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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: April 13, 2018, 3:33 pm
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One Green Planet 🍃
April 13, 2018
[move][font=courier]Investigation Reveals California Fisheries
Are Responsible for Killing Hundreds of Dolphins, Turtles, and
Whales[/font] 😱 [/move]
By Aleksandra Pajda
SNIPPET:
An undercover investigation carried out off the coast of
California by animal rights and marine conservation groups Mercy
for Animals, Turtle Island Restoration Network, SeaLegacy, and
Sharkwater has discovered the shocking hidden effects of the
driftnet fishing industry. It was found that besides the
targeted swordfish, marine mammals like dolphins, sea lions, sea
turtles, sharks, and even seabirds are dying in these massive
nets that are essentially walls of floating netting. Some of
these species are even considered threatened or endangered. In
2017, two endangered sperm whales were entangled in the
California driftnet fishery – and died as a result.
[quote]“These driftnets are over a mile long, 100 feet deep, and
designed to kill everything in their path,” said Paul Nicklen,
SeaLegacy co-founder.[/quote]
[center]😟[/center]
The bycatch rate of driftnet fishing is staggeringly high. For
some nets, the estimates are as high as seven to one – which
means that for every swordfish, as many as seven other animals
may be caught in the net. The California driftnet fishery has an
estimated 65 percent bycatch rate – which, as Nicklen points
out, makes it “the most destructive fishery in the U.S.”
😠
Many animals die when they become entangled in the huge nets,
but not all do. As undercover observers found out, in some
cases, instead of being freed with basic respect, live bycatch
animals are severely maimed and discarded overboard – as if the
animals were nothing but waste. [img
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: May 2, 2018, 5:43 pm
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[center]In Kenya, a Local Tribe Is Saving the Elephants
🐘 It Once Killed 😇[/center]
May 1, 2018
Yessenia Funes
SNIPPET:
The Samburu people of Kenya’s northern plains have been in
conflict with elephants for years. Elephants and people both
need water, and drought means there’s less to go around. The
majestic animals also tear down acacia trees the Samburus’
livestock eat.
These are just a few of the reasons people in the region have a
history of killing elephants.
But recently, the conflict has transformed into community. My
Africa, a virtual reality film released Monday, puts viewers
into the plains to see what a local, indigenous-led effort to
protect elephants looks like.
The Samburu, who are nomadic livestock herders, have partnered
with their local government since 2016 to raise and release
injured and orphaned baby elephants in the Reteti Elephant
Sanctuary. They now take care of more than 12 of these little
kings and queens, forging a new relationship between humans and
animals. It’s the first elephant orphanage in Africa that a
local community owns and runs.
Released by Conservation International and narrated by Academy
Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o, [font=times new roman]My
Africa[/font] tells the tale of Kenya’s wildlife conservation as
elephants fight for their very existence in the face of poaching
and human-wildlife conflict.
[center]
HTML https://youtu.be/119f0l7sqwg[/center]
[b]Full article
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: May 3, 2018, 3:43 pm
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[font=times new roman]National Parks Conservation
Association[/font]
[center]The Art and Science of Camera Trapping[/center]
Ryan Valdez, Ph.D. Apr 27, 2018
SNIPPET:
The rise of camera trapping has allowed a growing number of
volunteers to make significant contributions to academic
research. Here’s a look at the practice, how these devices are
used, and ways to get your own glimpses at wildlife “selfies”
and help with ongoing research.
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NPCA uses camera trapping to monitor pronghorn antelope crossing
through modified fences throughout the Greater Yellowstone
Ecosystem. Photo by NPCA.
Our national parks and protected areas are vital habitat for
numerous species of wildlife, and the ability to accurately
survey and monitor them is important for their survival. A
not-so-new technology is now sharply on the rise — camera
trapping, a method by which a camera armed with infrared sensors
is placed in the field to remotely capture time-lapsed images
and video whenever the devices sense motion.
It can be difficult for wildlife biologists and park rangers to
keep up with emerging threats to wildlife. Particularly with
mammals, accurately documenting their presence and estimating
their populations remains a challenge. Many of these species are
nocturnal, travel great distances, have complex behavior and
avoid humans. Additionally, species like the endangered
jaguarundi in south Texas or the red wolf in North Carolina are
so rare and elusive they are almost never seen. Camera traps
allow people to see animals in the wild in ways that they
otherwise simply could not.
Educational article with lots of great pictures: 👀 ;D
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: May 27, 2018, 11:03 am
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[center]Deadly Disease Threatens Deer, Elk, and Moose[/center]
LAUREN ANDERSON | MAY 22, 2018
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[center]Mule Deer. Credit: Greg Ochocki.[/center]
Wildlife face a host of threats in today’s changing world.
Invasive species, habitat loss, and disease are often at the top
of the list when wildlife managers talk about the pressures with
which wildlife must contend. Wildlife disease is by far one of
the scariest dangers. Many people have heard of chytrid fungus,
which has decimated native frog species, and white-nose
syndrome, which has had severe consequences for native bats. But
there is another wildlife disease that has gotten less
attention, though it poses an equal threat.
