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In reply to the discussion: Alaska snow crab season canceled - 1 billion crabs short/missing [View all]Backseat Driver
(4,671 posts)those couple of events in which over 500 pilot whales beached themselves far south of the equator near New Zealand, and our best scientists in the field can't figure out why it happens?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142980384
then there's: https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/thanksgiving-prices-rising-after-bird-flu-kills-millions-of-turkeys/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/28/egg-factory-avian-flu-chickens-culled-workers-fired-iowa
In addition to millions of pounds of potential food waste incurred by recalls of other infectious and processing (shards of plastics, glass and mental contaminations).
Then there's the problems of millions of deaths of migrating birds mainly due to tall building window lights and starvation in their summer habitats from woodland fires/smoke pollution that disrupt traditional migration safe flightpaths. The problem is escalating. "According to the Ohio Lights Out campaign led by the Ohio Bird Conservation Initiative, a recent study estimated that as many as 1 billion birds die each year in the United States after colliding with buildings."
Here you can read about the drop-in-the-bucket advice about ways to help (Note pinion article) https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2022/08/keep-migratory-birds-safe-this-fall-morgan-paskert.html
Pesticides on food chain pollinators anybody? We're our own worst enemies!
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