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stui magpie
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Does 12pm actually exist? The answer is complicated.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-27/ ... m/12283566
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-27/ ... m/12283566
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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Love itstui magpie wrote:Does 12pm actually exist? The answer is complicated.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-27/ ... m/12283566
“I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman
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Morrigu
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Poor old Victoria Falls is about to be absolutely devastated - so sad fabulous place and people 
Whilst doing some reading came across this story from the Jafuta foundation - - what an amazing young man! It’s really worth listening to his TED talk!!
....... patrols are too dangerous to perform at night, when some animals, especially lion, are active. In these instances, we have adopted an ingenious approach of installing Foxlight predator lights.
We were inspired to follow the wonderful solution devised by Richared Turere, a young Kenyan boy fascinated with electronics, who came up with an amazing solution to the constant threat of predatory wildlife faced by his Maasai community.
After noticing that lions were wary of flashlights, he created a solar powered flashing light which proved to be very effective, not only in scaring them off, but also in comforting the cattle with the light provided.
https://www.jafutafoundation.org/projec ... esolution/
Really worth watching his inspirational TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_turer ... ns/up-next
Whilst doing some reading came across this story from the Jafuta foundation - - what an amazing young man! It’s really worth listening to his TED talk!!
....... patrols are too dangerous to perform at night, when some animals, especially lion, are active. In these instances, we have adopted an ingenious approach of installing Foxlight predator lights.
We were inspired to follow the wonderful solution devised by Richared Turere, a young Kenyan boy fascinated with electronics, who came up with an amazing solution to the constant threat of predatory wildlife faced by his Maasai community.
After noticing that lions were wary of flashlights, he created a solar powered flashing light which proved to be very effective, not only in scaring them off, but also in comforting the cattle with the light provided.
https://www.jafutafoundation.org/projec ... esolution/
Really worth watching his inspirational TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_turer ... ns/up-next
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
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Morrigu
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Oh so glad you watched - hubby and I were talking about it and wondered why is this young kid’s - this young black kid’s vision and talent not being highlighted by the media? Would be much better than vandalising statues and trying to rename Coon cheesethink positive wrote:Actually I did watch it before I fell asleep last night, very clever kid and funny too! Very enjoyable to watch
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
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Ain’t that the truth!
I know the lion did a lot of damage to the cow, and that the cow represents a good deal of the communities wealth but For the lion is Home, love that he found such an easy painless way of dealing with it. So very clever, loved his thought process.
Did you see the kids who fended of the bronze whaler in Qld, saying they saw swimmers out there and hope it’s not still around! Makes me laugh, of course it’s around,
And this should be in what pisses me off the tools who let their dogs chase a kangaroo into the sea, twice down Lorne way. That’s not on
I know the lion did a lot of damage to the cow, and that the cow represents a good deal of the communities wealth but For the lion is Home, love that he found such an easy painless way of dealing with it. So very clever, loved his thought process.
Did you see the kids who fended of the bronze whaler in Qld, saying they saw swimmers out there and hope it’s not still around! Makes me laugh, of course it’s around,
And this should be in what pisses me off the tools who let their dogs chase a kangaroo into the sea, twice down Lorne way. That’s not on
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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stui magpie
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When I see Ted talk I think 20-40 minutes. You should've said it was 7 and a bit minutes.Morrigu wrote:no one interested in learning - it’s not preachy it’s just a really cool kid worth listening to!
Really good story, kid is so natural and It's fkn brilliant that he's got a scholarship to a top school because of that and even better that his mum didn't quite kill him for destroying her new radio in the name of research
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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stui magpie
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Morrigu may smack me into line here, as I haven't been there just read a lot of Wilbur Smith books when I was younger, but for those tribes who have cattle, mainly the Nguni, it's not that simple, it's a complicated relationship. The cattle are their life.think positive wrote:Ain’t that the truth!
I know the lion did a lot of damage to the cow, and that the cow represents a good deal of the communities wealth but For the lion is Home, love that he found such an easy painless way of dealing with it. So very clever, loved his thought process.
For a kid who confessed he hated lions to come up with an idea that saved the cattle and didn't harm the lions, win-win, was quite brilliant.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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Morrigu
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^ no not at all as with all human-animal conflict it is the loss of animal habitat and ever encroaching human populations into the natural environments of animals that causes the problems.
Goats and cows for so many communities in Africa are their currency - they trade for other necessities and they feed the community - easy to be critical from a distance and I hate seeing lions, leopards etc etc killed (or goats and cows for that matter) but they aren’t doing it for fun like scumbag trophy hunters or doing it for money like scumbag poachers and unlike us there are not many supermarkets to just pop to for supplies.
The big cats follow their natural prey antelope zebra etc who wander into areas where communities with goats and cows live and they are easier prey to catch and well.....
The eles who are very thirsty and often relieve communities of their scarce water follow their migratory paths learned over centuries - no fence or do not enter will stop them.
I loved the Maasai they have learned and evolved from the days when it was a rite of passage for a warrior to kill a lion to prove his bravery - now they protect them.
This is what was so good about this - seems an effective and sustainable way especially as the lights are solar, to protect the humans and their much needed animals and the wild animals.
Win Win!
Goats and cows for so many communities in Africa are their currency - they trade for other necessities and they feed the community - easy to be critical from a distance and I hate seeing lions, leopards etc etc killed (or goats and cows for that matter) but they aren’t doing it for fun like scumbag trophy hunters or doing it for money like scumbag poachers and unlike us there are not many supermarkets to just pop to for supplies.
The big cats follow their natural prey antelope zebra etc who wander into areas where communities with goats and cows live and they are easier prey to catch and well.....
The eles who are very thirsty and often relieve communities of their scarce water follow their migratory paths learned over centuries - no fence or do not enter will stop them.
I loved the Maasai they have learned and evolved from the days when it was a rite of passage for a warrior to kill a lion to prove his bravery - now they protect them.
This is what was so good about this - seems an effective and sustainable way especially as the lights are solar, to protect the humans and their much needed animals and the wild animals.
Win Win!
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
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