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Managing Zika Virus across the Southern USA

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As the Zika virus appears in newly born USA infants, there is an increased need to step up delivery statistics from South and Latin America. These nations do not have adequate record keeping and many children are born without hospital papers. Infant mortality and birth defects are significantly under-reported. The photo shown above is not meant to scare people. The consequences must be clearly understood.

It is key to increase awareness of this growing problem. Local community public service ads could raise the overall information level of methods to reduce the spread of Zika.

Mosquitoes breed best in stagnant water. They commonly lay eggs in ponds, marshes, swamps, fish ponds, backyard fountains, lakes, and other wetland habitats. The Anopheles mosquito is quite hardy and can lay eggs in polluted water and brackish water swamps. This is problematic for areas like Louisiana and Florida.

The initial step is shutting down the local breeding areas for mosquitoes. Mosquito eggs laid without water can hatch weeks or months later when water arrives. A push across towns and counties to keep the grass mowed low and destroy mosquito local habitat is needed and public service television ads to raise the general information level. Swimming pool pumps must be run on a regular basis.

Swimming pools under construction are looming problems for mosquito breeding. These are often left empty and fill with several inches of rain water prior to completion. The perfect host site to hatch mosquito eggs. Reptile and birds can enter and become infected with Zika.

Old boats should be placed upside down. Boat dealers must become involved in protecting boats from water collection during hurricane season. Boat rental shops should guard against water collection in unused boats. Boat repair shops are also a concern. Boats left in 24 hour guarded storage units outdoors should be covered or moved inside.

Empty pots and containers around the yard must be moved to prevent water stagnation. Remove old tires and recycle, rather than help expand the mosquito population. Pet water dishes should be washed and emptied often.

Install solar motors in birdbaths to prevent motionless water and replace water one or twice a week. Mow culverts and open drainage areas to ensure that water flows and drains. Older trees with holes due to rotted limbs or trauma should be filled in to prevent this as breeding spot.

Build french drains on property when drainage is a problem. Haul in fill-dirt for low areas to prevent water collection. These solutions are not all inexpensive.

The Zika virus creates long-term health problems without current medical answers. Symptoms similar to arthritis will appear and require pharmaceutical intervention. Mortality increases for infants are anticipated as the virus spreads.

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Endangered Species Future Think: Florida Black Bears True Head Count

The latest underlying truth for Florida about its deadly assault on the black bears is clear. Florida black bears may be endangered without protection at this very moment. The 2016 Hunt was called off by Governor Rick Scott. The policy and law are not revised or amended at this time.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission authorized the killing of about 20 percent of the bear population in the October 2015 hunt. With a Florida black bear count of 3,800, the commission sold over 2,200 permits to kill 302 bears during the October hunt. What factors control the permit to bear kill rates during a hunt spread across the state?

Thirty-five (35) mother bears were shot during the hunt in late October of 2015. Florida black bears usually produce offspring at ages 3 to 5 and each bear litter usually has at least two or three bear offspring. Bear cubs drink their mother’s milk for more than 30 weeks after birth. This resulted in about 70 to 105 orphaned baby bear cubs. These young bears without parents die. The real numbers may be higher. This factor increased the likely dead bear count by 25% to 33%.

The average black bear lifespan in the wild is 18 years. Many bears in zoos live significantly longer. The size of a male adult Florida black bear weighs about 126–551 lb and females weigh about 90–375 lb. The low priced bear hunting permit of $100 creates an artificially insignificant value for bear meat and ancillary bear products, such as bear paws and floor rugs.

The real Florida black bear count could reflect an actually endangered status prior to the 2015 hunt. This appears to be the case. A large piece of land must be purchased for a black bear preserve connecting the current areas of existing habitat. This land purchase lowers bear and human interaction and creates a space for bear families to raise cubs.

Past Florida black bear hunting proceeds (at least $350,000) are needed to create this protected space. Central Florida is a treat with its large open spaces. Many large tracts of land qualify as potential animal reserve areas. This space must be large enough for several species to share. There are several additional endangered or threatened species which need a safe habitat. Big cats and spotted owls can share this preserve with eagles and other important Florida animal legacies.

Leadership is needed for the protection of Florida black bears and other endangered species. This is a looming issue. New voices with an active role in animal and environmental protection must fill this void. Leo DiCaprio has a strong record as an animal activist and global climate speaker. The environmental challenge requires standing up to those with the money and power ignore endangered species status when hunting. This is not an exact science and the goal is not to stop all hunting.

Imagine a future where Washington does not have the resources or regulatory authority to supervise endangered species in individual states. This could result from financial collapse related to the reduction or suspension of social security payments. Our national budget is not balanced and this is a low priority line item expense for those uninterested in animal protection and environmental outcomes.

