Thursday, July 31, 2014
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Turtle Populations Under Threat In Southern Ontario, Canada
Turtle populations in southern Ontario are under threat by poachers.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Ron BrooksFriday, July 25, 2014
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Friday, July 11, 2014
Gorilla Warriors ''The situation is grim, and these gorilla populations will go extinct soon without a sustained effort to intervene.''
''Primatologist Craig Stanford was interviewed about habitat threats to gorilla populations by a public radio station: "The Human Threat to Great Apes":
Cell phones, like many other electronic devices, are built with capacitors, which require tantalum extracted from coltan. Eighty percent of the world’s coltan supply is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the heart of the remaining habitat of eastern lowland gorillas. With an increasing demand for electronics driving a worldwide hunger for coltan, miners in the DRC are polluting and consuming gorilla habitat while extracting the ore. Compounding the problem, miners hunt the apes for food. The situation is grim, and these gorilla populations will go extinct soon without a sustained effort to intervene.''
''Primatologist Craig Stanford was interviewed about habitat threats to gorilla populations by a public radio station: "The Human Threat to Great Apes":
Cell phones, like many other electronic devices, are built with capacitors, which require tantalum extracted from coltan. Eighty percent of the world’s coltan supply is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the heart of the remaining habitat of eastern lowland gorillas. With an increasing demand for electronics driving a worldwide hunger for coltan, miners in the DRC are polluting and consuming gorilla habitat while extracting the ore. Compounding the problem, miners hunt the apes for food. The situation is grim, and these gorilla populations will go extinct soon without a sustained effort to intervene.''
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
From:Howie Cooke and Shekinah Leigh's photo.
She's free!! the whale is free and yes the SW rescue team deserve to be congratulated on pushing through and and not giving up
Shekinah Leigh 
feeling relieved
After
yesterday's disappointing failures, caused in part by the unnecessary
limitations imposed by Qld National Parks & Wildlife, today the
Seaworld team really pulled out all the
shots. With persistent and consistent effort, along with a growing
sense of the timing needed for success, the beautiful Palmy Whale (that
we are calling Hope), is free! I also wanted to acknowledge the great
effort by Sea Shepherd supporters & friends last night, not allowing
government rules and regulations stop the passion of the people to do
what is right! They lived the truth of "bad things happen when good
people do nothing". Their show of people power and the ability to stand
up to bureaucracy & intimidation, at its lamest, I believe, gave
Seaworld permission to go all out this morning in their attempts to
rescue. So thank you everyone who helped, supported, prayed, sent love
& good vibes. It was all worth it in the end
feeling relievedLatest News From ORRCA:
Palm Beach Update:
unfortunately the weather hampered the rescue attempt this afternoon and
the whale became stuck on another sandbank. Poor light and conditions
has halted the rescue tonight.
A short time ago, a mob of misinformed people barged through barriers and entered the water with the intention of pushing the whale out.
All they succeeded on doing is moving the whale back closer to shore and face it the wrong way.
This has just made the rescue more difficult. Also they were lucky no one was seriously injured. The police are now involved.
ORRCA members will now bunker in for a second night of monitoring the whale, with hopes of an early morning rescue.
A short time ago, a mob of misinformed people barged through barriers and entered the water with the intention of pushing the whale out.
All they succeeded on doing is moving the whale back closer to shore and face it the wrong way.
This has just made the rescue more difficult. Also they were lucky no one was seriously injured. The police are now involved.
ORRCA members will now bunker in for a second night of monitoring the whale, with hopes of an early morning rescue.
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
ORRCA UPDATE:
Palm
Beach Update: the stranded little humpback is still holding its own. It
is being protected from the sun and wind. A trench is being dug to
create an escape channel for the animal. ORRCA and SeaWorld have been
working tirelessly since 7pm last night to save the little whale.
Hopes are high for a refloat this afternoon around 5pm.
Hopes are high for a refloat this afternoon around 5pm.
Have
just heard that a whale has stranded at Palm Beach on the Gold Coast
and that National Parks will attempt to refloat it out to sea with the
next high tide at 5 am. A few people from byron are going up and meeting
other marine conservationists at 4-30 am to make sure they dont change
there mind and instead want to study and kill it as they have done in
the past. Its at the endf of 178th ave Palm Beach . Dont let SeaWorld
get their hand on her. Here is a link to the whale story from byron
today https://au.prime7.yahoo.com/n1/home
From: Dean Jefferys
Whale
still stranded on palm beach Gold Coast ave 17 after rope snapped. We
had a dozen people there at high tide 5 am unfortunately qnpw and
SeaWorld took control and saying safety was there main concern they
didnt want any other help or people in the water preferring to use sea
world people and boats. Two hours after high tide sea world rope snapped
Next time if anyone sees a stranded whale don't call sea world call me
and Howie Cooke and well aget a crew
Update From: ORRCA
ORRCA members have monitored and guarded the stranded whale on the Gold Coast overnight
Towing attempts have failed three times this morning, and will be reattempted again this afternoon
Thanks to all our dedicated volunteers for all their efforts, especially through the cold night
Towing attempts have failed three times this morning, and will be reattempted again this afternoon
Thanks to all our dedicated volunteers for all their efforts, especially through the cold night
Monday, July 7, 2014
Update By Orrca On Entangled Whate At Byron Bay
Update on Entangled whale at Byron Bay: Disentanglement team is onsite
and assessing the whale. ORRCA members are stationed at several
different vantage points, assisting NPWS, to relay behaviour
observations and the position/movement of other humpback whales in the
area, to the teams on the water.
Good luck to the crews on the water in their very difficult and dangerous task!
Good luck to the crews on the water in their very difficult and dangerous task!
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Friday, July 4, 2014
"Naked and Afraid" on Discovery Channel
Friends,I am a veterinarian and my patients are birds. I have, in the past, worked as a wildlife veterinarian as well. I have been an advocate for environmental, welfare and conservation efforts around the world.
I have to ask for your help.
Unfortunately I watched, by accident, a ridiculous and ignorant television program on the Discovery Channel in the USA. It is called "Naked and Afraid". Basically, 2 spoilt, young, middle class white people strip to nude and survive for 21 days "in the wild". The whole direction is that these two white folks try to kill wildlife, so they do not "starve" in those three weeks, but this one was particularly horrible. This episode is based in Namibia. These two destroyed a Hamerkop nest and brutally killed the young ones and ate them. This was entirely for vicarious entertainment.
The reason I am sending this message: do you have any sources I might contact to lodge a complaint about the treatment of these birds, which was solely for pure, greedy entertainment? Are there concerned parties in Namibia or neighboring countries that might be interested in this travesty?
Bulls Being Abused In Spain
By:Martyn Stewart
I have witnessed this first hand, in a town called fuengirola in Spain, I was working on a documentary and watched in horror as this bull was chased onto the beach and set alight!! Screams rang out into the night air mingled with cheers and laughter. If you are a meat eater and are appalled by this, you have the power including all of us to put an end to this.
I have witnessed this first hand, in a town called fuengirola in Spain, I was working on a documentary and watched in horror as this bull was chased onto the beach and set alight!! Screams rang out into the night air mingled with cheers and laughter. If you are a meat eater and are appalled by this, you have the power including all of us to put an end to this.
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