Hunting, agriculture driving rapid decline of jaguars in South America’s Gran Chaco
Popular in the CommunitySponsoredSponsoredOrangutan found tortured and decapitated prompts Indonesia probeEMGIES17 Jan, 2018We will never know the full extent of what this poor Orangutan went through before he died, the same must be done to this evil perpetrator(s) they don’t deserve the air that they breathe this has truly upset me and I wonder for the future for these wonderful creatures. So called ‘Mankind’ has a lot to answer for we are the only ones ruining this world I prefer animals to humans any day of the week.What makes community ecotourism succeed? 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As you seem to have spoken with an Isha spokesperson, if you could connect the concerned parties, it would be great, because I see that the ecologists are genuinely interested in making sure things are done the right way.May we all come together and make things happen.Rare Amazon bush dogs caught on camera in BoliviaCarrot1 Feba very good iniciative to be fallowed by the ranchers all overSponsored Article published by Mike Gaworecki New research finds that one-third of critical jaguar habitat in the Gran Chaco, South America’s largest tropical dry forest, has been lost since the mid-1980s.According to the study, led by researchers at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin) and published in the journal Diversity and Distributions this week, deforestation driven by agricultural expansion — mainly for soy and cattle production — has caused the steep decline of jaguar habitat in the region.Meanwhile, the conversion of jaguar habitat into cropland and pastureland gives hunters easier access to the forest. Thus overhunting and persecution by cattle ranchers has also become one of the chief causes of the big cat’s shrinking numbers, the study found. New research finds that one-third of critical jaguar habitat in the Gran Chaco, South America’s largest tropical dry forest, has been lost since the mid-1980s.According to the study, led by researchers at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin) and published in the journal Diversity and Distributions this week, deforestation driven by agricultural expansion — mainly for soy and cattle production — has caused the steep decline of jaguar habitat in the region.Meanwhile, the conversion of jaguar habitat into cropland and pastureland gives hunters easier access to the forest. Thus over-hunting and persecution by cattle ranchers has also become one of the chief threats to the survival of the big cat. Jaguars (Panthera onca) are especially vulnerable to hunting because they occur at very low densities and must range over large areas. The species is listed as Near Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.Alfredo Romero-Muñoz of HU Berlin’s Geography Department, the study’s lead author, told Mongabay that the 82,000 square kilometers (nearly 20 million acres) of jaguar habitat lost between 1985 and 2013 represents an area the size of Austria.“Seven million hectares of this key habitat degraded into habitat with high hunting risk for jaguars, while three million hectares degraded into areas with deforestation,” he said. “Furthermore, by 2013, a third of the remaining jaguar range was affected by both threats simultaneously. Jaguars may be at higher risk of disappearing — if they are not already gone — from these latter areas as both threats may interact and multiply their impact.”A jaguar in Bolivia’s Kaa-Iya National Park. Photo byDaniel Alarcón.“It is this synergistic cycle of deforestation, and hunting or poisoning, that are now the principle threats looming over one-third of the jaguar’s remaining range in the Gran Chaco,” study co-author Anthony Giordano, the director and chief conservation officer of the NGO S.P.E.C.I.E.S., emphasized in a statement.In order to study how jaguar habitat changed in the Gran Chaco between 1985 and 2013, Romero-Muñoz and team worked with several other jaguar researchers from across the region to compile a comprehensive dataset of jaguar occurrence and the variables that affect the charismatic big cats. The researchers then used computer models to reconstruct jaguar habitat in 1985, 2000, and 2013.“Our approach doesn’t only allow us to identify key jaguar habitat, but also areas under hunting threats, areas under threats of agricultural expansion, and areas where both interact within jaguar habitat,” Romero-Muñoz explained. “Assessing these maps through time can inform us how habitat changed over the last three decades across the Chaco, and also within countries and inside and outside protected areas.”Some study findings point to measures that can be taken to safeguard the future of jaguars, the top predator in the Gran Chaco eco-region. Larger protected areas were found to be better at preserving habitat than smaller protected areas, for instance.Map showing jaguar habitat change in the Gran Chaco between 1985 and 2013. Credit: Romero‐Muñoz et al. (2018). doi:10.1111/ddi.12843“Small protected areas lost jaguar habitat, either because forests were converted inside them, because hunters penetrate protected areas, or because jaguars are killed when they leave the reserves,” study co-author Tobias Kuemmerle, who leads HU Berlin’s