When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable “trophic cascade” occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Monbiot explains in this movie remix.
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Second Oregon wolf killed by hunter in Idaho | OregonLive.com
The wolf was a member of the Imnaha pack, the first to breed in Oregon from wolves that migrated from Idaho after their reintroduction in the 1990s. It was fitted with a GPS tracking collar by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and turned loose in February 2012, after getting inadvertently caught in a coyote trap. A young male wolf from the pack, OR-9, was shot in Idaho in February 2012. Young wolves regularly leave their packs in search of a mate and a new territory. At last count, Oregon had 64 wolves, up from 48 in 2012. Four of the eight packs, all located in northeastern Oregon, successfully produced pups.
via Second Oregon wolf killed by hunter in Idaho | OregonLive.com.
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Tamera Healing Biotope 1
Tamera is a School and Research Station for ‘Concrete Utopia’
The project was founded in Germany in 1978. In 1995 it moved to Portugal. Today 170 people live and work on a property of 330 acres. The first founding thought was to develop a non-violent life model for human being, animal and nature. Soon it became clear that the healing of love and of human community had to be placed the center of this work. Sexuality, love and partnership need to be freed from lying and fear, for there can be no peace on Earth so long as there is war in love.
Meet Mshale, the Un-Poachable Elephant | TakePart
Mshale was first shot with a poisoned arrow in 2012, and again in March and August 2013. The poachers’ weapon of choice, the AK-47, has fallen out of favor in Kenya because citizens have been reporting gunshots to wildlife authorities more frequently. The reversion to prehistoric technology requires poachers to follow their prey around for days, waiting for the intelligent and highly social animals to die of their wounds.
Madness in the Village of Elephants: 26 Pachyderms Slaughtered
That gave Mshale the time he needed to seek help, Bradford believes.
“He has been treated three times before, and he knows where help lies,” he told The Times. “We believe Mshale came back despite his poor body condition—caused by his wound—so that he could be treated and saved one more time.”
Poachers slaughter one elephant every 15 minutes; the largest living land animal’s population has been reduced 75 percent since 1980. Despite a worldwide ban on the ivory trade, as much as 70 percent of illegal ivory ends up in China, where a growing middle class has created an increasing demand for ivory chopsticks, jewelry, and other ornaments.
Mars commits to No Deforestation, exposes P&G for its inaction | Greenpeace International
Mars committed to remove deforestation from all of its products by the end of 2015, a move that places pressure on companies such as Procter & Gamble to set an equally ambitious No Deforestation Policy. In addition, Greenpeace activists today documented ongoing forest clearance and unfurled a giant banner in a palm oil plantation in Indonesia which is owned by P&G supplier Musim Mas, and where orangutan habitat was recently cleared.
“Mars joins a growing list of companies including Unilever and Nestlé that are finally promising forest-friendly products to their consumers. It shows that global public pressure is working, and is leaving P&G, which refuses to clean up their supply chains, increasingly isolated,” said Areeba Hamid, forest campaigner at Greenpeace International.
Mars’ policy includes an ambitious timeline of 2015 to remove forest destruction from its supply chain. Importantly, the policy recognises the need to move beyond the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) standards and Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) commitments to break the link between palm oil and deforestation – an issue that P&G has refused to recognise.
via Mars commits to No Deforestation, exposes P&G for its inaction | Greenpeace International.
Mars and P&G: one just took deforestation seriously, and the other didn’t | Greenpeace International
Greenpeace activists hold a banner inside palm oil consession owned by PT Multi Persada Gatramegah (PT MPG), a subsidiary of Musim Mas company, a palm oil supplier to Procter and Gamble in Muara Teweh, North Barito, Central Kalimantan. 10/03/2014
This morning, a dozen activists unfurled a giant banner in a plantation owned by Musim Mas – a company we identified as a supplier to P&G and involved in ongoing forest and orangutan habitat clearance. This is not “sustainable” – at least not for the half a million of you who have already called for forest-friendly products.
via Mars and P&G: one just took deforestation seriously, and the other didn’t | Greenpeace International.
H5N1: China: Do dogs transmit H1N1 to humans?
During 2012, we identified dogs sampled with elevated antibodies (≥1:40) against A(H1N1)pdm09 virus: HI assay (24.7%) and MN assay (10.8%). This high seroprevalence of A(H1N1)pdm09 among dogs without clinical signs of influenza support the premise that dogs may play a role in human influenza ecology in China.
via H5N1: China: Do dogs transmit H1N1 to humans?.
However! Seems to be a very human-centric view of things. We look for animals, insects, bacteria, and viruses that transmit disease to humans but not for diseases that humans pass to animals, etc. Dogs and cats especially, are as likely to become ill from human ills, as is the opposite since we live in such intimate environment with them. The same can be said for horses, camels, sheep, goats, cattle, and pigs, and people.
Tornados|CDC
Saber qué hacer cuando ve que se aproxima un tornado o cuando oye las sirenas de advertencia, puede ayudar a protegerlo y a proteger a su familia. Durante un tornado, las personas están en peligro por los vientos extremadamente fuertes y corren el riesgo de ser golpeadas por los objetos que vuelan o caen. Después de que ocurre un tornado, los destrozos restantes ocasionan riesgos adicionales de lesiones. Aunque no haya nada que se pueda hacer para prevenir un tornado, sí hay medidas que puede tomar para proteger su salud y seguridad.
via Tornados|CDC.
Vietnam reports bird flu virus mutation | Health | Thanh Nien Daily
Vaccine-resistant mutation of H5N1 bird flu virus strain has been confirmed in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh while vaccinated fowls fell sick in central Vietnam.
Ngo Duc Thanh, director of Tra Vinh animal health department, said the kinds of vaccine that have been used for many years showed weaker effects this year.
Thanh said most samples from sick poultry would be tested for a new mutation.
He asked farmers to inject their livestock with a new kind of vaccine that is also available.
Animal health officials from the central province of Quang Nam last week noticed that a local herd of 1,000 ducks have fallen sick and five of six samples tested positive for H5N1 although they were vaccinated a month earlier.
Vaccinated poultry from the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho were also infected earlier despite vaccination. Officials said the vaccine could have been ineffective to a virus mutation, or the vaccination process faulty.
The health and agriculture ministries on March 5 said there were 69 H5N1 bird flu outbreaks ravaging in 23 cities and provinces. An average of two new outbreaks have occurred every day since early February, killing more than 63,000 fowls.
via Vietnam reports bird flu virus mutation | Health | Thanh Nien Daily.




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