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What If Religion Was...?
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Rush Limbaugh Is A Lying Dog
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Charlotte Officer Randall Kerrick Indicted For Fatal Shooting Of Black Man
"Bad Black People." Why Bill O'Reilly Is Wrong Even When He's Right
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a Charlotte police officer for voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed former Florida A&M football player.
The indictment was handed down Monday hours after a judge ruled the North Carolina Attorney General's office could resubmit the case to a grand jury.
Investigators say Randall Kerrick shot 24-year-old Jonathan Ferrell on Sept. 14 as Ferrell looked for help after a car crash.
Attorneys for Ferrell's family praised the decision.
"There is a tremendous sense of relief for the family. We are very thankful that the grand jury carefully considered the evidence and returned the indictment," said Charles Monnett III.
In a statement, the family said it would continue to monitor the case.
"We will persevere in our quest for justice for not just Jonathan, but all law abiding citizens. After all, what happened to him that night could happen to any of us," the statement said.
Last week, a Mecklenburg County grand jury refused to indict the 27-year-old Kerrick, a former animal control officer, on a voluntary manslaughter charge.
Attorney General Roy Cooper decided to send the case to another grand jury because the first grand jury was missing four members.
Kerrick's lawyers filed a motion Friday to stop it, arguing prosecutors cannot resubmit a case.
During a court hearing Monday, Senior Deputy Attorney General James Coman said there was nothing in state law that blocks prosecutors from resubmitting the case.
"Our position is clear. We can go back to a grand jury," he said.
Judge Robert Bell agreed.
"They have the right to go back to a grand jury," Bell said.
At the end of the hearing, one of Kerrick's attorneys, George Laughrun, asked the judge to issue a gag order. He said public comments from prosecutors and attorneys for the victim's family were making it difficult for his client to get a fair trial.
But Bell refused, saying that issue wasn't in front of the court Monday.
The voluntary manslaughter charge carries a prison sentence of up to 11 years.
This is the latest development in the high-profile case.
Representatives of the Charlotte chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other civil rights groups have questioned whether race played a role in the shooting. Kerrick is white; Ferrell was black.
Ferrell's family said he moved to Charlotte about a year ago to be with his fiancee and was working two jobs. He wanted to go back to school and eventually become an automotive engineer, they said. He had no criminal record.
Police say that Ferrell wrecked his car and went to a nearby house and banged on the door, apparently for help. The resident called police, and three officers responded. Investigators say Kerrick fired 12 shots, 10 of which hit Ferrell. Kerrick was the only officer who fired his gun.
Cooper's office declined to comment on the indictment. But in an earlier statement, the attorney general said he was going before a grand jury again because only 14 of the 18 members of the original panel heard evidence in the case.
Ferrell's family has filed a lawsuit against Kerrick and police Chief Rodney Monroe in Mecklenburg County Superior Court. The lawsuit says Kerrick used excessive force. The family said the city of Charlotte and the police department failed to ensure its officers are adequately trained and instructed in the use of force.
The city has declined to comment on the lawsuit.
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ISIS Panic In A World Where Islamics Are Mostly Killing One Another
Publisher: "Frog Hospital"
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The Well Funded Lobby To Damage/Dismantle Social Security
Senate Committee: "Small Tweaks" Will Guarantee Social Security's Future
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High Definition Video Microscopy Of Life In One Drop of Water!
One Drop of Water! Amazing High Definition Microscopy Video! 1080P!
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Ecuador Legalizes Same Sex Marriage
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200th Anniversary Of "The War Of 1812"
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Cheney: ‘Absolutely Certain There Will Be Another Mass Casualty Attack Against U.S.’
