National Wildlife Humane Society

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January 9, 2010  
 
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Member News
Big Universe
Polar Bear Habitat
Manatee Hot Tub
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  NWHS Member Newsletter #17 

Welcome members of National Wildlife Humane Society (NWHS) to your weekly E-Newsletter. We hope those members in the northern latitudes are keeping warm. Our remote wilderness NWHS headquarters, and wildlife sanctuary, is experiencing unusually frigid temperatures for Arkansas. The big cats and other critters are frisky, but this writer craves spring.

The NWHS membership continues to grow. We can certainly use more. We have some exciting and interesting wildlife projects for 2010. Please feel free to use the link at the top right of every e-newsletter to Invite Friends.
 
Another way to help NWHS grow is to forward this newsletters to friends, and they can clik this link: Join NWHS. Together, we can build a real "wildlife conservation movement".


Patrick D. Webb
 President - National Wildlife Humane Society
Founder/Director - Top Of The Rock Wildlife Sanctuary
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  NWHS - A Brief Glimpse Of The Universe
Source: National Wildlife Humane Society

Newest educational video offering from NWHS, with awesome Hubble photos. Why a video about the universe from a wildlife rescue and conservation organization? Simply to delve into just how important life is. All life. In a place as vast as the universe, life is precious and worth conserving. All those galaxies, like our own Milky way which contains millions of stars. It wasn't that long ago, scientists thought our galaxy was the entire universe. Now we take pictures of other galaxies, and there seems to be no end to them. All those suns, and all that space. We are so very tiny, so insignificant in size, yet so special.

In consideration of other life out there, it would be a minuscule percentage of exactly the right type stars, in the exact time and place that could also support life. Even then, life out there may only be microbial in size and simplicity. The diversity of life on Earth is amazing and special. Indeed worth saving. Look at our Earth. So special because we have so much life, yet life is taken for granted by humans. As a race, we exterminate species without remorse, simply to increase our own numbers without conscience. The Sagan quote at the end of the video puts it all into perspective.
Click To View Video At NWHS

Polar Bears Habitat Changes

   
Polar Bears Changing Habitat in Response to Sea Ice Conditions
Source: Science Dailey Photo Credit: Styve Reineck  
 
A long-term study showing the changes in habitat associations of polar bears in response to sea ice conditions in the southern Beaufort Sea has implications for polar bear management in Alaska.
 
Karyn Rode, a polar bear biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Anchorage, Alaska and one of the study's authors, says data collected between 1979 and 2005 show that polar bears in the region are occurring more frequently on land and in open water and less frequently on ice during the fall.
 
This means there are increased chances for human/bear interaction. The paper was published in the December issue of Arctic - the journal of the Arctic Institute of North America......
Click Here To Read The Article In Full
 
  Manatee Hot Tub
 
Offline power plant keeps water warm just for manatees
Source: Reuters By: Carlos Barria
 
Brr! Florida manatees warm up at power plant hot tub. An offline Florida power plant is providing a warm-water refuge for several hundred manatees who like the Sunshine State's human residents are shivering in record low cold temperatures.
 
Close to 400 of the bulky, wrinkly and endangered sea mammals, including mothers and young, have congregated at an outlet on Florida's Intracoastal Waterway where heated water flows from the Riviera Power Plant operated by the Florida Power and Light Company, a unit of the FPL Group Inc
 
The oil- and gas-fired plant was taken off line last year for modernization but FPL has installed a special heating system to keep waters at an attractively balmy temperature for the manatees who have been gathering at the outlet for years.....
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