Conservation Biogeography Group, said in a statement.The 1.1-million-kilometer Gran Chaco region extends from southern Bolivia, through western Paraguay, and into northern Argentina. “Among countries, Bolivia lost less key jaguar habitat than Paraguay and Argentina,” Romero-Muñoz said. “The main reason for this difference is probably the large, 3.4 million-hectares, Kaa-Iya National Park. Indeed, we found that larger protected areas lost proportionally less key habitat than smaller ones since the 1980s. However, 95% of the key habitat loss occurred in unprotected areas.”About 68 percent of the high-quality jaguar habitat that still remains is currently unprotected, the researchers found. But if the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay were to coordinate efforts to protect those areas, most of which are found within 200 kilometers of the countries’ international borders, the big cats might have a shot, the researchers suggest. “Our maps can inform us where conservation actions to save the jaguar should take place,” Kuemmerle said.Consumers can help play a role in saving the jaguars of the Gran Chaco, as well. “In this increasingly interconnected world, what we eat can have an impact in far-away regions,” Romero-Muñoz said. “Much of the beef produced in the Chaco is exported to Europe and Asia, and soy produced in the Chaco is also exported, mainly to feed animals. Therefore, a way to reduce our potential impacts on jaguars may be to reduce our individual consumption of meat, especially beef.”A jaguar with cubs in Bolivia’s Kaa-Iya National Park. Photo by Daniel Alarcón.CITATIONS• Quigley, H., Foster, R., Petracca, L., Payan, E., Salom, R. & Harmsen, B. 2017. Panthera onca(errata version published in 2018). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T15953A123791436. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T15953A50658693.en. Downloaded on 05 October 2018.• Romero‐Muñoz, A., Torres, R., Noss, A. J., Giordano, A. J., Quiroga, V., Thomson, J. J., Baumann, M., Altrichter, M., McBride Jr., R., Velilla, M., Arispe, R., & Kuemmerle, T. (2018). Habitat loss and overhunting synergistically drive the extirpation of jaguars from the Gran Chaco. Diversity and Distributions. doi:10.1111/ddi.12843
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Youth and Sports Minister Lenn Eugene Nagbe is expected today to mediate between the leadership of the Liberia Basketball Association (LBA) and the aggrieved stakeholders, after decisions from four negotiating meetings ended in deadlock.The President of the Liberia National Olympic Committee (LNOC), Philipbert Brown, has been invited to co-chair the negotiation.Minister Nagbe might suspend all basketball activities, including its leadership, and appoint an interim leadership, to lead the association to elections, if there isn’t any compromise from the meeting or when the results and resolutions are not adhered to.On the other hand, Minister Nagbe wouldn’t suspend basketball activities, including its leadership, and would not appoint an interim leadership, if the LBA leadership works within the decision that would be reached with the aggrieved stakeholders.Deputy Minister Henry Yonton, via mobile phone yesterday described the meeting as “the last Resort.”Minister Yonton said the meeting will bring to the fore the LBA leadership, including its president Rufus Anderson, secretary general D. Allen Goodridge and three Executive Committee members, while the aggrieved party is expected to also bring five persons to the meeting.Deputy Minister Yonton said the meeting will be held in the offices of Minister Nagbe at the Ministry of Youth & Sports on 19th Street, at 11:00A.M.“I will advise the LBA leadership and the aggrieved stakeholders to commit themselves to any resolution that may arise from today’s meeting,” Deputy Minister Yonton said. “I cannot say what the outcome may be but if they fail to do whatever might have come from the meeting, it is obvious that the Minister will definitely institute a remedial action.”Since January 28, the LBA has failed to go to its scheduled and rescheduled elections over protest of alleged administrative and financial malpractices, including the spurious registrations of 14 3rd division clubs.The Liberia National Olympic Committee’s President Philipbert Browne fruitlessly hosted two meetings with both parties.In further effort to remedy the basketball embarrassing saga, the LNOC in collaboration with the Sports Department of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, with the presence of Deputy and Assistant Ministers, Yonton and Murvee Gray attended without success.The postponement of Congress last Friday marked the fourth deferment – the first date was January 28; later to February 6 and 7; February 17 and 18 and then February 20 and 21.The LBA’s congress failed to begin due to various disruptions, including a reported fistfight between two persons, as tension boiled over.The fist fight and quarrel between both parties, the management of the Baptist Seminary was constrained to bring to an end the congress and shut its doors.