Holsworthy side tracked strange animals news 7-7-2019

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10 Ways to Help Protect the Oceans | Dolphin Project

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www.dolphinproject.com - Saving dolphins and whales is more than just ending their captivity. Dolphin Project believes that ocean conservation is vital to the survival of all marine animals. Marine species are currently faci…

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Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction

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www.scientificamerican.com - Up to one million plant and animal species face extinction, many within decades, because of human activities, says the most comprehensive report yet on the state of global ecosystems. Without drastic…

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Earthtongue :: Group Announcements

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steamcommunity.com - Patch 1.3 Nutricycle Hello! Oh wow, that was quick! I went into fix a few bugs but instead ended up spending the past week working fervently, and I have this.. honestly rather significant patch to br…

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Should zoos exist?

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www.fastcompany.com - The high-profile death of the gorilla Harambe, who was shot dead in 2016 at the Cincinnati Zoo after a young boy fell into his enclosure, sparked a massive outcry—and conversation—about what is still…

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The Great White shark is being humbled by plastic pollution

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www.dailymail.co.uk - The Great White shark has no natural enemies but the mighty species is fighting a losing battle against humans and our plastic pollution. Scientists from the University of Exeter found evidence on Tw…

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From pets to pests: cats, rabbits and now raccoons | The Spectator

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www.spectator.co.uk - I was shocked some years ago to discover, as I scratched bites on my ankles on holiday on Maui, that mosquitoes are not native to Hawaii. They first arrived in the 1820s, in barrels of water from a v…

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Expert: Malaysian Tigers Could Go Extinct As Early As 2022 If We Don’t Take Action Now

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www.worldofbuzz.com - Earlier this year, we reported that our Malayan tigers could go extinct in five to 10 years as there are only 200 left in our country. This data was released in a statement by the Water, Land and Nat…

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Five new species of brushed jumping spider discovered in Australia

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www.dailymail.co.uk - Arachnologists have discovered five new species of brushed jumping spider, which are barely the size of a rice grain. One spider has been named after late German fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld for its l…

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Loss of biodiversity is just as catastrophic as climate change | Robert Watson

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www.theguardian.com - A colleague recently described how fish would swim into her clothing when she was a child bathing in the ocean off the coast of Vietnam, but today the fish are gone and her children find the story fa…

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Centuries-old native Australian trees are dying in the South Australian outback

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www.abc.net.au - Rare Australian sandalwood trees that are more than 200 years old are dying in South Australia's outback. Ecologist John Read spotted the dying trees on his property at Secret Rocks, between Whyalla …

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Lionfish: the Mediterranean invasion of an untouchable and enigmatic predator

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theconversation.com - The lionfish is a stunning, mesmerising and highly adorned creature that drifts slowly through coral reefs, seemingly unaware of its natural beauty. But it is quickly causing devastation and destruct…

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Hundreds of sharks and rays tangled in plastic

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www.sciencedaily.com - University of Exeter scientists scoured existing published studies and Twitter for shark and ray entanglements, and found reports of more than 1,000 entangled individuals. And they say the true numbe…

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Why you should never release exotic pets into the wild

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www.nationalgeographic.com - On June 10th, the Massachusetts Environmental Police received a strange call. “We got a call to our dispatch from someone who claimed there was a three-foot lizard in their backyard in Chicopee, Mass…

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The Export-Import Bank should reflect US values

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thehill.com - Even as the climate crisis deepens, banks around the world continue to invest heavily in new fossil-fuel infrastructure to the tune of $1.9 trillion in the few years since the ink dried on the Paris …

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'Nature's emergency is our emergency too'

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www.bbc.com - Scientists and government officials meet this week in Paris to finalise a key assessment on humanity's relationship with nature. The Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, o…

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Hybrid Speciation: When Two Species Become Three

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www.forbes.com - Contrary to what many people think, two species can hybridize naturally in the wild to give rise to a third species, a finding that fundamentally alters our understanding of the evolution of species …

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New species of ancient human discovered in Philippines cave

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www.theguardian.com - A new species of ancient human, thought to have been under 4ft tall and adapted to climbing trees, has been discovered in the Philippines, providing a twist in the story of human evolution. The speci…

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Space for nature

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science.sciencemag.org - How much of the planet should we leave for other forms of life? This is a question humanity must now grapple with. The global human population is 7.6 billion and anticipated to increase to around 10 …

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The Beautiful Intelligence of Bacteria and Other Microbes

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www.quantamagazine.org - Another type of behavior demonstrated by biofilms growing under laboratory conditions is spiral migration, demonstrated in the time-lapse video below of Bacillus mycoides. These bacterial cells grow …