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Wildlife News Roundup (June 22-28, 2013) | The Wildlife Society ...
The National Institutes of Health have decided to end research on most of its chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Meanwhile, the USFWS has proposed adding the species to the Endangered Species List. (Credit: Frank Wouters/Flickr)
Chimpanzees to be Retired from Medical Research in U.S.
(The Canadian Press via CBC News)
It?s official: The U.S. National Institutes of Health plans to end most use of chimpanzees in government medical research, saying humans? closest relatives ?deserve special respect.? The NIH announced that it will retire about 310 government-owned chimpanzees from research over the next few years, and keep only 50 others essentially on retainer ? available if needed for crucial medical studies that could be performed no other way. More
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NEWS FROM NORTH AMERICA
House Rejects Farm Bill as Food Stamp Cuts Prove Divisive
(The New York Times)
The surprise defeat of the farm bill in the House underscored the ideological divide between the more conservative, antispending Republican lawmakers and their leadership, who failed to garner sufficient votes from their caucus as well as from Democrats. The vote against the bill, 234 to 195, comes a year after House leaders pulled the measure off the calendar because conservative lawmakers demanded deeper cuts in the food stamp program and Democrats objected. More
Canada Seizes on Obama?s Keystone XL Pipeline Requirements
(The Globe & Mail)
Keystone XL ? the contentious pipeline project intended to funnel Alberta?s oil sands crude ? will be rejected unless it?s clear that it won?t exacerbate global warming, President Barack Obama said in a major speech outlining sweeping and tougher measures to curb carbon emissions. ?Allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built requires a finding that doing so would be in our nation?s interests,? the President said. More
Climate Change Pushing Chickadee, Maine?s Official Bird, Toward Canada
(Maine Sun Journal)
Does the black vulture stand a chance of becoming the official bird of Maine? Through the process of elimination, it just might, say scientists who released a report about climate change affecting migratory birds. The black-capped chickadee, which has been the official bird of Maine since 1927, has a more northerly habitat than the larger vulture, which has a traditional range that extends from the mid-Atlantic states all the way through South America. More
WILDLIFE HEALTH AND DISEASE NEWS
(The Associated Press via Pioneer Press)
Wisconsin fisheries experts say that they think a virus might have played a role in the death of hundreds of carp in two counties this month. David Rowe, Department of Natural Resources? fisheries team supervisor, says carp in two locations started turning up dead around the middle of June. Hundreds died in both locations, he said, adding that the carp probably became infected with koi herpes virus during spawning and developed a secondary bacterial infection. More
(Yahoo News)
A seal pup washed up on a British beach has become the first to die after contracting bovine TB from a badger bite, experts believe. The ailing animal was discovered on the coast of Cornwall and had to be put down when doctors discovered the disease. Experts think the ?unusual? incident occurred after a badger, drawn to the scent of blood as the pup?s mother gave birth, nipped the youngster before it could get away. More
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Saiga Success: Critically Endangered Antelope Population Doubles in Five Years
(Scientific American)
Well it?s about time I had some success to report about the saiga (Saiga tatarica), the critically endangered antelope species native to Kazakhstan and nearby countries in central Asia. Just a few decades ago saiga populations numbered in the millions. The fall of the Soviet Union brought uncontrolled poaching across the saiga?s range, and 95 percent of the animals were slaughtered for their meat and horns, which are used in traditional Chinese medicine. More
If You Think the City is Loud, You Ought to Hear this New Bird
(LiveScience via NBC News)
Despite its loud call, a new bird species has only just been discovered in Cambodia?s capital city of Phnom Penh, scientists announced. Dubbed the Cambodian tailorbird (Orthotomus chaktomuk), the wren-sized creature has a red cap, gray-to-olive wings and a black throat. It joins the Cambodian laughingthrush as the only bird species unique to Cambodia, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, whose scientists helped make and describe the find online in the Oriental Bird Club?s journal Forktail. More
Source: http://news.wildlife.org/featured/wildlife-news-roundup-june-22-28-2013/
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Ecuador president tells AP: Snowden 'under care' of Russia, can't leave Moscow
PORTOVIEJO, Ecuador ? Edward Snowden is "under the care of the Russian authorities" and can't leave Moscow's international airport without their consent, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa told The Associated Press Sunday in an interview telegraphing the slim and diminishing possibility that the National Security Agency leaker will end up in Ecuador.
