Harness the powers of the internets to make a small amount of funding go a long way towards bird conservation in Africa. 10,000 Birds (in partnership with Bird Life and the National Museums of Kenya) is raising $2,000 to fund research on the endangered Sharpe’s Longclaw. I love the idea that blogs can be used to target small but critical funding towards worthy causes, and I have contributed!
- The Beagle Project explains how a shipwreck caused an invasive species takeover of a coral reef. Oh, so adding so iron (Planktos!) and artificial surfaces (Greenpeace!) isn’t necessarily good for ecosystems, mmkay?
- Pepjin, overwhelmed by the …special… ethics of the Japanese whaling program, institutes his very own whaling-style research program. The diabolical PLURP will sample HIS KITTEH! O NOES!
- Please enjoy these utterly terrifying medical mannequins. Meet the whole family. Decapitation! The unspeakable outcome of Pepjin’s PLURP. And most horrifyingly, TEETH. (Via Boing Boing).
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August 31, 2008 at 5:57 am |
Miriam, thanks for publicising the Sharpe’s Longclaw project – and thanks for donating! It IS exciting that blogs can get accepted into this kind of role, and we’re certainly planning to make this kind of small-scale, community-based conservation project a feature of 10,000 Birds.
All the best
Charlie
August 31, 2008 at 3:14 pm |
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September 1, 2008 at 4:21 am |
PLURLP really does have a lot in common with JARPA. Already my girlfriend, who feels she co-owns the cat population, objects to innocent scientific lethal sampling. Maybe a moratorium on all lethal kitty sampling is a good idea for now, just to keep the peace and all..