone up even more. “The demand is
growing worldwide, particularly, and rather ominously, in
China,” Wild says. “If the Chinese get excited about something,
then it’s a huge market.”
Perhaps a more ethical solution to the kopi luwak problem is
finding a way to artificially manufacture the unique taste. A
biotechnology company called Afineur has created a cultured
coffee that replicates the taste and aroma of kopi luwak.
Afineur’s coffee, is still pricey – ranging from $50 to $100 a
pound. But there’s a clear benefit: it won’t cost animals’ lives
or the environment.
An earlier verison of this report incorrectly stated that
Afineur's coffee wasn't on the market yet.
Elizabeth Claire Alberts
Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a writer and environmental activist
based in Australia. Her website is
www.elizabethclairealberts.com
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: October 11, 2015, 12:38 am
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Top 10 Cities for Wildlife in the US
SustainableBusiness.com News
If you read our daily news, you know we're about green business,
but we see it as a way to care for the earth and all its
species.
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With that in mind, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) is
honoring 10 cities where people are showing a strong commitment
to wildlife. Rankings is based on the percentage of open space;
citizen action to create wildlife habitat, and wildlife gardens
at schools.
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Bat Enthusiast Bridge Visitors in Austin, Texas go Batty over
watching the Bats do their thing at
dusk.
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1. The entire city of Austin, Texas is certified as a Community
Wildlife Habitat. There are 2,154 certified wildlife habitats -
the most per capita in the US - and the most Schoolyard Habitats
(67). It's famous for its Congress Avenue Bridge, home to 1.5
million bats. More than 100,000 people visit the bridge each
year to watch the bats emerge at dusk.
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2. People that live in Portland, Oregon have the delight of
seeing Chinook salmon swim through the heart of the city, where
Oregon's two largest spring runs converge, thanks to decades of
restoration work. The city is also committed to providing access
to natural areas within a half-mile of every citizen.
3. Atlanta, Georgia ranks high across the board, and NWF
highlights the success of the Greater Atlanta Pollinator
Partnership, started in 2009. The program creates pollinator
habitat at landscape scale - around 1.2 million acres in the
25-mile radius around the city. It includes all major
metropolitan parks and thousands of individual residences. It
includes restoring native plants, rescuing them from
construction sites, and controlling invasive species.
4. Baltimore, Maryland has 5700 acres of parkland, including the
second-largest urban wilderness in the US, Gwynns Falls/Leakin
Park. NWF and the National Aquarium are creating the largest
certified Community Wildlife Habitat along the Chesapeake Bay.
Certified community rain gardens are filtering runoff,
preventing pesticides, fertilizers and other pollutants from
entering Chesapeake Bay.
5. Washington DC is ranked third for parkland as a percent of
city area, and bald eagles and osprey are returning to Anacostia
River, once among the most polluted rivers in the US. Trash has
been removed, invasive species are being controlled, and native
wetland plants have been installed, and the river is rebounding.
6. More than 30 municipalities and neighborhoods in the Seattle,
Washington area participate in NWF's NWF's Community Wildlife
Habitat program. A "Green Factor" program reduces stormwater
runoff and supports the use of native plants and trees.
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Sand Hill Crane happy family ;D Cooper's Hawk displays
spectacular plumage.
7. Albuquerque, New Mexico has more parkland than another other
city as a percent of its total area, home to sandhill cranes,
Cooper's hawks, black bears, bobcats and many other species.
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8. Indianapolis, Indiana is located on the Mississippi Flyway
and ranks second for certified wildlife habitats (932), in this
case for migrating birds.
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The Barred Owl is quite happy in Charlotte, North Carolina.
9. Charlotte, North Carolina ranks third for Certified Wildlife
Habitats (849) and the city just achieved certification. The
City Council's goal is to have half the city covered by trees by
2050. The barred owl population is so strong that the most
research study on the species is being done there.