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum on Wednesday confirmed to Guyana Times that the Police are still hunting the three suspects wanted for the shooting death of Andrew Fraser in Warlock, Ruimveldt, Georgetown, on Thursday evening last. He iterated that checks were made at several locations in which the men would frequent but to no avail.He nevertheless stated that the Police will continue to pursue the men and have them placed before the courts. It was reported that the three men are known criminals to the Police.Dead: Andrew FraserThey were implicated in several high-profile matters including the recent Police operation at John Street Campbellville, Georgetown, which unearthed an AK-47 assault rifle, 80 rounds of ammunition along with a .9mm pistol and several mobile phones.Andrew Fraser, 30, of Lot 565 East La Penitence, Georgetown, was gunned after two men pulled up in a dark-coloured Carina 212 motorcar and opened fire. Fraser who was due to leave the country the following Saturday left home with the intention of collecting two suitcases but stopped at the shop to buy porridge.From all indications, his cousin, Timothy St Hill was the target but he was caught in the crossfire. Based on reports, the young man was minding his own business, paying attention to his cellphone when the men suddenly appeared at the scene and opened fire.He was shot at least five times by the two men who fled the scene in the motorcar. Dawn Sampson, mother of the man who was allegedly targeted, confirmed that her son was the target while accusing the Police of having a hand in her nephew’s execution.Her son, St Hill, was only recently charged for entering Guyana illegally from Suriname. St Hill was also fingers in the Rio Night Club shooting incident sometime back.His mother however, claimed that the Police had recently accused her son for the guns and ammunition that were found during a raid at a Campbellville, Georgetown house. He was arrested but after the 72-hour detention period elapsed, he was released.The Police have questioned St Hill in connection with the murder.
Sport reflects the best – and worst – in American society. Baseball is the quintessential American sport, an athletic representation of the nation at its best. It’s a sport that celebrates teamwork as well as individual accomplishment. It honors tradition and lore. And, making it especially American, it’s uniquely meritocratic among the sports. Unlike football or basketball, where players need to win the genetic lottery just to compete on the field of play at the professional level, baseball is the game where the little guy has a chance. Or at least did. AD Quality Auto 360p 720p 1080p Top articles1/5READ MOREWhicker: Clemson demonstrates that it’s tough to knock out the champBut now the Mitchell Report confirms what everyone knew all along. In baseball, size matters, a lot. As many as half of the players in recent years have been using steroids or human growth hormone to speed up their throws and put more power into their bats. No, you don’t need to win the genetic lottery to play in the majors. But for the little guy, and even the not so little guy, to really make it, using highly dangerous drugs was all but required. Naturally, the revelations of the Mitchell Report have sparked outrage among the American public, which is rightfully fed up about the nation’s pastime being tainted by cheating. And there is no shortage of people to blame – the athletes themselves, unscrupulous owners who effectively encouraged the abuse, the union that protected it, the commissioner of baseball, even the federal government, which seemed impotent to stop it. But let’s not forget that we, too – all of us – share in the culpability for this scandal. “Don’t ask, don’t tell” hasn’t only been Major League Baseball’s policy toward steroid use. It’s been the American public’s, too. Nothing in the Mitchell Report is new – not even most of the names. The rumors and the evidence have been around a long, long time. Players who were so-so in their 20s suddenly defied the laws of biology to become Hall of Famers in their 30s. Their physiques ballooned before our very eyes. We guffawed. We joked. But we tolerated. We enabled. Like Major League Baseball and all those it employs, we were having too much fun watching records crumble one after another to answer the hard questions. We came to expect cheating, and so we made our peace with it. If baseball is a reflection of America at its best, it’s also a reflection of America at its worst – a society that can too often value fame, wealth and success over literally everything else. Make an honest, humble living and you’re a schlub. Make a dishonest living as an athlete using steroids, and you’re a celebrity, a hero to millions, fabulously wealthy. For a struggling athlete, who can be a millionaire with steroids or a stockboy without them, the choice is obvious. Ditto for the merely good-enough pro who can get a shot at records-book immortality with the help of modern medicine. We’ve got it all backward. Even now, the names in the news belong to those who cheated, who chose glory over honor. Perhaps when the hoopla has died down, we need another Mitchell Report, one celebrating all the players who sacrificed to do the right thing. These are the real heroes, the real role models – ambassadors of the quintessentially American sport when it really does represent America at its best.160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set!
