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Defending Wildlife
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 11, 2022, 4:48 pm
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September 28, 2014
[center]Victory for Wolves in Wyoming[/center]
Victory: Federal judge reinstates federal protections statewide
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There were once up to 2 million gray wolves living in North
America, but the animals were driven to near-extinction in the
lower 48 states by the early 1900s.
September 23, 2014
Washington, D.C. — Federal protections for gray wolves in
Wyoming were reinstated today after a judge invalidated the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2012 statewide Endangered Species
Act delisting of the species. The ruling from the U.S. District
Court halts the management of wolves by Wyoming, a state with a
history of hostile and extreme anti-wolf policies.
“The court has ruled and Wyoming’s kill-on-sight approach to
wolf management throughout much of the state must stop,” said
Earthjustice attorney Tim Preso. “Today’s ruling restores
much-needed federal protection to wolves throughout Wyoming,
which allowed killing along the borders of Yellowstone National
Park and throughout national forest lands south of Jackson Hole
where wolves were treated as vermin under state management. If
Wyoming wants to resume management of wolves, it must develop a
legitimate conservation plan that ensures a vibrant wolf
population in the Northern Rockies.”
Earthjustice represented Defenders of Wildlife, Natural
Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and the Center for
Biological Diversity in challenging the Fish and Wildlife
Service’s September 2012 decision to strip Endangered Species
Act protections from gray wolves in Wyoming. The conservation
groups challenged the 2012 decision on grounds that Wyoming law
authorized unlimited wolf killing in a “predator” zone that
extended throughout most of the state, and provided inadequate
protection for wolves even where killing was regulated.
“Today the court affirmed that delisting gray wolves in Wyoming
by the Obama administration was premature and a violation of
federal law,” said Defenders of Wildlife President and CEO Jamie
Rappaport Clark. “Any state that has a wolf management plan that
allows for unlimited wolf killing throughout most of the state
should not be allowed to manage wolves. Wolves need to remain
protected under the Endangered Species Act until the species is
fully recovered. State laws and policies that treat wolves like
vermin are as outdated and discredited today as they were a
century ago.”
“The decision makes clear that ‘shoot-on-sight’ is not an
acceptable management plan for wolves across the majority of the
state,” said Dr. Sylvia Fallon, senior scientist and wildlife
conservation director at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
“It’s time for Wyoming to step back and develop a more
science-based approach to managing wolves.”
“The court has rightly recognized the deep flaws in Wyoming's
wolf management plan. Wolves in Wyoming must have federal
protection until the state gets it right. That means developing
a science-based management plan that recognizes the many
benefits wolves bring to the region instead of vermin that can
be shot on sight in the majority of the state,” said Bonnie Rice
of the Sierra Club's Greater Yellowstone Our Wild America
Campaign.
“We’re thrilled that protections for Wyoming’s fragile
population of wolves have been restored,” said Noah Greenwald,
endangered species director with the Center for Biological
Diversity. “With Wyoming allowing wolves to be shot on sight
>:( across more than 80 percent of the state, there is no way
protections for wolves should have ever been removed.”
The 2012 delisting of wolves in Wyoming turned wolf management
over to the state, which opened up over 80 percent of its land
to unlimited wolf killing and provided weak protections for
wolves in the remainder. Since the delisting, 219 wolves have
been killed under Wyoming’s management >:(. Prior to the 2012
reversal of its position, the Fish and Wildlife Service denied
Wyoming the authority to manage wolves in the state due to its
extremely hostile anti-wolf laws and policies.
Background
There were once up to 2 million gray wolves living in North
America, but the animals were driven to near-extinction in the
lower 48 states by the early 1900s. After passage of the federal
Endangered Species Act in 1973 and protection of the wolf as
endangered, federal recovery programs resulted in the rebound of
wolf populations in limited parts of the country. Roughly 5,500
wolves currently live in the continental United States—a
fraction of the species’ historic numbers. :(
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is currently proposing to
remove Endangered Species Act protection for most gray wolves
across the United States >:(, a proposal that the groups
strongly oppose; a final decision could be made later this year.