The state of Florida can benefit from state regulators with foresight and courage to imagine a different future. It must take the needed steps for the habitat management of an endangered species sanctuary. These bears are one of Florida’s natural resources. This should not be a petting zoo, but rather a dignified space for threatened and endangered animal species.

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Endangered Species Future Think: Reversing Trends for Endangered Animals

The National Wildlife Federation outlines several steps which are needed to protect endangered species including:

• Defending and strengthening the Endangered Species Act
• Holding federal agencies and state authorities accountable
• Advocate for increased funding and private landowner incentives for land conservation trusts, land acquisition, and land swaps
• Protecting and restoring the natural habitat
• Reducing threats to wildlife like hunting, construction, and invasive species which threaten their survival

Many people look and miss the trees for the forest. Land conservation and animal protectionism are difficult. Wealthy people may not endorse this belief and enjoy the sporting element of slaughtering protected animals.

Creating a better world is a long term commitment. Animals cannot speak for themselves. Grown-ups must assess danger and take bold steps to create a path for survival for our endangered species.

How is it possible to walk this harsh path forward when the universe has many hidden snares and snipers? Sir Walter Scott left us with over 26 books and many amazing quotes: “All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”

Each person can impact the world in ways that cannot be imagined. Widen the education of each person to enhance contributions. The world has many options to improve the fate of endangered species.

The North American Bear Center works to conserve habitat, stop poaching, rehabilitate injured and orphaned bears, and reduce human and bear conflict. Organizations like the North American Bear Center team with the Endangered Species Act, federal agencies, and state wildlife officers to create a platform for black bear protection.

State Wildlife Plans must uphold and endorse the creation of sufficient habitat and protect it from global warming and lower carbon footprints to sustain long-term survival. The humankind focus must protect this group to ensure its own survival. This does not mean one world order. Everyone does their part and carries their share of the load as the world moves ahead with new challenges. How much commitment is required to attain another outcome? Duty requires investigation of the opponent’s goals?

The legacy for America and Canada must be to protect the assets of North America including endangered species. The World Wildlife Federation, land conservation organizations, and foundations involved with globally endangered species protection must select key leadership roles with this goal in mind.

Silvia Earle and Leo DiCaprio are well known international environmentalists with many roles in global climate control and protecting marine and wildlife endangered species. They are both excellent role models for endangered species education, commitment, involvement, and leadership.

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Saving the Florida Dolphins

Will Florida fight to protect the threatened dolphin pods swimming in its beautiful coastline waters? The ocean is an asset shared by everyone. The bay’s massive pollution increases the probability of locally threatened species turning into extinct species. The contamination of rivers and water tables has raised the pH of water along Florida’s coastline and bays. Bacteria counts are also increased with water degradation.

Watch the plight of dying marine species ingesting plastics and toxins is tragic. This is well documented in Blue Ocean Film Festival’s array of Indie films. Marine life cannot digest plastic and die with full stomachs of toxic plastic. The best example is an autopsy of a dead penguin: its stomach was full of plastic and could no longer digest anything it ate. Another example is contaminated shark meat: testing showed toxic levels of mercury.

As budgets are tightened with increasing demands, the amazing Florida waters suffer pollution from plastic tabs, metal pull-off tabs, plastic grocery bags, Styrofoam, diesel gasoline spills, oil spills, and nitrogen runoff from fertilizers. There are amazing Indie films sharing this marine life plight every year at the Blue Ocean Film Festival in Saint Petersburg and Monaco.

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World Climate Change: Renewable Energy to Slow Land Loss From Rising Sea Levels

There are many scary world climate change issues ahead. The global climate changes include temperatures increases, volatile precipitation patterns, rising sea levels, weather disasters, forest fires, and droughts. The loss of Arctic ice and related ocean temperature changes is new. The most important issue may be limiting the pollutants entering the ocean. Is this due to nitrates and phosphates entering our rivers and stream to enter the oceans? Has this increased CO2 in the world?

Has fracking in the oil and gas industry caused a minor collapse of substructures and water aquifers?

Is part of the rising sea due to actual subsidence of land in many parts of the world? What happens as formations subside? Does this cause river and stream flow differently into the ocean or sea and reduce wetlands?

Is acid rain from smog or factory pollutants the missing puzzle piece explaining the rising sea level? The chemical composition of the ocean may be the key item to monitor, but which exact chemicals must be tested? New chemicals are created every year and no one understands how they impact the globe. Who will steer the monitoring of the ocean and sea level? Which international group can lead the world in this important lifesaving topic?

Have underwater volcanoes increased the temperature of the ocean enough to permanently change the melting and refreezing points of the earth? Earlier research found that volcanoes on land also surged in activity about 12,000 to 7,000 years ago resulting in a loss of glacier and ice sheets coverage. Underwater volcanoes create increases of carbon dioxide into the ocean. This probably impacts local water temperatures. Harvard University research on undersea land shifts and the long trend line of underwater volcanoes raises unanswered questions in this area.