Correa portrayed Russia as entirely the master of Snowden's fate and said Ecuador is still awaiting an asylum request from Snowden before deciding its next moves.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has distanced himself from the case since Snowden arrived in Moscow last week, insisting the 30-year-old former NSA contractor remains in the transit zone of the capital's Sheremetyevo Airport and that as long as he has not legally entered Russia, he is out of the Kremlin's control.
At the same time, the Kremlin said Sunday that it will take public opinion and the views of human rights activists into account when considering Snowden's case, a move that could lay the groundwork for him to seek asylum in Russia.
"This is the decision of Russian authorities," Correa told the AP during a visit to this Pacific coast city. "He doesn't have a passport. I don't know the Russian laws, I don't know if he can leave the airport, but I understand that he can't. At this moment he's under the care of the Russian authorities. If he arrives at an Ecuadorean Embassy we'll analyze his request for asylum."
Last week, several members of Russia's Presidential Council for Human Rights spoke out in support of Snowden, saying he deserved to receive political asylum in the country of his choice and should not be handed over to the United States. And a handful of protesters picketed outside the Moscow airport in what appeared to be an orchestrated demonstration on Friday, holding signs reading "Edward, Russia is your second motherland" and "Russia is behind Snowden."
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Ekho Moskvy radio that while Snowden is not Russia's concern, the Kremlin is aware of the viewpoints of Russian experts and representatives of human rights organizations.
"Public opinion on the subject is very rich," Peskov said in the radio interview. "We are aware of this and are taking it into account."
Correa said he had no idea Snowden's intended destination was Ecuador when he fled Hong Kong for Russia last week. He said the Ecuadorean consul in London committed "a serious error" by not consulting officials in Ecuador's capital when the consul issued a letter of safe passage for Snowden. He said the consul would be punished, although he didn't specify how.
Analysts familiar with the workings of the Ecuadorean government said Correa's claims that the decision was entirely Russia's appeared to be at least partly disingenuous. They said they believed Correa's administration at first intended to host Snowden, then started back-tracking this week when the possible consequences became clearer.
"I think the government started to realize the dimensions of what it was getting itself into, how it was managing things and the consequences that this could bring," said Santiago Basabe, an analyst and professor of political sciences at the Latin American School of Social Sciences in the Ecuadorean capital, Quito. "So it started pulling back, and they'll never tell us why, but I think the alarm bells started to go off from people very close to the government, maybe Ecuador's ambassador in Washington warned them about the consequences of asylum for Snowden."
Source: http://www.startribune.com/world/213746091.html
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Snowden's stealthy exit: How WikiLeaks and maybe Russia helped
The NSA leaker is traveling to Moscow en route to a third country. Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman told journalists Sunday that he knows nothing of Snowden's travel plans.
A giant screen at a Hong Kong shopping mall shows Edward Snowden, the former contractor accused of leaking information about NSA surveillance programs. He left Hong Kong on Sunday.
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EnlargeThe fugitive National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has sprung yet another surprise. He's on the move, and reportedly traveling to Cuba, and then perhaps on to Venezuela or Ecuador, via Moscow.
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Mr. Snowden left his temporary refuge in Hong Kong?Sunday?morning, just one day after the US government charged him with espionage and launched an urgent effort to extradite him from the former British colony. He boarded an Aeroflot flight to Moscow, and news reports say he has an onward ticket with the Russian national airline to fly to Cuba?on Monday.
In addition to the clear suggestion of official Russian aid with the fleeing whistleblower's logistics, Snowden appears to have received help from a more kindred source. WikiLeaks tweeted?Sunday?that it had "assisted Mr. Snowden's political asylum in a democratic country, travel papers and safe exit from Hong Kong."
