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Safer for the Trainer .. but how about the Whale?

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:40:00 +0000

After over a year in isolation, SeaWorld decided to reintroduce Tilikum the killer whale back into their Believe show.
The infamous porpoise brutally killed his veteran trainer Dawn Brancheau last year. As you may already know this was not the first death caused by the 12,000 lb mammal. Tili has a record that, if he were human, would land him in prison for 3 lifetimes.
So why not retire Tili when he has made it obviously
apparent that he is not happy?
Money. Money Money.
Killer whale shows bring in big money, SeaWorld is big business and Tilli is the biggest. (Literally. Tilikum is the largest animal in captivity.) Marine mammal activist Ric O'Barry criticized SeaWorld's decision saying, "It was a calculated risk that management took in the interest of profit.
Which part of killer whale don't they get?"
SeaWorld is contemplating a couple of new mechanical solutions to handle such a predatory attraction. First, the floor of the tank will be able to rise to the surface in the event of another attack.

SeaWorld is also considering adding robots to the tank that would flash Tilli with a series of strobe lights if they believe he is acting up.

All of the these new procedures are to make sure the trainer is safer working with such a large animal. But what about Tili?

Tilikum comes from a troubled past; he watched two members of his pod being killed before being captured. He was captured near Iceland in November of 1983 at about two years of age and sent to live at Sealand of the Pacific in B.C., Canada. Tili was then obtained by SeaWorld and moved to Orlando to become their prize stud in January of 1992 after he killed a female trainer who fell in the water in 1991. In 1999, Tilikum was involved in the death of a man who stayed in the park after hours and was found dead in the pool the next morning.

Then his trainer Dawn Brancheau was brutally pulled under the water during a Believe show.

The issue here lies in this question: Are we capable of domesticating such an intelligent marine mammal as large as this?

In the wild the killer whale can travel up to 100 miles a day with a pod of its family members. These pods strategically hunt together insuring food for everyone. Like humans, killer whales need mental stimulation to sustain its sanity.

"Participating in shows is just a portion of Tilikum’s day, but we feel it is an important component of his physical, social and mental enrichment,” said Kelly Flaherty Clark, SeaWorld Orlando’s animal training curator, in a prepared statement.

I could go on for days as to why the domestication of any marine mammal is wrong but what SeaWorld is doing to Tili and his fellow killer whales is cruel.

Please visit The Orca Project to enlighten yourself on the perils of marine aquariums. Once you learn the truth as to what goes on after the show is over, you'll never be able to justify going to such a park again. The Orca Project

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Domesticated Tili entertaining:

Greenhouse Gases Pumped Into GreenHouses

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:11:00 +0000

Question: What is greener than a greenhouse?
Answer: A green house that takes in CO₂ from a local factory to then turn it, naturally, into O_2.

Until recently, greenhouse's would burn natural gas for the sole purpose of generating CO₂ to feed its growing plants.

But today its being piped from nearby refineries.

"It's time we stopped thinking of CO₂ solely as a pollutant and viewed it as a valuable resource," says Gabriele Centi, a chemist at the University of Messina, Italy.

There is certainly no shortage of CO₂ to be captured and used. Around 27 billion tones are released each year through human activity. Imagine next to every smoking factory, a greenhouse that is just as large; producing just as much. NewScientist

Migrating Towards A Developed Future

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:00:00 +0000

Photo Credit: National Geographic

Tourism to the Serengeti is vital to that regions livelihood.
Over the years, poaching has decreased due in large part to the income from tourists visiting the Serengeti looking for that
wild experience.

But man does not get around on his own.

The Tanzania government plans to build a commercial road, north of Serengeti National Park, cutting through the migratory route of
2 million wildebeest and zebra.

Not only does the new highway cut the animals off from their dry-season watering holes, but experts are certain this could become a major conflict zone for humans and animals,
leading to casualties on both sides.

The African Wildlife Foundation is campaigning for the road's path to be altered so that it passes south of the park, avoiding the migration route. But despite the idea of a new path the original road is set to go ahead, with construction kicking off in 2012.

Its hard to say who is right and who is wrong in this situation. Tanzania is a developing country who was hit hard during the recession of '09. Despite the fact that 38% of the countrys land is protected, tourism was down that year. In a recent speech, Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete said that the best he could do was to leave the part of the road that crossed the migratory route unpaved.

