Sunday, February 13, 2011
Chile: Dead Birds & Fish
Updated Jan 17
Jan. 4, 2011 Chile - Chile has had reports of thousands of the endangered Shearwater birds mysteriously dying. What was attributed to a possible poisoning by a plant species that was re-introduced, the website ElMostrador.cl reported the death of the birds last year. Almost no one else heard about it.Unknown Location in Chile
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Jan. 4, 2011 Chile - Chile has had reports of thousands of the endangered Shearwater birds mysteriously dying. What was attributed to a possible poisoning by a plant species that was re-introduced, the website ElMostrador.cl reported the death of the birds last year. Almost no one else heard about it.Unknown Location in Chile
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Hundreds of snapper dead on beaches - South Pacific
Updated Jan 17
Jan. 5, 2011 New Zealand - Fisheries officials are investigating the death of hundreds of snapper washed up on Coromandel Peninsula beaches.
Beachgoers at Little Bay and Waikawau Bay found the fish - many with their eyes missing - dead on the sand yesterday.
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Jan. 5, 2011 New Zealand - Fisheries officials are investigating the death of hundreds of snapper washed up on Coromandel Peninsula beaches.
Beachgoers at Little Bay and Waikawau Bay found the fish - many with their eyes missing - dead on the sand yesterday.
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17 peacocks found dead in Wankaner - Afghanistan
Updated Jan 29
January 28, 2011 WANKANER: Seventeen peacocks have been found dead in the last four days from Vidi area near Gadhiya Dungar in Wankaner. While carcasses of 13 peacocks were recovered on January 25 and 26, four more dead birds were found on January 28.
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January 28, 2011 WANKANER: Seventeen peacocks have been found dead in the last four days from Vidi area near Gadhiya Dungar in Wankaner. While carcasses of 13 peacocks were recovered on January 25 and 26, four more dead birds were found on January 28.
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Hundreds of dead fish appeared on the shores of Paita and Mancora - Peru
Updated Jan 17
Jan. 12, 2011 PAITA/MANCORA, Peru - Mancora tourists reported the emergence of hundreds of small dead fish on the beach. This information was confirmed by the Regional Director of Production, Cecilia Vilela, who said that this fact has been reported throughout the coastal fringe of Piura, from Negritos up MancoraAnd on some beaches of Paita.
"In the case of Paita, we know that have appeared dead anchovies and eels, La Tortuga and San Sebastian, while between Mancora Negritos and mirrors have been reported dead fish," he said. He added that for now, deal with two possible causes.
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Jan. 12, 2011 PAITA/MANCORA, Peru - Mancora tourists reported the emergence of hundreds of small dead fish on the beach. This information was confirmed by the Regional Director of Production, Cecilia Vilela, who said that this fact has been reported throughout the coastal fringe of Piura, from Negritos up MancoraAnd on some beaches of Paita.
"In the case of Paita, we know that have appeared dead anchovies and eels, La Tortuga and San Sebastian, while between Mancora Negritos and mirrors have been reported dead fish," he said. He added that for now, deal with two possible causes.
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Thousands of fish die in the Pantanal - Brazil
Updated Feb 2
Jan 31, 2011
Swarms of painted, pacu, gold, and even cacharas stingrays are floating dead in Rio Negro, Aquidauana in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul The Environmental Police estimated at several tons, adding that he does not have the scale of the carnage.
Jan 31, 2011
Swarms of painted, pacu, gold, and even cacharas stingrays are floating dead in Rio Negro, Aquidauana in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul The Environmental Police estimated at several tons, adding that he does not have the scale of the carnage.
100s of Dead Fish Wash Up On Shore of St. Clair River - Canada
Updated Jan 27
Jan. 3, 2011 SARNIA, ON - Hundreds of dead fish that washed up on shore in the north end of the St. Clair River is a natural occurrence and not the result of a chemical spill, a government officials say.
Ministry of Natural Resources spokesperson Jolanta Kowalski confirmed that both the MNR and environment ministry were alerted to a massive die-off of gizzard shad fish late last week.
“We think it’s a natural occurrence,” Kowalski said. “They died off as a result of temperature shock because we had that really warm weekend ... and then it quickly cooled off again.”