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Biosphere instead of using the technofix greedily and stupidly
to expand the economy and the population), we can make it do our
work without it working our undoing." Amory Lovins[/I]
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Natural Capitalism is the only type of capitalism that won't
destroy our biosphere. The Industrial Capitalism we have had
since the industrial revolution is stupid.
Amory Lovins is a scientist that thinks, correctly, that making
money and providing a viable biosphere are not mutually
exclusive. It's time to deep six GREED BASED Social Darwinist
😈 Capitalism and adopt 🎍 NATURAL Capitalism.
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Construction Begins This month on The World’s Largest Wildlife
Overpass
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Date: April 11, 2022, 5:03 pm
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The roads and highways humans have built bisect the natural
environment and divide the ranges and migratory routes of many
species, presenting a danger to the animals who need to cross
them.
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This month, the world’s largest wildlife overpass — the Wallis
Annenberg Wildlife Crossing — will begin construction across a
multi-lane highway at Liberty Canyon in the Santa Monica
mountains. The 210-foot long, 165-foot wide green bridge will
allow animals like mountain lions, coyotes, snakes and toads to
safely cross U.S. Highway 101 near Los Angeles, reported The
Guardian. It will be surrounded by an acre of native plants, and
sound walls covered with vegetation will be put in place to help
shield nocturnal animals from noise and light.
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🐘 Nina is blind in both eyes.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: June 6, 2022, 12:46 pm
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has persevered through various difficulties in life - from
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Despite her unfortunate health condition over the past few
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This braveheart inspires all of us at Wildlife SOS! We are
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May 14, 2022 | By Neellohit Banerjee
[center]Elephant Of The Month – Star Of The Nut Herd, 🌟
Coco![/center]
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SNIPPET:
Coconut was just 11 years old when she was rescued. She had been
separated from her mother to be used as a circus elephant. This
trauma was followed by harsh neglect: Her biological needs were
not met due to lack of food, and even water. The circus staff
made her perform crowd-pleasing tricks, such as lifting people
with her trunk. When she wasn’t performing at the circus, she
was kept confined in chains and under brutal training by a
bullhook. She was finally rescued from this torture along with
Peanut, Walnut and Macadamia (lovingly called the ‘Nut Herd’),
and brought to the Elephant Hospital Campus (EHC) in Mathura.
Upon her arrival, Coconut was extremely wary of her
surroundings, but she gradually became comfortable after being
introduced to elephants Asha and Suzy.
Full article: 👍🐘🌞
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📢 Protect gray foxes to help reduce the spread of Lyme
disease!
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 19, 2022, 11:26 am
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[center]Gray Fox
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Did you know foxes can help stop the spread of Lyme disease?
Gray foxes, found throughout the Americas, have been in apparent
decline across broad swaths of the United States—and scientists
believe decreasing tree cover is one of the primary causes.
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Research shows that the loss of native predators, like gray
foxes, that keep tick-carrying wild mice populations in check is
likely an important factor in the increasing spread of Lyme and
other illnesses. We can help protect people and wildlife from
ticks by restoring important habitat that native predators, like
gray foxes, depend on.
You can have a personal impact on our fight to rebalance your
state’s ecosystems today by urging your governor to take action
to restore habitat for gray foxes in your
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Native predators like foxes play an integral role in controlling
the populations of small mammals that carry ticks, like wild
mice. The gray fox depends on trees and wooded areas for
survival, and declining tree cover has been a major factor in
their struggles.
The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act allocates $1.5
billion in funding for tree planting and related activities
through the Urban and Community Forestry Assistance program,
which could help restore gray fox habitat near urban areas. Your
governor can step up
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As the only members of the canine family to have
semi-retractable claws, gray foxes are uniquely adapted for
climbing trees—even occasionally choosing to make their dens in
tree hollows. This ability allows them to escape conflict with
humans as well as larger predators like coyotes.
