Showing posts with label toxins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label toxins. Show all posts

Mar 6, 2023

Global: 🐟🐃🌎🏥🆘️ Circular chain of destruction & unsustainable profit explained in13-minute podcast


This podcast provides an excellent synopsis or overview of the circular chain of violence, destruction and profit which results from exploiting nonhumans for consumption and thereby making humans sick and profitable. This all will  factor in to our universal extinction unless there is immediate massive change. Resources are listed on the podcast's page for further information. Please share. 

Dec 11, 2021

#WA state & beyond: Web Event 12/14 noon-1pm "TREES, the ORIGINAL #STORMWATER MANAGERS"

Photo: Whatcom Creek, downtown Bellingham 12/10/21 | lizmarshall
 
12/15 Note. The excellent Zoom presentation that we watched yesterday will be on the Tacoma Tree Foundation's YouTube site at:
Thanks to TacomaCreates.org and all who are producing this series of educational webinars.

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On Instagram I follow Tacoma Tree Foundation and noticed this webinar about stormwater and trees happening lunchtime Tuesday December 14th. The presenter is Robb Krehbiel of the Pierce County Conservation District - https://piercecd.org/

Here is a direct link to the Webinar registration at Zoom:

Maybe the brief, free webinar would be interesting to you. I registered and am looking forward to it. For background, I found some press from previous years that feature projects Robb Krehbiel has been involved in:

2016
"Fence modifications bolster pronghorn population" 
https://www.explorebigsky.com/safe-passage

2019
"Agency plans are inadequate to conserve US endangered species under climate change"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/647396v3
Alternatively: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0620-8

2019
"Washington students, activists file petition with Congress to save orcas, remove river dams"
https://abc7chicago.com/orcas-seattle-chinook-salmon-save-the/5469453/

Sep 23, 2012

WA: Crowds dig for Razor Clams in order to eat them

The Pacific Razor Clam ( Siliqua patula)
According to this Wikipedia entry, "The Pacific razor clam, Siliqua patula, is a species of large edible marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cultellidae."

Embedded here is a video of a Razor Clam burrowing in WA state
(the link is http://youtu.be/6Q-oQajLdJ8):

The following link is to a sad video showing many razor clams in Okoshiki Beach, Kumamoto, Japan being attacked by humans pouring salt on them, then they are taken :-(
http://youtu.be/3kyTA7QwNvk

Submit your comments to WA by October 9, 2012!

Here is a brief news article:
State develops razor clam season | Outdoors Washington | The Bellingham Herald

Here is the WA State web page that invites comments from the public by October 9, 2012: http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/shellfish/razorclams/seasons_set.html
Public Comments
Suggestions for the 2012-13 season — tentatively set to begin in mid-October — can be sent via email to razorclams@dfw.wa.gov or by postal mail to: RazorClams, 48 Devonshire Rd., Montesano, WA 98563. Comments regarding fall digging opportunities must be received by Oct. 9, 2012.
CROWD DIGGING (photo: WDFW)
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See at Google Scholar links to some scientific publications about Razor Clam ecology, and human impacts such as US Army Corps of Engineer dredging, aquaculture, neurotoxins, and more.


Shellfish poisoning from domoic acid is a concern for marine mammals, humans and others. Per Wikipedia entry for Domoic Acid, "The increasing frequency and geographic extent of toxic algal blooms along populated coastlines is generally attributed to human activities.[10]"


See more about Domoic Acid here:
http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/shellfish/razorclams/domoic_acid.html




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Aug 30, 2012

World: Fireworks - Cheap Thrills with Toxic Consequences

The following link is to a page at BackCountryAttitude - Outdoor Recreation Resources for Hikers a fantastic educational site provided by Chris Conway. There is no reason for modern society to continue with fireworks traditions when the hazards are so well known and substitutes such as laser shows are available.

Fireworks - Cheap Thrills with Toxic Consequences
credit: backcountryattitude.com

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