Sons of Anarchy anyone

Emperors North is going to be on fire with sexy @ss chicks.

Preserve Our Paradise

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Preserve Our Paradise · 800 like this

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  Series of Public Meetings Scheduled for Central Everglades Planning Project Sept. 16-19 >...

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  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District will be holding a series of public meetings to discuss the draft

Some people count down for Christmas. For me its the countdown for them biggest and the best party of the year. Less than a month away.... So excited.

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World of Zoology pest eating bird?

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World of Zoology · 550 like this

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• Pest-eating #birds mean money for coffee growers, Stanford #biologists find

  

  Pest-eating birds mean money for coffee growers, Stanford biologists find

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  Stanford scientists have assigned a monetary value to the pest-control benefits rainforest birds can provide to agriculture.

Maui’s dolphin

Greenpeace New Zealand

The Government has just announced continued delays in protecting Maui’s dolphin that will simply move the species closer to extinction.

Its long overdue threat management plan for Maui’s dolphin was this afternoon re-opened for yet another round of public consultation, a year and a half after it first started discussions on increasing protection when a population estimate revealed numbers had plummeted to only 55 adult dolphins.

Conservation Minister Nick Smith has called for more public feedback on a slight change to the previous draft plan which now includes an extension to the set net ban off an area of the Taranaki coast....

The new proposal falls well short of expert advice and public preference.

The small extension offered would still leave a vast area of the marine mammal sanctuary open to gill nets and trawling which are the methods most deadly for Maui’s dolphins.

Tens of thousands of public submissions last year clearly called on the Government to follow expert advice on how to protect the dolphins. Now the Minister is coming back and basically saying “erm – how about we don’t do that?” and calling it a public consultation.

This is yet another delay which brings us a step closer to becoming the first country to oversee the extinction of a marine dolphin due to human causes.

The extinction of Maui’s dolphin would be a huge blow to New Zealand’s record for wildlife conservation that has seen a number of species brought back from the brink of extinction - and to our international reputation as an environmentally friendly country.

In June the International Whaling Commission released a report stating any human-caused death to Maui’s dolphin would increase the chances of the species being wiped out. It called on the New Zealand Government to impose a total ban on set net and trawl fishing in all areas where Maui’s dolphins are found.

Almost a year ago the Government asked New Zealanders what should be done to protect Maui's dolphins, and received an unprecedented 70,000 submissions - the vast majority calling for full protection throughout the dolphins' habitat, as experts have advised.

What's needed is an immediate and extended ban on gillnets, set nets and trawling – the main threats to Maui’s dolphin – throughout the dolphins’ habitat along the west coast of the North Island from Maunganui Bluff (north of Dargaville) to Whanganui, including harbours and extending to the 100 meter depth contour. And a prohibition on seismic surveying and petroleum drilling in an extended Marine Mammal Protection Sanctuary for Maui’s dolphins.

41 elephants were poisoned

Africa Geographic

6 men have been arrested and 17 elephant tusks recovered after 41 elephants were poisoned with cyanide in Zimbabwe.
Read the full story here - http://blog.africageographic.com/africa-geographic-blog/news/41-elephants-poisoned-with-cyanide/