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The Merced National Wildlife Refuge in California's Central (San Joaquin) Valley encompasses 10,258 acres of wetlands, native grasslands, vernal pools, and riparian areas. It was established in 1951 under the Lea Act to attract wintering waterfowl away from adjacent farmland where foraging ducks and geese were causing extensive damage to crops.
The refuge hosts the largest wintering population of Ross' geese along the Pacific Flyway. Each fall approximately 60,000 arctic nesting geese terminate their annual migrations from Alaska and Canada to make the refuge home. Here they mingle with thousands of other visiting waterfowl and shorebirds to make the refuge a true winter phenomenon.
Artist: Helina Metaferia
2008
More info at: theartaround.us/arts/the-great-african-migration
Blurb: The centerpiece is an African/ African-American woman with eyes closed and large hoop earrings. Yellow background, landscape view of the Capitol. "Part of the The Georgia Avenue Global Mural, this piece is one of the five murals created along one of Washington, DC's main corridors, Georgia Avenue, as part of a grant-funded project that explored the city's cultural and social issues. This particular mural is titled The Great African Migration, and portrays the immigration of people of the African Diaspora emerging into Washington's communities. Being a first generation American of Ethiopian descent, this painting reflects Helina's own personal narrative. The mural project was coordinated by artist Joel Bergner with funding through a grant from the DC commission on the Arts and Humanities." More at www.metaartist.com/murals.html
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LT: Minke whale. Juergen Freund. OCEANS. Ribbon Reefs, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
RT: A Bryde's whale lies on the deck of a Japanese whaling vessel. The species is listed as "Data Deficient" on the IUCN Red List and current population numbers are not known. (Institute for Cetacean Research)
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Dear Mr. President and Honorable Government Officials:
The United States once played a vital part in protecting whales and their oceanic habitat. As a nonpartisan voice for the International Whaling Commission (IWC), it helped shape decades of sound conservation.
That's about to change if U.S. IWC Commissioner Dr. William Hogarth successfully removes a key safeguard for these giant marine mammals.
Whales are already vulnerable to pollution, global warming, sonar, drilling, fishnet entrapment, ship strikes, habitat loss and more human hazards. Yet Dr. Hogarth wants to dilute the IWC's moratorium on commercial whaling.
Granted, the commercial ban has been difficult to enforce. Japan, Iceland and Norway have long exploited an IWC exemption for "scientific whaling." There is no rationale for butchering whales to analyze migration, age, ecology or behavior. Eminent scientists and legal authorities rebuke "scientific whaling" as pointless. In fact, science-based slaughter is a veil for commerce in whale meat.
Dr. Hogarth further undercuts whale preservation with his proposal to accept some commercial whaling and allow it in coastal waters. I encourage you to appoint the Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as the U.S. IWC Commissioner and oppose strategies that endorse Special Permit catches or "Coastal Whaling." I hope you will uphold IWC regulations and discount any type whaling presently forbidden under them.
The U.S. ought to use its clout to halt whaling from Japan, Iceland and Norway -- not appease them with watered down rules. Japan, in particular, has continually defied international treaty obligations and hunted endangered whales. Moreover, whale hunts are profoundly inhumane. Harpoons explode inside their bodies. It can take a half to full hour for a whale to die. Some, tied to the side of ships, suffocate as they thrash in vain.
Please revitalize America's leadership in the IWC with a U.S. Commissioner who facilitates conservation instead of killing.
Thank you,
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Urge Obama to Stop Plan to Slaughter Whales
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Whaling Commission Political Deal Could Overturn Moratorium
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Dr Farah Anwar Pandith, US State Department's Special Representative to Muslim communities, addressed the panel discussion: "Building bridges of opportunity: Women and Migration", organised by the US Embassy to the Holy See, and attended by our Ambassador Nigel Baker. 24 May 2012
Snow Geese and Greater White Fronted Geese doing a stop over on their migration in a cultivated field near Batesville, Texas.
Thank to Blake for ID'ing the Greater White Fronted Geese.
Last summer I spent a month on assgnment in Kenya - updating Fodor's Complete Safari guidebook and working on magazine features. After more than a dozen visits to the country I finally caught the migration at its most dramatic.
See our Kenya pages on kitbaggers.com
This shot nearly captures all the birds that came over in a single fly over. It was impressive having them all overhead at once; here and then gone in a few minutes.
Flight training for whooping cranes with an ultralight aircraft preparing them for migration from Wisconsin to Florida.
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CC 204 16 were being shipped from Jakarta via Tanjung Priok International Seaport to South Sumatera.
Watercolour
"When the great migrations began the bloodhounds of religious fervour found succor in the situation. The waves of humanities tide broke on the beaches of the western world and opened the floodgates forevermore. We watched as aid became anger, as over population stretched resources and liberalism until they snapped.
Whip-lashing through the thousands whose starved and desperate bodies shivered in the breaking waves"
Hundreds of red breasted mergansers amass along the shore before heading south ahead of Monday’s winter storm.
Migration of the Qashqai nomads near Bishapur-Kazerun, southern Iran, in 1976.
This Album is in my Iran Collection.
Canon Ftb, Agfa CT18 slide film.