It is called chronic wasting disease (CWD) and it heavily
impacts deer, elk, and moose in North America.
TAKE ACTION
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Chronic wasting disease is a fatal disease with no known cure.
Once contracted, there is not pathway back to health. It is a
prion disease, like mad cow disease, that affects cervids (deer,
elk, and moose), and symptoms include drastic weight loss
(wasting), stumbling, listlessness and other neurologic
symptoms.
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[center]White tailed deer. Credit: USFWS[/center]
The Spread of Chronic Wasting Disease
To date, chronic wasting disease has been detected in 24 states.
The disease was first discovered in a captive breeding facility
in 1967. It was then found in free-ranging elk in 1981 and was
next found in free-ranging white-tailed deer in 1990.
More recently, chronic wasting disease was detected in Montana’s
wildlife in late 2017 and just this year Mississippi had its
first confirmed case when an infected white-tailed deer was
found in Issaquena County. If the disease continues to spread
and establish itself in new wild cervid populations, there is
potential for a conservation crisis that could decimate wildlife
populations.
Please join us is calling on the U. S. Department of Agriculture
to ensure adequate surveillance, and prevent this devastating
disease from spreading further.
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: June 11, 2018, 8:10 pm
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June 11, 2018
[center]Guardians and allies call for ending the War on Wildlife
in new film[/center]
[move][font=courier]Watch, share, and engage[/font][/move]
Across the American West, Guardians is fighting to protect
wildlife from the many threats. From Ending the War on Wildlife
by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s secretive “Wildlife
Services” program to freeing our public lands from dangerous,
indiscriminate traps and snares, we work tirelessly to create a
new paradigm in wildlife conservation free of archaic tools of
cruelty.
Because many people are not aware of the risks to wildlife and
people on OUR public lands, we made a film to spread the word.
Partnering with Mountain Standard Creative, we traveled across
New Mexico talking to wildlife scientists, advocates, and people
whose dogs were caught in traps. The result is a film that
presents some of the most challenging issues in wildlife
protection today and how we can move toward a brighter future.
We are proud to share our new film with you. Please watch and
share far and wide.
For the Wolves,
Bethany Cotton, Wildlife Program Director
[center]WATCH THE FILM[/center]
[center]
HTML https://youtu.be/I12a1FVUgWs[/center]
[center]WildEarth Guardians ✨ protects and restores the
wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the American
West.[/center]
© 2018 WildEarth Guardians | MAIN OFFICE: 516 Alto Street, Santa
Fe, NM 87501
p) 505.988.9126
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: July 23, 2018, 12:32 pm
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[center] The above is a picture of a dik dik. For the incredibly
cute and cudly pictures of an orphaned baby dik dik (they are
tiny!) walking over a keyboard and being given loving care, go
here:
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: July 31, 2018, 1:28 pm
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[center]Grieving Mother Orca Has Been Carrying Her Calf’s Body
for the Past 7 Days 😟[/center]
Estelle Rayburn
July 31, 2018
In her research on orca whales (also known as “killer whales”
though they are known for being quite the opposite),
neurobiologist Lori Marino discovered that the limbic system — a
group of structures in the brain which deal with emotions and
the formation of memories — of these whales is “so large it
erupts into the cortex in the form of an extra paralimbic lobe.”
In plain words, this means that these majestic aquatic creatures
may just be more emotionally aware than us humans.
In light of the orca’s high capacity for emotion, it shouldn’t
come as a surprise that when a mother orca recently lost her
just-born calf near Vancouver Island, she has reportedly been
carrying the baby for the past seven days. This heartbreaking
act of grief was witnessed by researchers from the Center for
Whale Research, who were tracking the mother killer whale and
her pod at the time of the calf’s death.
As the Center for Whale Research reportedly stated, “The baby’s
carcass was sinking and being repeatedly retrieved by the
mother, who was supporting it on her forehead and pushing it in
choppy seas. The mother continued supporting and pushing the
dead baby whale throughout the day until at least sunset.”
The incredibly sad death of this baby orca clearly had profound
emotional impacts on the calf’s mother. And unfortunately, this
type of occurrence — a killer whale calf dying mere days after
birth — is not at all uncommon in the present day.
As far as scientists can tell, Southern Resident killer whales
like the mother in this story have not had a successful birth in
three years. In fact, over the last two decades, the Center for
Whale Research estimates that only 25 percent of the newborn
calves have survived.
Ken Balcomb, Founder of the research center, offered some
insight into how humans are playing a major role in the plight
of these gentle giants. “The cause [of the birth rate] is lack
of sufficient food resources in their foraging area,” Balcomb
reportedly told CNN. He added, “There’s not enough food, and
that’s due to environmental reasons.”
More specifically, humans are rapidly lowering the population of
Chinook salmon — the orca’s main food source — by polluting and
destroying their oceanic habitats, not to mention harvesting the
fish at rapid rates.