AD Quality Auto 360p 720p 1080p Top articles1/5READ MORESurfer attacked by shark near Channel Islands calls rescue a ‘Christmas miracle’ 160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! The first cold storm of the year is expected to pass through the San Fernando Valley today, but it shouldn’t dump much rain and dry skies should return by Tuesday, weather forecasters said. A gusty northeast wind is expected to blow in a weak storm system, bringing with it a 50 percent chance of rain. The San Fernando Valley will likely see a quarter of an inch of rain, said Bill Hoffer, a spokesman for the National Weather Service in Oxnard. “It’s a weak system in that its just truckin’ through here,” Hoffer said. “We’ll see scattered showers behind a cold front.” The mountains may see some fresh snow packs of up to 3 inches at elevations of 7,000 feet and above. The Grapevine along the Golden State Freeway may see a dusting of snow by this evening, Hoffer said. 
Which colours will the national stadium be draped in next month for the Scottish Cup final? Hibernian and Dundee United meet in Saturday’s semi-final, looking to book their place against either Rangers or Celtic, who meet at the same ground just 24 hours later. Hibs’ last outing at the national stadium saw them defeated in the League Cup final last month while Rangers lifted the Petrofac Cup there last weekend. Celtic, who went out at this stage of the competition last year to Inverness Caley Thistle, knocked Dundee United out in the quarter-finals. The STV Sport team have made their bold predictions ahead of the weekend action.
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Apple earnings: company beats with $42 billion, iPhone SE above expectationsYou are here: Posted on 27th July 2016Digital Marketing FacebookshareTwittertweetGoogle+share Earlier this afternoon Apple reported its fiscal 2016 third quarter results. The company had quarterly revenue of $42.4 billion, which was down 15 percent year-over-year but beat financial analyst consensus estimates. Revenue a year ago was $49.6 billion.Gross margin was down year over year partly because of the apparent popularity of the lower-cost iPhone SE. There were two highlights: services revenue grew 19 percent to roughly $6 billion and iPad sales beat expectations (9.95 million units vs. 9.1 million).Here are the device numbers:iPhone: 40.4 million units — $24 billioniPad: 9.95 million units — $4.9 billionMac: 4.2 million units — $5.2 billionServices (App Store, etc.) — $6 billionOther Products (including Apple TV, Apple Watch) — $2.2 billion HomeDigital MarketingApple earnings: company beats with $42 billion, iPhone SE above expectations
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I was very honored to be asked to join the Intel IT Peer Network as a Guest Blogger. If you are a frequent participant of the IT Peer Network, I hope you find some of my musings insightful, or at least entertaining. If you are new to the Network, I encourage you spend some time perusing the Blog, there is some fantastic content here. As someone who has been in IT management at various companies over the last twenty years the focus on my posts will center around Leadership and Organizational Dynamics and related themes as they pertain to IT. I hope to bring some unique perspectives to these topics.J The CIO is Dead! Long Live the CIO!This post could have also been titled: The more things change, the more things remain the same. The role of the CIO, and the role of IT for that matter, have been in a constant state of evolution since their inception 30 or 40 years ago. I think what is different today, is the speed at which the evolution must take place. Business is changing, the way work gets done is changing, technology is changing. The impacts on the CIO and IT are significant and at times can seem insurmountable.Gartner calls it the “Nexus of Forces”. I like to describe it as a confluence (ok, so I AM a river rat at heart), when two or more rivers join together at a confluence, the power of the resulting river is not additive, but rather exponential. A quick read of the industry blogs, magazines, and books today gives you a sense of the myriad of changes impacting IT leadership: the data explosion, both big and not so big; cloud computing, including SaaS and all the other “aaS’s”; the Internet of Things; the consumerization of IT; something I like to call the “appification” of IT; BYOD/CYOD; mobile; and finally the digitization and personalization of the world of marketing. Its enough to make one question the choice of one’s career!IT and IT leadership must adapt to these changes or risk fading into irrelevancy. It will take different skills across our organizations and a different approach to managing risk, while at the same time enabling the organization to leverage technology. Over the course of the next few months, we will focus on each of these rivers (ok, forces) and discuss ways in which to harness each of them to propel our businesses forward. I hope you join in the dialogue and share your thoughts, together we can develop even better solutions.If anything you read here or in other posts strikes a chord, I would love to hear from you. Leave a comment, reach out to me on Twitter (@jtongici), find me on LinkedIn, or Google +. You can also read more of my posts at RiversofThought.net.