 | Lokian Ecological Study Team Adventure Safari take's a trip to Lok. |
 | Cry Wolf: Aerial Wolf Hunting in Alaska, Promo 1 Cry Wolf: Aerial Wolf Hunting in Alaska, Promo 1 Throughout the ages wolves have been considered a mystical creature bordering between good and evil -- romanticized in fables and fairy tales, yet sacrificed for big game hunters and animal agriculture. Cry Wolf is a documentary film about the aerial hunting of wolves in Alaska. Over the past four years, Alaska has engaged in annual aerial wolf hunting whereby wolves are tracked and gunned down by aircraft and snowmobiles. According to the Alaska department of Fish and Game, more than 700 wolves have been killed in this manner since 2003. The Alaska Sportsman magazine summarizes the cruel practice as a challenging occupation noting that to shoot a moving wolf from the air with a twelve-gauge shotgun isn't an easy task, and the element of danger and the subzero Arctic weather adds zest and spice to the fascinating business. The Federal Airborne Hunting Act was passed in 1971 specifically to prevent this sort of aerial wolf kill. However, this law has been circumvented and the killing has commenced under the notion of animal control. The main purpose for this government-sanctioned killing is to increase prey and boost game for hunters, namely moose, caribou, and mountain sheep. Currently, hunters (mostly out-of-state big game hunters) have control over 73% of the prey in areas where aerial hunting has taken place. A study by The National Academy of Science found that many of the biological relationships assumed in Alaska's predator control programs are not well understood and insufficient information exists to conclude that such programs increase prey or game populations. Furthermore, many ecological studies including data published by the Alaska Fish and Game conclude that moose are not likely to become threatened, endangered or extinct due to predation. The vision of the Cry Wolf project is to help educate and spread awareness by revealing the biological discrepancies, the barbaric hunting measures, and the great loss of one of the world's oldest indigenous animals. |
 | Ecological Solutions for the 21st Century Hear about novel and cutting-edge research that USC marine scientists are conducting to solve environmental problems at low cost or even at a profit, and how these methods can be adopted by the private sector. Such ideas include using microbes to treat sewage and generate electricity simultaneously, or having robots run offshore fish farms a hundred miles away from sensitive coastal waters. Plumbing the depths of this issue is Anthony Michaels, professor of biological sciences in the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences and director of the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies. (Video taken during Trojan Parents Weekend 2007.) |
 | Wild andean bear captured An Wild Andean bear radiocollared for ecological studies |
 | Tremors 3.5 - Flight of the Ass Blaster Poor Burt, if he had only fed the Ass Blaster! Flying across the countryside, these winged metamorphosed denizens of the deep carry their cargo of doom propelled by a bad night of beans. Ever wonder what they see? Heat vision helps not only find prey but the hot springs so crucial to Graboid egg incubation. This natural history footage, some recorded from specially implanted neural electrodes in captured Ass Blasters, was recorded at the Graboid preserve in the San Simon Valley in the boot heel of New Mexico. Bounded by the 10,000 ft. Chiricahua Mountains on the west and the Peloncillo Mountains on the east, a large volcanic field at the south end prevents the escape of Graboids into Mexico (most of the time). The only possible escape from this remote 320 square mile valley is to the north which was ingeniously blocked by the Federal government with an expressway concealing a special Graboid barrier extending deep into the alluvial basin, similar to Bert's. The American Museum of Natural History maintains a research facility, the Southwest Research Station, in Cave Creek canyon devoted to ecological studies which doubles as the worlds premier Graboid research laboratory. The tiny town of Rodeo sits in the middle of the valley and maintains its lone Graboid lookout station disguised as a cylindrical water tower, manned and ready to warn residents of approaching Graboids. Large buildings can be seen in satellite imagery clustered north of town. These auxiliary research facilities are Graboid laboratories where whole animals are brought for study. Exploring the life cycle of these unique creatures is the goal of scientists studying Graboids in the San Simon preserve (SSP). The resemblance of Graboids to Drosophila larvae suggests that these creatures may be evolutionarily related to insects and the ability to metamorphose supports this hypothesis. So grab your blue tarp and hold on to your hats here's most needful information from the ass blasters POV. |
