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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: November 20, 2017, 10:22 pm
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[center]Grizzlies ‘Saved His Life’ and Now He Fights To Save
Theirs[/center]
By Jessica A. Knoblauch | Monday, November 13, 2017
SNIPPET:
After naturalist and author Doug Peacock served two tours as a
Green Beret medic in Vietnam, he went into the American
wilderness to confront his demons. There, he closely observed
grizzlies across the west—an experience he says “saved his
life.”
Below, Peacock talks about the government’s recent decision to
delist grizzlies and why now—more than ever—we need to “fight
like hell” to save them.
Full article with heart warming pictures:
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: December 19, 2017, 12:44 pm
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[quote]It’s been a difficult year for the environment and your
public lands. Anti-conservationists control power in the White
House and Congress, and they’re selling out our wilderness to
their friends in Big Oil and Gas.
But we’re not giving up. Not now, not ever. And neither should
you. The Wilderness Society is in all-hands-on-deck defense mode
to protect irreplaceable wild spaces like the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge and our national monuments. The battles to save
them are just beginning. You can help protect these places.
Please donate to The Wilderness Society to help us keep up the
fight in 2018. Your donation today will be matched 2-to-1 and
double the impact of your gift.
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: January 10, 2018, 6:26 pm
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[move][font=courier]Is the Ivory Trade on the
Decline?[/font][/move]
Ivory is a precious commodity in China. Some wealthy residents
think that owning ivory makes them appear more successful.
Others say that ivory brings them luck. Ivory is also used in
traditional Chinese medicine. Historically, China has been one
of the largest markets for ivory, and experts say that up to 70
percent of the illegal ivory from 30,000 annual elephant deaths
end up there. But there’s hope for the gentle giants: On the
last day of 2017, China made the entire commercial ivory trade
illegal, closing 172 factories and shops throughout the year.
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A big day for the elephants:
From 2007 to 2014, a census of African elephants revealed that
their numbers had dropped by nearly a third -- a decline of
about 144,000 animals in just seven years.
The international ivory trade has been banned since 1989, under
the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). China continued to allow the sale
of ivory products crafted before 1975, and many poachers have
passed off newer ivory as antiques.
"Decades from now, we may point back to this as one of the most
important days in the history of elephant conservation,” the
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: January 19, 2018, 4:32 pm
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[center]🐘 New calf born to a Sumatran elephant trained
to reduce human-elephant conflict[/center]
A Sumatran elephant trained to help reduce human-elephant
conflict in Indonesia’s Tesso Nilo National Park gave birth to a
female calf. Named Harmoni Rimbo, meaning “the harmony of the
jungle,” this little elephant is the third birth for mother Ria,
one of the four trained adult Sumatran elephants in the elite
Elephant Flying Squad.
When elephants wander into human inhabited areas in search of
food—which happens more frequently as human settlements encroach
on elephant habitat—the result is often damaged crops and
property. WWF and the Indonesia Ministry of Forests established
the Elephant Flying Squad in 2004 to address human-elephant
conflict in Tesso Nilo.
Trained elephants like Ria, along with their handlers called
mahouts, drive back wild elephants into the forest when they
stray too close to villages or farms surrounding the park. The
birth is a significant step in the [b]conservation of this
critically endangered elephant species.[/b]
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: January 26, 2018, 7:26 pm
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[center]Veterinarians treat burned 🔥 bears 🐻
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Last updated on January 26th, 2018 at 7:24 pm by Mihai
Andrei
SNIPPET:
Vets from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife have
used an unusual treatment for two bears and one cougar suffering
from severe burn 🔥 wounds: fish skin.
n December 2017, the Thomas Fire ravaged through California,
blazing approximately 281,893 acres (114,078 hectares). It was
the largest wildfire in modern California history.
It destroyed over 1,000 buildings, forced 100,000 people to
evacuate, and was only put out on January 12, 2018. It claimed
at least 15 lives, but humans weren’t the only ones to suffer —
wildlife was even more severely affected.
