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If polar bears or tigers became extinct tomorrow, would you mourn them? Probably. But if an unfamiliar animal vanishes, would you feel the loss?
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It is hard to know what you don't know.
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Between 2000 and 2015, a total of 801 tiger seizures — equivalent to at least 1,755 tigers — were reported across 13 tiger range countries…
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We are certainly hell bent of riding the world of much of its wonder.
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Wildlife products and drugs both fuel massive levels of international crime, according to a new United Nations report. A massive new report published this week by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) proves what conservationists have been saying for years: smuggling of wildlife products is huge business. The report—compiled from records of… Via Garry Rogers
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Japanese sushi chefs often can't resist bluefin tuna on offer. Some American chefs can't either, even though conservation groups and marine biologists have been badgering them about bluefin for years.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
I am not one for banning all of everything. But there are certain things that I actively choose not to eat for ecological or ethical reasons. And Ahi (bluefin and big eye) Tuna has now entered into that realm for me.
PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
January 8, 2015 1:24 AM
I am not one for banning all of everything. But there are certain things that I actively choose not to eat for ecological or ethical reasons. But I am not one to stop eating all fish simply because we are not properly managing some (or the majority of) stocks. But Ahi (bluefin and big eye) Tuna has now entered into that realm for me. This is very sad for me. I think of the seafood I used to eat when I was younger and it is not what I eat now.
Most conspicuously, abalone is no longer part of my diet unless I pick up a few small steaks from my mariculture friends' farms. That was literally what my extended family built parts of our summers around when I was a child: men popped, kids transported them up the cliffs, and the ladies pounded the steaks so that all had frozen abalone steaks for the year. Now it is not only illegal to harvest abs here in my region of California, but there literally are none to be had. Victims of overfishing, elevated sea temperatures, Rickettsia-like infections, etc.
These times are always very interesting to me: swearing off gas-powered personal vehicles, blood diamonds, drinking too many drinks on a Friday night, etc. When the facts are in that we really need to do something different to be responsible adults and members of our larger community, follow through can be difficult. It should be that the more "first world problem-y" the issue is, the easier it should be to quit or change our behavior. After all, we are not talking here about a choice of feeding our family or going hungry. But it seems the psychology of such "superficial" changes vs. more consequential/truly difficult choices is much more similar than it is distinct. This posting is a great example of that.
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The Earth’s population now tops 7 billion people. The rapid growth of our human population is pushing other species off the planet in what most scientists are calling the sixth mass extinction crisis. Yet this population explosion is too often ignored by the public, the media and even the environmental movement, while it continues to drive all the major environmental problems that plague our planet — including climate change, habitat loss, ocean acidification and resource depletion. That’s why the Center for Biological Diversitylaunched our Endangered Species Condoms project in 2009, and since then has distributed hundreds of thousands of free condoms across the United States. Wrapped in colorful, wildlife-themed packages (with artwork byRoger Peet), Endangered Species Condoms offer a fun, unique way to get people talking about the link between human population growth and the species extinction crisis. Via Garry Rogers
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Awesome!
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Botanists try to save a 'wimpy' desert plant from extinction / UCLA Today
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A new "national scenic" trail from the Continental Divide to the Pacific should be routed around the Yaak Valley bear country in northwestern Montana.
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The country's largest agricultural water district, Westlands, maintains that California has plenty of water. It's just mismanaged.
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This is the consequence of directed efforts to fight environmental regulations via methods demonizing those seeking to make sure we have a healthy, long-term life-support system that perpetuates the remnants of the ecosystems that have thrived in California for many thousands of years.
Very sad state of affairs. The fact people seek to stoke political wars rather than seeking true solutions that are sustainable and just is pathetic.
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The Leuser ecosystem in northern Sumatra is home to some of the world's rarest and best-loved animals. Thanks to a new government moratorium on land clearing, conservationists have enjoyed a big win.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Some positive news that shows we can make conservation efforts work, even for tough problems.
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When it comes to wildlife crime and trafficking of illegal animal products, elephants and rhinos take the lion's share of media attention. But the little pangolin, an insect-eating mammal that lives in tropical parts of Africa and Asia, is often overlooked, despite being the most heavily-trafficked mammal species.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Many rare species will not survive the rising affluence of the middle class across Asia.
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The news keeps getting worse on the catastrophic decline of Monarch butterflies, now approaching a potential point of no return. The decline has been blamed on several factors, including drought, d...
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