New Serengeti Highway marked in red.

'In accepting the trusteeship of our wildlife we solemnly declare that we will do everything in our power to make sure that our children's grand-children will be able to enjoy this rich and precious inheritance." states Dr. Julius K. Nyerere of SavetheSerengeti.org.

Visit SavetheSerengeti.org to become a part of the campaign to voice your concern over the new highway. NewScientist

Aw Cute: This Owl Thinks He's A Seagull

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:48:00 +0000

Photo Credit: FWC

A rare Burrowing Owl has been rescued from the world's largest cruise ship, the Oasis of the Sea, where it had apparently tried to find a home on a miniature golf course.
Just hours before the ship set sail for the Caribbean from Port Everglades in Florida a member of the crew saw the owl near the artificial grass of the golf course on an upper deck, and called in officials from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).
The 1,181 ft ship has a living park, complete with plants and trees, but the FWC said the owl would not have coped well with a new environment out at sea.
"Burrowing owls need to be in open, treeless areas where they can dig their burrow," said FWC biologist Ricardo Zambrano. "The artificial turf on the ship's golf course resembles the fields they use for nesting in urban areas; however, it was obviously not suitable habitat for this owl."
Burrowing Owls are listed as a species of special concern, meaning the birds, their nests and eggs, are all protected by law from interference or disturbance making Lt. David Bingham, the man who rescued the little bird, a hero!

Lt. David Bingham holding onto the rescued owl.
Photo credit: FWC

Lt Bingham said, "Never in all of my 25 years with the FWC have I seen anything like this, and I have responded to some strange calls. I am very pleased the owl wasn't injured and that we could get it back to a normal habitat." BBC

The Race to the Poles

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:50:00 +0000

This past Thursday, Canada and Russia tried to work out claims over the Arctic as each country looked to its energy riches and new shipping routes made increasingly possible by the melting Polar ice.
Along with Canada and Russia, Norway, Denmark, and the United States are all at odds over how to divide up the Arctic seabed. Why? According to the US Geological Survey, the Arctic is thought to hold 90 billion barrels of oil and 30 percent of the world's untapped gas resources.
Every winter, the Arctic ice shelf returns less and less making the seabed more accessible.
In an effort to solidify the idea that the North Pole has been claimed since 2007 (Here: Quest for the Poles), Russia will boost its research efforts next month by launching a drifting research station. Russia must have scientific data of such energy sources, prove that the people of Russia need said energy and submit them to the United Nations in 2013 (matching the claim made by Canada expected for that year.)
The two Arctic nations claim the Lomonosov Ridge, a mountain chain running underneath the Arctic, as an extension of their continental shelf. AP

The Usual Report.

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:05:00 +0000

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In the small fishing village of Taiji, entire schools of dolphins are driven into a hidden cove after a prolonged chase. Once trapped inside the cove, the fishermen kill the dolphins, slashing their throats with knives or stabbing them with spears. The water turns red with their blood, and the air fills with their screams. This brutal massacre - the largest scale dolphin kill in the world - goes on for six months of every year.
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Mesmerizing: A Tribute Of Confusion For Some Species

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:35:00 +0000

Photo by Scott Hudson aka NJ Scott

Every September 11th since 2001, New York City has paid tribute to those fallen with breathtaking beams of light rising from the site of the Towers to the eternal skies above. People from all over the country - the world even - come to this memoriam to pay their respects.

But more then just people flock to this site.

This year the lights disoriented some 10,000 birds migrating over lower Manhattan. Apparently the birds lose their orientation in the bright lights, become confused,

and wind up circling the area for hours.
"Through the course of the night we shut the lights off five times for approximately 20 minutes each time," John Rowden, Citizen Science Manager for NYC Audubon Society told Animal Planet.

