Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 79. Sunrise is 6:21 AM and sunset 7:26 PM, for 13h 04m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 21.2% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM. On this day in 1945, the Japanese Instrument of Surrender…
Conservation
Cats, Conservation, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Lion Relocation
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John Adams on Twitter How the world’s largest lion relocation was pulled off https://t.co/5KvE5wiUMz via @NatGeo Paul Steyn reports How the world’s largest lion relocation was pulled off: When he [Jorge Thozo, chief of the Thozo community] was a child, numerous prides of lions roamed the game-rich wetlands of the Zambezi Delta. But their numbers…
Animals, Cats, Conservation, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Can Humans and Lions Get Along?
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“Lions are really causing us havoc,” laments an African pastoralist in Nani Walker and Alan Toth’s short documentary, Living with Lions. The film chronicles the conflict between lions and humans in Laikipia County, Kenya, where drought and urbanization have pushed people and wildlife into closer contact. Conservationists attempt to mitigate the encounters, which often begin…
Animals, Conservation, Environment, Nature
Film: The Rhino Guardians
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The Rhino Guardians from Dan Sadgrove on Vimeo. Dan Sadgrove describes his recent film on an anti-poaching group: In 2016 I travelled to South Africa to visit The Black Mambas – the worlds first all female anti-poaching unit operating in the Balule Game Reserve in South Africa. Coming from disadvantaged communities and breaking strong patriarchal…
Animals, Conservation, Nature
The Last Rhinos
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National Geographic – The Last Rhinos from Brian Dawson on Vimeo.
Conservation, Nature
Film – A Ghost in the Making: Searching for the Rusty-Patched Bumble Bee
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A small species of bee might not seem like much, but it’s worth recalling that for thousands of years a traditional, interrogative answer to questions about humanity’s place in the world has been a reminder that we are part of a larger, created order. How can we care about something that we barely see or…
Business, Conservation, Environment, Good Ideas
Making Wood Without Trees
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Ecovative Design has made a mission of replacing synthetic plastic polymers with natural mushroom based polymers. After disrupting the packaging industry with a line of fully biodegradable mushroom packaging, they are now setting their sights on replacing manufactured wood products. (Video by Brandon Lisy, Justin Beach) (Music by Andy Clausen) Via Bloomberg Business.
Conservation, Newspapers
Wasted Paper
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Week after week, people who don’t ask for rolled-up newspapers find those dead-tree publications on their porches. Wasted paper, each week, of each month, of each season, of each year. The distribution comes close to lawful littering. Publishers should be required to obtain consent before dumping these papers on homeowners’ lawns. That prior consent would be burdensome for publishers,…
Animals, Conservation, Environment, Nature, Religion
The Nature Display at St. Peter’s Basilica
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Animals, Conservation, Nature
Den Cam Shows Maine Bear Cubs’ Birth
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Footage — and a live webcam of the cubs’ den, available at Wildlife Research Foundation.
Animals, Conservation
The Amazing San Diego Zoo Condor Cam
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Live from the San Diego Zoo, it’s a condor cam. CONDOR CAM LINK Here’s the SD Zoo’s description of what’s waiting online: You Are Watching. . . … Sisquoc and Shatash take turns sitting in their nest incubating an egg! Because every California condor egg is so important, their real egg has been removed for…
Animals, Conservation
Happy Holidays from BatCon
by JOHN ADAMS •
I’m a proud member of Bat Conservation International, the world’s leading bat preservation society. They’ve sent along a clever photo that I thought I’d share. Enjoy.
Animals, Conservation, Nature
DNR Establishes Anti-Poacher Hotline
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I saw that the WI DNR has established an anti-poacher hotline. Not a bad idea, and especially nice to see that (as with similar hotlines) the state readily embraces a principle of anonymity: Help the wardens protect your natural resources and wildlife from poachers and violators. If you see anything suspicious during the pending 9-day…
Conservation, Nature
Sandhill Cranes
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A video of a huge flock Sandhill Cranes at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA. The video clip includes cranes landing. Via http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grus_canadensis_-Bosque_del_Apache_National_Wildlife_Refuge,_New_Mexico,_USA-8.ogv By snowpeak (John Fowler) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowpeak/5396822610/) [CC-BY-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)] via Wikimedia Commons