World's Last Male Northern White Rhino Under 24-Hour Guard

[rick49]

I know I shouldn't be surprised, but I'm still stunned.

"World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020"

www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/27/world-on-track-to-lose-two-thirds-of-wild-animals-by-2020-major-report-warns

When I was a kid, never in my wildest imagination did I ever think I would witness the complete scouring of life (except for our stinking species) on this planet. I suppose we will keep cows around because we like beef. Extraterrestrials, if they take a look at our planet in the future, will see nothing but humans and vast herds of force fed cows confined to factory farms. We are leaving nothing but horror for children being born now. Actually, having a baby now qualifies as child cruelty.

This is the future we are leaving to children.

"Sol Death Soylent Green"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bshz1reMTVY

Nothing but recordings of what a beautiful planet this was before we turned it into a sludge filled sewer.

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It's worse than you think. Ostriches are dying from plastic inhalation.

[perrykneeham]

They're buggers for ignoring warnings though.

[rick49]

"Whale found dying off coast of Norway with 30 plastic bags in its stomach"



"Scientists in Norway found more than 30 plastic bags and other plastic waste inside the stomach of a whale stranded off the coast."

"Wardens had put the whale down after realising it wasn't going to live, and had clearly consumed a large amount of non-biodegradable waste."

"Despite the huge volume of plastic clogging up the whale's stomach, the fact it died from ingesting the waste was "not surprising", said researchers, as the volume of plastic in our seas continues to grow."

"The creature had very little blubber and was emaciated, suggesting the plastic had lead it to become malnourished."

"He also said the intestines were probably blocked up with plastic, causing severe pain." (we
aren't satisfied with killing them, we have to torture them)

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/03/whale-found-dying-coast-norway-30-plastic-bags-stomach/

"Researchers estimate the amount of plastic in the ocean is set to increase ten-fold by 2020
And there could be more plastic than life in our seas by 2050"

And we have no idea how many more are slowly dying with digestive systems clogged with plastic.

[rick49]

"End of an era: Water-skiing squirrel holds final show"

www.wgal.com/article/end-of-an-era-water-skiing-squirrel-holds-final-show/22578931

[nobody]

Bees are used to stop Elephants crossing land planted with crops

[rick49]

"Patagotitan mayorum: New study describes the biggest dinosaur ever"

phys.org/news/2017-08-patagotitan-mayorum-biggest-dinosaur.html

Could squash a T-Rex like a bug.

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The Britanniotitan Brexitum cloned a couple of years ago from the fossilised faeces of a smaller genetic type Jacobus Risiblemoggius is far bigger.

[rick49]

"One man’s idea to rid the ocean of drifting plastic"

"Now, after years of designing, fundraising and construction, Slat’s Ocean Cleanup Project is almost finished in Oakland, Calif. Next month he’ll set sail — well, actually, it’ll be dragged — out in the Pacific to one of the large plastic masses."

hotair.com/archives/2018/08/08/plastic-ocean-litter-cleanup-project/

Cross your fingers that it works.

[rick49]

So much for Jacques Cousteau , the "enviromentalist".

"Among his many claims to fame, the renowned French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau is often remembered as a pioneer of marine conservation—an impassioned defender of the planet’s most vulnerable sea life. You’d never guess that, though, from watching The Silent World. Over the course of his award-winning 1956 documentary, Cousteau and his crew of fellow deep-sea divers behave less like scientists than not a**hole tourists, blithely harassing just about every species they encounter during their underwater expedition. The men hitch rides from sea and land turtles alike, climbing onto their shells and ignoring the animals’ plain perturbation. They marvel at the friendliness of one oversized grouper, then grow weary of its company and decide to lock it up in a cage. And they chuck sticks of dynamite into the water, reasoning that studying the collection of corpses that come floating to the surface is the most reliable way to survey the local ecosystem."