Preventing the birds from becoming mesmerized by the lights is important because these migrating birds are running low on fat stores and energy. A night's worth of circling Ground Zero could cause exhaustion problems while on their journey to the north.
Fortunately this problem does not happen every year. Weather conditions have altered the paths of birds in the past, leading them away from Manhattan on September 11th. But a similar situation did occurred in 2004, leading some animal advocates to question the tribute's ethics and legality since migratory birds are protected by federal law. TIME

Come Hell or High Water Or Potholes or Really Sharp Rocks

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:10:00 +0000

Photo Courtesy of Disarranged Reality

A ginormous drill, dubbed Plan C, arrived in Chile on Friday to help speed up efforts to rescue the 33 miners trapped 2300 ft below the surface. The drill named, 'RIG-422' is designed to drill oil wells and is operated by Canada's Precision Drilling Company.
Climbing up the rocky hillside on 42 (!) flatbeds, the drill was welcomed with an outcry of cheers and applause from the families and coworkers of the miners.
"These trucks are enormous," marveled Maria, sister of trapped miner Dario Segovia. "We were up all night here in the camp waiting for them."
The trucks are actually so large that the entrance to the mine needed to be widened in order for them pass.
A few of the trucks arrived with flattened tires and bent rims due to potholes and the sharp rocks they met along the way.
If all goes according to plan with this new drill, the Chilean rescuers will only have to drill down to 1958 ft shortening the excavation time to only two months!
The trapped miners received a message of support from 6 European Space Agency astronauts who have been living in isolation inside a mock spaceship in Moscow in an experiment to simulate a voyage to Mars. Their advice: "Stay busy, be careful with your health and keep a normal day-night schedule." Disaster Management

You Don't Have to Kill a Snake to Get a Sample of Its Venom - You Do Have To Kill a Whale to Get a Sample of Its Tissue

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:38:00 +0000

Photo Credit: iNewsCatcher

Commercial whaling was banned worldwide in 1986.
Soon after Japan set up a non-profit Institute of Cetacean Research and has since slaughtered hundreds of ocean mammals in the name of science.

If you've ever seen an episode of Whale Wars on Animal Planet you'll notice these Japanese ships will have 'RESEARCH' painted along its side. The crewmen will often times hold up large signs to helicopters flying over head that explain to the viewer that they are, 'collecting tissue samples.' (See photo below.)

The Japanese 'researchers' seem to learn more about a whale when it is dead then observing it when it is alive.

But they are not fooling anyone.

Two years ago, a veteran Japanese whaler (not

named) was frightened by what he knew; his fellow crewmen were receiving boxes of whale meat, purposely mislabelled as personal belongings, at their homes after they returned from their Antarctic hunts. The whaler then contacted Greenpeace activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki and told them what he had experienced.
In 2008, the two activists (pictured below) stole a 50 lb box of whale meat labelled 'cardboard and vinyl' to prove the embezzlement of the state run research program. They then handed the box over to prosecutors and called in a press conference to publicise what they saw as evidence of corruption.
But officials explained the crew members were receiving boxes of whale meat as 'souvenirs'.

On June 20, police arrested Sato and Suzuki and raided Greenpeace's Tokyo office while the charges of embezzlement against the state were being dropped. Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki were detained and held for 26 days. The two activists were strapped to chairs and interrogated up three times a day without their lawyers present, Greenpeace says.
"Activists are not criminals and to treat them as such has a chilling effect in society, undermining the quality of democracy," Greenpeace executive director Kumi Naidoo had said.

The two men, nicknamed the Tokyo Two, were each sentenced to serve a year in jail.

Sato states: "The verdict is unfair in that it violates our rights to let people know, and the people's right to know." Whales Ahoy

Photo credit: Greenpeace.org

Tigers: Bringing Countries Together

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:31:00 +0000

Photo Credit: Kim Sullivan Photography

With an estimated population of only 500, the Siberian Tiger is one of the most endangered species on the planet. The tigers habitat covers a vast section of Asia with a number of different countries it calls home.
Making protection in the wild a challenge to say the least.
In an effort to keep this species from disappearing forever, Russia and China have agreed to set up the first ever cross - border protection zone for a species of animal.
"... Transnational protection area will provide a wider and healthier habitat for Siberian tigers and other endangered species, such as the Far East leopard," states Yu Changchun of Jilins Forestry Department.
Siberian Tigers have been hunted to such low numbers for various reasons; their hide, meat, they pose a threat to local cattle, but it is their holistic properties to the Chinese people that cause the most harm. Killing a Siberian Tiger for medical purposes has been made illegal in 1993 but officials state that it extremely difficult to prevent all deaths. Out of the 500 tigers, only 20 are surviving in China. BBC.UK

The Usual Report.

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:59:00 +0000

° Today °
► Angelina Jolie raises awareness for Pakistan. Yahoo News.
► Not that much ice melting. Ice World.
► Anything but the BEER !! Shake & Blow.
► New healthcare plan? Cockroaches have antibiotics in their brains. Intern Daily.