Kowalski said such die-offs are not unusual but it typically happens in the spring.
Only one species was affected, further supporting the idea it was a natural occurrence, she said.
“There was nothing to indicate that it was man-made.”
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Jan. 3, 2011 SARNIA, ON - Hundreds of dead fish that washed up on shore in the north end of the St. Clair River is a natural occurrence and not the result of a chemical spill, a government officials say.
Ministry of Natural Resources spokesperson Jolanta Kowalski confirmed that both the MNR and environment ministry were alerted to a massive die-off of gizzard shad fish late last week.
“We think it’s a natural occurrence,” Kowalski said. “They died off as a result of temperature shock because we had that really warm weekend ... and then it quickly cooled off again.”
Kowalski said such die-offs are not unusual but it typically happens in the spring.
Only one species was affected, further supporting the idea it was a natural occurrence, she said.
“There was nothing to indicate that it was man-made.”
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Rain of dead starlings Castelló - Spain
Updated Jan 23
Jan 8, 2011
Strange phenomenon in the New Year's Eve. The mystery of the dead birds in the New Year's Eve in Arkansas was repeated elsewhere in the world and probably also in Castello, where a smaller scale, many starlings found dead of unknown
cause. Experts seek an explanation for the event.
Jan 8, 2011
Strange phenomenon in the New Year's Eve. The mystery of the dead birds in the New Year's Eve in Arkansas was repeated elsewhere in the world and probably also in Castello, where a smaller scale, many starlings found dead of unknown
cause. Experts seek an explanation for the event.
200 birds dead in Caserta, Italy
Updated Jan 17
Jan. 3, 2011
Reported on January 8, 2011 CASERTA, Italy - autopsies will be conducted by the Istituto Zooprofilattico de Portici and the CRIUV (the regional reference center for urban sanitation in Naples) to establish the sudden death of approximately 200 specimens of starlings, which occurred around New Year's (January 3) in Sannitica, near the Maxicinema.
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Jan. 3, 2011
Reported on January 8, 2011 CASERTA, Italy - autopsies will be conducted by the Istituto Zooprofilattico de Portici and the CRIUV (the regional reference center for urban sanitation in Naples) to establish the sudden death of approximately 200 specimens of starlings, which occurred around New Year's (January 3) in Sannitica, near the Maxicinema.
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Dead birds of prey found in Germany
Updated Jan 17
Jan. 3, 2011 Vettweiß, Germany - Around the turn of the year the carcasses of seven probably poisoned birds of prey found were the road between Gladbach and Poll.
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Original Source - in German
Jan. 3, 2011 Vettweiß, Germany - Around the turn of the year the carcasses of seven probably poisoned birds of prey found were the road between Gladbach and Poll.
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Original Source - in German
Mysterious crows dying in Hameln - Norway
Updated Jan 19
Jan 12, 2011
In the United States just provided the first dead birds that fell from the sky, hit the headlines.
Now there is a mysterious bird deaths in Hameln: Unusual number of dead crows discovered after the thaw of the snow along the shore of the Hamel-164er Ring
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German news
Jan 12, 2011
In the United States just provided the first dead birds that fell from the sky, hit the headlines.
Now there is a mysterious bird deaths in Hameln: Unusual number of dead crows discovered after the thaw of the snow along the shore of the Hamel-164er Ring
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Mass death of birds in Turkey
Updated 5 days ago
Jan. 10, 2011 Turkey - In Turkey, there was a case of an unexplained mass deaths of birds.
On the road were dozens of carcasses of birds. The Incident was promptly reported to local authorities, who launched an investigation of the incident.
Jan. 10, 2011 Turkey - In Turkey, there was a case of an unexplained mass deaths of birds.
On the road were dozens of carcasses of birds. The Incident was promptly reported to local authorities, who launched an investigation of the incident.
Mass fish death recorded in Caspian Sea
Updated Jan 17
Jan. 14 2011
Mass fish death was recorded in the Iranian sector of the Caspian Sea," Iranian Gulistan Province's Nature Conservation Department Deputy Head Mohsen Jafarnejad said.
