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Auctioning of polar bear hunts in Las Vegas is an affront to humanity
The bears deserve better protection.ByCyril Christo | Jan. 31, 2022, Opinion Contributorhttps://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.496.0_en.html#goog_18051692800 seconds of 30 secondsVolume 20%
“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”
—Albert Schweitzer
“When the last living thing
Has died on account of us,
How poetical it would be
If Earth could say,
perhaps,
from the floor
Of the Grand Canyon,
‘It is done.’
People did not like it here.”
—Kurt Vonnegut,“Man Without a Country”
To see the polar bear is to witness the great living ghost of the North — but with trophy hunting and climate change its population might well be tested in the coming decades. As the movement to ban trophy importsaccelerates in the U.K., there are equally avid aficionados of the killing game as Eduardo Goncalves has called them who have recently decided toauction off polar bears…
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UPDATE: Police release name of woman killed while elk hunting in Summit County
by:Kiah ArmstrongPosted:Jan 31, 2022 / 08:36 PM MST/Updated:Feb 1, 2022 / 03:10 PM MSTjavascript:false
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SUMMIT COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) – A woman died Monday after she was accidentally shot while elk hunting in Summit County.
Police say around 11:00 a.m., 58-year-old Lynette Billeter of Sandy, was with two other family members when they were elk hunting. The woman sat inside a UTV side-by-side when a rifle fired.Clinton house fire causes $450k in damages
Deputies performed first-aid until medical personnel arrived. AirMed also responded to help with lifesaving efforts.
The bullet hit the woman in the pelvic area. She died on the scene.
Police are still investigating the incident.
No other information has been released.
Coming soon: Climate lockdowns?
BY KRISTIN TATE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR —02/02/22 09:30 AM EST
Coming soon: Climate lockdowns?
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The past two years have been a checklist for the worst impulses of government and public sentiment. COVID allowed for supposedly temporary measures to morph into two years of “emergency”…
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Greenland ice cap loses enough water in 20 years to cover US: study
https://phys.org/news/2022-02-greenland-ice-cap-years.html
Greenland’s immense ice sheet has lost enough ice in the past 20 years to submerge the entire United States in half a metre of water, according to data released this week by Danish researchers.
The climate is warming faster in the Arctic than anywhere else on the planet and melting ice from Greenland is now the main factor in the rise in the Earth’s oceans, according to NASA.
Since measurements began in 2002, the Greenland ice sheet has lost about 4,700 billion tonnes of ice, said Polar Portal, a joint project involving several Danish Arctic research institutes.
This represents 4,700 cubic kilometres of melted water—”enough to cover the entire US by half a meter”—and has contributed 1.2 centimetres tosea level rise, the Arctic monitoring website added.
Polar Portal’s…
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US troops to deploy to Eastern Europe amid Ukraine crisis
ByNatasha Bertrand,Barbara StarrandJeremy Herb, CNN
Updated 2:48 PM ET, Wed February 2, 2022
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/politics/us-troops-europe-russia/index.html
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(CNN)President Joe Bidenhas formally approved the deployment of 3,000 US troops to Poland, Germany and Romania, the Pentagon announced Wednesday, in a move to bolster NATO countries in Eastern Europe with tens of thousands of Russian troops amassed along Ukraine’s border.The deployments to Eastern Europe, which were first reported by CNN, are a show of support to NATO allies feeling threatened by Russia’s military moves near Ukraine and the threat of an invasion, US officials said.Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said the deployments included roughly 2,000 troops that would deploy from the United States to Poland and Germany. In addition, approximately 1,000 troops currently based in Germany were moving to Romania.
