Today I had my fifth appointment with an opthamologist to figure out why my vision is screwy. It’s not major but it’s definitely inconvenient and I figured I just needed some new glasses. I’ve had this problem most of my life and it’s been controlled but since right before Mina died it’s gotten worse. There [...]
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It’s my birthday. It’s not nearly the big deal it was last year when I had a party at Barrel Oak Winery and 20+ friends showed up from near and far, we drank a case of wine and raised more than $800 for Wildlife Direct. The staff at WLD called my cell phone – from [...]
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Blog Action Day! No one likes to talk about human overpopulation as the number one crisis facing our planet. Environmentalists and wildlife protectors don’t like to talk about it because they likely have children, and there’s the idea that having as many kids as you want is a God-given right and mentioning that “right” as [...]
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There’s a blog I’ve been reading over at Wildlife Direct for quite some time – the Milgis Trust – that you should check out and support. The Trust is led by Helen Douglas-Dufresne, a self-described “bush girl” who has conducted “walking camel safaris for the last 20 years in the Mathews-Ndoto region” and “having witnessed [...]
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We’ve all read about this ever since the swine flu outbreak, but now it’s a horrible reality for millions of pigs in Egypt. Don’t think for a minute this has anything to do with swine flu – it doesn’t. This has everything to do with the Muslim belief that pigs are dirty and not worthy [...]
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The International Union for the Conservation of Nature released a report that details the status of the world’s mammals. It’s the first such report in 10 years. Jan Schipper of the IUCN in Gland, Switzerland said, “We estimate that one in four species is threatened with extinction and that the population of one in two [...]
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Kenya Magazine recently published an interview with Dr. Richard Leakey by Dipesh Pabari. I’ve never met Dipesh but I know him in the Internet-way from his days with Wildlife Direct. In the interview, Dr. Leakey talks mostly about climate change as it applies to Kenya, his native country, but what happens to Kenya should be [...]
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A week or so ago I commented on Wildlife Direct’s Bushmeat in East Africa blog. I wrote: “The answer to your questions that no one wants to discuss is human overpopulation. There are simply too many human animals on this planet. If we don’t slow down human population growth, we’ll be the only living things [...]
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I’ve been sitting on a recent DawnWatch Alert about in vitro meat because I wanted to learn more about it before forming an opinion. After listening to Science Friday on NPR last week and visiting their Web site and finding more resources, I chatted with MsOrganicLady about the possibility of creating meat artificially, without any [...]
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Yesterday on the Elephant Voices blog on Wildlife Direct I read about South Africa’s plans to manage elephant populations by culling. That’s the polite way of saying “killing.” Joyce and Petter wrote a very reasoned and analytical view of the new “norms and standards” proposed by the SA government. They also asked the one question [...]
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