Restoring native tree cover
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suburban areas. Tell your governor to invest in the health of
your community’s ecosystems by restoring habitat for gray foxes
today
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Thank you for being a wildlife champion. Your actions make a
difference!
Sincerely,
Karla Raettig
Executive Director
National Wildlife Federation Action Fund
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"In the event that my species is so badly depleted due to
hunting or habitat loss that it is on the verge of extinction,
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Date: September 22, 2022, 9:03 pm
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No. 252, Sept. 22, 2022
SNIPPET:
Hello Revelator readers,
How would you like an oil well right behind your home, school or
office? A new law in California pushes back on the fossil fuel
industry’s desire to operate — and pollute — in our backyards.
We have information on that
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/>and other environmental victories and new ideas.
“We’re training a workforce of solar warriors,” says Cheri Smith
of the Indigenized Energy Initiative. Read about their efforts
toward solar sovereignty
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We can’t — and shouldn’t — hide from the reality of multiple
ecological and social crises, say the authors of the new book An
Inconvenient Apocalypse. We have an exclusive excerpt.
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From the archives:
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“In the event of my imminent extinction, I hereby authorize the
following as a testament of my wishes...”
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Powerful satire for dark times.
This Month’s Top Three Victories:
1. The proposed Formosa Plastics plant in Louisiana got its air
permits yanked by a federal judge — a big setback for the
petrochemical industry and a major victory for polluted
communities who have fought the plant for years.
2. Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard and his family donated the
entire $3 billion company toward fighting climate change. In a
statement the company said “every dollar that is not reinvested
back into Patagonia will be distributed as dividends to protect
the planet.” That’s expected to total about $100 million a year.
3. The United States got 24% of its electricity from renewable
sources in the first half of 2022. That only includes power
generated at the utility scale, not from sources such as home
solar, but it’s still up from 21% during the first six months of
2021.
Not too shabby … and think how much more we could accomplish if
we really put our minds to it.
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🌞 RESCUE of Young Orca Beached on ROCKS!
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 26, 2022, 12:15 pm
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[center]Orca Got Stuck and Cried for Hours. When Rescuers
Arrived, Something Incredible Happens[/center]
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Incredible Stories 172K subscribers
The last place you would expect to see an Orca is on dry land
but that is where a young female Orca found herself stranded one
morning in July 2015, along the shore of British Columbia.
Orcas, also called Killer Whales, are the largest members of the
dolphin family and these distinctive, black and white mammals
hunt in pods in these seas. This naïve Orca obviously made a
miscalculation and when the tide went out, she became trapped on
sharp rocks – in pain and distress - unable to swim away. When
Rescuers Arrived, Something incredible Happened.
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Nov. E-News: How many snow leopards do you see?
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Date: November 10, 2022, 3:11 pm
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Perspective from Life on the Edge
November 11, 2022
SNIPPETS:
[center]HOW SUSTAINABLE TOURISM COULD BENEFIT SNOW LEOPARDS &
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As C.S. Lewis once said, "What you see and what you hear depend
a great deal on where you are standing." The amazing 360-degree
photo above is a great example - the more you look, the more you
see - from every angle. It's a good mindset for conservation. To
save a species, it takes voices and solutions from multiple
perspectives. As Giving Tuesday approaches, we're sharing
inspiring viewpoints from those who live life on the edge of
snow leopard habitat.
[center]SNOW LEOPARD COUNTRIES LAUNCH NEW CONSERVATION
PROGRAMS[/center]
Government representatives from ten of the twelve snow leopard
range countries recently gathered in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, with
one common goal - the conservation of snow leopards. It was the
first in-person meeting in three years of a remarkable
intergovernmental alliance supported by the Snow Leopard Trust.
GSLEP, the Global Snow Leopard Ecosystem Protection Program, has
led to unprecedented action to protect the world’s snow
leopards.
Why is GSLEP so important?
