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Pelicans fall out of sky from Mexico to Ore.Pelicans suffering from a mysterious malady are crashing into cars and boats, wandering along roadways and turning up dead by the hundreds across the West Coast, from southern Oregon to Baja California, Mexico, bird-rescue workers say.

Baby Fish In Polluted San Francisco Estuary Waters Are Stunted And Deformed Striped bass in the San Francisco Estuary are contaminated before birth with a toxic mix of pesticides, industrial chemicals and flame retardants that their mothers acquire from estuary waters and food sources and pass on to their eggs, say UC Davis researchers.

 

Sticking it to the Man,21st Century style…..Here is the back and forth between Captain Paul Watson (animal defender extraordinaire, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and courageous practitioner of extensional self defense on behalf of marine animals) and Jason Miller (associate editor of Cyrano’s Journal Online and founding editor of Thomas Paine’s Corner):

Native hunters say climate affecting herds Chief Bill Erasmus of the Dene nation in northern Canada brought a stark warning about the climate crisis: The once abundant herds of caribou are dwindling, rivers are running lower and the ice is too thin to hunt on.

WHAT IS KILLING THE BEES? An article in Natural News by David Gutierrez on September 30, 2008 has linked the bee die-off in the Baden-Wurttemburg state of Germany to direct contact with the insecticide clothianidin found on corn seeds

A Tale of Two Whales Pity the poor whale. All it wants is to peacefully swim in the ocean. Instead it finds itself caught up in a net of litigation and rule making processes. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Roberts said, “the most serious possible injury would be harm to an unknown number of marine mammals” whereas imposing restrictions on Naval exercises would force “the Navy to deploy an inadequately trained antisubmarine force” that would jeopardize “the safety of the fleet.”

Whales and penguins at risk in krill harvest
Companies are scrambling to harvest Antarctic krill for health supplements, causing concern over the ocean ecosystem

Mystery of the 5-Legged Freaks
Oddly high rates of deformation among salamanders, frogs and other amphibians have puzzled scientists in recent years. Possible causes include inbreeding, parasites or pollution that permeates the animals' skin. The mysterious deformations have included five-legged salamanders, frogs with extra limbs and other amphibians born so messed up that they can't survive to reproduce. In at least some cases, frog deformities are related to increasing numbers of infections caused by tiny parasites that thrive on nutrient-rich runoff from North American farms, a study last year found.

In Hard Times for Humans, Hardships for Pets, Too
At New York City’s main animal shelter, monthly calls to the volunteers who can help people keep their pets through tough financial times doubled, to 225 from 115, between January and September.

Wildlife gives early warning of 'deadly dozen' diseases spread by climate change
Scientists have nicknamed them the “deadly dozen”: 12 diseases, lethal to humans and wildlife, that are increasing their geographical range. Ebola, cholera, plague and sleeping sickness were among those identified yesterday by veterinary scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) as spreading across the planet because of climate change. The scientists said that wildlife could give an early warning of the approach of diseases and save millions of people.

 

NEPA Buzz Kill: Is the Agency Hiding Colony Collapse Disorder Information? RDC Forced to Sue to Get Public Records on Bee Mystery. The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today to uncover critical information that the US government is withholding about the risks posed by pesticides to honey bees. NRDC legal experts and a leading bee researcher are convinced that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has evidence of connections between pesticides and the mysterious honey bee die-offs reported across the country. The phenomenon has come to be called “colony collapse disorder,” or CCD, and it is already proving to have disastrous consequences for American agriculture and the $15 billion worth of crops pollinated by bees every year.

Plastics Suspect In Lobster Illness The search for what causes a debilitating shell disease affecting lobsters from Long Island Sound to Maine has led one Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) visiting scientist to suspect environmental alkyphenols, formed primarily by the breakdown of hard transparent plastics.

