With your vote, Sungevity Solar Company will give "$20,000 to a non-profit this year" to help support the important work of that non-profit. The contest closes December 12, 2013.
Bob says currently Save the Frogs is in first place, and the Eastern Pacific Hawksbill Initiative is in second place. Although there is a long list of non-profit organizations in the contest, Save the Frogs and the Eastern Pacific Hawksbill Initiative seem to be the competition. Some of us might want to vote for second place to save the Hawksbill turtle, rather than to rid America of bull frogs.
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Reference - Eastern Pacific Hawksbill Initiative. "Only
a few years ago, most researchers thought hawksbills had been
extirpated in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Groundbreaking discoveries and
new projects initiated by ICAPO and its partners have changed the
conservation outlook for this imperiled population and provided hope for
recovery. Protection of hawksbills in the eastern Pacific is among the
world's most pressing sea turtle conservatin issues, only a few hundred
female hawsksbills are estimated to nest along the entire region's
coastline. The low nesting numbers suggest that the species is unlikely
to survive without coordinated conservation action to protect eggs,
increase hatching protection, generate biological information and
p0rotect key marine habitats.Working together we aim to bring the
perilous eastern Pacific hawksbill back from the brink of extinction."
Reference article - X-ray magazine. "In contrast to patterns of habitat use exhibited by their Caribbean and Indo-Pacific counterparts, eastern Pacific hawksbills generally occupied inshore estuaries, wherein they had strong associations with mangrove saltwater forests. Mangrove forests, which are unique coastal tree and shrub habitats, are also under threat. They could represent an important breeding and nesting site for the species, which was thought to depend on coral reefs." Attached Anonymous comment, 3/9/11. "A team of scientists that has been tracking the hawksbill turtlesfor three years have found that the critically endangered animals nested in these estuaries."For upwards of five decades sea turtle scientists thought hawksbills had [disappeared from] the eastern Pacific Ocean", Dr Gaos told BBC Nature. "Despite hundreds of sea turtle projects and scientists focusing efforts in the region, no one had located hawksbills. Our findings help explain this… it's hard to spot hawksbills in mangrove estuaries." Why? Why the turtles were "seeking shelter" in mangroves was not clear. The scientists think it might be a recent adaptation brought on by a lack of their more typical habitat of coral reefs in the region." Note: hawksbill turtle photograph by Kate Clark from this article. Related Fix Pacifica sea turtle article -Pacific Ocean Visitors.
Submitted by Bob Hutchinson
12 comments:
The problem with bullfrogs is that they spread prolifically, are difficult to eradicate, compete with and eat the native frogs such as the threatened red-legged, and spread the deadly chytrid fungus which has already driven over 100 species of frog to extinction. No other class of animal is more threatened worldwide than the frogs, and humans carelessly spreading the bullfrogs around the world is one of the main reasons. Save the Frogs is doing great work, and is deserving of our support.
Just like Nimby's, hippies, noobees and stoners!
Bob Hutchinson wrote, "Some of us might want to vote for second place to save the Hawksbill turtle, rather than to rid America of bull frogs." If you click the link for Save The Frogs, you learn that it's not about ridding America of bullfrogs, it's about preventing the importation to California of millions of American frogs from other parts of the country, primarily the east coast.
851 yes. Those were not Bob's words, but my net-result words. Besides, related articles and comments indicate bull frogs are not welcome in America period.
So, here are the current numbers on the contest: Sungevity gives back. Go turtles!
My main reason for not helping the frog people is they tried and are probably still trying to shut down our Sharp Park Golf Course. I don't think I said anything about Bullfrogs.
These people acted with indifference to the facts. The frogs wouldn't even be here if it weren't for the Golf Course. But they didn't care, they were on a mission.
So vote turtles not frogs.
I think the Save the Frogs voters are gaming the system. You get 10 extra votes for signing up for a home solar quote. And you can enter over and over just by changing your email you give.
Thanks Ian. Buying Bull Frogs to put in golf course now.
Good, the Hawkbill people are in the leed.
Hawkbill Turtles won - Frogs lost
Oh BFD. The frogs won in Pacifica and that's all that counts.
Really 526? They tried to shut down the golf course. They lost. That's what counts. Not sure what you're talking about.
Hutch, in the big picture, is there any doubt Pacifica went to the frogs decades ago? We're not really talking frogs here. The great land giveaway, repeatedly electing an ideology over an economy, smug isolationism instead of life-sustaining growth...permanent damage has been done. Meanwhile, our latest local politicians obviously see taxes as the only solution and are busy learning the ways of propaganda so that they can make sure the taxpayers see the light. But, yeah baby, we still have a golf course.
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