Melinda Hirsch
wolf and animal activist
Profanity Pack. Bill Clinton. The great unraveling of the great American oligarchy. Dropbox. Photo editing. Ramdass. How to Write Effective Letters to Congress. So, you're going to write a letter to Congress? Good idea. Make it a good letter. People who think members of Congress pay little or no attention to constituent mail, are plain wrong.
Concise, well thought out personal letters are one of the most effective ways Americans have of influencing law-makers. But, members of Congress get hundreds of letters and emails every day. Whether you choose to use the Postal Service or email, here are some tips that will help your letter to Congress have impact. Think Locally It's usually best to send letters to the representative from your local Congressional District or the senators from your state. Keep it Simple Your letter should address a single topic or issue. Say why you are writing and who you are. Addressing Members of Congress To Your Senator: The Honorable (full name) (Room #) (Name) Senate Office Building United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator: To Your Representative: Finding Their Addresses Senate and House of Representatives.
A northern white rhino has died. There are now five left in the entire world. This video from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park shows Angalifu, a 44-year-old northern white rhinoceros, who died of natural causes on Sunday. Angalifu's death leaves only five surviving northern white rhinos worldwide. (San Diego Zoo Safari Park) Angalifu was 44 when he died of old age on Sunday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, Calif. He was a northern white rhinoceros, a species on the brink of extinction. Following his death, there are just five northern white rhinos left worldwide, all in captivity. "Angalifu's death is a tremendous loss to all of us, not only because he was well beloved here at the park but also because his death brings this wonderful species one step closer to extinction," safari park curator Randy Rieches told the AP in a statement. The San Diego Zoo has one remaining northern white rhino, an elderly female named Nola. In addition to Nola, the world's only remaining northern white rhinos are: Sudan, a male living in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya.
All Forms of Life Are Sacred. The battle for the rights of animals is not only about animals. It is about us. Once we desanctify animals we desanctify all life. And once life is desanctified the industrial machines of death, and the drone-like bureaucrats, sadists and profiteers who operate them, carry out human carnage as easily as animal carnage. There is a direct link between our industrial slaughterhouses for animals and our industrial weapons used on the battlefields in the Middle East. During wars in rural societies, where the butchering of animals is intimately familiar, butchering techniques are often used on enemies. The mutilation of bodies was routine in the wars I covered in Central America, the Middle East and the Balkans. Throats were slit. Killing in our mechanized slaughterhouses is overseen by a tiny group of technicians. I witnessed the dismembering and evisceration of human bodies during the siege of Sarajevo by the Bosnian Serbs. Francione is l’enfant terrible of the animal rights movement.
Why Are Yellowstone's Elk Disappearing? According to the popular logic, the wolves preyed on elk, keeping the grazers’ populations in check, which allowed dwindling aspen populations, and the beavers that fed on them, to rebound. This logic was affirmed in 2007 when Scott Creel, an ecologist at Montana State University, published a study suggesting that the presence of wolves stressed the elk, leading to poor female health and fewer pregnancies. But as the wolves proliferated, they came in direct conflict with the true top predator in the area — humans.
The canines lurked near homes and preyed on livestock and occasionally pets, provoking growing resentment from residents. Simmering hostilities eventually boiled over: Hunters wanted to get rid of the wolves, while conservationists still sang the wolves’ ecological praises. The strong opinions on both sides were fueled by conflicting data, so the battle raged on, in and out of the courtroom.
Jim Gath: Horses are always talking to us. After giving up his job as a founding member of USA Today, and holding a succession of stressful jobs, Jim Gath found his passion helping horses. After a hard-charging life as a founding member of USA Today, and followed by a series of pressure-cooker career choices and setbacks, Jim Gath sat down beneath a tree in 2003 at a crossroads of a life with great highs and lows, all pointing him toward horses.
It had been a wild ride up to that point. On the upside, he was flying high at USA Today, topping out as the head of advertising sales, overseeing a $240 million annual revenue goal. And he went on to hold other lofty positions in the world of advertising and entertainment. As he thought about his life and loss, childhood memories of horses began to take shape in his imagination. “I was sitting there thinking about what made me the happiest, and I remembered that horses made me happiest as a kid.” Q: How did the Tierra Madre Horse Sanctuary get started? I never left. It means Mother Earth. Brooks Fahy and Rick Swart Interview | KBOO. Patricia Randolph's Madravenspeak: Speak out against hunters' federal land grab. “The idea of wilderness needs no defense.
It only needs more defenders.” ~ Edward Abbey U.S. Senate Bill 1996, the “Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act” and its 10 deadly related bills are pending in the Senate. They go beyond eviscerating the 1964 Wilderness Act and open up most federal lands for violence. The House version of the bill, H.R. 3590, passed the U.S. An eight-year process culminated in President Lyndon Johnson signing the Wilderness Act into law on Sept. 3, 1964. “A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”
Enter the shoot 'em up crowd. The hunters and trappers and hounders tried this power grab two years ago. S.1996 and its 10 related bills expand to all federal lands, with few exceptions (over 630 million acres), what has been done to many of our Wisconsin state lands: Contact Sen. Bold Visions Blog - Conservation in the 21st Century. Stephen Capra Many people continue to wonder about the fate of our planet and how the conservation community can best be equipped to deal with the realities in America of a congress that is not just broken but angry.
Many of those connected with the Foundation Community continue the pursuit of finding common ground and looking for ways to have republicans and democrats work on solutions for the environment.' This as I have mentioned before this resulted in a major investment in the sportsmen community and allowing groups like Conservation Voters to continue a philosophy of supporting republicans with decent conservation records, usually 60% who are up for reelection, rather than a more conservation-minded democrat.
As a result, we are seeing a republican party more determined than ever to fight global climate change remedies, to stop wilderness in its tracks. Add to this some important things-the rise of the Tea Party and the on-air dominance of FOX News. Pope Francis calls destruction of nature a modern sin. Pope Francis called for more respect for nature on Saturday, branding the destruction of South America's rain forests and other forms of environmental exploitation a sin of modern times.
In an address at the university of Molise, an agricultural and industrial region in southern Italy, Francis said the Earth should be allowed to give her fruits without being exploited. "This is one of the greatest challenges of our time: to convert ourselves to a type of development that knows how to respect creation," he told students, struggling farmers, and laid-off workers in a university hall. "When I look at America, also my own homeland [South America], so many forests, all cut, that have become land ... that can longer give life.
This is our sin, exploiting the Earth and not allowing her to her give us what she has within her," the Argentine pope said in unprepared remarks. After the university meeting, Francis said mass for tens of thousands of people in a stadium. Reuters.
5 Facts About Life I've Realized This Year | Mo Seetubtim. This post originally appeared on BrandMentalist.com This year has been one of the most nomadic and itinerate years of my life. I was constantly on the road - from Sydney to Melbourne, Bangkok, Ho Chi Mihn city, Hobart, Singapore, Brisbane, and back in Sydney again. Although it has been one little loop around this side of the world, it has given more some perspective about life - mostly on living simply, having less, and doing more. There have been some major changes in my life - both in terms of self-development as well as changes that happen in the lives of those close to me. Below are the facts I've realized about life and I'd like to share them with you. 1. When you're a teenager, you feel like searching for who you are is the key psychological change that's going on in your life.
Everyone is trying to figure out their sh*t just like you. Instead of trying to feel certain about life, you learn to embrace uncertainty. So take risks.... because it's not a big deal if you fail. 2. 3. 4.