this is my new law..you heard it here first..Newton had the Law of Gravity; Von Caw gots the Law of Unintended Consequences....it's what happens when you don't think things through...
Channel Island bald eagles may start snacking on little island foxes...the Channel Island restoration scam is a perfect example of folks not thinking things through....all the little biologists and rangers at the National Parks Service and Nature Conservancy, led by fatman Russell Galipeau, didn't think things through...all they fixated on was saving the Channel Island fox at any cost. I tried to warn them, but they ignored me, ridiculed me, spit on me, kicked dirt in my face, pissed on my parade, and and..well, got a little carried away but the point is they are no match for Mother Nature. Instead of leaving things alone, they interfered.. using captive breeding programs, radio collars, harassing species, mass killings and numerous other crimes in the name of nativism. Now, I think the fox is a cool animal even if he's a retarded little inbreed. All foxes are cool. But I question the wisdom of saving an animal that wasn't endangered in the first place, even though the powers that be lied and said it was. In order to save the fox, Galipeau and his followers killed, poisoned, and hara
ssed species and burned areas of the Channel Islands to return them to a native state of being, which is a bunch of bullshit. If these folks are serious about native only, then we all need to pack our bags and leave California, and take your damn little dogs, too...but the formula was faulty from the beginning: to save the foxes and bald eagles subtract the golden eagles, pigs, rats, mice, fennel, Olive trees and a number of other plants and animals. What has happened after they started this venture? They inadvertently endangered the Channel Island fox, ie, they didn't think things through.
Now we have a study telling them so..."The types of resources the [bald] eagles historically consumed just aren't there in the same numbers," Newsome says. "The eagles are very good at adapting and being opportunistic," so island foxes might become a target.
The eagles could even put themselves in danger by feeding on new sources of food. For example, Newsome says, they could be poisoned if they feed on carrion from sea lions and seals, which accumulate high levels of environmental toxins.
These problems are a consequence of conservationists focusing on hatching the eagles but not paying enough attention to what they'll be eating, says Newsome, whose team reports its findings online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Now, I don't agree with all the study has to say, but the fact that golden eagles are returning and the captively bred bald eagles are running out of food, the Channel Island fox will be a targeted food source for both eagles...if the pigs and fennel were left alone, the fox would have a better chance given that pigs were preferred by the eagles...see, this is what happens when you interfere and try to control nature which by law is unpredictable....and this is the fallacy of biological nativism....
Now, I don't agree with all the study has to say, but the fact that golden eagles are returning and the captively bred bald eagles are running out of food, the Channel Island fox will be a targeted food source for both eagles...if the pigs and fennel were left alone, the fox would have a better chance given that pigs were preferred by the eagles...see, this is what happens when you interfere and try to control nature which by law is unpredictable....and this is the fallacy of biological nativism....
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