Jan. 14 2011
Mass fish death was recorded in the Iranian sector of the Caspian Sea," Iranian Gulistan Province's Nature Conservation Department Deputy Head Mohsen Jafarnejad said.
At least a dozen migratory Bar-headed Geese found dead - India
Updated Jan 17
Jan. 8, 2011 ASSAM, India -- A bird flu scare has hit the Kaziranga National Park in Assam with carcasses of at least a dozen migratory Bar-headed Geese found in the sanctuary, officials said Friday.
A park warden said at least seven geese were found dead Friday. Five carcasses of the same species that had recently arrived at the sanctuary from Siberia were recovered Thursday.
Jan. 8, 2011 ASSAM, India -- A bird flu scare has hit the Kaziranga National Park in Assam with carcasses of at least a dozen migratory Bar-headed Geese found in the sanctuary, officials said Friday.
A park warden said at least seven geese were found dead Friday. Five carcasses of the same species that had recently arrived at the sanctuary from Siberia were recovered Thursday.
Thousands of fishes, turtles die in Etawah pond - Pakistan
Updated Jan 30
January 30, 2011
Thousands of fishes, turtles die in Etawah pond
January 30, 2011
Thousands of fishes, turtles die in Etawah pond
300 dead sparrows found - Mainland China
Updated Jan 17
Jan 8, 2011 CHINA - 200-300 dead sparrows were found near the village and in a field.
Jan 8, 2011 CHINA - 200-300 dead sparrows were found near the village and in a field.
Hundreds of Australian Bats Drop dead
Updated Jan 26
January 8, 2011 CAIRNS, Australia
WILDLIFE carers suspect flying foxes are being poisoned to death, leaving their babies to die in the hundreds.
An overwhelming 600 baby flying foxes have fallen from trees at the Cairns library and Yorkeys Knob bat colonies since October.
January 8, 2011 CAIRNS, Australia
WILDLIFE carers suspect flying foxes are being poisoned to death, leaving their babies to die in the hundreds.
An overwhelming 600 baby flying foxes have fallen from trees at the Cairns library and Yorkeys Knob bat colonies since October.
Dead fish washed ashore at Pari village, Papua New Guinea
Updated Jan 17
Jan. 7, 2011 PARI VILLAGE, PNG - Dead fish scare ... Pari villagers in Moresby South yesterday morning woke up to find dead fish along their beachfront. Concerned village elder Gaba Momoro wasted no time in getting his relatives to contact The National, fearing pollution from industrial wastes or dynamite fishing in the area. NCD health officer Wesley Kame and his colleagues went to the village yesterday and collected samples, with the help of village children, for testing at the National Agriculture Research Institute laboratory to determine what had caused the fish to die and washed ashore in large numbers. – Nationalpic by EKAR KEAPU
Jan. 7, 2011 PARI VILLAGE, PNG - Dead fish scare ... Pari villagers in Moresby South yesterday morning woke up to find dead fish along their beachfront. Concerned village elder Gaba Momoro wasted no time in getting his relatives to contact The National, fearing pollution from industrial wastes or dynamite fishing in the area. NCD health officer Wesley Kame and his colleagues went to the village yesterday and collected samples, with the help of village children, for testing at the National Agriculture Research Institute laboratory to determine what had caused the fish to die and washed ashore in large numbers. – Nationalpic by EKAR KEAPU
Where have all the birds gone? Not to Candaba
Updated Jan 25
January 26, 2011 CANDABA, Pampanga—The number of birds flying south to important wintering grounds in the Philippines has fallen sharply this year, with experts saying the dramatic demise of wetlands and hunting are to blame.
Despite some harsh, cold weather across the Eurasian landmass, some waterbirds that usually migrate in huge flocks to the tropical islands have been completely absent, said Philippine-based Danish ornithologist Arne Jensen.
January 26, 2011 CANDABA, Pampanga—The number of birds flying south to important wintering grounds in the Philippines has fallen sharply this year, with experts saying the dramatic demise of wetlands and hunting are to blame.
Despite some harsh, cold weather across the Eurasian landmass, some waterbirds that usually migrate in huge flocks to the tropical islands have been completely absent, said Philippine-based Danish ornithologist Arne Jensen.