Can unexpected ocean contaminate raise the temperature of the ocean? The ice and Arctic polar areas are melting at an accelerating rate. This is clearly shown in Greenland. The loss of ice results in changes in water temperature. Has this factor caused a temperature rise in the water? How fast does this create rising sea levels? Has this ended the lives of Polar Bears, Walrus, Penguins, and seals? Is there an attempt to relocate any of these endangered animals by WFF, NOAA, or Green Peace?

Have new air pollutants caused higher air temperatures? Did this impact rainfall levels in certain areas? How is our big picture altered through the side effects?

How is the general public informed about this looming issue? Is it possible to slow this trend of losing land mass to rising sea levels? Rising sea levels affect everyone. Impacts include animals, fish, marshes, and sand dunes. Animal and wildlife species living in coastal areas are impacted and their habitat is decreased or eliminated.

Tracking coastline land loss is important to access how rising sea levels impact local areas. The Maldives Islands are a key example of rising sea levels and land loss. It is currently very difficult to understand the acceleration of rising sea levels. In coastal areas, problems associated with subsidence may be due to rising sea levels.

Is it possible to create a real-time software model which indicates how global warming and other environmental changes are impacting coastal and island land loss? The model could include a highly detailed drawing of all the countries and bodies of water. Any changes in sea level or temperature could be reflected by the blue ocean covering lost land and be viewed online. This could be displayed by news and nonprofit foundation’s websites to help people understand the real impact on their world and location.

One solution lies in the responsible use of global fossil fuel resources and the integration of renewable energy at a fast pace. This is complicated by recent low prices of oil and gas. The new lower commodity prices make renewable energy a social platform rather than an affordable economic choice.

The Leo DiCaprio Foundation and NRDC are great places to learn about the incorporation of green energy and solar energy across America and the world. Mr. DiCaprio spoke at the 2016 Davos World Economic Forum summit meetings on global climate change and energy. Renewable energy is a platform endorsed by Green Peace, NRDC, WWF, Leo DiCaprio Foundation, and many notable nonprofits and foundations. It is our best hope for reducing fossil fuel use and lowering the carbon footprints of citizens around the globe.

Wind energy assets can last over one hundred years. It is found in Europe. GE and Siemens Energy offer superb capital equipment for solar and wind projects internationally. These renewable energy assets may have a better payout due to their longer time horizon. Current falling commodity prices could require wind generated electric power rather than solar in appropriate geographic areas. Tax incentives are often available for both solar and wind energy. This may not be a great advantage of your financial situation cannot utilize this extra benefit.

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Today’s Environmental Activists

Changing long-term trends in pollution, global climate change, and water protection requires money, foresight, and leadership. The implementing of new law focuses attention on protecting our world. It does not enforce these laws.

Environmental protection requires more than important dedicated activism. Third world countries have not been previously held accountable for air pollution and global warming. Laws differ among countries. Poor less educated countries move forward with new technology advances and successfully expand their economies. This is great progress.

Efforts must be made to enforce penalties on the books for environmental catastrophes to reverse the existing pattern of passing legislation without holding leaders responsible for fines and clean-ups. Money is moved into growing economies. Human rights matter. Legal enforcement should address the environmental claims in countries as they are transformed into powerful economies.

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David Evans Shaw and Blue Ocean Film Festival 2016

“David Evans Shaw is managing partner of Black Point Group LP, with wide-ranging interests in technology companies and public service.

His business creation, leadership, investment and board experience includes numerous science-based companies including IDEXX Laboratories, Ikaria, Curiosity Stream, Ironwood, Physion, Vets First Choice, Modern Meadow, and others.

Shaw’s public service experience includes AAAS, the National Park Foundation, the Jackson Laboratory, the Sargasso Sea Alliance, State of Maine, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Maine Medical Center, Hurricane Island Outward Bound, the US-Israel Science and Technology Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, Service Nation and others.

He is a lifelong beneficiary of experiences in marine and terrestrial parks around the world.”

Longer Term Consequences of Zika

The Zika outbreak is spreading quickly. This impacts many industries working in the area. Land conservation and habitat restoration require human workers. They are at risk for Zika virus. Cost will increase restoring and protecting endangered and threatened land. It is imperative to step up the restoration money for the areas now prior to the formal declaration of a “Pandemic Warning” by the CDC in Atlanta.

WWF and NRDC must recognize the huge impact of Zika on their goal. It increases health dangers for workers and endangered species. There are no solutions available at the present moment. It is imperative to focus attention on this matter and develop options. Creative and aggressive ideas are key to slowing this situation until a cure is found. CRISPR gene therapy may solve this disease in the future. In the meantime, long-term health consequences may be staved off with immunotherapy.