Bald Eagle Comes Off Endangered List

[alexios]

You know...I'm really not sure if this is a good idea or not. I mean, it shows progress...but still, you do want to protect the national bird...so....I guess we'll see in time if this is a mistake or not.

 

[Mr. Daystar]

For the first time in years...maybe decades, they have started nesting in Cuyahoga county Ohio. They have been making a strong comeback all along the Lake Erie coast to the West, and I can tell you, it is truly a beautiful site to see one fly across the highway with a fish in it's talons...as long as you don't watch to long and accidentally drift across the double yellow line....

 

[calpoon]

good news. although I wonder if it will make a real big difference, as they just bred the hell out of the things, and more than not didn't change any of the things that caused thier decline in the first place, nor did they bother to save any of the other (less pictureseque and entertaining) species to which the livlihood of the eagle is dependent upon. Going along with that last statement until the eagle or any animal can thrive in the wild there's not really any point to conservation. So we managed to save ten animals that we keep behind bars for tourists to ahh and take a picture of. sure, it helps ease our consciences about wiping out the other 99.9% of them, but it doesn't mean anything about preserving ecosystems and real biodiversity.

 

[AFA]

That argument carries forward to the destruction of the natural environment in general. People are always sold a false image of the future via new drugs, or filling in the Everglades with massive amounts of damage. Columbus is credited to carrying foreign species into the New World that destroyed hundreds of native species of animals and insects of all types. The solution is normally to introduce some new "safe" predator to solve the current problem with it's own catastrophic damage later. It's suggested that in Hawaii, there has been a loss of about 75% of it's native plants and animals over the years with a massive ongoing battle to preserve what's left.

Aquarium grasses poisonous to most fish are taking a huge toll on marine life and coral reefs worldwide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caulerpa_taxifolia
http://swr.nmfs.noaa.gov/hcd/caulerpa/factsheet203.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/algae/

In 1984, when the "killer algae" were first noticed in nature, divers easily could have hand-pulled all of the seaweed up, nipping in the bud what has become an explosive bioinvasion. Regrettably, this was not done, and the algae have now propagated throughout the Mediterranean.

 

[bigbadbrody]

I am glad, because I used to watch them sit in trees back home. Honestly though, I had no clue that they were endangered.

 

[AFA]

I haven't seen one for sure in about a year, but the water, (and so fish), level here is about nothing. I did see 5 or 6 sitting in a dead tree off about 300 yards before that, but the last was about 100 feet away and fishing.