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Red Tailed Hawks love New York! :o
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Those males are such show offs! ::)
10. New York City has the most Eco-Schools in America (270),
ranks fourth in parkland as a percent of city area (14%), and is
home to an incredible 168 species of wildlife and more than five
million trees. Home to year-round residents like red-tailed
hawks and migrating birds like black-throated blue warblers, it
is a surprising urban wildlife haven that extends from Central
Park to Brooklyn's Gateway National Recreation Area.
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Over several decades, Americans have preserved critical habitats
and waterways and have brought bald eagles, grizzly bears, bison
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returning to western and tribal lands for the first time in a
century, says NWF.
Many of those species are under renewed attacks (by you know who
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And now some of our most familiar species, from monarch
butterflies
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Learn about NWF's Certified Wildlife Habitat, Schoolyard Habitat
and Eco-Schools USA programs - there are 200,000 certified
habitats in the US and 84 certified Community Wildlife Habitats
with another 50 in the pipeline.
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: October 11, 2015, 12:40 am
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The USDA WAR on wildlife. >:(
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USDA Wildlife Services is an agency whose mission is “to resolve
wildlife conflicts to allow people and wildlife to coexist.” But
according to a group of whistleblowers in the new award-winning
documentary, Exposed, Wildlife Services has little regard for
the welfare of America’s wildlife.[/quote]
Read more:
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: October 11, 2015, 12:42 am
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[move][b]Kindness to Animals Video Compilation.
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: January 1, 2016, 4:28 pm
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Great Videos! ;D
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: January 7, 2016, 9:17 pm
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[center]Here's What the Oregon Occupiers
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and the GOP
Presidential Candidates [img
width=100]
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/>Agree On
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[/center]
By Robert S. Eshelman
SNIPPET:
[quote]The hatred toward the federal government espoused by the
Bundys and Hammonds, said Parenti, is something Republican
leaders are eager to mobilize, whether it comes at the expense
of public lands — or the atmosphere.
He said the grievances of the Bundys and Hammonds echo those of
Charles and David Koch, the libertarian Republican donors that
have funded efforts to undermine all sorts of federal
environmental protections, most notably the Obama
administration's efforts to rein in fossil fuel burning, which
is the leading cause of climate change.
"This area in Oregon was declared wilderness 40-some-odd years
ago and the Hammond family has had a 40-year grace period,
[i]during which they got to use public property at rock-bottom
prices," Parenti said.
"Their simultaneous dependence on public largess, while hating
the public sector makes them pretty similar to the big business
types who run the GOP: the Koch Brothers and their ilk who get
federal tax breaks for producing and processing fossil fuels,
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while at the same
time constantly badmouthing 'big government.' [img
width=40]
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/> [img
width=40]
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/>" [/quote]
[color=purple]full Article: [img width=75
height=50]
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: January 10, 2016, 12:59 am
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01/07/2016 02:07 PM
[center]
What's Behind the Standoff at Oregon's Wildlife Refuge[/center]
SustainableBusiness.com News
In addition to the Keystone Pipeline rearing its ugly head
again, we're seeing the right-wing vision of privatizing our
public lands move ahead.
The standoff by armed gunmen at a 100-year old wildlife refuge
in Oregon follows a vote by the US Senate to return ALL 700
million acres of federal public land to the states - all our
national forests, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas and
national monuments. Every piece of land would be up for grabs
except national parks.
The idea, apparently, is gathering steam.
According to Lisa Murkowski's
(R-AK)
HTML http://www.pic4ever.com/images/www_MyEmoticons_com__burp.gif<br
/>amendment - which passed the Senate along party lines - states
wouldn't buy the land, the federal government would pay to
transfer it to
them.
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[img
width=70]
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/>From there, states would either manage it (for a profit) or se
ll
it to the highest private sector bidders for oil and gas
development, mining and grazing.
