Author: PerchSpective

No issue is either black or white, encouraging discussion and asking eveyone to look at issues from all angles and with an open mind. PerchSpective champions the protection and conservation of the natural world.
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Bird Song Opera | YouTube Video — SANTA MONICA BAY AUDUBON SOCIETY BLOG

https://www.youtube.com/embed/IMXD4h5w8D8?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent This must be seen and heard to be believed. Watch it at least twice. It gets better. 3 ½ minutes. Music by W. A. Mozart, arranged and edited by Volker Pannes, http://www.shakeup.de Many thanks to “Hollywood” Dave Surtees, aficionado of strange humor, for sending this in. [Chuck Almdale] via Bird Song Opera | YouTube Video …

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HORSES AND VOTING! — Straight from the Horse’s Heart

from our partners at Equine Advocates “ONLY WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, CAN DECIDE THEIR FATE!” Today is #PrimaryDay in eight states: #Alabama, #California, #Iowa, #Mississippi, #Montana, #NewJersey, #NewMexico and #SouthDakota. There are only 22 weeks until the #MidTerms on November 6th. It is URGENT that Americans who care about #equine protection, specifically the banning of […] …

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Urgent: House Appropriations to Vote on BLM Anti-Wild Equine Budget this Wednesday — Straight from the Horse’s Heart

Call to action: The House Appropriations Committee has scheduled its “mark up” on the spending bill for the Interior Department, including the BLM’s Wild Horse & Burro Program, this Wednesday, June 6 starting at 10 am Eastern. We just learned that Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) will introduce an amendment recommending permanent sterilization of wild equines …

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All life on Earth, in one staggering chart

From Vox "All life on Earth, in one chart What you’ll see below is a kind of tower of life. Each large block of this tower represents a gigaton of life, and the blocks are grouped into broad kingdoms. There are the protists (think microscopic life like amoebae), archaea (single-celled organisms somewhat similar to bacteria), …

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Urgent: BLM’s Bloody, Barbaric Experiments on Wild Horse Mares Back on the Agenda — Straight from the Horse’s Heart

Call to Action Once again, the BLM is attempting to slip in under the radar a Environmental Assessment aimed at conducting inhumane, Frankenstein-like, spaying experiments on America’s wild horse mares. “The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Burns District Office is beginning the process of writing an environmental assessment (DOI-BLM-ORWA-B050-2018-0016-EA) titled Spay Feasibility and On-Range Behavioral […] …

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Agenda is Clear; we will fight back — Wild Horse Education

Fast update from the road. Last November as the debate for Appropriations (federal funding) heated up the real agenda became crystal clear. For years we have tried to educate the public to multiple layers of movement, how they fit together, how they obstruct appropriate actions and where root causes are ignored in favor of predetermined […] …

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Geologists find clues that early humans island-hopped their way into the Americas

How and when did early humans first arrive in the Americas? The answer may lie along the Northern America’s Pacific Coast. Experts believe early humans travelled from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge. But what happened next has been far more difficult to pinpoint. The conventional story suggests the earliest North American settlers then… via …

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Opioids Are Now Responsible for 1 in 5 Deaths Among Young Adults

In 2016, one in 65 deaths in the United States involved opioids — and among younger adults, that number skyrocketed to one in five, according to a new study. Data has shown for years that deaths involving both prescribed and illicit opioids are rising sharply. They’ve nearly doubled since 2009, and have infiltrated all genders,… via …

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