Kremlin authorities earlier hinted that Russia might be willing to grant asylum to Snowden. But President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists?Sunday?that he knows nothing about the NSA leaker's travel plans.
Authorities in Hong Kong announced Snowden's departure?Sunday?in an official statement?that noted he had left "on his own accord for a third country through a lawful and normal channel," and added that US authorities had already been informed.
The statement said the urgent US warrant to arrest Snowden could not be carried out "since the documents provided by the US Government did not fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong Kong law.... ?As the HKSAR [Hong Kong] Government has yet to have sufficient information to process the request for provisional warrant of arrest, there is no legal basis to restrict Mr Snowden from leaving Hong Kong."
The statement included an extraordinary passage that may go far toward explaining why Hong Kong, which does have an extradition treaty and good relations with the US, appears to have turned so uncooperative in Snowden's case: "Meanwhile, the HKSAR Government has formally written to the US Government requesting clarification on earlier reports about the hacking of computer systems in Hong Kong by US government agencies. The HKSAR Government will continue to follow up on the matter so as to protect the legal rights of the people of Hong Kong."
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said in a statement?Sunday?that his organization was providing legal and logistical help to move Snowden to a safe haven in a "democratic country."
"Mr. Snowden is flying in an Aeroflot aircraft over Russian airspace, accompanied by WikiLeaks legal advisers," Mr. Assange said.
Upon arrival in Moscow he will be "met by diplomats from the country that will be his ultimate destination. Diplomats from that country will accompany him on a further flight to his destination," he added. The third country is still not named, but experts say it's most likely to be Venezuela or Ecuador.
"Owing to WikiLeaks' own circumstances, we have developed significant expertise in international asylum and extradition law, associated diplomacy and the practicalities in these matters," Assange said.?"I have great personal sympathy for Ed Snowden's position. WikiLeaks absolutely supports his decision to blow the whistle on the mass surveillance of the world's population by the US government."
Snowden's latest revelations, published in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post?on Sunday, indicate that US intelligence agencies have been hacking Chinese mobile phone companies to steal millions of text messages.
Russian security expert Andrei Soldatov, who edits Agentura.ru, an online journal that focuses on the secret services, says that in addition to granting Snowden safe passage to Cuba on an Aeroflot jetliner, Russia may have played a deeper role in helping to arrange his flight.
He suggests that the Kremlin's English-language satellite news network, RT, which enjoys very close relations with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, could have used its offices to help Wikileaks hook up with Snowden in Hong Kong,?
"There are reports that Assange's assistant, Sarah Harrison, is flying on the same plane with Snowden," says Mr. Soldatov.?"Involvement of RT would make sense, since RT has close cooperation with Assange, and he did a series of programs for them last year [Russia gives WikiLeaks' Julian Assange a TV platform]. The involvement of WikiLeaks requires no explanation. It wants to maintain itself as the key center for all disclosures of the kind that Snowden brought to the world," he adds.?
Soldatov says Russian assistance is also logical, for wider reasons than just an opportunity to stick it to Uncle Sam.
"Russia and China have been involved in a so-far unsuccessful struggle to change the rules of the Internet, by taking control of it away from the US-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and giving its functions to a wider, non-US-based entity," he says.
"The Russians and Chinese have been posing, for these purposes, as big defenders of Internet freedom. This political context helps to explain RT's close relations with WikiLeaks as well.... So, it makes sense for them to help Snowden too. Russian authorities see an opportunity to present themselves as the new center of refuge for whistleblowers against US dominance in Cyberspace. It's a coup for them," he adds.??
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NBA free agency: Paul, Rivers in tow, big roster decisions ahead of Clippers
It was a torturous path, but the Clippers seem to have gotten themselves right where they hoped to be as NBA free agency gets underway. They have the guy who some consider to be the best coach in the NBA?Doc Rivers?and gave up only a draft pick to get him. And they?re poised to remove any shred of anxiety about the future of point guard Chris Paul, who has let it be known he intends to re-sign with LA.