Alan: The following article was sent me by a conservative Christian apocalypticist who assumes the next terror attack on U.S. soil will take place during a Democratic administration. She also assumes that the election of a Republican to The Oval Office will prevent such an attack. Note that Cheney's prediction does not distinguish between political parties; he simply says that "another mass casualty attack against the United States is inevitable." Of course it is! But the next mass casualty terror attack will take place regardless which party holds the presidency and whether the next attack takes place in ten years or a hundred. Three things to keep in mind. 1.) The first modern mass terror attack on American soil was perpetrated by a right-wing Desert Storm vet named Timothy McVeigh, a fellow reminiscent of The Tea Party's"militia wing." 2. In the wake of McVeigh detonation of the Murrah Building, the next major terror attack on U.S. soil took place during the Bush-Cheney administration, the most hawkish administration since Democratic president Lyndon Baines Johnson. 3.) ISIS would almost certainly not exist -- and if it did would be a marginal subset of al Qaeda -- were it not for the global destabilization brought about by Bush-Cheney's falsely fabricated War of Choice.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney was on "Hannity" to discuss the threat of ISIS and the horrific beheading of American journalist James Foley.
“After watching this [beheading] video, I’m pretty convinced that we have a group of people at war with us. Would you agree with that?” Hannity asked.
“Absolutely,” Cheney said, calling ISIS “very much a threat to the United States” and to our friends and allies.
While Cheney said the beheading of an American reporter is a terrible development, he cautioned, “Magnify that a million times over because that’s what’s in store for the rest of the world if we don’t deal effectively with this crisis.”
Hannity asked, “Do you think the president fully understands the danger of radical Islam and what do you think the danger is?”
“Well I think the danger’s enormous, I don’t think the president understands it,” he said, blasting Obama as ineffective.
Cheney believes that people around the world view our commander-in-chief as weak.
“I am absolutely certain that someday there will be another mass casualty attack against the United States, except next time they will have far deadlier weapons.”
Watch more above.
Cheney: ‘Absolutely Certain There Will Be Another Mass Casualty Attack Against U.S.’
Former Vice President Dick Cheney was on "Hannity" to discuss the threat of ISIS and the horrific beheading of American journalist James Foley.
“After watching this [beheading] video, I’m pretty convinced that we have a group of people at war with us. Would you agree with that?” Hannity asked.
“Absolutely,” Cheney said, calling ISIS “very much a threat to the United States” and to our friends and allies.
While Cheney said the beheading of an American reporter is a terrible development, he cautioned, “Magnify that a million times over because that’s what’s in store for the rest of the world if we don’t deal effectively with this crisis.”
Hannity asked, “Do you think the president fully understands the danger of radical Islam and what do you think the danger is?”
“Well I think the danger’s enormous, I don’t think the president understands it,” he said, blasting Obama as ineffective.
Cheney believes that people around the world view our commander-in-chief as weak.
“I am absolutely certain that someday there will be another mass casualty attack against the United States, except next time they will have far deadlier weapons.”
Watch more above.
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Did The St. Louis Police Have To Shoot Kamieme Powell?
"Bad Black People." Why Bill O'Reilly Is Wrong Even When He's Right
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Police Shootings Dramatically Outnumber Criminal Executions
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Tom Toles Cartoon: Deadly Enemy Penetrates U.S. Borders
The Certainty Of Climate Change And The Devolution Of The Debate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-countrys-sinking-climate-debate/2014/08/24/d4d4aeca-29ff-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opin&wpmm=1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-countrys-sinking-climate-debate/2014/08/24/d4d4aeca-29ff-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opin&wpmm=1
Excerpt: "Republicans mostly ignore the issue or offer excuses for doing nothing: The science is not reliable; anti-emissions policies will harm the economy; China and India will continue emitting even if the United States cuts back. Many Democrats and environmental activists, meanwhile, focus on relatively inconsequential — but potentially winnable — battles, such as their push to reject the Keystone XL pipeline."
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"The Structure Of American Law Necessitates Degradation Of The Biosphere"
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Jackson Hole: Automation And The Labor Market
"Automation, Robotization, Software-Enhanced Productivity And Permanent Job Loss"
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Automation Is Polarizing the Labor Market
By JON HILSENRATH
JACKSON HOLE, WYO.–In an essay in The Wall Street Journal last month, Harvard University economist Lawrence Summers envisioned a world in which computers and machines displace a vast new array of human work, creating an economy that produced few opportunities and sources of income for actual people.
Taxis wouldn’t need drivers, nor retailers cashiers or banks financial analysts. “The challenge for economic policy will increasingly be generating enough work for all who need work for income, purchasing power and dignity,” he argued.
