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8 Sep
Monday Moaning
Found this commet:
“The Earth could get along just fine without us. If anyone can think of an ecosystem function that requires our presence, I would like to hear about it. Circumstantial and fossil evidence indicates that even when human numbers were small, the fires, animal drives, and plant preferences had harmful effects. Ecosystem resilience absorbed early human impacts, but now with more than seven billion of us, the impacts are simply overwhelming earth ecosystems. Livestock? Earth could tolerate a few domestic beasts, but not the billions we have now.”
On this post:
Animals are dying off 1,000 times FASTER now that humans are present
Man is the enemy of this planet, Mother Nature was doing just fine before we came along and totally upset the delicate balance.
It makes me think how right I was when I made this meme.
The sooner we become extinct, the planet will recover. Our pesence will be for future life forms to discover our stupidy.
And, my guess is, they will make the same mistakes again.
2 Mar
Nature Ramble
Last week was a disaster. PC problems and much drama. I finally took the bull by the proverbial horns and reinstalled XP totally, but in doing so I lost all my saved references/links that could be used here, and nothing has appeared in the news that is rambleworthy.
So, I am leaving you with this as food for thought…
8 Sep
Nature Ramble
India, Bangladesh and Africa this week.
Regal species are losing ground.
I’m talking about Bengal tigers and African lions.
Tigers under threat from disappearing mangrove forest
Report shows vast forest, shared by India and Bangladesh, is being rapidly destroyed by environmental change
A tiger roams within the Sunderban, some 140 km south of Calcutta. Photograph: EPA/Piyal Adhikary Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA
A vast mangrove forest shared by India and Bangladesh that is home to possibly 500 Bengal tigers is being rapidly destroyed by erosion, rising sea levels and storm surges, according to a major study by researchers at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and others.
The Sundarbans forest took the brunt of super cyclone Sidr in 2007, but new satellite studies show that 71% of the forested coastline is retreating by as much as 200 metres a year. If erosion continues at this pace, already threatened tiger populations living in the forests will be put further at risk.
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Big cat crisis: Africa’s lions being crowded out by people
Satellite survey shows farms and settlements eating up open savannah, especially in west Africa where only 500 lions remain
The lions that roam Africa’s savannah have lost as much as 75% of their habitat in the last 50 years, a study has found. Photograph: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP
African lions are running out of room to roam and some local populations, especially in west Africa, are heading for extinction, a new study warns.
New satellite data, studied by scientists from Duke University, found about three-quarters of Africa’s wide open savannah had disappeared over the last half century, broken up into farms or engulfed by development.
“The reality is that from an original area a third larger than the continental United States, only 25% remains,” Stuart Pimm, a conservation ecologist at Duke and co-author of the study, said in a statement.
Lion populations have dropped by two-thirds over the last half century – down to as few as 32,000, confined to isolated pockets of land. Only 10 of those 67 lion areas are stable and well-protected – lion “strongholds”. Other populations, especially in west and central Africa, were so small and so threatened – by poachers, disease, or inbreeding – they may not survive for long into the future.
The study estimates that more than 6,000 lions are in populations with a very high risk of local extinction.
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Comment:
So sad to see these, amongst the most regal animals, are threatened by man’s progress.
What a high price we pay.
24 Mar
Make you Fink on Friday
‘Humans killed off Australia’s giant beasts’
Scientists have linked a dramatic decrease in spores found in herbivore dung to the arrival of humans in Australia 41,000 years ago
Humans hunted Australia’s giant vertebrates to extinction about 40,000 years ago, the latest research published in Science has concluded.
The cause of the widespread extinction has provoked much debate, with climate change being one theory.
However, scientists studied dung samples from 130,000 and 41,000 years ago, when humans arrived, and concluded hunting and fire were the cause.
The extinction in turn caused major ecological changes to the landscape.
The scientists looked at pollen and charcoal from Lynch’s Crater, a sediment-filled volcanic crater in Queensland that was surrounded by tropical rainforest until European settlement.
They found Sporormiella spores, which grow in herbivore dung, virtually disappeared around 41,000 years ago, a time when no known climate transformation was taking place.
At the same time, the incidence of fire increased, as shown by a steep rise in charcoal fragments.
It appears that humans, who arrived in Australia around this time, hunted the megafauna to extinction, the scientists said.
The megafauna included three-metre tall giant kangaroos and marsupial lions, as well as giant birds and reptiles.
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Opinion:
Man never learns. We are doing it again; or have we ever stopped?
Of all the pestilences on this planet, man is the worst. No other species kills, maims or deforms itself. Man has killed more humans than any natural disaster or disease in nature.
Animals don’t do this.
Man is a lower life form than the animals.
Man may have technology, man may have intelligence and rational thought (LOL there’s a laugh for you) but man remains the stupidest life form on Earth.
Eco-Crap 
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