2021-04-26 03:35:54 GMT2021-04-26 11:35:54(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
SYDNEY, April 26 (Xinhua) A leading whale expert in Australia has spoken out against that country s consideration of removing humpbacks from its list of threatened animals.
Olaf Meynecke from the Griffith Center for Coastal Management in the Australian state of Queensland told Xinhua on Monday that the federal government s proposal held inherent dangers. There are many threats and uncertainties, he said. The delisting will mean less resources available for research and protection of the whales and it has consequences for many funding schemes that specifically favor work on threatened species.
Meynecke said humpbacks, like many animals, face new and emerging challenges, including climate change.
Forget now 1.1.1
$700,000 seems a lot considering that the air force already owns the helicopters, so that s just fuel, maintenance, and maybe staffing (but that d be army pilots and police spotters? So already employed just reassigned). I do know from once living in rural parts near a usually tranquil growing area, those helicopters flying so low are really loud and annoying. Far worse than tourist flights which are at least on the way somewhere rather than circling for days over the same area.
Tricledrown 1.2
Police realise that alcohol meth etc are the dangerous drugs and targeting gangs is where resources should be focused.
Three years after helping to get rid of this upstart African democratic leader, the United States was instrumental in putting away Nelson Mandela for 28 years. The horror of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Chile, Grenada, Panama, Iraq (to name just a selection) were still to come….
60 years on, Patrice Lumumba’s assassination stands as a gruesome reminder of post-colonial brutality
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Exactly 60 years ago today, Congolese national liberation leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. Those responsible were most likely troops of a rival government acting on behalf of the Congo’s former colonial master, which had retained a presence in the Central African country. But there’s more to the assassination than initially meets the eye. There has been a gradual accumulation of credible evidence that the world’s post-WWII colonial superpower, the United States, along with its sidekick the UK, p
A team of Griffith University archaeologists has shared in the discovery of what may be the world's oldest known cave painting, dating back to at least.
Jan 14, 2021
Scientists from Griffith University have discovered the world’s oldest known cave painting on a limestone wall on South Sulawesi island in Indonesia.
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Dated to a remarkable 45,500 years ago, the painting is of a Sulawesi warty pig, a species hunted and depicted often in Sulawesi cave art from the Last Glacial Period.
The discovery definitively knocks out Europe and establishes that the Indo-Pacific is the center of the first-known developments in artistic expression and perhaps even story-telling.
“The cave is in a valley that’s enclosed by steep limestone cliffs and is only accessible by a narrow cave passage in the dry season, as the valley floor is completely flooded in the wet,” said Prof. Adam Brumm, co-leader of the expedition that consisted of researchers from both Indonesia’s highest center for archaeology (ARKENA), and Griffith’s Research Center for Human Evolution.