David Autor, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor, argues in apaper to be presented Friday to central bankers at the Kansas City Fed’s Jackson Hole symposium that automation is creating a different kind of problem for the economy. Rather than destroying jobs broadly, it is polarizing the labor market. While thinning out the ranks of middle-class jobs easily replaced by machines, he argues automation is increasing the ranks of low-skilled workers who perform tasks that can’t easily be displaced by machines — like cooks or home health workers — and the ranks of high-end workers with abstract thinking skills that computers can’t match.
In 1979, middle-income jobs in sales, office work, manufacturing and administrative work accounted for 60% of U.S. employment. By 2012, these jobs had declined to 46% of employment, while the share of high-end and low-end work expanded, Mr. Autor shows. A similar pattern emerges in Europe, where middle-income jobs have declined as a share of total employment.
The biggest beneficiaries are people at the high end. “From 1979 through 2007, wages rose consistently across all three abstract task-intensive categories of professional, technical and managerial occupations,” Mr. Autor argued. Their work tends to be complemented by machines, he argued, making their services more valuable.
By contrast, wage growth in the middle has been anemic and pressured at the low end by middle-income workers looking for income at lower-end jobs.
“In the 2000s, employment and wage trends in (low-end) manual task-intensive occupations diverged. While employment growth in these occupations exceeded that in all other categories between 2000 and 2007, wage growth was generally negative–more so than almost all other categories,” he said.
In the long-run, Mr. Autor argues the economy and workforce will adjust.
“There is a long history of leading thinkers overestimating the potential of new technologies to substitute for human labor and underestimating their potential to complement it,” he argues.
“The green revolution displaced labor from farming. The industrial revolution replaced skilled artisanal labor with unskilled factory labor. The mass-produced automobile drastically reduced demand for blacksmiths, stable hands, and many other equestrian occupations. Successive waves of earth moving equipment and powered tools displaced manual labor from construction.
“In each case, groups of workers lost employment and earnings as specific jobs and accompanying skill sets were rendered obsolete. Yet, short-term employment losses sparked by rising productivity were eventually more than offset by subsequent employment gains–in some cases in the innovating sectors, in many cases elsewhere.”
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Paul Ryan Has Important Things To Say About Regulation Reform
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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"Is Perfectionism A Curse? Paul Ryan Tells The Truth"
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While Representative Paul Ryan’s new anti-poverty plan has provoked significant discussion, little attention has been given to his ideas for regulatory reform. Those ideas deserve separate analysis and also considerable credit. They point in helpful directions, and they suggest the possibility of bipartisan cooperation on some important questions.
For years, people on the left have argued that regulators should take account of the so-called distributional effects of regulations -- that is, who wins and who loses. Even when the costs of regulation exceed the benefits, it might be worth proceeding if workers, or people with serious health problems, are especially likely to be helped. Conservatives have often ridiculed this idea.
With his latest proposal for reforming regulation, Ryan agrees with progressives that distributional effects matter and need to be considered. He is especially concerned about the problem of occupational licensing, which can hurt people toward the bottom of the economic ladder. He thinks that the current requirements -- which impose high barriers to becoming a florist or a cosmetologist, for example -- protect incumbents rather than the public. Ryan calls on states and local governments “to begin to dismantle these barriers to upward mobility.”
At the federal level, Ryan would require regulators “to conduct a distributive analysis of who would bear the cost of the proposed regulation and whether those costs would be regressive.” This would have to include an analysis of jobs lost and jobs created.
Under Ryan’s approach, an agency would have difficulty adopting any regulation that would “have regressive effects, either through imposing a disproportionate burden on low-income households or by displacing a disproportionate number of low-income workers.” The agency would not be able to proceed unless there was an “immediate risk to public health or safety,” or unless it could obtain the approval of Congress.
With respect to occupational requirements, Ryan is on firm ground. True, some such requirements are justified; people should not be allowed to practice medicine or law simply because they hold themselves out as specialists. But all too often, the public-interest justification for licensing requirements is a facade -- the real goal is to insulate existing providers from competition. That insulation is especially harmful to low-income people: They are deprived of potential jobs even as they also face higher prices for licensed services.