"Of course, it would be a mistake to ever think of Cousteau, who died in 1997, as just a scientist. There was always a big dose of showmanship to the man in the bright red hat," (what better way to be a showman than harassing and killing wildlife with dynamite?)

film.avclub.com/jacques-cousteau-throws-dynamite-at-fish-in-the-first-d-1798257910

'A Jacques Cousteau Documentary on Sea Life Blows the S**t Out of It"


"During the film, Cousteau decides to do a complete census of the local marine life in a coral reef, which is exactly the sort of educational study we'd expect from our genial explorer. What we don't expect is for him to do it by killing everything in sight with explosives."

"And it's not like The Silent World smooths over the killing -- during the census scene, we hang on the image of a puffer fish slowly exhaling buckets of water and dying on top of a pile of corpses."

"In another scene of unprovoked ocean mutilation, we see a sperm whale that has been inadvertently hurt by the film crew's boat. The animal, now seriously injured, is mercifully put out of its misery by the crew. A group of sharks are then attracted to the dead mammal and begin to feast on its remains. Such is the circle of life, except the members of Cousteau's team decide to attack the sharks with axes, tuna hooks and crowbars, killing every last one of them for no good reason at all." (except showmanship for the cameras)

www.cracked.com/article_19548_the-5-most-horrifyingly-wasteful-film-shoots.html

[rick49]

"911? I’m being attacked by a baby squirrel"

"A tiny squirrel chased a German man so aggressively that the man called the police for help Thursday."

"Police arrived to witness the end of the pursuit, which ended when the exhausted animal collapsed and fell asleep, according to the Guardian."

"The officers transported the animal, which had likely lost its mother and was searching for a new home, to a rescue center. But first they named it Karl-Friedrich and declared it their mascot, according to a police statement."

“It often happens that squirrels which have lost their mothers look for a replacement and then focus their efforts on one person,” police spokeswoman Christina Krenz told the Guardian.

hotair.com/headlines/archives/2018/08/911-im-attacked-baby-squirrel/

Just wanted a mommy.

[rick49]

"Dozens of elephants killed near Botswana wildlife sanctuary"

"The spike coincides with Botswana's anti-poaching unit being disarmed. Botswana has the world's largest elephant population, but poachers have been breaching its border."

www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45396394?ocid=socialflow_twitter

And 87 a couple weeks ago. No way in hell will elephants and rhinos escape extinction with losses like this. F**k China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Thats where 99.999 % of the demand for ivory is. Along with their magical boner medicines from rhino horns.

[rick49]

558m-year-old fossils identified as oldest known animal


www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/20/558m-year-old-fossils-identified-as-oldest-known-animal

[mids]

Self-identified?

[flatandy]

That's actually kinda interesting. Pre-cambrian animal life!

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Ah, Rees Mogg.

[rick49]

"Plants can’t talk. But some fruits say “eat me” to animals"

"Over millions of years of natural selection, these plants have developed ways to communicate with animals through their fruits, new research suggests, saying something like “choose me.” With traits evolved to match each animal’s sensory capacities or physical abilities, fruits can signal dinner time in the jungle, and further their plant’s survival as a species."

hotair.com/headlines/archives/2018/10/plants-cant-talk-fruits-say-eat-animals/

When the pears in the pear tree by my window fell to the ground, they invited the white-tail deer to come and eat them. Fun watching the deer gobble them up.

[rick49]

"Why have animals evolved a sense of beauty?"

www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150511-why-are-animals-so-beautiful

[flatandy]

Here's a more positive story. Bison conservation has been so successful in Yellowstone (after the entire animal's population was 23 in the early 20th century) that wild bison are now being moved to create herds elsewhere. The herds are going on to Native American conservation land, which is great for all kinds of reasons, but particularly because the near-extinction of the bison was in part done as a way of implementing genocidal policies against Native Americans.

www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bison-returns-wilds-america-180970547/?fbclid=IwAR10r4k7SXpsXFE_UuE_P9HXkw418TRHV2iVvjorGhMCDbzbNZ8MDvBc9SE

[rick49]

Good for the bison. Hope the cattle ranchers don't kill them.