I’m not a Democrat or a Republican. What I’m against is the bullying coming from the right. Always from the right. Always. This is a flat-out attempt to ridicule the bullies and throw some light on the heroes. I've got lots to work with.
I don't own any of these images. The disdainful comments are all mine, however.
Zimbabwe is the number one destination for tourists to kill leopards for fun.
“Nobody has ever done a detailed survey of leopards in this country, so we don’t really have the slightest clue what the leopard population is” -Viv Wilson, Zimbabwean conservationist.
Here is a short interesting documentary (Kill Of A Lifetime) on the sick leopard trophy hunting industry in Zimbabwe, and the lies they told about how many leopards they have to be able to cash in on the demand for tourists wanting to use packs of dogs to chase terrified leopards up trees and shoot them out.
And now, a break to look at adorable snow leopards.thetadelta: Snow leopard tail nomming compilation, because tails are just awesome.
Photos are from: tanidareal, leopatra-lionfur, denisesoden, rheazblaze, bledsoevball30, and eisenmann87 from DeviantART and barrybaskin from Flickr.
I love how they can manage to look judgmental and disapproving all while having their tails in their mouths.
I’ve reblogged this before, but I don’t care you’re not my mom.
Om nom nom, tasty tails.
Tail noms! :’)
![threethingsfortoday:
3 Oct 2012
A good thing:
Costa Rica is poised to become the first Latin American country to ban hunting as a sport. It is hoped that these changes to law will protect animals in one of the world’s most biodiverse countries. Jaguars, pumas and sea turtles are among the country’s most exotic and treasured species, and are often hunted or stolen as trophies.
Read more: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/costa-rica-poised-to-ban-hunting-as-sport-in-latin-america-first/
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3 Oct 2012
A good thing:
Costa Rica is poised to become the first Latin American country to ban hunting as a sport. It is hoped that these changes to law will protect animals in one of the world’s most biodiverse countries. Jaguars, pumas and sea turtles are among the country’s most exotic and treasured species, and are often hunted or stolen as trophies.
Read more: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/costa-rica-poised-to-ban-hunting-as-sport-in-latin-america-first/
[See click-through for image source.]
HORRIBLE NEWS: Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it’s eliminating federal protections for Wyoming wolves, handing wolf management over to Wyoming, which will open almost all of the state to immediate, unconditional wolf killing.
http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2012/federal-government-eliminates-protections-for-wyoming-wolves
The alpha female of the Fox Mountain Pack of Mexican gray wolves will be shot due to the seven-member pack preying on four head of cattle over several months. The owners of the cattle will be fully reimbursed, but the wolf family will lose their matriarch, according to a kill-order issued Wednesday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to its sister agency, U.S.D.A. Wildlife Services. Last year, only 58 Mexican wolves and six breeding pairs survived in New Mexico and Arizona, their only home in the wild.” More: CBD
My readers know that I love wolves (and birds). Protection of their habitat has a special place in my heart and me wee brain. The Mexican Gray Wolf is protected by the Endangered Species Act. There are about 40 left, and they live here. They cross into Mexico, making it a trans-boundary species that, in my and some conservation lawyers’ opinions, ought to be subject to international law and protection. They’re not.
More information about this beautiful animal:
- Monthly status of the Mexican gray wolf, here
- Center for Biological Diversity PSA
- Mexican gray wolf recovery program
- Facts: Diet, range, behavior, size, etc.
The only thing that can be done, effectively, is to check out and join the Center for Biological Diversity and the Defenders of Wildlife.
According to a Fox News report, the extremely rare and sacred white buffalo born last year has been found dead and skinned along with its mother.
Lightning Medicine Cloud, born May 12, 2011 on a stormy night at the Lakota Ranch in Greenville Texas, was a natural white buffalo—an extremely rare occurrence, happening an estimated once per ten million births.
