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Tourists Thwart Turtles from Nesting in Costa Rica
By ELISABETH MALKIN and PAULINA VILLEGAS SEPT. 18, 2015- NY times
MEXICO CITY — The day-trippers swarmed onto the beach to watch one of nature’s most extraordinary sights, hundreds of thousands of olive ridley sea turtles crawling out of the ocean to lay their eggs in the sand. The turtles did not want the company. Scared off by the thousands of tourists massed along Ostional Beach on Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast, snapping selfies and perching their children on the turtles’ backs, the ancient reptiles simply turned around and retreated into the sea. “It was a mess,” said Yamileth Baltodano, a tour guide who was at the scene when the turtles were scared away two weeks ago. What happened during the first weekend in September was a one-time event, when a confluence of factors allowed the utterly unexpected to take place. But it was a cautionary tale for the conservationists charged with protecting the turtles, which are classified as vulnerable, not to mention a social media sensation. Now Costa Rican officials are scrambling to make sure it does not happen again. “We are reassessing the way we work and the way we tackle the issue,” Mauricio Méndez, deputy director of the Tempisque Conservation Area, which includes Ostional Beach, said in a telephone interview on Friday. The olive ridley nesting season, from August through October, coincides with Costa Rica’s rainy season, which ordinarily provides a natural barrier that protects the turtles. During that time, the beach is all but cut off by the flood tide of the swollen Nosara River, which blocks access on bridges. Even in the dry season, the beach is accessible only by a four-wheel-drive vehicle driven by a local guide. But this year, low rainfall caused by El Niño left the river all but dry, making passage to the beach easy. Mr. Méndez said officials were working on changes before the next arrival, expected on Oct. 4. He said he hoped to double the number of police officers and security guards, and even to bring in the Coast Guard. Groups will only be allowed in with guides and will be limited to the edges of the nesting area.
Thousands of Olive Ridley sea turtles returned to the sea when they found their nesting places crowded with tourists. Credit Sindicato de Trabajadores de MINAE Despite the commotion, turtles still managed to lay some eggs, perhaps at night. Mr. Méndez and his team found many more eggs than they expected after the frolicking tourists went home. “A tornado can be happening, and they will continue to deposit the eggs, carve it out, nest, and go back to sea,” he said. The turtles, who lay their eggs during a three- to four-day period each month, began to arrive early on Sept. 4. Photographs of the phenomenon quickly began to spread on social media. From a distance, aboard a boat, Vanessa Bézy, a sea turtle biologist, watched in dismay as hordes of tourists clogged the beach, overwhelming the guards. “I almost had a panic attack because it was so crowded,” said Ms. Bézy, a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has been studying nesting behavior at Ostional Beach for five years. “It was basically a free-for-all.”
(via This Shocking Photograph Reveals The Reality Of Climate Change | IFLScience)
The Carnivores Guide to Eating Sustainable Meat
Let’s be as frank as possible here. I LOVE meat. Seriously. I think it’s delicious. However, I’ve come to accept that meat consumption as frequent as my own is damaging, and not a sustainable practice.
So first off, what’s wrong with meat? On it’s own, as in meat that has not been altered or heavily exposed to antibiotics and where the animal grew up healthy, nothing really is wrong with consuming meat. In fact, properly raised meat is really very good for you. Yet meat is usually not so well off these days mainly due to genetic modifications, grain feeding, and antibiotics. These afflictions on the animal due to common practices in industrialized meat production have an easy time of it making their way into the human who consumes it.
So how does one eat meat sustain-ably?
1) Eat less meat. I know this isn’t what you want to hear, but it’s the truth, and that’s sorta the point of this whole blog. You don’t have to say goodbye forever, but the benefits of eating less meat are enormous, including significantly lowered risks of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and cancer aside from benefiting your carbon footprint. As a bonus, it will probably help your wallet out too.
2) Eat more grass fed/finished or pasture raised meat. There are varying definitions of the term “grass fed” and the scariest is that the USDA may consider cows that ate grass in the first few months of their life but were kept on grains for the rest can still be considered “grass fed”. Safer terms are “grass finished” or “pasture raised”, so look for those. If the meat has the AGA logo on it though, it’s a safe bet it’s truly grass fed.
3) Eat more local meat. By far the best way to ensure that your meat is of quality without getting it yourself is to get it from a small farm. There are several advantages to this, like being able to visit the place you get your meat from and supporting a local farmer and the local economy.
