Unexplained Crocodile Deaths on the Olifant River
source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-killing-crocs
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Is it just me or does more of this type of thing beginning to accelerate?
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karmas a bit$#
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We've poisoned everything.
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csmonut
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Guess I have to learn how to spell better :)))
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csmonut:
You can always use the "Edit" thing, and go back and fix it.
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csmonut:
But that might be too easy! :))
Advice taken. - 2 years ago
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Here are a couple of websites that explain the Olifant River Basin. It appears they have some real water issues, as so much of the world now has.
http://www.geopassage.com/south_africa/attraction/Kruger_National_Park_and_Skuku...
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Assessment/Research_Projects/River_Basin_Development_a...
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csmonut
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As go wildlife, so goes humans.
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Ecerpts:
The first sign of croc trouble in the river came in the winter of 2008, when rangers collected 170 dead individuals, sometimes at a rate of 20 bodies a week. A survey at the end of this May showed nearly 400 crocs living in the park’s gorge, down from at least 1,000 in 2008. So far, as of August 7, rangers and scientists have found 23 carcasses.But the cause behind the strange fattening remains a mystery. In June a team led by Henk Bouwman of North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, in South Africa reported test results from crocodile tissues at two European chemistry meetings. “Everything is there,” Bouwman says, referring to the detection of DDT, PCBs, dioxins and brominated flame retardants, “but nothing is screaming, ‘it’s me, it’s me, it’s me.’ ”
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