Among the animal victims of the fire were two adult bears (one
of which was pregnant) and a 5-month-old cougar from Los Padres
National Forest. The bears had third-degree burns on their paws
— one of them was so badly injured it couldn’t even stand.
Instead of treating them with the conventional bandages,
veterinarians went for a different option: fish skin.
As strange as it seems, fish skin (tilapia in particular) has
been used to treat burns before, on humans. Brazilian doctors
have used fish skin to treat burn victims, due to a shortage of
transfer collagen, which is the standard treatment. The doctors
then reported that the tilapia skin is very rich in collagen
proteins which help with the skin healing and scarring process.
The treatment shows promise and is now undergoing clinical
trials. But it wasn’t just the desire to try a new, unusual
treatment — vets had several reasons why they opted for tilapia
skin instead of bandages.
For starters, working with bears and cougars, especially when
they’re injured, is no easy feat.
Full heart warming article with
pictures:
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: February 15, 2018, 12:59 pm
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[center]This yearling ringed seal was rescued off Unalaska in
2017 and treated at Alaska SeaLife Center. (Alaska SeaLife
Center)
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[center]Win:🌟 Protection Upheld for Arctic's Ringed
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We celebrated this week when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
upheld Endangered Species Act protection for ringed seals,
Arctic ice seals threatened by climate change. The ruling
reverses a 2016 lower-court decision that rejected protection
for the seals, which give birth in snow caves built on top of
sea ice. Global warming is causing caves to collapse and leaving
pups vulnerable to death by freezing or predation.
The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned to protect these
seals in 2008. Four years later they were put on the endangered
species list — but the oil industry and the state of Alaska
challenged that decision.
"The decision underscores the recklessness of the Trump
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t
at survival thanks to the Endangered Species Act, but only if we
rapidly reduce the greenhouse pollution destroying their
habitat."
Read more in Anchorage Daily News.
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: March 11, 2018, 3:28 pm
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Just before 8 o’clock on a snowy Wednesday morning, deep in a
maze of doors and steel fencing in the basement of the Cleveland
Metroparks Zoo, a 30-year-old gorilla named Mokolo is getting a
heart ex…
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: March 11, 2018, 3:39 pm
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[center]Trump 😈 to consider elephant [color=red]trophy
🐘🔫 imports on 'case-by-case' basis[/color]
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The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced last week that it
will now consider all permits for importing elephant trophies
from African nations on a “case-by-case basis," breaking from
President T…
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: March 30, 2018, 1:29 pm
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[center]Victory! Turtles Return to Beach That Used to Be Covered
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Aleksandra Pajda
March 30, 2018
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: April 3, 2018, 4:52 pm
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WildEarth GUARDIANS
[center]VICTORY[/center]
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[center]Ensuring Lobos Will Roam their Southwestern
Homelands[/center]
April 2, 2018
[move]Celebrating a Win for Wolves[/move]
Last week we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the return of
Mexican wolves to the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico. This week
we celebrate the most significant legal victory for lobos in
years. We couldn’t have done it without you.
In 2013, the federal government began a process to change how
wolves, including Mexican wolves, were managed. We called on you
to speak out against weakening protections and you answered: you
signed petitions, sent comments, came to rallies and testified
at hearings. Together, we laid the groundwork for a lawsuit
challenging the government’s flawed plan that capped the Mexican
wolf population at less than half what leading scientists say is
necessary for recovery, limited where Mexican wolves can roam,
liberalized trapping and killing wolves at the behest of the
livestock industry and labeled the wolves “non-essential” to the
species’ survival in the wild, a designation that allows weak
protections.
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/>and criticized the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for ignoring
scientists who sounded the alarm. Now the Service must create
management guidelines that do not merely keep lobos hovering on
the brink, but will truly recover this critically imperiled
species. At just 114 wolves in the wild, the need is urgent.
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