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► Pakistan has been at it for, like, a month! Terra Daily.
► 53,000 on flood alert in Australia. Water World.
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Avatar 2: Real People on a Familiar Planet

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:14:00 +0000

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The plot is similar: indigenous people being forced off of their native land by an energy-developing company looking to seek out new sources. No matter what the cost.
But this time the scene is all too real. Avatar director James Cameron said Sunday that he plans to film a 3D documentary of the Amazonian people who are protesting the construction of a dam on the Xingu River for fear it could flood their tribal lands.
"I want to return to meet some of the leaders of the Xikrin - Kayapo tribe who invited me," said Cameron. "I want to take a 3D camera to film how they live, their culture."
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gave the go-ahead last week for the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant on the tributary to the Amazon River. The government states that, 'no indigenous land would be threatened and that it has spent millions on reducing the social and environmental impact of the dam' while opponents cry fowl. The Belo Monte would cause the displacement of 16,000 people because it would create a flood zone of 500 square kilometers along the banks of the Xingu.
Cameron has visited the Xikrin - Kayapo tribe in the past and plans to put that footage on the DVD re-release of Avatar at the end of this year. Terra Daily

Quality & Quantity

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:49:00 +0000

Photo credit: AP

World Water Week kicked off this past Sunday as 2500 experts from 130 countries gathered at the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) in Sweden to discuss the future of water.
The main focus: Pollution & Change.
Every day approximately 2 million tons of human waste is poured into rivers, lakes and the sea, all around the world. It is reported that in developing countries as much as 70% of industrial waste is put into the water system directly without first being treated.
"There is really no physical shortage of water in the world," states World Water Week director Jens Bergren, "there is actually lots of water. It is how the water is managed that is the big problem."
Getting everyone to work together to solve this issue before it becomes a crisis is also a big problem. Raising awareness about how interconnected global water systems are is the reason World Water Week just reached its 20th year.
SIWI: "There is often a disconnect for people that pollute and the effects of that pollution on people and ecosystems downstream or in other parts of shared lakes and aquifers. Water pollution is on the rise globally." Water World
For more information on WWW go to WorldWaterWeek.org.
Please let me know what you are doing for World Water Week this year!

New Posts Coming .. .

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:57:00 +0000

Horseshoe Crabs. Photo by Me. Taken in Union Beach, NJ.

I have been neglecting my little blog for far too long! It's time I get back to it and honor the goals I've set for myself when I first began over a year ago ... No more delays !!

Dear President Obama,

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:16:00 +0000

Defenders of Wildlife are calling on President Obama to take action to stop Idaho's deadly wolf hunt. Check it out:

Take Action ! Sign Defenders of Wildlife's letter to the president to make your voice heard !

The Cure To Cancer?

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:22:00 +0000

Joseph Irudayaraj, a Purdue University associate professor, developed a nanoscale - multifunctional probe, 1,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair, that contains the antibody Herceptin; a drug used in the treatment of cancer. The probe can help pinpoint the location of cancerous tumors and might one day be able to directly attack cancer cells.
"If we have a tumor, these probes should have the ability to latch on to it," Irudayaraj said. "The probe could carry drugs to target, treat as well as reveal cancer cells."
The probes would be injected into the body through a saline fluid and the Herceptin would find and attach to protein markers on the surface of cancer cells.
The probes are not yet on the market, "..the next step would be to run a series of tests in mice models to determine the dose and stability of the probes." Intern Daily

U.S. Starts Setting Itself Some Standards

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:21:00 +0000

A 684 page carbon cutting legislation called the American Clean Energy and Security Act kicked off the long anticipated battle over climate change for the United States. The U.S. Congress included energy policy changes, ranging from a mandate that 25 percent of U.S. electricity come from renewable sources by 2025 to energy efficient codes for new buildings.

The most controversial aspect of the bill is its proposal to place a price on carbon and other climate changing gases by implementing a cap - and - trade system. The program would require any business that emits more than 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases per year, such as oil companies, electric utilities or large industrial plants, to buy federal share or allowance.

"This legislation will create millions of clean energy jobs, put America on the path to energy independence and cut global warming pollution," said House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman. Climate Science

A Macho Murder?