But there are three problems with Ryan's proposal for federal regulators. First, regulatory requirements can have disproportionate benefits for the poor. And the distributional benefits, as much as the costs, should be taken into account.
Second, agencies should not be required to demonstrate an immediate risk to public health and safety whenever they find regressive effects. Suppose, for example, that an effort to simplify and reduce paperwork and regulatory requirements on hospitals would eliminate some jobs, and in that sense have regressive effects, but it would also save hundreds of millions of dollars per year. Or suppose that an environmental regulation would raise energy prices, and in that sense prove regressive, but it would eventually save thousands of lives every year. The benefits would dwarf the costs. Regressive effects are not desirable, but they should not be a trump card.
True, under Ryan’s proposal, agencies could try to persuade Congress to enact any regulation that has regressive effects, but that brings us to the third problem. Because Congress is so frequently paralyzed, the consequence of this proposal would be to block highly desirable rules, many of which have already been subject to careful cost-benefit analysis.
But let’s not lose the forest for the trees. Ryan is on the right track insofar as he suggests that occupational licensing is a big problem and that regulatory agencies should take steps to reduce or eliminate adverse effects on people who are struggling. Democrats and Republicans should be working together to solve the problems that Ryan has identified.
To contact the writer of this article: Cass R. Sunstein at csunstei@law.harvard.edu.
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BBC: Illuminating Interview With Black Female St. Louis Police Officer
"(Many white officers) lack compassion, understanding or even the desire to understand."
The officer's interview begins at the 27:34 minute mark
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Injustice In Ferguson Long Before Michael Brown
Injustice in Ferguson, long before Michael Brown.
Peter Coy in Bloomberg Businessweek
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"Actor Jesse Williams Gets Real About The Relentless Dehumanization Of Black Males"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/actor-jesse-williams-gets-real-about.html
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"Bad Black People." Why Bill O'Reilly Is Wrong Even When He's Right"
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Elephant Poaching. (Two Accounts: BBC And National Geographic)
Africa's elephants have reached a tipping point: more are being killed each year than are being born, a study suggests.
Researchers believe that since 2010 an average of nearly 35,000 elephants have been killed annually on the continent.
They warn that if the rate of poaching continues, the animals could be wiped out in 100 years.
The work is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Lead author George Wittemyer, from Colorado State University, said: "We are shredding the fabric of elephant society and exterminating populations across the continent."
Dramatic loss
The illegal trade in elephant tusks has soared in recent years, and a kilogram of ivory is now worth thousands of dollars. Much of the demand has been driven by a rapidly growing market in Asia.
While conservationists have long said the outlook was bleak, this study provides a detailed assessment of the impact this is having on Africa's elephants.
The researchers have found that between 2010 and 2013, Africa lost an average of 7% of its entire elephant population each year.
Because elephant births boost the population by about 5% annually, this means that overall more of the animals are being killed than are being born.
Julian Blanc, who also worked on the study, from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites), said: "If this is sustained, then we will see significant declines over time.
"The other thing to bear in mind is that different areas are affected differently.
"There are still healthy growing populations in parts of Africa, Botswana for example. But in other places the poaching levels are devastatingly high, and that is particularly the case in Central Africa."
In Central Africa it is estimated that elephant numbers have fallen by about 60% in a decade.
Some ivory stockpiles have been destroyed in an attempt to halt the tradeProf Wittemyer added: "We are talking about the removal of the oldest and biggest elephants.
"That means removal of the primary breeding males and removal of family matriarchs and mothers. This leaves behind orphaned juveniles and broken elephant societies."
Conservationists said urgent action was needed.
John Scanlon, secretary-general of Cites, said: "The world needs to decide how much further effort it wants to put into the conservation of this magnificent species and, if so, be prepared to mobilise the necessary human and financial resources to deliver - and we are seeing some encouraging signs in this regard.
"In terms of concrete actions, we need to move to focus on the front-line and tackle all links in the illegal ivory trade chain - improve local livelihoods (for those living with elephants), strengthen enforcement and governance and reduce demand for illegal ivory. "
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100,000 Elephants Killed by Poachers in Just Three Years, Landmark Analysis Finds
Central Africa has lost 64 percent of its elephants in a decade.
