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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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It's also good that you listed the sun bear as well. It's the ONLY bear here in Indonesia, and even here it's not that famous. Maybe just for an add on, one reason why it's declining is the illegal pet trade (it's both the tamest and smallest, an instant victim).
Spectacled bear too! Imagine that, a South American bear and the closest thing to Arctodus Simus (even if it looks like a pipsqueak next to it...)
Genetic pollution is always a threat to a species facing extinction. Conservation groups tried to save the "red wolf," but as it would turn out, the species was so diluted with dog and coyote, that it's not even a wolf anymore. If genetic pollution truly becomes a problem, Brown bears and Polar bears will likely go the way of the Barred and Spotted owls. The Spotted owls were declared "endangered" in a political move by environmentalists to keep loggers out of forests. Barred owls started mating with the spotted owls, and out-competing them for food and territory. If the spotted owls ceased to be pure, or they were all killed by the barred owls, they would lose their protection status, and logging would be open again. So, what's the solution? Shoot the barred owls to keep the land locked away from loggers. It's a horrible abuse of taxpayer dollars and a waste of our resources. But, anyway, I don't think that genetic pollution is prevalent enough in polar bears to raise any red flags right now, but should it ever come to fruition, expect a spike in brown bear hunting.
The bear thing was actually something interesting thing I studied for ecology class on the role of tertiary consumers. Got the original information from the BBC, said case was explored later in other websites. At first it became a way to study heredity of different species (never knew Polar bears are really just very, very recent descendents of brown bears from Europe)... then other articles warped it into an argument of how "baaaad" humans are.
But that story about owls is pretty sad. The spotted owl isn't even that far above "Low Risk" in the IUCN. To say that they are "endangered" is absurd. Who are these people anyway? Most of these "movements" tend to have no relation to any major conservation group. It's sad that because of this logic that one species of owl is being outcompeted and interbreeding because of some group of so-called "environmentalists".
It's a land-grab move, trying to keep people from using the land and its resources, simply because they can. More and more, we are putting the rights of animals above the rights of ourselves, and it's only proving to be disastrous. Loggers were banned from the areas surrounding the Gila National Forest in NM because of "endangered" animals, and thanks to all the dead trees and dry brush, the fire was able to spread rapidly. The fire consumed everything in it's path, and was at 0% containment for what felt like forever. If loggers had been allowed to use that land, the fire would not have spread as far as it did. If we do not use our resources, we lose them.
It was discussing these topics with you! I have to do go do homework now, working on an animation project that's essential for my college application. Hope we can discuss more in the future! It was thrilling and I learned a lot
People keep Sun Bears as pets?