Kirby said that the moves, which would happen in the…
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We Outdoor Recreationists—All Of Us— Are Displacing Wildlife
SCIENTIST APRIL CRAIGHEAD SHARES WHAT THE CRAIGHEAD INSTITUTE HAS FOUND SO FAR IN ITS EXAMINATION OF USER IMPACTS ON WILDLIFE NEAR BOZEMAN, ATTITUDES TOWARD ANIMALS AND EACH OTHER
byApril CraigheadSUPPORT USGET NEWSLETTERThe trends of outdoor recreation pressure being documented, and the impacts of rising numbers of humans on wildlands being examined by the Craighead Institute is more than just a concern around Bozeman, Jackson Hole and Big Sky. It’s a phenomenon that is occurring up and down the Rockies from New Mexico to Canada. The question is how are public land managers dealing with this new reality to protect wildlife and prevent user conflicts? Photo of Handies Peak Wilderness Study Area in Colorado courtesy Bureau of Land Management
by April Craighead
We have all witnessed a large increase in recreational use on public lands and local trails in our area since…
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UBCO studies human impact on wolf hunting habits
New research finds that wolves living in areas with high densities of human-created linear features, roads, seismic lines or pipelines, need far less space to survive than in less disturbed areasRob Gibson / CastanetJan 30, 2022 9:52 AM
https://www.coastreporter.net/bc-news/ubco-studies-human-impact-on-wolf-hunting-habits-5008939
As the B.C. government decides to continue its controversial wolf cull program for another five years, the University of British Columbia Okanagan has released a study on how human activity impacts wolves in our province.
New research from UBCO’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science has found that wolves living in areas with high densities of human-created linear features, roads, seismic lines or pipelines, need far less space to survive than in less disturbed areas.
According to the study, like humans, wolves are intelligent predators, and they use human-built infrastructure like, trails, seismic lines and roads to help them get around easier.
“Smaller home ranges mean that, all else being equal, more wolves can fit into a given space. Our study is important for understanding how food and movement combine to influence home range size. Wolves can have profound impacts on their prey, and even plant communities. If humans are driving changes to those links in the food web, we need to understand how and then find a way to manage our part of the equation,” explains Melanie Dickie, a doctoral student who works with UBCO biologist Dr. Adam T. Ford.
Dickie’s team looked at data from 142 wolves outfitted with GPS devices in order to determine food availability for ungulates (deer, elk caribou) and their predators. Then they looked at how much easier roads and other linear features made it for wolves to access food in their home ranges.
Linear features enable the movement of predators like wolves which increases their encounter rates with prey and, as a result, their kill rates.
Increased wolf kill rates have important consequences, in particular for woodland caribou, which are in decline across much of their range as a result of increased predation.
By restoring linear features, it’s hoped that it will make it more difficult for wolves to hunt, which in turn should naturally reduce their numbers.
In contrast, in high-productivity areas, restoration may reduce wolves’ hunting efficiency, but likely will not affect regional density.
“This research is a great example of how ecological theory can support wildlife management,” says Dr. Rob Serrouya, study co-author and director of the caribou monitoring unit at Alberta’s Biodiversity Monitoring Institute. “Pushing our understanding of how movement and habitat use influences the distribution and abundance of species, will directly link to how we manage those species.”
Dr. Ford says it’s important for researchers to continue monitoring human activity when looking at species’ survival rates in Canada.
“This study adds human activity to the equation with the goal to help save caribou within a rapidly-changing environment,” Dr. Ford says.
A recent Castanet poll asked “should the province have extended its wolf cull for another five years?” More than 7,800 people responded with 45.2 per cent saying no they should not, while 42.5 per cent indicated the province should continue the wolf cull, 12.2 per cent were unsure.
oyotes among us: Wily survivalists spotted throughout Madison, but few conflicts reported
- Chris Hubbuch | Wisconsin State Journal
- Mar 14, 2021
- https://madison.com/news/local/environment/coyotes-among-us-wily-survivalists-spotted-throughout-madison-but-few-conflicts-reported/article_c96b7ca1-3edf-5c6f-ad50-9534611fc0c2.html
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A little after lunchtime on Jan. 14, Brad Herrick was heading out the door to walk his dog, Ruby, when he thought he saw a dog running loose.
About 20 yards away, it was trotting down the sidewalk on East Dayton Street past Lapham Elementary School. It was skinny and its brown coat looked “disheveled.”
Herrick, an ecologist with the UW Arboretum, did a double-take.
“That’s a coyote,” he realized.
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Simulations show long lag in the effect of global warming on Greenland’s ice sheet volume
by Bob Yirka , Phys.org
https://phys.org/news/2022-01-simulations-lag-effect-global-greenland.html
A team of researchers working at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research has found via models, that due to a long lag time, the Greenland ice sheet could continue losing ice over the next century whether global warming is brought under control or not. They have posted a paper describing their findings in the open-access journalPLOS ONE.
Prior research has shown that the volume of Greenland’s ice sheet is growing smaller nearly every year as the planet grows warmer. In this new effort, the researchers suspected that reductions in the volume of the ice sheet…
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