RT @OWStarr: Next time you're about to kick an anthill... [video] #architecture #nature #ants

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RT @OWStarr: Ever meet an Arctic Fox? Description: The Arctic Fox is the only native land mammal to Iceland. It came to Iceland at the end of the last ice age, walking over the frozen sea. Habitat: Shot With Shotgun Multiple Times & Survived Stand Up Comedian Chris Turner’s Amazing Freestyle Rap Chris Turner may look like he’s a nerd who couldn’t rap for shit, but just wait until you see him in action. Taking suggestions from the crowd for subjects to use—the more unfunny they are the better—he then proceeds to make a rap from these disparate elements. Keep reading → Cute SD Card Micro-Mecha Robot Transformation Memory cards, they’re robots in disguise! “Sorry For The Inconvenience We Are Trying To Save The WORLD”…Mato Woksabe April 23, 2012 This is what a Wolf Warrior looks like. Mato in front of IDFG in Boise, Idaho, protesting the slaughter of wolves. Take heed Warriors. Every single one of us has the ability to do what Mato is doing. Remember the Idaho hunt is not over.

High fliers: 5 great paper airplane designs You might think of them as child's play, but there's a surprising amount of history behind paper airplanes. Thought to have been invented by the Chinese several thousand years ago, these useful toys have helped guide some of history's most famous aviators. Leonardo da Vinci built them to test his ornithopter. The Wright Brothers used them to prototype their historic Flyer. During the early part of the 20th century, designers at Lockheed and Heinkel put them to work in the development of new warplanes. But today, even with the benefit of modern aerodynamics, physics, and materials, the creation of a good paper airplane is still as much art as it is science. RT @OWStarr: Just when you thought you'd seen the worst: [warning graphic] With all of the outrage concerning the Josh Brandford wolf torture photos, an effort has been made by hunting and trapping groups to downplay the event. They claim that this type of brutality is the exception rather than the rule. A couple of days ago, I was made aware of a horrific video showing coyotes being killed in the most extreme manners possible including through the use of explosives. These two thugs call themselves “Coyote Control Specialists” and they have numerous videos on YouTube that show them slaughtering coyotes and other wildlife. They even make a video that shows them shooting ground squirrels for fun. Like Josh Bransford these are the faces of the modern “sportsman.”

RT @OWStarr: Why is did "Wildlife Services" kill >50k animals since 2000? (many endangered): @ConservationNW @foxewise The US Department of Wildlife services is "a killing business and it ain't pretty," says Carter Niemeyer, a 26 year veteran of the department. He's referring to the US Department of Wildlife Services, a government agency that is tasked with government-funded wildlife control. In practice this means the agency is a tax-payer supported operation that is paid to kill animals, some of which are considered among this country's most iconic. According to the Sacramento Bee, wolves, coyotes, foxes, wolverines, bears and mountain lions are among the animals agents of this department regularly kill using means as cruel and indiscriminate as leg-hold traps, snares and explosive poisons as well as ariel gunning. Even more upsetting, the agency has also slaughtered some 50,000 non-targeted animals by accident since 2000.

RT @OWStarr: Please help me send a message to poachers: In 2008 William White and his son, Tom intentionally slaughtered at least one and possibly more than one wolf from the Lookout Pack near Methow, WA. The wolves which had naturally migrated to the area were under the full protection of the Endangered Species Act. In spite of his intentional disrgard for the law as well as a confirmed pattern of poaching wildlife and engaging in illegal means of hunting animals, the court in the case is letting Mr White off with only a minimum fine and no jail time. White's son, Tom and his daughter in law Erin are still in the process of negotiating a plea deal after having both plead guilty to participating in these crimes. “Mr.

RT @OWStarr: Switzerland tries to kill of its three remaining wild wolves: 23 November 2005 Switzerland - a nation with a wolf population so small it can be counted on the fingers of one hand - has put forward a ludicrous proposal to allow the hunting of wolves in Europe that must be rejected. The Swiss government’s proposal to the Council of Europe to allow the hunting of wolves throughout their European range comes hot on the heels of a report showing that wolf populations have not yet recovered in the continent. The proposal was submitted to the Council and will be voted upon at next week’s meeting of the Bern Convention. "It is incomprehensible that Switzerland, with a wolf population of two or three individuals, has the audacity to ask the Council of Europe to allow hunting," said Dr Jill Bowling Schlaepfer, Director of Conservation for WWF-UK. "The wolf finally returned to Switzerland in 1995, but none of those individuals have reproduced.

RT @OWStarr: If you care if your hospital is raising money by killing other animals for sport, please tell St. Judes to stop it! Raccoons will be hunted for a competition to raise money for St. Judes hospital. They will be treed using AKC coonhounds. Please put this to a stop! The Mothers, if killed, will leave behind their orphaned newborns, leaving them to starve in the brush. RT @OWStarr: Ranchers, Farmers this is how you deal with wolves: For centuries, guard dogs worked alongside livestock farmers in the mountains of Portugal to protect their animals from the Iberian wolf. But the dogs fell out of favour when shooting and poisoning came to be seen as a quick and easy method of controlling the wolves at the turn of the 20th century. Now that wolves are protected under Portuguese law, some of the country's oldest dog breeds are being used to help struggling farmers co-exist with the predators. Portuguese wolf conservation organisation Grupo Lobo is encouraging the farmers to turn back the clock and work with the rare dogs, which fiercely protect the flocks under their care and chase off attacking wolves.