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Touch The Jungle: Rainforest Under Siege - Intag Ecuador
Source: NWHS News By:Tracy Wilson
Call To Action: Intag rainforest region in Ecuador needs our help to fight against illegal Mining! Spread the word!
To those of you who support our project Touch The Jungle in Ecuador, this long fight against mining in the Intag region of Junin, Ecuador is heating up again. It looks like the government of Ecuador has teamed with a private mining company and is trying to get in there to start mining exploration, despite the community being against it and having passed laws in their county and communities against environmental destructive activities.
These people who live there and own the land, are against the mining and have not agreed to allow it. They are simple country farmers who just want to preserve their pristine cloud forest environment and way of life. But the mining companies keep trying to come in illegally, sometimes with the corrupt government helping force their way on these private properties. The Intag people have fought long and hard against it, they have even been physically attacked, injured, and died for this cause at the hands of the mining company. They need the support of the outside world to help back them up...
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Octopus Relative Floats on Shell
Source: Discovery News
Scientists said Wednesday they had cracked the mystery of the paper nautilus, the brittle and translucent shell belonging to rarely-seen species of open-water octopuses called argonauts. For centuries, biologists have puzzled over the evolutionary function of the female's delicate off-white casing, which is too thin to offer protection from predators.
The most widely-held view was that it served as a brood chamber to house eggs. But a new study reveals its primary role is to allow the animal to ascend and descend in the ocean by using trapped air to regulate depth.
"Through underwater observations of wild argonauts, we discovered the five-step process by which females gather air from the water surface and transport it to depth, where neutral buoyancy is attained," said Julian Finn, a researcher at Museum Victoria in Melbourne, co-author of the study...
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Beijing Zoo lets visitors admire, eat wildlife
Source: Christian Science Monitor By: Peter Ford
Hey kids, wanna go to the zoo today and look at the crocodiles? And then maybe eat one? The meat might be pungent, but the concept seems somewhat tasteless. The Beijing Zoo puts the same animals on its restaurant menu as it keeps behind bars. Crocodile, kangaroo, antelope, and hippopotamus are among the species that visitors can go the zoo to admire on the hoof, and then savor at lunch - steamed, braised, or roasted - at the Bin Feng Tang restaurant.
This has been going on for years, according to the restaurant's manager, who seemed surprised that a newspaper article this week about her establishment should cause a stir on the Chinese Internet. The news has not gone down well. "How would you feel, watching animals imprisoned in a limited space while eating their siblings?" asked Zheng Yuanjie, a well-known author, on his blog.
The zoo restaurant apparently has the requisite license from the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and Forestry (which would presumably prefer to see crocodiles and hippos in a soup than in their landscapes) and is quite legal because none of the species on the menu is endangered...
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