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While mention of the DMZ conjures images of stone-faced soldiers, barbed-wire fences, guns and guard towers, the area between North and South Korea has remained virtually untouched by humans for more than 55 years.
As a result, the DMZ has essentially become a 2.5-mile-wide, 155-mile-long nature park that is home to more than 50 species of mammals, roughly 200 kinds of birds and in excess of 1,000 plant species. Some of the birds and animals that live or visit here are threatened or endangered.
Now a movement is under way to protect the natural wonders of the DMZ from perhaps their greatest threat — peace and the reunification of the peninsula.
full article at link
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=66049While mention of the DMZ conjures images of stone-faced soldiers, barbed-wire fences,... more
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Great news!
"Nearly 40 years after it was pushed to the edge of extinction by pesticide use, habitat loss and hunting, the brown pelican was Wednesday taken off the endangered species list, US officials said.
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"The birds' recovery and removal from the list of endangered species was due largely to a US ban on the use of DDT in 1972, Salazar said.
The population was now back up to more than 650,000 of the birds across Florida, in the coastal regions of the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Ocean, and in the Caribbean and Latin America, Salazar said.
At its lowest point, the number of brown pelicans had fallen to around 10,000, said Tom Strickland, Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks."
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/091111/usa/environment_us_animal_pelicanGreat news!
"Nearly 40 years after it was pushed to the edge of extinction by... more
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I AM IN DISBELIEF THAT A COMPANY that is supposed to be based on healthy, CRUELTY-FREE and ECO-FRIENDLY principles would even associate with RSPO!
Sustainable palm that is “certified” by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil…
The RSPO ‘organization’ is a corporate GREENWASHING SCAM!
The people who are the RSPO are precisely the PEOPLE WHO HAVE PERSONAL INTERESTS in making PROFIT off of DIRTY PALM!
This is like letting the FOOD corporations determine FOOD SAFETY regulations (WAIT! THEY ARE TRYING TO DO THAT! For more info on this, go to: foodandwaterwatch.org & TAKE ACTION!)
Seventh Generation... HOW COULD YOU?
In the 'comments' section (of linked page) I posted detailed information about SUSTAINABLE PALM CERTIFICATION.I AM IN DISBELIEF THAT A COMPANY that is supposed to be based on healthy, CRUELTY-FREE... more
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How Will Climate Change Affect Manatees?
Imagine a Florida where the coral reefs have dissolved, droughts are the norm, humans are abandoning multi million dollar coastal homes and retreating inland, daily high tides flood the streets of coastal cities and neighborhoods, and exotic species outnumber natives.
Climate change could make this scenario a reality for the sunshine state, with some impacts being observed within as few as 10 years.
Some individuals have tried to simplify the effects of climate change on manatees by assuming that warmer waters will benefit the species.
However, as the previous paragraphs discussed, climate change is comprised of many more facets than just increasing water temperatures. We also cannot forget that manatees are part of an inter-connected aquatic ecosystem, and are affected by the health of the plants and animals that share this and the surrounding terrestrial ecosystems.
As a species, manatees already face a myriad of threats, including watercraft strikes and red tide, which may compromise the long-term health of individuals and impede recovery of the species. As humans adapt to climate change, other species, including manatees, are likely to be adversely affected.
While some have postulated that increased sea surface temperatures associated with climate change may benefit manatees, this view fails to recognize how the species may be affected by the myriad of other consequences associated with climate change, including sea level rise, changes in seagrass abundance and location, and losses of funding as agencies shift resources away from individual species in an attempt to confront climate change.How Will Climate Change Affect Manatees?
Imagine a Florida where the coral reefs... more
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FACTS:
Cole Bros. Circus has failed to meet minimal federal standards for the care of animals used in exhibition as established by the Animal Welfare Act.
The USDA has repeatedly cited Cole Bros. for failure to provide veterinary care to animals, including elephants who have shown extreme weight loss, and failure to provide adequate space to animals.
The USDA filed formal charges of AWA violations against Cole Bros. because the elephants showed signs of being abused with sharp metal bull-hooks, a New Jersey humane society charged the circus with cruelty to animals for overloading and overworking an elephant, and two elephants—who were described as malnourished and neglected—died suddenly within a two-week period.