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Hear how one woman’s transformation into a snow leopard advocate
is influencing her entire community. Chuluuntsetseg (Chuka)
Dashzeveg shared her inspiring story with two of our team
members. Find out why she’s called “Snow Leopard Chuka.”
Read Chuka’s story
A SNOW LEOPARD CHAMPION'S JOURNEY
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We've partnered with six photographers to bring you 13
spectacular snow leopard images. Don't let the months pass you
by without a daily reminder of your contributions to the
conservation of this iconic species. We've even included a bonus
image of our second favorite cat species in Central Asia - a
Pallas's cat family photo!
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The slow rot and hard shell that makes the trees desirable for
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[glow=teal,2,300]The Narwal[/glow]
Feb. 27, 2023 By Sarah Cox
[center][glow=green,2,300]Sapsucker 🌲 housing[/glow]
crisis: endangered woodpecker ‘condos’ are being clear cut
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[center]Almos[glow=red,2,300][/glow]t two decades after the
Williamson’s sapsucker was listed as endangered under Canada’s
Species at Risk Act, the B.C. government continues to sanction
[glow=red,2,300]logging[/glow] in the bird’s old-growth forest
critical habitat[/center]
SNIPPETS:
Biologist Les Gyug was working for B.C.’s environment ministry
when a logging permit application caught his eye. A forestry
company planned to clearcut rare old-growth larch stands in the
province’s southern interior, set aside decades earlier as seed
trees to allow for natural regeneration. “Rather than log them,
let’s go look, and see what’s in them,” Gyug recalls saying.
He expected to find a suite of forest birds in the scattered
400-year-old western larch stands: birds like Townsend’s
warblers, gaily-coloured western tanagers and brown creepers, a
small songbird that spirals up tree trunks. Walking through the
trees after dawn, binoculars in hand, he heard a mysterious bird
drumming in staccato rhythm. “I had never heard this before. And
I realized only afterwards, ‘Jeez, that was a Williamson’s
sapsucker and it was in an old larch stand!’ ”
Back then, in the mid-1990s, little was known about Williamson’s
sapsucker — the only one of the world’s 250 woodpecker species
where the plumage of males and females is so strikingly
different they were once thought to be two distinct species.
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Wiliamson’s sapsuckers are the only one of the world’s 250
woodpecker species that have males and females that are
strikingly different
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Gyug became a global expert on the bird, whose males have a
lemon yellow belly and a distinctive cherry-red patch on their
chin and upper throat. Females are banded in black and white,
with a tawny head and a yellowish patch on their belly.
“I’ve found my niche,” Gyug says. “I could have just as happily
worked on pelicans or something else. But this was a mystery
bird. We didn’t have a clue how many there were. We only had a
general sense of what their habitat needs were.”
Surveys conducted by Gyug and other biologists found only about
450 Williamson’s sapsucker pairs in B.C., the only place in
Canada where they live. Populations were dwindling. And the
sapsucker’s old-growth habitat was
[glow=red,2,300]vanishing[/glow], primarily due to logging It
all added up to an [glow=red,2,300]endangered[/glow] listing
under the federal Species at Risk Act in 2006.
But that wasn’t enough to protect the sweet-toothed bird, which
migrates to B.C. every spring from Mexico and the southwest U.S.
Nor did a B.C. Conservation Data Centre summary report, rating
[glow=red,2,300]logging threats[/glow] to the sapsucker as
“high,” make any difference. The government-run data centre,
which collects scientific data about species and ecosystems,
singled out [glow=green,2,300]western larch[/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]logging[/glow] in the woodpecker’s
Okanagan-Boundary and Kootenay ranges as a particular concern.
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Williamson’s sapsuckers often nest in a single old-growth
western larch — a sapsucker “condo” — where they excavate holes
the size of a toonie and raise three to five chicks.
Like maple syrup farmers, they tend sap trees, visiting a
handful of Douglas firs, larches and pines several times daily
during breeding season to tap new wells or keep existing wells
flowing. Woodpeckers have barbs on their tongues to latch onto
insects and grubs; the Williamson’s sapsucker has a brush-like
tuft on the edge of long tongues for licking up sap.