Massive Bird Deaths in Taiwan
Taichung County, Taiwan
Updated Jan 17
Jan. 8, 2011
China Taiwan News Online January 8 across the United States has recently appeared more than wild birds and river fish mass die-off event, but potential in mountainous areas in Taichung County, 7 also found that more than 100 wild birds died suddenly, at the initial vaccination Taichung Animal Protection rule out avian influenza, and collected samples and sent to the Taiwan authorities, "the Council of Agriculture," Animal Health Research Institution for Agricultural Chemicals and Toxic Substances Research Institute tests, hoping to clarify the cause of death.
Updated Jan 17
Jan. 8, 2011
China Taiwan News Online January 8 across the United States has recently appeared more than wild birds and river fish mass die-off event, but potential in mountainous areas in Taichung County, 7 also found that more than 100 wild birds died suddenly, at the initial vaccination Taichung Animal Protection rule out avian influenza, and collected samples and sent to the Taiwan authorities, "the Council of Agriculture," Animal Health Research Institution for Agricultural Chemicals and Toxic Substances Research Institute tests, hoping to clarify the cause of death.
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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Animals Dying in FLorida
JUST IN (February 11, 2011.. Hundreds of dead birds discovered in Lake Charles)
JUST IN (February 9, 2011 Thousands Of Dead Fish Wash Ashore In Florida)
JUST IN (February 8, 2011. Hundreds of sparrows fall dead in Rotorua)
JUST IN! (February 8, 2011 A MILLION or more jellyfish DEAD, TODAY! February 8, 2011 - EAST COAST of Florida)
NOW after reading here is the type of thing that really GETS ME wondering!
LOL look at what this paragraph actually says and no one ever looks into this thing
notice where it says in the same location ! ROFL !
.........That is not a coincident.........
that story is located here at this website
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Notice what i highlight in red bold letters
Thousands of dead fish washed ashore a Florida state park beach on Friday, WPBF 25 News reports. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologists believe a lack of oxygen resulted in the deaths of thousands of menhaden fish at Sebastian Inlet State Park. The officials say this type of fish is especially prone to dying from a lack of oxygen when they swim closer to shore in such large numbers.
In the week prior, around 500 drum fish were found dead in the Arkansas River, in the same location where 83,000 dead fish were discovered a month earlier on December 29th, AP reports.
After the major fish kill at the end of 2010, and the
Friday, February 11, 2011
The Plight of the Bumblebee
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Major pollinators apart from the honeybee are suffering steep decline worldwide,
chief among them the bumblebee, and neonicotinoid pesticides are a major culprit
that should be banned Prof. Joe Cummins
There has been a huge amount written about the decline of the honeybee, Apis
mellifera , but relatively scant attention has been paid to other important
pollinators that have also been affected simultaneously, in particular, the
bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, which has been experiencing a precipitous global
decline. The bumble bee, an important pollinator, has received much less
attention than the honeybee because the bumblebee does not produce marketable
quantities of honey.
Is the bumblebee doomed?
As early as six years ago, there was clear evidence that the bumblebee was in
deep trouble in North America. A survey of bumblebee species reached the
following conclusion [1]: “The bumblebee subgenus Bombus is represented by five
species in North America. Of these, one, B. franklini, may be extinct, and two
others, the western B. occidentalis and the eastern B. affinis, appear to be in
steep decline. For all of these species, habitat loss and degradation and
extensive pesticide use are threats faced daily. However, circumstantial
evidence indicates that the principal cause for these population declines is the
introduction of exotic disease organisms and pathogens via trafficking in
commercial bumblebee queens and colonies for greenhouse pollination of
tomatoes.”
In 2009 the decline in Midwestern North American bumblebee was documented and
large scale agricultural intensification implicated as the cause [2]. A 2010
report showed that the relative abundances of four species have declined by up
to 96 percent and that their geographic ranges contracted by 23–87 percent
within the last 20 years [3]. It also showed that declining populations have
significantly higher infection levels of the microsporidian pathogen Nosema
bombi and lower genetic diversity compared with co-occurring populations of the
stable (non-declining) species. It concluded [3]: “Higher pathogen prevalence
and reduced genetic diversity are, thus, realistic predictors of these alarming
patterns of decline in North America, although cause and effect remain
uncertain.”
