A $16 million home renovation gives new life to Louisianaâs Rabbit Island
Oil spill settlement money funds island restoration
A $16 million home renovation gives new life to Louisianaâs Rabbit Island By John Snell | February 17, 2021 at 9:50 PM CST - Updated February 17 at 10:11 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Heavy equipment works to raise the elevation on a speck of real estate that barely rises above Lake Calcasieu south of Lake Charles.
Contractors for the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority are raising Rabbit Island.
âItâs significant because itâs the only brown pelican colony we have in Southwest Louisiana,â said Todd Baker, CPRA Project Manager.
Japan’s rabbit island Okunoshima has a dark and deadly history
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Okunoshima’s population of bunnies brings tourists to the island’s shores. While there, they can learn of its gruesome past
February 14, 2021
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Okunoshima is not unique among the some 3,000 islands dotting Japan s Seto Inland Sea, between Hiroshima prefecture and the island of Shikoku. Neither the biggest nor the smallest, the tiny land mass measures less than a square kilometre. There s no natural water supply that s shipped in from the mainland and as of 2010, only 26 people live on the island, but Okunoshima is far better known for its population of four-legged residents.
There is a strange propensity in Japan to name islands after cute critters, and myths abound of how beloved animals arrived in several remote destinations spanning the Japanese archipelago. Tashirojima, for example, acquired its famous cats during the late Edo period (1603-1868), to act as pest control on the island s silkworm farms, a wholesome, practical explanation.
Create Art on a Michigan Island and Get Paid $3K
The 2021 Rabbit Island Residency Program will pay you to live on an island for three weeks.
If you are an artist, or know an artist in Michigan, this looks like a very cool opportunity for you. The 2021 Rabbit Island Residency Program is looking for artists to live and work on the island for three weeks. In return, the artists will be paid $3,200 for their time. Only three residencies will be awarded between mid-June and late-September. The program itself is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts along with other contributions from donors.