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Humanity driving 'unprecedented' marine extinction

Report comparing past mass extinction events warns that hunting and killing of ocean's largest species will disrupt ecosystems for millions of years

Humanity is driving an unprecedented extinction of sealife unlike any in the fossil record, hunting and killing larger species in a way that will disrupt ocean ecosystems for millions of years, scientists have found.

A new analysis of the five mass extinction events millions of years ago discovered there was either no pattern to which marine species were lost, or smaller species were the ones that disappeared.

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Frances Moore Lappe: To Endorse, Or Not To Endorse--That Is The (Wrong) Question
What if "endorsement" is a political red herring? "Endorsing" suggests approval, but for a lot of us that option is closed. But, hey, we still have to choose--we must choose because democracy itself is at stake today.

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London - The Thames, Houses of Parliament, The London Eye on a magical night

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31.8.16. Very low tide means I can walk to areas of the Thames which are usually well under water. The sun is still setting and the sky is highlighted in the most amazing tones... these splash onto the surface of the water... I think this picture of London is one of my all time favourites. If you have not yet visited London, what are you waiting for? It is the greatest city on earth :)

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Instagram : @_monologist by Monologist

Instagram : @_monologist by Monologist

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A misty and bright, yet moody early morning in Barbican, London

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Tropical crow species is highly skilled tool user
An international team of scientists and conservation experts has discovered that the critically-endangered Hawaiian crow is a highly proficient tool user.
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New book details South America's surprising prehistoric mammals
South America was home to a host of unique animals during the 60-some million years the continent was isolated, during most of the Cenozic Period. Details and constructions of mammals ranging from mouse-sized marsupials to elephant-size sloths, with photos of fossil remains and 15 collections sites across the continent are included in a new book.
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How Fighting the Bushmeat Trade Protects Lions

Sometimes, when traveling through Maasai Mara, visitors may see elephants with half of their trunk missing. The poor creatures must kneel to pluck grasses, and they are unable to reach leaves from the canopies of trees at all.

It is no mystery what maims these elephants.

Over smoky fires, well hidden from passersby on the road and the wary eye of law enforcement officers, people burn the rubber from tires and harvest the steel wire within them. Twisting these metal strands together and tying a slipknot in one end, they form deadly nooses with which to catch wild animals. The bushmeat poachers set these snares in between shrubs to trap wildebeests or zebra, high in trees to catch giraffes, and low to the ground to snag warthogs. The result is gruesome. Animals die from thirst or exposure, from deep lacerations caused by the biting wire cinched around their throat or leg or from spears and clubs when poachers return to check their traps. Some animals manage to break free on their own but sustain life-threatening injuries while doing so. The elephants that have lost their trunks are examples.

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(Above: The AKTF Anti-Poaching Team removes snares in Maasai Mara National Reserve)

Elephants are not the intended targets of these snares, as zebra, wildebeest, giraffe, eland, warthogs and antelope are, but they get caught all the same. The same is true for lions.

In partnership with National Geographic's Big Cat Initiative, The Anne K. Taylor Fund (AKTF) tackles the main threat to lion populations, human-wildlife conflict, ‘head on' through our work with predator-resistant, fortified bomas. By protecting livestock from wild predators in these stockades, we are able to significantly reduce the number of lions that die from retaliation attacks by herders. In addition to building bomas, though, we also protect lions by combatting threats to their habitat and prey populations from poachers, their snares and their spears.

Our Anti-Poaching Team, in partnership with the Mara Conservancy Rangers and Kenya Wildlife Service/David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust veterinarians, runs regular patrols in and around Maasai Mara to ambush and arrest poachers, remove snares from the bush, and rescue as many wildlife caught in snares as possible.