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:59:00 +0000

The last known jaguar in the United States was put to sleep a couple months ago after trackers discovered the 13 year old cat was suffering from kidney failure.
Now some experts say that decision may have been too hasty. A necropsy by veterinary pathologists at the University of Arizona, suggested that the animal was not suffering from kidney failure and may have just been dehydrated. Macho B, the oldest known wild jaguar, died within days after being snared, tranquilized and collared.

"If something about the way you capture an animal causes stress, injury, pain or death, you've got to know so that next time you capture one, you don't make the same mistake. I'm sure everyone feels terrible about it, but if we haven't been able to learn from it, that's really bad." said Jessup, who has 30 years of experience with wildlife captures and post mortem examinations.

There are no bad guys to this story, Macho B was extremely sick and treating a wild cat can be dangerous and difficult. "By grabbing the public's attention, Macho B can spread the word about jaguar conservation (in the USA)," said Michael Robinson, a conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. Discovery

U.N. Should Have Worded It : N.KOREA'S NOT PERMITTED TO FIRE ANYTHING INTO THE SKY

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:34:00 +0000

The World is holding its breath this week as global enemy, North Korea plans to send a satellite into orbit.
Under a 1967 UN international space treaty stating that outer space, "..shall be free for exploration and use by all states without discrimination of any kind."
North Korea says it has the right to put a satellite into orbit under this treaty despite the fact that the U.S. and other countries are suspicious that the planned launch is really a test for long range military missiles.
The suspicion does come from somewhere; the Security Council censured North Korea twice in 2006, first for carrying out a ballistic missile test that July and then for conveniently conducting a nuclear test explosion three months later.
Lee Keun-gwan, an expert on international law at Seoul National University, agreed, "I think it is a matter of great concern for the peace and security of the region. International society is justified in urging North Korea to respect the spirit as well as the letter of the relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions."

Kinda Wimpy :

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:52:00 +0000

A five nation scientific team has published new evidence that even a slight rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affects the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). The research, which was published in the March 19 issue of the journal Nature, is based on investigations by a 56 member team of scientists conducted on a 1,280-meter long sedimentary rock core taken from beneath the sea floor under Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf during the first project of the ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) research program.
"The sedimentary record indicates that under global warming conditions that were similar to those projected to occur over the next century, protective ice shelves could shrink or even disappear and the WAIS would become vulnerable to melting," said Ross Powell, a professor of geology at Northern Illinois University. "If the current warm period persists, the ice sheet could diminish substantially or even disappear over time. This would result in a potentially significant rise in sea levels." Ice World

G's Attend The G20

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Barack Obama will make his debut at the annual G20 Summit tomorrow in London and if you haven't already heard all eyes are on America. Do we have the answers to correct a global recession?
Already today protesters, furious at the current state of the world, display their anger through the windows of local business's while exasperating the tolerance of the police force. Many feel that the United States is responsible for the economic downside and expecting this 8 hour meeting to overcome the major financial problems by coming up with a global stimulus plan.

Also expected to come out of the 2009 G20 Summit, nuclear talks between the U.S. and Russia with a planned meeting this summer and a possible regulation on world poverty. China is bringing up the idea of a global currency but do not expect this to be a major issue to address seeing that mostly everyone advises against it as the result could be a global government.

Hopefully the Summit meeting will be more then just talk and media coverage.

The Usual Report.

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:41:00 +0000

°Today°
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► United States finally committed to UN climate talks. Climate Science
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noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:14:00 +0000

For The First Time EVER

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:36:00 +0000

Earlier this month, the president of Sudan was issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of war crimes and cruelty against humanity. This is the first time ever a president serving in office is issued with an arrest warrant.
But not taking these issues to heart or seriously, Omar al-Bashir has decided to kick everyone that is not from his country out in an effort to keep himself and other head military men safe. This act mostly pertains to the 13 non-government agencies that the neglected citizens so desperately need, including Oxfam, Save the Children and Medecins Sans Frontieres. A joint Sudanese - UN study has said more than a million people in Darfur will go without food by May unless new aid agencies are deployed.
Omar al-Bashir is accused of orchestrating against the civilians in Darfur, where his government has been battling rebels since 2003. BBC, Oxfam, Save The Children

The Usual Report.

noreply@blogger.com (Save The World or Else) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:58:00 +0000

°Today°
► Icy flood waters continue to rise. FOXNews
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► Broken dam creates a tide-like tsunami that hits Indonesia capital, killing 50. CBS

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