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In the House, this is a priority for Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) [img
width=70]
HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-241013183046.jpeg[/img],<br
/>Chair of the Natural Resources Committee. [img
width=40]
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/>He wants to spend $50 million of taxpayer money to start the
process immediately. Utah passed a law to that effect last year.
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[center][img
width=640]
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[center][font=times new roman]Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge[/font][/center]
The refuge protects a huge variety of migrating birds because of
its wetlands. What if private citizens or corporations decide
they would rather drain it?
We would say good-bye to caring for wildlife, habitats and
public land in the US if it were up to the Republican party.
Instead, we would see mass extraction - fracking, mining,
grazing, everywhere - and of course, any animals that get in the
way would have to be exterminated.
That's why Republicans
HTML http://www.pic4ever.com/images/pirates5B15D_th.gif
allowed the
Land and Water Conservation Fund to expire for the first time in
50 years, until Democrats fought to include it in the budget
passed in December. Republicans view a fund that purchases and
protects lands as a "federal land grab." The rest of us perceive
it as protecting nature.
There are clearly two very different points of view. Last year
we saw it through the standoff between Cliven Bundy and the
government - which has yet to be resolved. He grazed his cattle
on federally protected land for a decade without paying a penny
- as if he owned it, which he does not. Even the ridiculously
low grazing fees - criticized for decades - aren't low enough
for him.
In the case of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, it was
designated under Teddy Roosevelt in 1908 to protect migratory
birds from extinction because of the fad at the time - using
feathers to make hats. He turned unclaimed government property
into the refuge - it was never privately owned, unless you go
back to the 1870s, when the Paiute Indians were forced to leave
their land.
The underlying question is: should all land and water be open to
anyone for any purpose they choose? Or do we have a
responsibility to protect areas for nature and for society as a
whole?
It's not as if these lands are closed off. >:( Much of the
mining, natural gas, grazing and hunting in the US takes place
on public lands, including wildlife refuges. Many of us would
like to see that stopped.
HTML http://www.pic4ever.com/images/301.gif
We have seen what happens when states take control - they have
killed over 3000 wolves over the past few years for no reason,
and now grizzly bears could meet the same fate. The same states
- Wyoming, Idaho and Montana - now want open season on grizzly
bears - they want them off the Endangered Species List and
turned back to state control. Grizzles were hunted close to
extinction in the early 1900s and are still in trouble.
[quote]
"The cow and sheep industry is heavily subsided across the
public lands of Colorado, so much so that the some ranchers are
often called "welfare ranchers."[/quote] They pay almost nothing
to send hundreds of thousands of livestock across our public
lands sometimes obliterating the natural landscape as the
livestock devour native grasses, pound the soil into dust, and
wallow in and destroy streams and rivers.
They also pay almost nothing to have the state and federal
government exterminate native American wildlife on our public
lands - wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, bears, even eagles -
that sometimes prey on calves and lambs. The epitome of this
extermination is the "aerial gunner men" hired by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture to fly helicopters over our public
lands and kill thousands of wolves and coyotes with shotgun
blasts from the sky every year," says journalist Gary Wockner.
Read our article, President Obama, Stop Leasing Our Federal
Lands & Waters.
Read how Teddy Roosevelt created the refuge:
Website:
www.onearth.org/earthwire/malheur-national-wildlife-refuge-theod
ore-roosevelt
HTML http://www.onearth.org/earthwire/malheur-national-wildlife-refuge-theodore-roosevelt
HTML http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26514
HTML http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26514
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: January 10, 2016, 3:39 pm
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[quote author=Eddie link=topic=559.msg94956#msg94956
date=1452450178]
[quote author=agelbert link=topic=559.msg94938#msg94938
date=1452409336]
01/07/2016 02:07 PM
[center]
What's Behind the Standoff at Oregon's Wildlife Refuge[/center]
SustainableBusiness.com News
In addition to the Keystone Pipeline rearing its ugly head
again, we're seeing the right-wing vision of privatizing our
public lands move ahead.
