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Poisons killed beloved owls in Tampa Bay. Can their defenders save others?
The birds died one by one in a local park. Admirers blame rat poison. Now they’re trying to get chemicals off the street.

SAFETY HARBOR — Mark Schocken took thousands of pictures of the great horned owls in Philippe Park, but he didn’t often capture them eating.

Then one clear afternoon, binoculars slung over his shoulder and camera in hand, he watched the mother bird plop a rat in front of her baby. The light was perfect, the owls positioned just right.

Click.

It was March 2, 4:25 p.m. Only days before the first death.

Schocken and his wife, Linda, spent many winter hours in the park, a sliver of oaks dripping with Spanish moss at the edge of Tampa Bay. They were part of a collective of photographers who surrounded the “Owl Tree,” a knobby clutch of branches next to a parking lot where the birds nested.

Admirers knew the owls like celebrities, learning their patterns — how they were most active around dawn and dusk, how the mother clacked her beak at squirrels that scurried too close, how their deep calls pulsed through the park’s canopy. Some gave them names, Oliver and Emily, this year with three babies: Huey, Louie and Daisy (née Dewey, before they figured out the owl was female).

Schocken, semi-retired at 74, felt a mysticism in their presence. He liked when the father owl turned searchlight yellow eyes onto him.

On this afternoon, not long before spring, he lingered under a branch where Emily sat with two owlets. He watched Huey touch the rat’s limp back. The mother gazed at her fuzzy-headed baby.

Suddenly, Emily snatched the rat in her talons and flew away. Schocken can’t be sure whether she returned to finish the meal. But he knows what happened next.

All but one owl was dead within a month and a half. Each had poison in its body — highly toxic rodenticides that businesses, homeowners and local governments use to kill rats and mice.

Two experts who reviewed necropsy reports for the Tampa Bay Times said the poisons likely caused or contributed to the owls’ deaths, adding them to an ever-growing list of unintended victims harmed by the chemicals.

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Such poisons routinely sicken other animals, including pets and people, that eat contaminated rodents or come into contact with the baits directly. Yet the strongest substances remain popular and widely available because they quickly erase an expensive problem: uncontrolled rodent populations.

While the federal government and certain industries have maintained that poisons are essential tools, animal advocates question whether they create more problems than they solve. The chemicals interrupt a fragile food chain, killing predators that naturally feed on rodents like raptors, foxes and mountain lions.

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A Prefeitura de Atalaia do Norte, no Alto Solimões, por meio do Comitê de enfrentamento a COVID-19, divulgou o Boletim nesta quarta-feira, 23 de novembro, com números atualizados da COVID-19 no município de Atalaia do Norte.

No Boletim epidemiológico, o número de casos confirmados de COVID-19 voltou a avançar, e já são 26 novos casos confirmados. O Boletim também informa que existem 4.155 casos confirmados, 4.120 casos recuperados, hospitalizações nenhuma, e 12 óbitos.

Já são cerca de 8.311 notificações desde o aparecimento o primeiro sintoma no município.

Por: Nailson Tenazor/Jambo Verde

En Navidad Regala Alegría es una iniciativa que invita a sumar esfuerzos donando regalos destinados a la población que cuida el #ICBF y así reiterar que es tiempo de compartir y de brindar protección, amor y paz en los hogares de Colombia. 🎄 🎁 🧡

Más info en https://icbf.gov.co/

El hecho ocurrió en el cruce de Quebrada Seca y San José, en el distrito de Punchana, donde las personas notaron que los delincuentes intentaban ingresar a una residencia debido a la falta de seguridad y presencia policial en la zona.

Los ladrones se dieron a la fuga, abandonando la mototaxi, que fue incendiada por los vecinos

Por: Nailson Tenazor/Jambo Verde

Indonesia earthquake: Many schoolchildren killed as toll soars to 268

Many of those killed and injured in a major earthquake on the Indonesian island of Java were children, rescuers say, as the death toll soars to 268.

Aprizal Mulyadi, 14, was at school when the quake hit, saying he was trapped after "the room collapsed and my legs were buried under the rubble".

He said he was pulled to safety by his friend Zulfikar, who later died after himself becoming trapped.

More than 1,000 people were wounded, officials say.

In its latest announcements on Tuesday, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) added that 151 people were still missing.

It also said that 22,000 houses had been damaged, and that more than 58,000 people had taken shelter in several locations in the region.

Source consulted https://www.bbc.com

Incautan cinco toneladas de marihuana que del Cauca iban a ser llevadas a Estados Unidos

Este importante resultado impacta el corredor estratégico utilizado por carteles internacionales en alianza con los grupos armados residuales que operan en el norte del departamento.

Tras un intenso trabajo de inteligencia militar, tropas del Comando Específico del Cauca del Ejército Nacional, en coordinación con la Sección de Investigación Criminal SIJIN de la Policía Nacional, y mediante trabajos de control de área, lograron propinar un duro golpe a la economía ilícita del grupo armado residual Dagoberto Ramos Ortiz que delinque en el norte departamento del Cauca.

La operación militar se llevó a cabo en la vereda Cuernavaca, del municipio de Padilla, lugar en el que las unidades militares interceptaron un vehículo tipo NPR que transportaba 260 bultos, los cuales contenían 5 toneladas de marihuana.

De acuerdo con informaciones suministradas, este cargamento pertenecería a la red de narcotráfico al servicio de este grupo armado organizado residual y tendría como destino el mercado de drogas de países de Centroamérica y Estados Unidos.

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