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Williamson’s sapsuckers have a brush-like tuft on the tip of
their tongues for licking up sap. They visit a handful of
Douglas firs, larches and pines several times daily during
breeding season to tap new wells or keep existing wells flowing.
Photos: Les Gyug
Williamson’s sapsuckers also feed on carpenter and western
thatching ants that hustle up and down tree trunks to tend aphid
colonies on branch tips. The ants have a symbiotic relationship
with the aphids. They protect them from predators, carry them to
their nests at night and during winter and milk their antenna
for sugar-rich liquid secretions called honeydew.
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Williamson’s sapsuckers eat ants en route to milk ‘honeydew’
from aphids living in colonies on the tips of tree branches.
Photos: Les Gyug
“You’ve got to have 🌲 [size=24pt]trees because they take
ants off tree trunks; if tree trunks aren’t there, they
[glow=red,2,300]can’t[/glow] make a
[glow=teal,2,300]living[/glow],”[/size] Gyug explains. “They
need the nesting trees and they need foraging habitat — you need
the combination of the two in close proximity to each other.”
Gyug’s work saved the western larch seed stands from
[glow=red,2,300]logging[/glow]. Over time, he also helped secure
the designation of about 150 small, scattered wildlife habitat
areas for the sapsucker. But the wildlife habitat areas only
represent about three per cent of the territory the sapsucker
occupies in the province, leaving the majority open to
[glow=red,2,300]logging[/glow] and [glow=red,2,300]other
disturbances[/glow].
In the Boundary region, about 15 per cent of the sapsucker’s
federally designated critical habitat was clear-cut from 2017 to
2022, according to wildlife biologist Jared Hobbs. Sapsucker
“condos” fell to the ground. Hobbs says
[glow=red,2,300][glow=red,2,300][glow=red,2,300]logging[/glow][/glow][/glow]
is likely taking place at the same rate, or even more
extensively, in the other two areas where sapsuckers live — the
east Kootenays and the Merritt-Princeton area. “In the other
regions they’re [glow=red,2,300]logging like crazy[/glow] as
well.”
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Hobbs recently helped document 182 cutblocks, covering more than
3,000 hectares, in federally mapped Williamson’s sapsucker
critical habitat within the Boundary area (a small portion of
the Okanagan-Boundary region). He found a [glow=teal,2,300]nest
tree[/glow] [glow=red,2,300]logged[/glow] — “not an uncommon
occurrence” >:( — even though the slow rot and hard shell that
makes the trees desirable for the sapsucker and other cavity
dwellers means they are of little or no commercial value to the
forest industry.
“These trees are so valuable that with every one that’s lost,
you are eroding the recovery potential of the
[glow=green,2,300]population[/glow],” Hobbs says. “It takes
hundreds of years to replace that tree [glow=red,2,300]cut
down[/glow] by the timber industry. It’s [glow=red,2,300]cut
down as garbage[/glow] and left lying on the
[glow=brown,2,300]ground[/glow].
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/>And that was gold for the Williamson’s sapsucker.” ... ...
When a species falls below what biologists call its minimum
viable population, decline quickly becomes irreversible — as in
the case of spotted owls, cod on the east coast and southern
mountain caribou populations in B.C. Individuals struggle to
find mates and reproduce, while genetic diversity — necessary
for good health and adaptations, including to environmental
shifts wrought by climate change — is
[glow=red,2,300]lost[/glow].
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“At that [glow=red,2,300]point[/glow], the crash is catastrophic
and [glow=red,2,300]irreversible[/glow],” Hobbs says. “That’s
what [glow=red,2,300]we did[/glow] to the spotted owl. And
[glow=red,2,300]we’re about to do that[/glow] with the
Williamson’s sapsucker. At that point, no matter what you do,
and how much in recovery dollars you throw at it, like caribou
and spotted owls, you’re not going to pull it back. The
challenges become [glow=red,2,300]insurmountable[/glow].”
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