Thank you all for your input Should gov. Jerry Brown not have know better before the told Trump that he had been right about the fires spreading etc? It is a terrible loss, people burning in their cars and I don't even want to think about the animals perishing
Governor Jerry Brown relaxed California's logging rules before the recent wildfires Back in August California Governor Jerry Brown urged lawmakers to relax the state's restrictive logging regulations that were put in place to please environmentalists.
The move by Brown confirms recent comments by President Trump that "poor forest management" was to blame for the recent wildfires that have killed at least 80 with around 1000 still unaccounted for.Despite balking in response to Trump's comments, it appears as though Gov. Brown was aware of the dangers associated with the state's overgrown forests, confirming that the president's criticism of state logging practices was correct.
Elephants evolving to be born without tusks thanks to ruthless poachers
About 90% of elephants living in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park were slaughtered for their tusks by poachers during Mozambique's 15-year civil war that ended in 1992. The poachers then profited by selling the tusks to finance weapons. As a result, we're now seeing a growing population of elephants in the country born without tusks. Tuskless females, for instance, have jumped from 2%-4% of the population to around 33%.
According to National Geographic:
Hunting gave elephants that didn’t grow tusks a biological advantage in Gorongosa. Recent figures suggest that about a third of younger females—the generation born after the war ended in 1992—never developed tusks. Normally, tusklessness would occur only in about 2 to 4 percent of female African elephants.
Decades ago, some 4,000 elephants lived in Gorongosa, says Joyce Poole—an elephant behavior expert and National Geographic Explorer who studies the park’s pachyderms. But those numbers dwindled to triple digits following the civil war. New, as yet unpublished, research she’s compiled indicates that of the 200 known adult females, 51 percent of those that survived the war—animals 25 years or older—are tuskless. And 32 percent of the female elephants born since the war are tuskless.
Sadly, this isn't the only population of elephants losing their numbers – and their tusks – to poachers. In South Africa, "fully 98 percent of the 174 females in Addo Elephant National Park were reportedly tuskless in the early 2000s."
Used to defend themselves, as well as for digging, protecting their trunk, and helping them strip bark from trees in order to eat, tusks are enlarged incisor teeth that are essential to their daily well-being. Unfortunately, their tusks can't protect them from murdering poachers.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
Comments (5) britishcolumbianonline now! britishcolumbianOP•Nov 7•unknown, British Columbia Canada A sculpture in the form of an open book. The text of the poem "In Flanders Fields" is written within and a small red poppy lies on top. Inscription of the complete poem in a bronze "book" at the John McCrae memorial at his birthplace in Guelph, Ontario "In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it. "In Flanders Fields" was first published on December 8 of that year in the London magazine Punch.
It is one of the most quoted poems from the war. As a result of its immediate popularity, parts of the poem were used in efforts and appeals to recruit soldiers and raise money selling war bonds. Its references to the red poppies that grew over the graves of fallen soldiers resulted in the remembrance poppy becoming one of the world's most recognized memorial symbols for soldiers who have died in conflict. The poem and poppy are prominent Remembrance Day symbols throughout the Commonwealth of Nations, particularly in Canada, where "In Flanders Fields" is one of the nation's best-known literary works. The poem is also widely known in the United States, where it is associated with Veterans Day and Memorial Day.: bouquet: bouquet bouquet :
Very happy to know that Hillary is not into me My main reason is that I am not interested in "The New World Order" Neither is Trump and that is where a lot of hate generates..........
He is a weirdo that is for sure. Likes himself a lot too ha ha Taking 20 years of your age is bizare. He "advertised" what he thinks about his age and body, so now the world knows it too NUTS
Thank you for this tribute Sir, I must admit that I never knew this about the Irish role in the first world war Read more about the second world war than the first one
A sculpture in the form of an open book. The text of the poem "In Flanders Fields" is written within and a small red poppy lies on top. Inscription of the complete poem in a bronze "book" at the John McCrae memorial at his birthplace in Guelph, Ontario "In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it. "In Flanders Fields" was first published on December 8 of that year in the London magazine Punch.
It is one of the most quoted poems from the war. As a result of its immediate popularity, parts of the poem were used in efforts and appeals to recruit soldiers and raise money selling war bonds. Its references to the red poppies that grew over the graves of fallen soldiers resulted in the remembrance poppy becoming one of the world's most recognized memorial symbols for soldiers who have died in conflict. The poem and poppy are prominent Remembrance Day symbols throughout the Commonwealth of Nations, particularly in Canada, where "In Flanders Fields" is one of the nation's best-known literary works. The poem is also widely known in the United States, where it is associated with Veterans Day and Memorial Day.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
RE: Hollywood Boycotting Georgia
This is very sad a lot of poor people living in GeorgaBit actors should not have this kind of power