This is a rufous-tailed scrub robin video. The video was made in the Netherlands, where this species is very rare. I was privileged to see this beautiful bird in Greece.
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Daily Archives: February 5, 2017
United States Trump’s racist sidekick Bannon and national security
This video from the USA says about itself:
5 February 2017
This past weekend, Donald Trump decided to purge members from the National Security Council, and elevate his advisor and known White Nationalist Steve Bannon to the top post. Ring of Fire‘s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Steve Bannon Believes The Apocalypse Is Coming And War Is Inevitable. Trump’s top adviser thinks we’re in “the great Fourth Turning in American history”: here.
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Northern shoveler in Sweden
Ice library built in Siberia
This video says about itself:
5 February 2017
‘The Ice Library of Wonders’, which consists of 420 “books” on a 200 ton ice sculpture on the coast of Lake Baikal, in Baikalsk, Russia, was unveiled on Sunday.
The walls of the structure are formed from ice blocks, with etchings of more than 1,000 short phrases forming a labyrinth. People from all over the world submitted their dreams online to be carved into the ice, in various languages including English, Chinese, Korean, and Russian.
The library on Baikal is expected to stand until April, and then it’s going to melt.
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United States wrestlers welcome in Iran after all
This video, from the Olympics in Brazil last year, is called J’den Cox (USA) wins the bronze medal in men’s freestyle wrestling at 86 kg.
In about ten days time, there will be World Cup wrestling in Iran. Then came United States President Donald Trump’s decree banning people from seven countries, including Iran.
As a retaliation, the Foreign Affairs Department of Iran banned the United States wrestling team from coming to the World Cup tournament.
However, then a federal judge (by the way, a Republican, a George W Bush nominee) decided that Trump’s travel ban was illegal. A federal appeals court confirmed that decision.
As a reaction, the Iranian Foreign Affairs Department has reversed its earlier decision. The United States wrestlers are welcome to participate after all.
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Black-winged kite video
United States protests against Donald Trump
This February 04, 2017 video is about United States protests against Donald Trump.
This February 04, 2017 video is called Protesters March Outside President Trump‘s “Winter White House” In Florida.
Trump Order Stops Young Woman From Coming To the U.S. To Do Alzheimer’s Research: here.
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Gyrfalcon video
Japanese economy endangers wildlife
This video says about itself:
2 August 2012
Photos and videos of a female Leopard leading her tiny cub across the Sand River in South Africa’s Mala Mala Game Reserve. Filmed by Stu Porter.
From Kyodo news agency in Japan:
Japan’s imports pressure nearly 800 endangered species: study
Feb 5, 2017
Japan’s imports of foodstuffs, wood products and other commodities affect 792 endangered species in Southeast Asia and around the world, according to a study on the impact of Japanese consumer habits.
A cup of coffee using imported beans, for instance, may push leopards in Africa to the edge of extinction, the results of a biodiversity footprint survey led by Keiichiro Kanemoto of Shinshu University show.
The study tracked 15,000 commodities imported by Japan for daily consumption and analyzed their impact on about 7,000 endangered species. The researchers used data from organizations including the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which publishes the Red List of threatened species.
In Malaysia, a major exporter of plywood to Japan, deforestation has shrunk the habitats of sun bears and greater spotted eagles, while green turtle species in Papua New Guinea are declining as a result of many of them being caught as bycatch in the process of satiating Japan’s appetite for fish, the study said.
Japan is also a major importer of coffee beans and sesame seeds from Ethiopia. The demand generated by its consumers has led to increased land development there, reducing the habitats available to leopards, elephants and other wild animals.
In Spain, the construction of a dam to provide electricity for olive and grape cultivation has led to a decline in the population of the Iberian lynx, a wild cat species native to the Iberian Peninsula. Spanish wine and olive oil are consumed in Japan.
Kanemoto, a specialist in environmental economics, is hoping the study will deepen the people’s understanding of how human consumption affects ecosystems and help make it easier for them to choose products that are less harmful to the environment.
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Good Iberian lynx news
This 2016 video is called Iberian Lynx | Full Documentary.
From the Olive Press in Spain:
Endangered Iberian lynxes making comeback in Spain
A total of 440 Iberian lynxes are thought to have been living in the country in 2016, up from 404 the previous year
By Chloe Glover (Reporter)
21 Jan, 2017
AN ENDANGERED big cat is making a comeback in Spain.
A total of 440 Iberian lynxes are thought to have been living in the country in 2016, up from 404 the previous year.
The good news was revealed by Andalucia’s Junta, which is co-ordinating a national re-introduction programme.
It said the biggest concentration can now be found in the Montes de Toledo in Castilla La Mancha.
Numbers have also increased in the Andalusian zones of Guarrizas in Jaen and Guadalmellato in Cordoba.
Programme co-ordinators hope that figures will increase further this year when 40 lynxes will be released across five provinces.
Lynxes have been struggling to survive on their own due to a disease that is wiping out rabbits, their primary food source.
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