Waves of disaster By Roberta Staley
They are called lantern fish, silvery navigators of the ocean’s deepest depths, bug-eyed, blunt-nosed, and gap-mouthed, with close-set rows of pointy teeth. Every night around the globe, at least 600 million tonnes of these finned creatures, along with a few related species—which make up as much as 90 percent of deep-sea fish biomass—swim upward from their dark hiding places to near the ocean’s surface to gorge on zooplankton, made up of organisms that are often too tiny to be seen with the naked eye, such as the shrimplike krill, jellyfish, and arrow worms. Lantern fish have no “genetic ability to differentiate between zooplankton and plastic”, Moore says. “We have been screwing up the ocean with plastic for 50 to 60 years. The fact that we’ve done it so fast and that it has penetrated so low into the food chain is alarming, but we’re just beginning to make a scientific assessment of what this means.”

Extraordinary Creative & Psychic Powers of Animals vid
By Michael Goodspeed
Many followers of the Thunderbolts project are familiar with the revolutionary research of biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, author of more than 75 scientific papers and ten books, including the internationally acclaimed "Dogs that Know When Their Owners are Coming Home." In controlled double-blind experiments, Sheldrake has found compelling evidence of "interspecies telepathy," including the uncanny (yet familiar to many pet owners) ability of dogs to anticipate when their owners are returning home. http://sheldrake.org

The Bush Administration’s Plan To Make The Endangered Species Act Extinct Today, the AP reports on new draft rules being proposed by the Bush administration to gut the Endangered Species Act. This would be the biggest change to the groundbreaking legislation since 1988, and would not require the approval of Congress.

8/1/08

Rough to the Gills: Judge says Calif. salmon in trouble but offers no short-term solution

5/22/08

Soldier's donated horses head for Slaughter

5/17/08

An epidemic of extinctions: Decimation of life on earth
Species are dying out at a rate not seen since the demise of the dinosaurs, according to a report published today – and human behaviour is to blame. Emily Dugan counts the cost

5/18/08

PET OWNERS - - COCOA MULCH WARNING!!

4/25/08

Molly the Pony Romps to a New Roll in Life.....on Three legs.

4/17/08

Navy sonar blamed for death of beaked whales found washed up in the Hebrides

4/15/08

Scientists try to explain dismal salmon run Amid growing concern over an imminent shutdown of the commercial and sport chinook salmon season, scientists are struggling to figure out why the largest run on the West Coast hit rock bottom and what Californians can do to bring it back. The chinook salmon - born in the rivers, growing in the bay and ocean, and returning to home rivers to spawn - need two essential conditions early in life to prosper: safe passage through the rivers to the bay and lots of seafood to eat once they reach the ocean.

Yet, the Sacramento River run of salmon that was expected to fill fish markets in May didn't find those life-sustaining conditions. And some scientists say that's the likeliest explanation for why the number of returning spawners plummeted last fall to roughly 90,000, about 10 percent of the peak reached just a few years ago.rest at the link

4/12/08

"Major disaster" for bees may jeopardize Washington state's crops Bees are in trouble, and in Washington, that could mean agriculture is, too.Last year, many Washington beekeepers were relieved that they avoided a mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder that silenced hives all over the country. But this year, some beekeepers are reporting a devastating new pathogen — with no reliable cure — is killing their bees in droves.

3/12/08 NZ dolphin rescues beached whales
A dolphin has come to the rescue of two whales which had become stranded on a beach in New Zealand

Articles by Dr. Gerald Wessner

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Dr. Gerald Wessner
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Mother Nature At Play



Mother nature set out one sunny day,
in a mischievous mood, to have some play.
For her normal creatuues were getting so  boring,
so in her leisure, silly ideas started soaring.

First, she took feathers from a goose,
covered an elephant, then turned him loose.
The spots on the Leopard, were orange and black,
she colored blue, red and green on his back.

Stickly, prickly the Porcupine quills, but
put on a monkey, was not quite a thrill.
The hippopotamuses there in the zoo,
used to have four legs, now only two.

Stylish Peacocks, vainly strutting uptown,
found that their feathers were upside down.
Hearing that soft, little kitties' meyoo,
she soon had him sounding like a Gnu.

Instantly heard were howls of dismay,
from all of the creatures she changed on that day.
So, with a sigh, and a slight pout,
she knew she had to straighten things out.

She worked and she rightened things all around,
except the Platypus which couln't be found.
So, if you believe this story isn't true,
how come the Platypus still looks like two?

The moral to this story, before I do exit,
is, if it ain't broke, then don't try to fix it.

 

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