Natural Health & Environment News – How Massive Birds Are Helping Us To Fight OverFishing | (Another) Pipeline Approved | Dandelions!
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5 February, 2020
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I like The Guardian, a British newspaper, mainly because it covers the climate crisis well. But what I didn’t know is that it takes money for advertisements from oil and gas companies. Now, it has become the first major global news organisation to stop taking money from companies that extract fossil fuels. Good stuff! Not only are fossil fuel companies polluting the planet, they are also preventing meaningful climate action by governments around the world.
As spring approaches in the Northern Hemisphere, if you have lovely dandelions in your garden, please don’t mow them! They’ll soon start to flower – and they provide vital food for bees as they come out of hibernation.
Here’s a novel idea! Illegal fishing boats are wreaking havoc, overfishing and also killing other marine life including birds. But these boats are difficult to find – the oceans are big. Now scientists are using albatrosses – massive sea birds – to locate the offenders. Albatrosses fly high and are experts at spotting fishing boats (because the boats catch fish food). So 169 of them have been fitted with trackers, and off they went. Scientists says they found loads of illegal fishing boats in international waters, and they sent the data to marine authorities who were able to intercept some of them. They plan to get even more “spy birds” soon – they’re cheaper than satellites – and highly motivated! Scientists are using the data the birds collect to look at the health of our oceans as well. Clever!
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First Nations in Canada’s British Columbia objected to a pipeline expansion (Trans Mountain) that would nearly triple the flow of oil from the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific coast. But Canada’s federal court of appeal has dismissed the objections, and the pipeline will go ahead. The impacts? All too many, including a 7-fold increase in the number of tankers in the shared waters between Canada and Washington state, a threat to indigenous land, and even more development of highly toxic and carbon-heavy tar sands oil.
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