The standoff by armed gunmen at a 100-year old wildlife refuge
in Oregon follows a vote by the US Senate to return ALL 700
million acres of federal public land to the states - all our
national forests, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas and
national monuments. Every piece of land would be up for grabs
except national parks.
The idea, apparently, is gathering steam.
According to Lisa Murkowski's
(R-AK)
HTML http://www.pic4ever.com/images/www_MyEmoticons_com__burp.gif<br
/>amendment - which passed the Senate along party lines - states
wouldn't buy the land, the federal government would pay to
transfer it to
them.
HTML http://www.coh2.org/images/Smileys/huhsign.gif
[img
width=70]
HTML http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2009/347/2/6/WTF_Smiley_face_by_IveWasHere.jpg[/img]<br
/>From there, states would either manage it (for a profit) or se
ll
it to the highest private sector bidders for oil and gas
development, mining and grazing.
HTML http://www.pic4ever.com/images/gaah.gif
In the House, this is a priority for Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) [img
width=70]
HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-241013183046.jpeg[/img],<br
/>Chair of the Natural Resources Committee. [img
width=40]
HTML http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-devil12.gif[/img]<br
/>He wants to spend $50 million of taxpayer money to start the
process immediately. Utah passed a law to that effect last year.
HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-200714183337.bmp
[center][img
width=640]
HTML http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/imageupload/Malheur-National-Wildlife-R.jpg[/img][/center]
[center][font=times new roman]Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge[/font][/center]
The refuge protects a huge variety of migrating birds because of
its wetlands. What if private citizens or corporations decide
they would rather drain it?
We would say good-bye to caring for wildlife, habitats and
public land in the US if it were up to the Republican party.
Instead, we would see mass extraction - fracking, mining,
grazing, everywhere - and of course, any animals that get in the
way would have to be exterminated.
That's why Republicans
HTML http://www.pic4ever.com/images/pirates5B15D_th.gif
allowed the
Land and Water Conservation Fund to expire for the first time in
50 years, until Democrats fought to include it in the budget
passed in December. Republicans view a fund that purchases and
protects lands as a "federal land grab." The rest of us perceive
it as protecting nature.
There are clearly two very different points of view. Last year
we saw it through the standoff between Cliven Bundy and the
government - which has yet to be resolved. He grazed his cattle
on federally protected land for a decade without paying a penny
- as if he owned it, which he does not. Even the ridiculously
low grazing fees - criticized for decades - aren't low enough
for him.
In the case of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, it was
designated under Teddy Roosevelt in 1908 to protect migratory
birds from extinction because of the fad at the time - using
feathers to make hats. He turned unclaimed government property
into the refuge - it was never privately owned, unless you go
back to the 1870s, when the Paiute Indians were forced to leave
their land.
The underlying question is: should all land and water be open to
anyone for any purpose they choose? Or do we have a
responsibility to protect areas for nature and for society as a
whole?
It's not as if these lands are closed off. >:( Much of the
mining, natural gas, grazing and hunting in the US takes place
on public lands, including wildlife refuges. Many of us would
like to see that stopped.
HTML http://www.pic4ever.com/images/301.gif
We have seen what happens when states take control - they have
killed over 3000 wolves over the past few years for no reason,
and now grizzly bears could meet the same fate. The same states
- Wyoming, Idaho and Montana - now want open season on grizzly
bears - they want them off the Endangered Species List and
turned back to state control. Grizzles were hunted close to
extinction in the early 1900s and are still in trouble.
[quote]
"The cow and sheep industry is heavily subsided across the
public lands of Colorado, so much so that the some ranchers are
often called "welfare ranchers."[/quote] They pay almost nothing
to send hundreds of thousands of livestock across our public
lands sometimes obliterating the natural landscape as the
livestock devour native grasses, pound the soil into dust, and
wallow in and destroy streams and rivers.