In five separate incidents, Cole Bros. elephants have killed two members of the public, injured more than a dozen others, and rampaged during performances, which caused tens of thousands of dollars in property damage.
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Are animals sentient beings whose rights — especially those concerning
habitat and sustainability — should be protected by law and upheld in court?Are animals sentient beings whose rights — especially those concerning
habitat and... more
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photo gallery of the event
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Imagine almost as many people in gorilla suits as there are mountain gorillas on the planet, all of them running in the busy heart of London to raise funds for conservation projects.
Described as one of the most entertaining charity event on the planet, the Great Gorilla Run took place past Saturday.
YoG Ambassador Ian Redmond, intent on behaving like a gorilla all the way (7 miles!), took part. This is a section of his entertaining blog...
26th September
Knuckle-walking over London’s Tower Bridge in a gorilla suit is quite a novelty, I found today. How to describe it? Imagine almost as many people in gorilla suits as there are mountain gorillas on the planet (more than twice as many as there are Cross River Gorillas) - no, wait a minute, no need to imagine it - just look up the photos and videos of London’s annual Great Gorilla Run http://www.greatgorillas.org/gallery
The Great Gorilla Run is in its seventh year and has raised more than 60,000 pounds for grassroots community projects in areas of precious gorilla habitat in Africa, such as:
·Training 13 000 Rwandan farmers in sustainable agricultural techniques.
·Building water cisterns in Rwanda and DR Congo.
·Teaching local communities how to produce and distribute 500 fuel-efficient stoves in DR Congo, reducing consumption by up to 70% (firewood and charcoal are often illegally taken from gorilla habitat)
·Providing training to miners on ethical mining techniques. Illegal mining in DR Congo has been a huge problem for gorillas.
·Involving almost 30,000 young members in conservation activities through wildlife clubs in Rwanda and Uganda.
·Providing beekeepers in Uganda with investment and equipment.Imagine almost as many people in gorilla suits as there are mountain gorillas on the... more
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Posted previously: Sharks as important as Dolphins I now come with a good news.
http://current.com/items/90834389_sharks-as-important-as-dolphins.htm
"Palau is to create the world's first "shark sanctuary", banning all commercial shark fishing in its waters.
The President of the tiny Pacific republic, Johnson Toribiong, will announce the ban during Friday's session of the UN General Assembly.
With half of the world's oceanic sharks at risk of extinction, conservationists regard the move as "game-changing".
It will protect about 600,000 sq km (230,000 sq miles) of ocean, an area about the size of France.
President Toribiong will also call for a global ban on shark-finning, the practice of removing the fins at sea.
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"The need to protect the sharks outweighs the need to enjoy a bowl of soup"
President Johnson Toribiong
Fins are a lucrative commodity on the international market where they are bought for use in shark fin soup.
As many as 100 million sharks are killed each year around the world.
"These creatures are being slaughtered and are perhaps at the brink of extinction unless we take positive action to protect them," said President Toribiong."
Watch the video below as well.Posted previously: Sharks as important as Dolphins I now come with a good news.... more
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SEE VIDEO - http://www.3news.co.nz/Dairy-farmers-urged-to-stop-using-palm-oil-by-product/tabid/369/articleID/117808/cat/839/Default.aspx
Dairy farmers are being blamed for the destruction of tropical rain forests. New Zealand cows ate more than 1 million tonnes of palm kernels last year - a quarter of the world's total consumption of the palm oil by-product.
Environmentalists say the trade is a DEATH sentence for endangered orangutans.
New Zealand dairy farmers are now being held partly responsible for turning the once-lush Indonesian rainforest into a charred, smoking wasteland.
"Clear felling the rainforest, some of the last great rainforest, in order to feed dairy cows I think is environmental suicide," says Green Party co-leader Russel Norman.
Last year, local dairy farmers imported $300 million worth of palm kernel. It is a by-product of palm oil production, used to feed cattle.
"New Zealand dairy is sold overseas as clean and green, with cows on green pastures, and so if people realise that in fact those cows are being fed on a product of the destruction of the last of the great rainforest, it will be extremely damaging," says Mr Norman.