 | ZONE ZERO, part 1 The video is of movement analysts at Schumacher College of Ecological Studies near Dartington, Totnes, UK. July 4-6, 2008. The participants engaged in dance, discussion, analysis, and improvisation around issues of sustainability and the ecology of the body. ZONE ZERO refers to the area of space around and in the body. |
 | Zone Zero, part 2 The video is of movement analysts at Schumacher College of Ecological Studies near Dartington, Totnes, UK. July 4-6, 2008. The participants engaged in dance, discussion, analysis, and improvisation around issues of sustainability and the ecology of the body. ZONE ZERO refers to the area of space around and in the body. |
 | ZONE ZERO, part 3 The video is of movement analysts at Schumacher College of Ecological Studies near Dartington, Totnes, UK. July 4-6, 2008. The participants engaged in dance, discussion, analysis, and improvisation around issues of sustainability and the ecology of the body. ZONE ZERO refers to the area of space around and in the body. |
 | John Baez - Ecological Damage from Global Warming Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=584 Celebrated mathematical physicist John Baez looks at global warming from an historical perspective, and details the widespread ecological damage that may result from rapid climate change. ----- John Baez - "Zooming Out in Time" The graphs we see these days, John Baez began, all look vertical--- carbon burning shooting up, CO2 in the air shooting up, global temperature shooting up, and population still shooting up. How can we understand what really going on? "It's like trying to understand geology while you're hanging by your fingernails on a cliff, scared to death. You think all geology is vertical." So, zoom out for some perspective. An Earth temperature graph for the last 18,000 years shows that we've built a false sense of security from 10,000 years of unusually stable climate. Even so, a "little dent" in the graph of a drop of only 1 degree Celsius put Europe in a what's called "the little ice age" from 1555 to 1850. It ended just when industrial activity took off, which raises the question whether it was us that ended it. Zoom out further still to the last 65 million years. The temperature graph show several major features. One is the rapid (every 100,000 years) wide swings of major ice ages. When they began, 1.35 million years ago, is when humans mastered fire. But almost all of the period was much warmer than now, with ferns growing in Antarctica. "Now it's cold. What's wrong with a little warming?" Baez asked. The problem is that the current warming is happening too fast. Studies of 1,500 species in Europe show that their ranges are moving north at 6 kilometers a decade, but the climate zones are moving north at 40 kilometers a decade, faster than they can keep up. The global temperature is now the hottest it's been in 120,000 years. One degree Celsius more and it will be the hottest since 1.35 million years ago, before the ice ages. Baez suggested that the Anthropocene may be characterized mainly by species such as cockroaches and raccoons who accommodate well to humans. Coyotes are now turning up in Manhattan and Los Angeles. There are expectations that we could lose one-third of all species by mid-century, from climate change and other human causes. Okay, to think about major extinctions, zoom out again. Over the last 550 million years there have been over a dozen mass extinctions, the worst being the Permian-Triassic extinction 250 million years ago, when over half of all life disappeared. The cause is still uncertain, but one candidate is the methane clathrates ("methane ice") on the ocean floor. Since methane is a far worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, massive "burps" of the gas could have led to sudden drastic global heating and thus the huge die-off of species. Naturally the methane clathrates are being studied as an industrial fuel for when the oil runs out in this century, "which could make our effect on global warming 10,000 times worse," Baez noted. "Zooming out in time is how I calm myself down after reading the newspapers," Baez concluded. "A mass extinction is a sad thing, but life does bounce back, and it gets more interesting each time. We probably won't kill off all life on Earth. But even if we do, there are a hundred billion stars in our galaxy, and ten billion galaxies in the observable universe." --Stewart Brand, The Long Now Foundation |
 | LWP Ecology Summary This is clip 2 0f 3 of footage specifically produced for use as visual aids during presentations of the project's findings. The clip provides shots of the ecological studies the project carried out on the expedition. |
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