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(Above: AKTF & Mara Conservancy Rangers rescue a wildebeest caught in a poacher's snare)

This past week we removed 582 snares, rescued 40 animals trapped in them, and discovered eight more animals that had succumbed or been slaughtered already. It was a good week for the wildlife we protect. Those snares that our team removed represent more than just nearly 600 wildlife lives saved: because the steel wires are nearly indestructible, poachers use them over and over again, meaning that those snares, had they been left in the bush, could have taken the lives of thousands of animals a year.

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(Above: AKTF Anti-Poaching patrollers holding dozens of snares removed from the Reserve; their faces are obscured to protect their identities)

We see the role of our work in Maasai Mara ‘buying time' until local education, society, and values change in ways that eradicate poaching organically. By addressing threats to lion populations from these angles, there is a better chance for a lasting difference to take hold. We are deeply grateful for the generous support of National Geographic, as well as many other private and institutional donors, that make our work possible and keep us optimistic about the future of Maasai Mara's ecosystem and the lions it nurtures.

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Hawaiian crows can use sticks as tools but are nearly extinct
Like their cousins the New Caledonian crows, island-welling Hawaiian crows seem naturally disposed to using tools for getting food
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The Conversation Africa: Climate change health risks will hit the poor hardest - so what can be done?
Bob Mash, Stellenbosch University

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Hawaiian Crows Use Tools to Reach Tidbits
This rare crow can select a tool and manipulate it to pry tasty treats from crevices in under a minute. This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on September 14, 2016. It is...

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Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 (11 photos)

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, founded in 1965, is an annual international showcase of the best in nature photography. Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London. This year, the contest attracted nearly 50,000 entries. The owners and sponsors have been kind enough to share the following 11 finalists from this year's competition. Their website has images from previous years and more information about the current competition and exhibition. Captions provided by the photographers and WPY.

Splitting the catch. Sometimes it's the fishing boats that look for the killer whales and humpbacks, hoping to locate the shoals of herring that migrate to these Arctic Norwegian waters. But in recent winters, the whales have also started to follow the boats. Here a large male killer whale feeds on herring that have been squeezed out of the boat's closing fishing net. He has learnt the sound that this type of boat makes when it retrieves its gear and homed in on it. The relationship would seem to be a win-win one, but not always. Whales sometimes try to steal the fish, causing damage to the gear, and they can also become entangled in the nets, sometimes fatally, especially in the case of humpbacks. The search for solutions is under-way, including better systems for releasing any whales that get trapped. (© Copyright Audun Rikardsen / Wildlife Photographer of the Year)

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Stag Horizon

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Saving Our Ocean
The Ocean in South America and worldwide is in danger. A recent study by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) highlights the perils of ocean warming for humans. It points out that that the waters of the Southern Hemisphere are increasingly impacted by higher temperatures, leading to changing fish stocks and crop yields, extreme weather events and higher risk from water-borne diseases. The Chilean coast has become increasingly colder as the high seas warm up, leading to the migration of species, and to other effects upon the marine environment. Whales, turtles and birds are all feeling the changes, as are our fishermen, who must seek new fishing grounds.

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The Chilean government is taking action, along with the private sector, the international community and national and international NGOs. On August 24th, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, along with the Ministries of Defense, Economy, and the Environment, inaugurated the Council of Ministers for the Development of a National Ocean Policy. This initiative aims at creating an integrated and inclusive oceanic policy and is a new step towards fulfilling our commitment to the international governance of the oceans. We are placing our sea at the forefront of our foreign policy.

In addition, Chile actively participated in the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, whose objective number 14 refers to oceanic sustainability. We also led, along with France and Monaco, the adoption of the "Because the Ocean" declaration at the CoP21, which highlights the essential role oceans play in the fight against climate change, and in the implementation of the Paris Agreement.

Last October, Chile organized the second version of the Our Ocean initiative, at which countries and civil society adopted more than 80 projects, equivalent to 2.1 billion dollars, dedicated to the protection and sustainable use of the ocean.