One of the largest mass elephant slaughters in decades took place in Bouba Ndjidah National Park, Cameroon, in 2012. Armed with grenades and AK-47s, poachers killed more than 300.
PHOTOGRAPH BY BRENT STIRTON, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/GETTY IMAGES
PUBLISHED AUGUST 18, 2014
Ivory-seeking poachers have killed 100,000 African elephants in just three years, according to a new study that provides the first reliable continent-wide estimates of illegal kills. During 2011 alone, roughly one of every twelve African elephants was killed by a poacher.
The demand for ivory, most notably in China and elsewhere in Asia, and the confusion caused by a one-time sale of confiscated ivory have helped keep black market prices high in Africa.In central Africa, the hardest-hit part of the continent, the regional elephant population has declined by 64 percent in a decade, a finding of the new study that supports another recent estimate developed from field surveys.
The new study, published in the August 19 issue ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, led by George Wittemyer of Colorado State University, included local and regional population estimates and concluded that three-quarters of local elephant populations are declining.
The study authors conducted the first large-scale analysis of poaching losses using data on illegally killed elephants maintained by CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).
Wittemyer and his team hope the new information will move the discussion beyond anecdotes and wild guesses. "I think it's the only quantitatively based estimate out there," he said.
Researchers and conservationists hope the analysis will prompt policy makers to take further action to stem the years-long onslaught of poaching, which now threatens the survival of elephants in Africa.
Previous estimates of population declines produced by study co-authors Julian Blanc and Kenneth Burnham, both of CITES, used similar data to examine poaching trends, but those estimates limited the analysis to just 66 sites that were being monitored.
"Nobody's put out any numbers for the continent," Wittemyer said. "People have said stuff, but it's based off nothing. This is the first true estimate we have at that level."
Confiscated elephant tusks and boxes of figurines carved from ivory sit in the main hall of the National Wildlife Property Repository, in Colorado.
PHOTOGRAPH BY KATE BROOKS, REDUX
Targeting the Policymakers
Although conservationists have agreed for years that there's an ongoing poaching crisis with huge implications for the future of African elephants, the authors point out that it's been "notoriously difficult to quantify" the raw number of animals killed by poachers.
In recent years poachers have perpetrated mass killings, such as the 2012 slaughter of hundreds of elephants with automatic weapons in Bouba Ndjidah National Park in Cameroon.
Poachers have also used poisoned arrows to kill iconic individual elephants. In February, a poison-tipped arrow killed Torn Ear, a well-known Kenyan elephant. (See "Mourning the Loss of a Great Elephant: Torn Ear.") Three months later, Satao, another of Kenya's most beloved elephants, was also killed by a poisoned arrow by poachers, who cut off his face to remove his massive tusks. (See "Beloved African Elephant Killed for Ivory—'Monumental' Loss.")
These criminal acts have prompted some official actions, including aU.S. ban on the commercial trade in ivory, but the killings continue at an unsustainable level, with new births unable to keep pace with the killings.
"At the higher policy levels there have been a lot of questions and debate about what the numbers actually are, what they indicate, and how we should be interpreting them," Wittemyer noted.
"There hasn't been a robust scientific piece to rely on definitively as the source. In my mind what we've locked down here and provided the community—and in my mind we're really targeting the policymakers—are definitive numbers on which they can act and on which they can discuss and debate approaches they can take."
Hard-Won Numbers
In 2002 CITES created a program called MIKE (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants) to attempt to quantify the number of elephants killed by poachers. Rangers at MIKE sites note all dead elephants they find and determine what proportion of the dead animals was illegally killed.
But the growing number of locations where monitoring is done—the program now monitors between 30 and 40 percent of the population—is still only a portion of the range of the species, and there are big differences in how closely these sites are monitored.
Another problem is that no one knows how many African elephants there are. Elephants are present over many thousands of square miles, which makes it expensive and time-consuming to estimate their overall numbers.
VIRGINIA W. MASON AND BRAD SCRIBER, NGM STAFF
SOURCES: COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY; SAVE THE ELEPHANTS; MONITORING THE ILLEGAL KILLING OF ELEPHANTS (MIKE); DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD; KENYA WILDLIFE SERVICE.