Pictures provided by Greenpeace show the devastation caused by the palm oil industry. It is also blamed for KILLING orangutans.
But farmers say they are not accountable, because palm kernel would be thrown away if not used as cattle feed, and dairy giant Fonterra claims much of what is imported here has no negative impact on the environment.
Palm oil products have already caused much controversy this month. Last week Cadbury bowed to public pressure and stopped using palm product in its chocolate.
Environmentalists say dairy farmers should follow the company's lead and find something else to feed their cows.SEE VIDEO -... more
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Do not let that happen!
"LONDON - Conservationists should “pull the plug” on giant pandas and let them die out, according to BBC presenter and naturalist Chris Packham.
“Here’s a species that, of its own accord, has gone down an evolutionary cul-de-sac,” Packham told Radio Times magazine.
The 48-year-old believes that money spent on conserving the panda would be better invested in other animals as the species is not strong enough to survive alone.
“It’s not a strong species. Unfortunately it’s big and cute and it’s a symbol of the WWF (Worldwide Fund for Nature) — and we pour millions of pounds into panda conservation.”
“I reckon we should pull the plug. Let them go, with a degree of dignity ...”
Giant pandas are confined to forest areas high in the mountains of southwestern China and have to consume large quantities of bamboo to survive.
They number around 1,600 according to the WWF (www.wwf.org.uk), and are threatened by agriculture, logging and China’s increasing human population."
I say:
What a shameful statement!Do not let that happen!
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“Titus was still a strong leader of his group until the end, but the stress was too much for him at his age,” says Karisoke’s Gorilla Program Coordinator Veronica Vecellio. “We will remember him as a most special silverback."“Titus was still a strong leader of his group until the end, but the stress was too... more
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The "Gorilla King" Titus has passed away from old age.
September 2009. On the morning of Sept. 14, trackers at the Karisoke Research Centre found the legendary silverback gorilla Titus, dead on his night nest in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. He was 35, which is quite old for a male mountain gorilla. Titus had been the dominant male in one of the gorilla groups studied for many years by Karisoke and was the subject of the documentary "Gorilla King" TV series.
Born in 1974
Titus' eventful life began in 1974, observed by Dian Fossey and her research assistant Kelly Stewart, daughter of actor Jimmy Stewart. Kelly was the first to see the newborn, so she named him Titus after a character in a novel she was reading. His mother, the elderly Flossie, lived in Fossey's Group Four, led by his father, Uncle Bert. Fossey noted in Gorillas in the Mist that Titus seemed to be "underdeveloped and spindly" and had difficulty breathing. He soon overcame these disabilities, the first of many challenges he faced in childhood.
Father killed by poachers
When Titus was 4 years old, poachers killed his father Uncle Bert, his uncle Digit, and his younger brother. Soon after, a newly arrived silverback named Beetsme killed Titus' infant sister, causing his mother and older sister to flee to another group. Titus was left at age 5 to live with a few unrelated males, including Beetsme and Tiger, that were soon joined by Peanuts and two others. The group remained all-male for several years, until another group's silverback died and five females came to join the bachelors. Beetsme eventually drove off all the other males except for Titus, who was favoured by Papoose, the dominant female.
Even tempered
An unusually even tempered and skillful leader, Titus maintained his dominance over a group of some 25 individuals without difficulty for many years.
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Please follow link to learn more about Titus and his incredible story...
* Follow the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International on Twitter.com and get the latest updates http://twitter.com/savinggorillasThe "Gorilla King" Titus has passed away from old age.
September 2009. On the... more
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BBC - Two US states are reintroducing the hunting of wolves after they were taken off America's list of endangered species.BBC - Two US states are reintroducing the hunting of wolves after they were taken off... more
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"NAIROBI, Kenya - Poaching and drought-related hunger have killed more than 100 of Kenya's famous elephants in the north of the country so far this year, conservationists say.
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"Around 23,000 elephants live in Kenya but populations can be devastated by poaching within a couple of years. A recent survey in Chad showed its elephant population had declined from 3,800 to just over 600 in the past three years.
'The drought is one of nature's big events," he said. "It hits all animals, elephants, people and others but the ivory trade is much more serious and could do much more damage if it remains unchecked'."
More at the link above.
Get involved and watch all of these clips below.