In the lead up to this year´s third Our Ocean Conference, in Washington DC, Chile created the new Marine Park Nazca-Desventuradas, which has a surface area of 300 thousand square kilometers and surrounds the Islands of San Félix and San Ambrosio, making it the largest marine protected area in Latin America. In parallel, along with the Rapa Nui community of Easter Island, we are moving forward on a huge marine conservation area surrounding the island.

We have also taken measures to fight illegal fishing, including the adoption of monitoring mechanisms coherent with the New York Agreement on Fish Stocks of 1995 and the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures.

We will continue to stress the importance of developing an oceanic policy to solidify the foundations of our future actions, emphasizing the conservation and sustainable use of our ocean and its resources, the fight against marine pollution, and the effects of climate change in the ocean, with a special emphasis on marine protected areas. This policy will not only establish national guidelines for oceanic matters, but also project them into the international arena, including through South-South cooperation programs to fight marine pollution in areas like the Caribbean.

We know that the ocean is a gathering point for the planet, for people and for prosperity. This is precisely what drives sustainable development. The fate of Chile, an oceanic country, and of many others, is directly tied to the measures we take today to address global warming. We are confident that growing awareness is leading to a greater worldwide commitment towards this goal. Action to save our ocean admits no delay.

1 - Explaining ocean warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences, September 2016.

This post is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post in partnership with Secretary of State John Kerry's Our Oceanconference and Ocean Unite, an initiative to unite and activate powerful voices for ocean-conservation action. The series is being produced to coincide with the Our Ocean Conference (September 15th, 16th) as part of HuffPost's "What's Working" initiative, putting a spotlight on initiatives around the world that are solutions oriented. To read all the posts in the series, read here. The State Department does not endorse the content of this blog. Follow the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #OurOcean #MakeASplash.

-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.

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Asteroid assault on early planets was more like a gentle massage
Most models of the early solar system say it endured a period of intense asteroid strikes dubbed the Late Heavy Bombardment - but new isotope data paints a calmer picture
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Map to the stars: Gaia's first data dump a piece of 3D Milky Way puzzle

Calibrating relationships between celestial objects

The European Space Agency has revealed the first catalogue of stars mapped during its Gaia mission today.…

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Today I'll be traveling throughout the freeway network of...

Today I'll be traveling throughout the freeway network of Los Angeles, well known for its massive interchanges (and traffic). The Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange is a stack highway interchange located near the Athens and Watts neighborhoods in South LA. This junction is composed of five levels that scale to a staggering height of more than 40 meters (132 feet).

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On the lake by Michael Tighe

On the lake by Michael Tighe

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The doppelganger by Felicia Simion

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Something Different by Michael Cleary

One of my shots taken at the beginning of the year, something a bit different from the backyard.

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Charleroi by David Bouchat

Charleroi by David Bouchat

Belgium 2016

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As the Crow Flies by Perri Schelat

As the Crow Flies by Perri Schelat

Landmannalaugur from the air. I took a trip to Iceland that was planned around 7 hours of flight time for aerial photography. I have always found the shots from Landmannalaugur to be fascinating while still partially covered with snow. The landscape patterns are very interesting. The aerial portion of the trip was very challenging. It was my first time, but I wasn't really fearful, I was just happy we had a chance to fly. We ended up doing all 7 hours in one day, the only day in 10 days that had clearer weather. Aerial photography is very freeing. You can really let your creativity flow while pointing and shooting and trying to remember not to fall out of the doors off helicopter. I was slightly worried about the rather primitive security measure used to keep us from accidentally releasing our seatbelt..... electrical tape wrapped around the buckle :) The river deltas were really flooded due to the overabundance of rain. They look different all the time depending on weather conditions. It was a cool experience that I'd like to try again.

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Raluca by Mike Monaghan

Raluca by Mike Monaghan

www.mikemonaghanphoto.com | Instagram

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Treat by Iza Łysoń

Treat by Iza Łysoń

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Mosca vanitosa by Roberto Aldrovandi

Mosca vanitosa by Roberto Aldrovandi

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