The most recent comprehensive population estimate for the continent—a range of between 472,000 and 690,000 elephants—was published in2007 by the IUCN's African Elephant Specialist Group. That figure was based on the best available data at the time, which for some locations were already nearly a decade old.
The African Elephant Specialist Group continually collects updated population survey data for portions of the continent and shares them with researchers via its public database. But it has yet to produce a new comprehensive population estimate for the continent. Meanwhile, a continent-wide aerial survey, the Great Elephant Census, is under way, with results expected in mid-2015.
Modeling the Numbers
For their study, Wittemyer and his co-authors used the most recent population numbers available from the African Elephant Specialist Group database for well-monitored locations. The researchers calculated that in the absence of poaching, about 3 percent of an elephant population would be expected to die each year.
Applying the percentage of deaths from poaching in 2010 through 2012, derived from MIKE data at the most closely monitored sites, they were able to calculate the percentage, and the numbers, of elephants poached regionally and continent-wide.
Kenneth Burnham, the statistician with the MIKE program who devised this method, used a similar approach to project the number National Geographic magazine used in its October 2012 cover story, "Ivory Worship." The magazine reported that "it is 'highly likely' that poachers killed at least 25,000 African elephants in 2011. The true figure may even be double that."
The new study puts the 2011 number at 40,000 elephants slaughtered at the hands of poachers.
Trevor Jones, of the Southern Tanzania Elephant Project, who didn't participate in the study, said, "I think this paper represents an honest attempt to interpret the MIKE data, and no doubt its results and conclusions are broadly correct in describing an overall trend of large declines in elephant populations across Africa."
He points to continued misgivings about the MIKE numbers because they are based on a smaller number of carcasses than aerial surveys. "Aerial censuses of the Selous Game Reserve," Jones said, "estimate a decline from 2009 to 2013 of 39,000 to 13,000—yet the MIKE data estimate 4,931 elephants poached from 2010 to 2012."
Jones, like many others, is eager for the results of the forthcoming Great Elephant Census. "The best way to update data on population sizes in most areas is by aerial sampling, and I strongly suspect that the census is going to confirm the unprecedented scale of the current crisis for elephants across the continent. Those results cannot come a day too soon."
But aerial surveying has drawbacks too. Forest elephants can't be seen from the air, and assessing their numbers takes labor-intensive foot surveys of dung piles. A recent forest elephant survey took "80 foot-surveys; covering 13,000 km; 91,600 person-days of fieldwork," according to the study abstract.
What We Lose When We Lose Elephants
The huge scale of the losses of African elephants could reduce genetic diversity to the point where healthy and robust populations become dangerously weakened.
But, as Wittemyer said, the problem is greater than genetic diversity. "You're talking about the distribution of species and its ecological role."
Elephants are vital to the web of life in Africa. As a keystone species, they help balance all the other species in their ecosystem, opening up forest land to create firebreaks and grasslands, digging to create water access for other animals, and leaving nutrients in their wake. Sometimes called the "megagardeners of the forest," elephants are essential to the dispersal of seeds that maintain tree diversity.
Since three out of four local populations are declining, those losses have serious ecological implications. "That's a problem we probably didn't speak to strongly enough in this paper," Wittemyer said.
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The Republican Party Is Terrible For Prosperity But Unparalled At Catastrophe
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/07/why-economy-has-done-better-under.html
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"The Economy Grows Way Faster Under Democratic Presidents: Catastrophes Occur Under Republicans"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-economy-grows-way-faster-under-dem.html***
Republican Strongholds Cut Taxes, Wreak Economic Havoc
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/10/kansas-tax-cuts-weigh-on-neighboring-missouri-/13850019/
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Taxes Are The Price We Pay For Civilization
Conservative Americans oppose sufficient taxation to keep civilization healthy.
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/benjamin-franklin-on-no-new-taxes.html
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Benjamin Franklin On "No New Taxes!"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/benjamin-franklin-on-no-new-taxes.html
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"Politics and Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/politics-and-economics-101-curricula.html
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Laura Ingraham Describes Obama And Pope Francis With Same Summary Appraisal
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Laura Ingraham Discovers Bush Is To Blame For ISIS: "Iraq Is Worse Than Before"
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