There is a picture in particular that will not leave my mind no more.
Heartbreaking"NAIROBI, Kenya - Poaching and drought-related hunger have killed more than 100 of... more
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Some do it with photo trips, others on nature Safari. Cool types do it on scientific missions to the Antarctic. Teachers do it with turtles. Not greening their sex lives, but seeing the earth's rarest critters without further threatening these endangered species. What are the limits? We give you advice and options on how to enjoy the awesome beauty of nature -- in some cases without even leaving footprints behind.Some do it with photo trips, others on nature Safari. Cool types do it on scientific... more
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Endangered Species International - West African Manatee Slideshow
Fewer than 10,000 African manatees (Trichechus senegalensis) are found in Western Africa.
Threats to the African manatee include increasing hunting, construction of dams, and destruction of coastal areas from mangrove harvesting and siltation. Manatees in West Africa are also killed due to superstitious myths that a manatee could kill you by looking at you.
In Senegal, African manatees get stranded into shallow seasonal waters where they eventually die of dehydration.
Those “killing” waters are the result of dam construction along the Senegal River.
With the help of the locals, 'Nature Tropicale', a non-profit organization based in Dakar, moves manatees to deep permanent water of the river where they belong.Endangered Species International - West African Manatee Slideshow
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"The Bushmeat Crisis" - the commercial hunting of many critically endangered species
(DRC, Africa)
GORILLA HANDS FOR SALE AT A MARKET IN THE
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO... FOR 6 US DOLLARS.
*WARNING: GRAPHIC & DISTURBING IMAGES
This slideshow includes other critically endangered species also for sale.
Some are STILL ALIVE.
Please follow link to 'Endangered Species International' (ESI) for more information & to see what you can do to help..
For the first time, ESI reveal's photos of their field monitoring using undercover methods at key markets in the republic of Congo. Their research reveals that most of illegal bushmeat sold in markets originates from one single region where primary and unprotected rainforest still remains.
ESI estimates about 300 gorillas are illegally killed each year for the bushmeat market in the city of Pointe Noire.
With your help, ESI can stop the illegal commercial hunting of endangered species in Central Africa.
DID ANYONE HEAR THIS?
$6.OO...
THIS IS UNEXCEPABLE!"The Bushmeat Crisis" - the commercial hunting of many critically endangered species... more
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Crude:
"What a great movie! Crude is an environmental legal drama, a thriller and concert film all wrapped into one beautifully shot, fast-paced yet thoughtful and moving documentary about the vast and grotesque damage wrought by Texaco (which merged with Chevron in 2001) in the jungles of Ecuador.
Three years in the making, Joe Berliner's Crude takes us deep into Ecuador where the people of Cafon tribe and other indigenous and colonial people become the 30,000-strong plaintiffs against Chevron in a class-action lawsuit that has dragged on for over a decade. The largest piece of evidence is environment itself--an area the size of Rhode Island that is saturated with petrochemical residue and toxic waste. Oil floats on top the river water where people bathe, wash their clothes and draw water for food and cooking--and the people are dying."
Watch the trailer.
Join ORGANIC to fight for a better and green World, discuss alternatives, imagining and creating solutions:
http://current.com/groups/organicgreen/Crude:
"What a great movie! Crude is an environmental legal drama, a thriller and... more
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"Between 60 and 90 million sharks are killed by humans each year"
"This is a mass-extinction event entirely of mankind’s creation. Many more consequences of these factors are still unknown but this severe depletion or possible extinction of such a vital predator as the shark which has been patrolling the oceans for over 400 million years will definitely cause irreversible damage to global marine ecosystems."
This passage in the article has surprised me:
"To maximise their profits the Spanish fisheries market abuses the consumer with incorrect product labelling so that shark meat can be passed as Emperor fish (Snapper fish) or Swordfish among many others because the similar tastes and textures can be easily confused by consumers. This deceit, deliberate or not, has caused the unintentional/unknowing consumption of shark by 96 per cent of the Spanish population."
They use shark skin for luxury products as bags ,shoes etc.
Watch the video below as well.
I think:
Ignorance and greediness, I do not know which one is worse."Between 60 and 90 million sharks are killed by humans each year"
"This is a... more
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