In turn, we are causing widespread food scarcity for these
whales, thus resulting in an unprecedentedly high rate of
miscarriages and making it extremely difficult for the whales to
give their surviving young the proper nutrition. With the
population growth of this species seriously stunted, only 75
Southern Resident orcas remain in the wild, putting these
precious creatures at a high risk of disappearing from the
planet for good if we don’t soon take action to protect them.
If you’d like to learn more about what these poor whales are up
against and find out how you can help give them a fighting
chance for survival, check out these helpful resources: (at
article link)
• There Will be More Plastic in the Oceans Than Fish by 2050 –
Here’s How You Can Help!
• 10 Alarming Facts About Overfishing
• Vivid and Stunning Photo Campaign Reveals the True Cost of
Holding Orcas and Dolphins Captive
• 10 Simple Actions That Just Might Save Our World’s Oceans From
Plastic
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: July 31, 2018, 7:24 pm
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[center]Hapag-Lloyd Cruises Faces Outrage After Guard Kills
Polar Bear During Arctic Cruise Excursion[/center]
July 30, 2018 by gCaptain
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[center]MS Bremen. Photo: Hapag-Lloyd Cruises[/center]
German cruise line operator Hapag-Lloyd Cruises has found itself
in the middle of an online firestorm after a guard shot and
killed a polar bear during a shore excursion to an Arctic
archipelago from one of its expedition cruise ships over the
weekend.
In a statement posted to Facebook on Sunday, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises
says it “very much regrets” the incident but made clear that
lethal measures against the polar bear were taken purely out of
self-defense.
The incident occurred Saturday as the company’s cruise ship
Bremen was stopped in Spitsbergen, the largest island of the
Svalbard archipelago, for an excursion.
According to the cruise line, a four-man armed security detail
was securing the landing area in preparation for guests when out
of nowhere the polar bear attacked one of the guards, inflicting
non-lethal injuries that required medical attention.
“The guard suffered head injuries, however, he was responsive
after the attack and was airlifted. He is out of danger, with no
threat to life. In an act of self-defence, unfortunately, it was
necessary for the polar bear to be shot dead. We very much
regret this incident. Hapag-Lloyd Cruises is very aware of its
responsibility when travelling in environmentally-sensitive
areas and respects all nature and wildlife,” Hapag-Lloyd said.
In its statement, the cruise operator provided the following
account of the incident:
“The incident occurred when the four-person polar bear guard
team, who are always on board for these expedition cruises as
required by law, prepared for a shore leave. One of the guards
was unexpectedly attacked by a polar bear that had not been
spotted and he was unable to react himself. As the attempts of
the other guards to evict the animal, unfortunately, were not
successful, there had to be intervention for reasons of
self-defence and to protect the life of the attacked person. The
injured person was immediately provided with medical care and
flown to a hospital with a rescue helicopter. We are in
personal, direct contact with him. His condition is stable and
he remains responsive.”
Despite its explanation, the cruise line was intensely
criticized online over the incident, with many calling for a
boycott of the company.
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“‘Let’s get too close to a polar bear in its natural environment
and then kill it if it gets too close,’ Morons,” tweeted
comedian Ricky Gervais. Others also accused the company of
exploiting polar bears for profit.
In its statement, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises defended its shore
excursion practices, insisting that they are not meant for polar
bear observation.
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“To illustrate the situation: Spitzbergen is a large
geographical area, about one and a half times the size of
Denmark. Landings are possible only in a few places; these are
not there to serve the purpose of polar bear observation, on the
contrary: polar bears are only observed from aboard ships, from
a safe distance. To prepare for a shore leave, the polar bear
guards go ashore in advance after sighting the landing site as a
group and without passengers. They then set up a land station
and check the area again to make sure that there are no polar
bears in sight. As soon as such an animal approaches, the shore
leave would be stopped immediately,” the company wrote on
Facebook.
As of Monday, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ Facebook post about the
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The MS Bremen was built in 1990 and can hold 155 passengers and
100 crew.
Hapag-Lloyd Cruises says it is working with Norwegian
authorities to fully investigate the circumstances of the
incident.
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: August 13, 2018, 1:16 pm
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[center]🐻 Grizzly Bear technique for relieving back
itch: ;D [/center]
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: September 27, 2018, 3:56 pm
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September 27, 2018
[center]Judge Blocks 'Energy Dominance' Policy on Public Land
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[center]Sage grouse[/center]
Win for the West
A federal judge has blocked a Trump "energy dominance" policy
slashing public and environmental review of oil and gas leasing
on public lands. The injunction bans the Bureau of Land
Management from using the policy on more than 67 million acres
in 11 western states.
Lease sales slated for December — spanning hundreds of thousands
of acres of sage-grouse habitat — must now face full public and
environmental review.
"This is good news for public lands and the millions of people
who love them," said the Center's Taylor McKinnon. Read more
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