A number of causes have been put forward for the decline of the bumble bee,
these include intensification of land use, introduction of pathogen-bearing
bees, pathogens from honey bees, inbreeding, and exposure to pesticides. Before
discussing those causes, I describe the lifestyle of the bumblebee.
Lifestyle of the bumble bee
The bumblebee may look like a large economy-sized honeybee, but it has a
distinctly different lifestyle [4]. Most species live in small colonies, usually
underground, often in an old mouse hole. The queen lays her eggs in a hollow
nest of moss or grass at the beginning of the season. The larvae are fed on
pollen and honey, and develop into workers. All the bees die at the end of the
season except fertilized females, which hibernate and produce fresh colonies in
the spring. Bumblebees form colonies. These colonies are usually much less
extensive than those of honeybees. This is due to a number of factors including:
the small physical size of the nest cavity, a single female is responsible for
the initial construction and reproduction that happens within the nest; and the
restriction of the colony to a single season (in most species). Often, mature
bumblebee nests will hold fewer than 50 individuals. Bumblebee nests may be
found within tunnels in the ground made by other animals, or in tussock grass.
Bumblebees sometimes construct a wax canopy (“involucrum”) over the top of their
nest for protection and insulation. Bumblebees do not often preserve their nests
through the winter, though some tropical species live in their nests for several
years (and their colonies can grow quite large, depending on the size of the
nest cavity). In temperate species, the last generation of summer includes a
number of queens that overwinter separately in protected spots.
The queens can live up to one year, possibly longer in tropical species.
Bumblebee nests are first constructed by over-wintered queens in the spring (in
temperate areas). Upon emerging from hibernation, the queen collects pollen and
nectar from flowers and searches for a suitable nest site. The characteristics
of the nest site vary among bumblebee species, with some species preferring to
nest in underground holes and others in tussock grass or directly on the ground.
Once the queen has found a site, she prepares wax pots to store food, and wax
cells into which eggs are laid. These eggs then hatch into larvae, which cause
the wax cells to expand isometrically into a clump of brood cells.
After the first or second group of workers emerge, they take over the task of
foraging and the queen spends most of her time laying eggs and caring for
larvae. The colony grows progressively larger and at some point will begin to
produce males and new queens. The point at which this occurs varies among
species and is heavily dependent on resource availability and other
environmental factors. Unlike the workers of more advanced social insects,
bumblebee workers are not reproductively sterile and are able to lay haploid
eggs (with one set of chromosomes) that develop into viable male bumble bees.
Only fertilized queens can lay diploid eggs (with two sets of chromosomes) that
mature into workers and new queens. New queens and males leave the colony after
maturation. Males in particular are forcibly driven out by the workers. Away
from the colony, the new queens and males live off nectar and pollen and spend
the night on flowers or in holes. The queens are eventually mated, often more
than once, and search for suitable location for diapause (dormancy).
Bumblebees generally visit flowers that form recognizable groups according to
pollinator type. They can visit patches of flowers up to 1–2 kilometers from
their colony. Bumblebees will also tend to visit the same patches of flowers
every day, as long as nectar and pollen continue to be available, a habit known
as pollinator or flower constancy. While foraging, bumblebees can reach ground
speeds of up to 15 metres per second (54 km/h). Once they have collected nectar
and pollen, they return to the nest and deposit the harvested nectar and pollen
into brood cells, or into wax cells for storage. Unlike honey bees, bumblebees
only store a few days’ worth of food and so are much more vulnerable to food
shortage.
Land use
The decline of bumblebee worldwide was brought to light when the impact of
particular land use practices was deemed to require fuller study to pinpoint
those practices that would benefit the survival of the bumblebee [5]. Organic
farming practices increased bumblebee species richness over conventional farming
practices [6].
Read the rest of this article on the ISIS website
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Plight_of_the_Bumblebee.php
Or find out more details about disappearing bees
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/disappearingBees.php
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