That?s the good news. The bad news is that the rest of the roster is very much in flux, and Rivers?carrying his new front-office title?now must figure out how to fill in the right mix of players around Paul.
MORE: Paul to stay with Clippers | Celtics trade Garnett, Pierce | Howard to meet with teams
The two big decisions that Rivers has to make, of course, is what to do with center DeAndre Jordan, who was nearly sent to Boston for Kevin Garnett, and backup point guard Eric Bledsoe. The Clippers fielded a number of offers for Bledsoe at the draft, but league sources said the Clippers did not want to trade him until they see how the rest of the roster shapes up.
Jordan has drawn plenty of interest, most notably from Portland, where the general manager who drafted Jordan for the Clippers?Neil Olshey?is now running the show. But Rivers knows he has got to be careful when it comes to Jordan. He is only 25, and having his name being put through the trade wringer is not going to be helpful for his already delicate psyche. The ship sailed on getting Garnett to LA, obviously, and keeping Jordan might, in the end, be the solution at center.
If that?s the case, Rivers is going to need Jordan to buy in 100 percent. Sources around the Clippers last year told Sporting News that Jordan, despite his deficiencies, actually put in the most work of his career last season, attempting to develop a hook shot as he learned to play with his back to the basket. But Jordan lacks confidence in his interior game because of his 38.6 percent free-throw shooting.
?If the right (assistant) coaches get him and build him up, he is going to have a breakthrough,? one source said. ?But starting it all off with trade rumors is not going to help him between the ears.?
Still, with Jordan?s free-throw shooting weighing on the team, the Clippers will need a good backup big man. They?re likely to keep free-agent Ryan Hollins, who played with Rivers in Boston, but will look for an upgrade behind Jordan. The Clippers are rumored to have interest in Marreese Speights, but he is likely out of their price range. More likely is that they will pursue a veteran, and former Clippers Elton Brand and Chris Wilcox would be up on that list.
ESPN.com reported that the Clippers have been offered Toronto big man Andrea Bargnani for Caron Butler. There have been ongoing talks between the teams about swapping Bledsoe for DeMar DeRozan, but the Clippers are reluctant to take on DeRozan?s newly signed four-year, $40 million contract.
The big issue is what to do about the two starting wing spots. In addition to DeRozan, the Clippers have had talks?before Rivers arrived?with the Magic about swapping Bledsoe for guard Arron Afflalo, who is a top-notch defender and averaged 16.5 points. Orlando selected shooting guard Victor Oladipo with the No. 2 pick in the draft, meaning Afflalo is likely on his way out.
The Clippers? focus on the shooting guard spot, and their willingness to dump Butler, leaves small forward wide open. Matt Barnes is a free agent and played well?on a minimum contract?for the Clippers last year. Ideally, the team would re-sign him and put him in the starting five, but Barnes will have more options this summer and could price himself out of the Clippers? range.
If Barnes leaves, there will be a rather gaping hole in the roster for the Clippers. There had been the hope that the Celtics would buy out Paul Pierce, and that he would head West to join Rivers, but that, too, has now been scotched.
The Clippers have tradable assets with Bledsoe and Jordan. However, they also have multiple holes to fill. Paul and Rivers are in place, but the work is just beginning.
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A Year After Launch (And With 300K Sites Created), ?Social Front Page' RebelMouse Mulls Ad Strategy
It's been a little more than a year since former Huffington Post CTO Paul Berry first launched RebelMouse, a service allowing users to pull their content together from across social networks. To mark the occasion, Berry stopped by the TechCrunch office to look back at the past year and hint at his plans for the future. Overall, Berry said that the service's growth has backed up his initial vision. "We haven't done any pivots ? we've just been following the core path," he said. "A year ago, I had all these hypotheticals of how people could use the product. Now there's an insane amount of anecdotal evidence."Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ey5jUvnXmTM/
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