They also pay almost nothing to have the state and federal
government exterminate native American wildlife on our public
lands - wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, bears, even eagles -
that sometimes prey on calves and lambs. The epitome of this
extermination is the "aerial gunner men" hired by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture to fly helicopters over our public
lands and kill thousands of wolves and coyotes with shotgun
blasts from the sky every year," says journalist Gary Wockner.
Read our article, President Obama, Stop Leasing Our Federal
Lands & Waters.
Read how Teddy Roosevelt created the refuge:
Website:
www.onearth.org/earthwire/malheur-national-wildlife-refuge-theod
ore-roosevelt
HTML http://www.onearth.org/earthwire/malheur-national-wildlife-refuge-theodore-roosevelt
HTML http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26514
HTML http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/26514
[/quote]
The ranchers (at least the smaller, non-corporate types) don't
support selling of the commons. It isn't in their interest at
all. The fact that the land has been public all these years has
been a great gift to them. Truthfully, their real sin is that
they have been poor stewards of the land, and have overgrazed it
ever since they were allowed on it. They have essentially been
subsidized all these years, but that was why the whole thing was
set up the way it was in the beginning, to make it possible for
settlers to live in parts of the west where 160 acre homesteads
were too small to support a family.
So I have a hard time seeing this as their motivation. Now,
perhaps this is some kind of trumped up scheme by the big
money...the ones who have the kind of financing to actually buy
big chunks of public land. That I could believe.
The whole stand-off stinks to high heaven, frankly. Most of the
militia types out there think it's a false flag operation
designed to make it easier for the federal government to justify
grabbing their guns.
HTML https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/malheur-another-perspective/
HTML https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/malheur-another-perspective/
[/quote]
Eddie said,
[quote]Now, perhaps this is some kind of trumped up scheme by
the big money...the ones who have the kind of financing to
actually buy big chunks of public land. That I could believe.
[/quote]
THAT is what you should DEFINITELY believe because THAT is what
this is ALL about (see the toadies Rep. Rob Bishop R-UT, Senator
Lisa Murkowski's R-AK, etc. et al of the PRIVATE rich Welfare
Queen Vested Interests using the Federal Government to fleece
we-the-people: :evil4:).
[quote]
The whole stand-off stinks to high heaven, frankly. [/quote]
Of course. But the COVER for these types of scams always
requires the use of Karl Rove's strategy number 3: Always accuse
your opponent of doing what YOU are doing to hide the FACT that
YOU are doing it. It's basic Machiavelli. ANYONE that uses this
strategy is devoid of a moral compass. Nitzsche's Territorial
Imperative REQUIRES that that you LACK a moral compass. And long
before the Homestead Act, that has been our "justification" for
land grabbing.
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So now the REAL land grabbers ((see: PRIVATE rich Welfare Queen
Vested Interests using the Federal Government to fleece
we-the-people) behind this are deliberately propagandizing the
militia types to look in the wrong direction for the motive.
HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-200714191329.bmp
[quote]Most of the militia types out there think it's a false
flag operation designed to make it easier for the federal
government to justify grabbing their guns. [/quote]
See red herring. See distraction. See Bu ll sh it. See: Cui
Bono?
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If this massive land grab BY the rich, biosphere math
challenged, private greedballs (who use dumbass ideologues in
Oregon and bought and paid for politicians as stalking horses)
is not stopped, we will soon see our lands totally overrun by
profit over planet exploitation. As the article I posted made
clear, we ALREADY have a huge problem with wanton exploitation
for fossil fuels, mining and the extermination of wildlife that
"gets in the way". The overgrazing by greedy ranchers will be
the least of our problems.
The solution to this problem requires that the American public
understand who the BURGLAR really is and respond accordingly.
A burglar breaks into a house and finds a parrot inside.
“Kesha sees you,” says the Parrot.
Burglar covers the bird’s cage with a towel.
“Kesha is not a parrot, Kesha is a rottweiler,” says the Parrot.
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