4) Get it yourself. The cold hard fact of meat consumption is that something has to die so that you can eat it. This is easily forgotten when you get your meat from the grocery store, where the meat no longer resembles the living thing it once was. The most basic way to surpass this level of ignorance is to do it yourself. Hunter’s get a bad rap for what they do, despite their methods of obtaining meat being probably the most sustainable and healthy. But you don’t have to go out and get the big game. Fishing and raising chickens are options too. Check out the links below for benefits.
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my teacher says that global warming isn't real and that it's simply a climate fluctuation. he said that the guy who wrote the original report (claiming that global warming is happening) admitted that he made up and fabricated evidence and did other things to misrepresent the situation. is that true? i mean, i know we're harming the environment in other ways, but why would so many scientists agree that global warming is occurring if the original report was misleading? my teacher wasn't very clear
I don’t know the particular report you’re referring too. If you send it to me that could help me explain. But please keep in mind early studies, even those from the 70s, often used strange tactics to test their hypothesis and often didn’t adhere to the scientific method. This does not mean they were wrong, they can still be showing trends, it’s just not exactly conclusive. Furthermore there have been plenty of studies since then that show global warming is in fact happening. Your teacher is right that the global climate goes through oscillations, but what is most concerning about global warming is the rate that it is occurring. Before anthroprogenic sources of green house gasses, the rate of change took place over thousands of years, now it’s taking place over a few decades, and this is the problem. Flora and fauna can not adapt to this rate of change, and nor can we.
Before/After Assholes
Toxic water floods river after EPA disaster at Gold King Mine in Silverton
Source: The Durango Herald
GIFs: The Gasoline Station
This wasn’t an accident. This is on Navajo lands.
Devastating.
Boost this please!
Krill, those tiny, pink, semi transparent crustaceans in the Antarctic ocean are actually extremely important in the food chain and to the overall health of our planet.
Save the planet, Tell CVS to take krill oil off their shelves —->> bit.ly/1DFB1JG
Humans can live without Krill. The oceans can’t.
A new international survey reveals what’s really driving the demand side of the ivory market.
It’s world Elephant Day. African elephants face a number of different threats to their continued survival. Climate change, habitat loss, urbanization. But one of the most grisly is poaching. The Ivory trade is tied with crime and rampant violence. Here’s a study on who is actually funding all this
One GIF Reveals Exactly How Much Ice Has Melted Since 1999 - attn:)
Happy World Elephant Day!
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I am trying to raise £13,285 so I can study for a Master of Research in Biodiversity, Evolution and Conservation. I care about the history and fate of our planet, I am an environmentalist, and hope one day to be a qualified ecologist and scientist too.
Please check out my crowdfunding page at http://spsr.me/1H1OB4B
I don’t normally post submissions like this one. But as a financially struggling conservation student myself, I couldn’t not help her out anyway I could. Conservationists make so many sacrifices, sacrifices many people never think of, in our quest to correct the wrong doings and save what we have left. Often what I get told is I’m doing “amazing things”, but no one understands the investment we put in. And the investment isn’t only financial, it’s our health, it’s our security, and often relationships. So many of my mentors have stories of divorce, weird diseases, have been threatened with violence, and not to pile on top of that the issues of student debt. Help her if you can or just share her story. She’s short £9,000, and any little bit will help.
Wildfires are taking the frost out of permafrost.
NPR has a great story about the aftermath of wildfires in Alaska, which have already burned through five million acres this summer. The ground up there has thick layers of duff, which is vegetation—fallen leaves, branches, etc.—that doesn’t decompose because of the cold. Duff lies atop permafrost and insulates this frozen layer of earth that stores two times as much carbon as the atmosphere. Too bad duff is flammable. When a wildfire comes and burns through it, the underlying permafrost becomes exposed to the warmer temperatures above. As it melts, the permafrost releases the carbon it had been holding for tens of thousands of years.
(via President Obama on America's Clean Power Plan - YouTube)
We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change, and the last generation that can do something about it. That’s why today, President Obama announced the final version of America’s Clean Power Plan, the biggest step we’ve ever taken to act on climate change.
Rescuers Heroically Help Beached Garbage Back Into Ocean
Oh the onion!
Breathtaking photos show the Empire State Building lit up with endangered animals in first-of-its-kind display