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CDFW celebrates “Endangered Species Day” as it hastens species extinction : Indybay

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You just can’t make this stuff up – a government agency like the California Department of Fish and Wildlife “celebrating” National Endangered Species Day when it appears to be doing everything it can to benefit agribusiness and other corporate interests at the expense of endangered species, along with a host of fish and wildlife species not formally listed under the federal and state Endangered Species Acts!  Source: www.indybay.org

GR:  Government hypocrisy?  It’s the money, of course.  Most politicians and many government employees seek public office for personal gain.  They do what they can to associate with money and influence.

‘Urgent’ crowdfunding campaign hopes to help save three native Australian birds

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“An international campaign begins to help save three native parrots at risk of extinction.

“The swift parrot, forty-spotted pardalote and orange-bellied parrot are all Australian native birds under threat from predatory sugar gliders.

“The swift parrot breeds in Tasmania during spring and summer, nesting in old trees with hollows.

“They migrate to south-eastern Australia during the cooler months, but many are not surviving long enough to make the journey.

“Logging in Tasmania has meant the tiny birds share their breeding habitat with sugar gliders.”

Source: www.abc.net.au

GR:  Logging and consequent habitat loss have forced competition among bird species that is driving these three toward extinction.  Money is needed to erect nest boxes on offshore islands so numbers can climb.

Why wild giraffes are suffering a ‘silent extinction’

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The iconic animals have declined 40 percent in just 15 years, a plight that has gone largely unnoticed until recently.

Source: www.mnn.com

GR:  This first appeared in December (2014).  Does anyone know of programs that are helping giraffes?  Ah, here’s a link to Giraffe Conservation Foundation | .  Give them a follow at least.

Lost Animals–Garry Rogers Goodreads Comment

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic RecordLost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller

Garry Rogers rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book was hard to read. As you pass from one tragedy to the next, you gather sadness like a rolling ball gathers snow. More than a simple chronicle, there is deep concern here. I recommend it.

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Survivable IPCC projections are science fiction – the reality is much worse

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GR:  Important article.  Even to non-specialists, there is glaring incongruity between the potential disaster and promised political action.  Nick Breeze dissects the issue with interviews and data.

The IPCC’s ‘Representative Concentration Pathways’ are based on fantasy technology that must draw massive volumes of CO2 out of the atmosphere late this century, writes Nick Breeze – an unjustified hope that conceals a very bleak future for Earth, and humanity.  Read more: www.theecologist.org

Urgent: Reserves and parks not enough to protect nature – David Attenborough

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GR:  As the human population and impact grows, wildlife is declining worldwide just as in the U.K. The National Wildlife Federation Backyard Wildlife Habitat program covers basic ideas.  Start there.  Then, look for opportunities to recommend other sites.  As Attenborough says, many other places that we modify and use can be habitat.

“Broadcaster calls for radical new approach to conservation, urging people to use all spaces from gardens to roadside verges to help wildlife.

“Speaking at the RSPB’s Conference for Nature in London, Attenborough said it was now understood that British wildlife was in grave peril of disappearing. “50% of the hedgehog population has gone in 25 years, 90% of the wildlife meadows have disappeared in 100 years; 60% of all wildlife is diminishing and in danger, with 10% doomed to disappear in the next decades. Nowhere in Britain is unsullied, is unaffected by human action. We now have a huge population living cheek by jowl with nature.”  Source: www.theguardian.com

 

Save Gentle and Vulnerable Marine Mammal from Extinction

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A critically endangered marine mammal is threatened with extinction by plans to build a new U.S. military airstrip. Urge the military to reconsider this misguided project and save these gentle animals from disappearing.

Source: forcechange.com

GR:  We don’t need any more military bases!  Please sign the petition.

Almost the end for Kenya’s northern white rhino

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Almost the end for Kenya’s northern white rhino
This is what extinction looks like.
No meteor from outer space, no unstoppable pandemic, no heroic, ultimately futile last stand.  Source: elispiritweaver.wordpress.com

Monsanto’s Roundup system threatens extinction of monarch butterflies – report

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Monsanto’s Roundup Ready system – a potent herbicide combined with genetically-modified seeds that can withstand it – has decimated the monarch butterfly’s only source of food in the Midwest, putting it on the edge of extinction, according to a new study.  Source: rt.com

GR:  Evidence indicates that Monsanto is the principal cause of declining bees and butterflies.  The article includes an interesting diagram showing the personnel overlap between Monsanto and the U. S. Government.