(Missoula Current)Wolf advocates asked a Montana judge to halt the state’s wolf hunting and trapping season while their lawsuit against the state is being considered.
Late Thursday afternoon,attorneys forWildEarthGuardians and Project Coyote filedin Lewis and Clark County courtfora temporary restraining order andinjunctionto stopMontana’scurrent wolf hunt and prevent the wolf trapping season from starting on Nov. 28.
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“As of the filing of this motion, 55 wolves have died at the hands of Montana hunters, including one near the border of Yellowstone National Park. When the trapping season opens on November 28, this killing will accelerate as new dispatch methods enter the field,” attorney RobFarris-Olsen wrote in therequest.
The “new dispatch methods” include neck snares, which were mandated by the…
Montana’s next legislative session begins in January of 2023.
As bad as this last well-orchestrated attack was on wildlife,we are anticipating 2023 will be worse. If you can even believe it!
Anti-wildlife legislators and their special interests in Montana are much empowered. They will use the excuse that they have to step up their unethical and unnecessary war declared on wolvesbecause they did not kill anywhere near all the wolves they are mandatedto do so from the passing of Senator Bob Brown’s SB314 in 2021. Grizzliesare earmarked to blame and will…
PARIS: France has put the country on “high” alert for bird flu, forcing poultry farms to keep birds indoors to contain the spread of the highly contagious disease, the agriculture ministry said on Thursday (Nov 10).
The European Union’s second-largest poultry producer has detected a fresh rise in bird flu outbreaks in the past months after this year seeing its worst-ever wave of the disease, with about 22 million birds culled.
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Between Aug 1 and Nov 8, 49 outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), commonly called bird flu, were detected on French farms, with a large and rising number of cases found in domesticated fowl in backyards and among wild birds, the ministry said.
“In a context marked by the unprecedented persistence of the virus in the environment and strong migratory activity of wild birds, it is essential to strengthen preventive measures to avoid contamination of poultry farms,” it said in a statement.
Although the virus is harmless in food, its spread is a concern for governments and the poultry industry due to the devastation it can cause to flocks, the possibility of trade restrictions and the risk of human transmission.
The “high” risk level, which was previously set at “moderate”, implies that all poultry should be kept inside on farms and additional security measures taken, including for hunting, to avoid the spread of the disease.
Europe has experienced its worst bird flu crisis ever this year, with nearly 50 million head of poultry culled, and the persistence of the virus over the summer has raised the risk of widespread infections next season, the EU’s Food Safety Agency (EFSA) said last month.
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Bird flu usually strikes during the autumn and winter months. It is transmitted by infected faeces from migrating wild birds or direct contact with contaminated feed, clothing and equipment, or in the air.
The state has canceled all live bird shows and exhibitions, swaps or auctions in an effort to prevent the spread of bird flu, which has hit four commercial and backyard flocks since late October.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture issued an order Thursday that orders all events where birds will co-mingle until the threat of highly pathogenic avian influenza has passed. The order begins immediately and will continue a minimum of 30 days — or 30 days after the last confirmed bird flu outbreak.
The state issued a similar order this spring, canceling live-bird events from March 23 to June 3.
Since March, bird flu has hit 23 Iowa commercial and backyard flocks, forcing producers to kill about 15.5 million chickens, turkeys and other birds to prevent the spread of the deadly disease. More birds have been destroyed in Iowa due to the virus than any other state in the nation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture data shows.
In the past two weeks, bird flu has hit two commercial egg-laying facility in north central Iowa’s Wright County, forcing producers to destroy 2.1 million hens to contain the deadly disease.
Officials say the outbreaks are tied to the seasonal migration of wild birds, which can carry the disease without showing apparent symptoms. The virus can spread to domestic flocks from the droppings of wild birds.
ByKAZUYA KOYAMA & LEVON POGOSIAN, THE CONVERSATION
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Everything in the Universe has gravity – and feels it too. Yet this most common of all fundamental forces is also the one that presents the biggest challenges to physicists.
However, gaps in our understanding start to appear when we try to apply it to extremely small distances, wherethe laws of quantum mechanics operate, or when we try to describe the entire universe.
A group of people holding a sign interrupted President Biden’s remarks in Egypt at the COP27 UN climate summit Friday.
President Bidenwas interrupted by protesters as he delivered remarks at a climate summit in Egypt on Friday.
The president flew his jet across the Atlantic Ocean tothe 27th annual U.N. Climate Conference(COP27), where he said the United States is determined to make “transformational changes” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He touted his administration’s accomplishments, boasting of billions of dollars that will be invested to fight climate change and announcing new regulations designed to cut methane emissions 30% by 2030.
The US president assured the summit the US would hit its climate targets by 2030 and apologised for pulling out of the Paris agreementhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2022/nov/11/cop27-egypt-joe-biden-climate-conference-decarbonisation-live-updates
Joe Biden has implored countries to do more to tackle the climate emergency, telling the Cop27 summit that world leaders “can no longer plead ignorance” and that time to confront the crisis is running out.
Biden told a large crowd of delegates at the talks, held in Egypt, that the “science is devastatingly clear – we have to make progress by the end of this decade.” The US president stated that America was taking action on cutting planet-heating emissions and that other major economies needed to “step up” to avoid a disastrous breach of 1.5C in global heating.
An uncharted region of space known as the “zone of avoidance” lurks behind the Milky Way’s center – and astronomers just found an enormous, multi-galaxy structure there.
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A composite image showing the 58 galaxies clustered together in the “zone of avoidance” behind the Milky Way.(Image credit: Galdeano et al. / ESO)
Astronomers have detected an enormous extragalactic structure hiding in an uncharted region of space far beyond theMilky Way‘s center.
This phantom region, known as the zone of avoidance, is a blank spot on our map of the universe, comprising somewhere between 10% and 20% of the night sky. The reason we can’t see it — at least with standard visible light telescopes — is because the Milky Way’s bulging…
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