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 Charles Paxton, LMNA Communications Officer here with some items and links to articles that you might find interesting.

Transmission Risks: How Wearing Masks  & Distancing Counts in The Fight Against Corona Virus

NB: Now two masks are recommended and are thought to be 90% effective! Distance and ventilation is key to reducing risk!
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I think we probably all have some family members and friends who worry us by not heeding the Governor's instructions about wearing masks and keeping, not mixing with other households and staying at least six feet clear of each other. 

A Decade After Deepwater Horizon How is Gulf Wildlife Faring? BP’s Penalties Funding Largest Ecosystem Restoration Effort in U.S. History.

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Poster child for deadly oil spills, The Deepwater Horizon disaster still resonates today. Eleven people lost their lives, and an estimated 200,000,000 gallons of crude oil were leaked into the Gulf of Mexico over an agonizing period of 87 days. The shores of the Gulf of Mexico have suffered hurricanes, systemic erosion and submersion of marshes from canals, deforestation of the protective chenieres, invasive Nutria rats and pollution. America’s lost 2000 square miles of Gulf coastal land over the past 90 years. Could this next decade herald better times for the Gulf coast, it’s wildlife and the people who depend upon a healthier environment? A new report by The National Wildlife Federation summarizes the latest information available about ten wildlife species that were affected by the “ecosystem-level injury to the northern Gulf of Mexico,” as well as the restoration efforts underway — what constitutes the largest ecosystem restoration effort in U.S. History!

View Pollution Related Art Work by Dr. Brandon â€‹ballengee

The Spice of Life: The Lowly Roly-Poly

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Louisiana Master Naturalist Kimmie Paxton's amusing and enlightening article about "the parson's pig" may well be of interest! Part of her Spice of Life electronic journal series!
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Can you spare $8 trillion? How Investments In Tropical Forest Protection and Curbing Wildlife Trade  Can Pay-off In Zoonotic Disease Prevention

HIV, H5N1, Nipah, Ebola, Marburg, SARS, MERS and COVID-19 are all zoonotic diseases transmitted from wildlife to people, most have proved expensive in economic and personal terms, and while the filoviruses may be an ancient evil and the Coronavirus 19 a very new one, they all share the underlying cause of unusual proximity between people and wildlife.  Habitat destruction and human incursion are common factors. If you've been wondering whether environmental conservation makes economic sense, here is an interesting article from Science Magazine's Policy Forum that shows not only that it does, but how it does, and that we may simply no longer be able to discount the value of environmental destruction in the big balance sheet of modern human civilization. The mathematics at a glance: US $17.7-26.9 billion can be invested to prevent tropical deforestation and limit wildlife trade, to yield savings of US $8.1-15.8 trillion worth of damage.
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Maps From Space!

Picture​ The Dataset: Global map of the Biodiversity Intactness Index, from Newbold et al. (2016) Science. Download from UK Natural History Museum Data Portal. UK Natural History Museum Data Portal Data usage licence: CC BY 4.0
Want to make a spatial map of the world or your own favorite bits? We can now, thanks to the UN's online Biodiversity Lab and the technical wizards at NASA. I made the map on the left that shows The Biodiversity Intactness Index (2016) which is the modeled average abundance of originally present species in a grid cell, as a percentage, relative to their abundance in an intact ecosystem.

Pretty cool, huh? There are up to 115 global data layers for research use in both terrestrial and marine mapping. Find out more about this amazing Global Information System and the free course that trains us in its use. 


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Micha Petty, Louisiana Master Naturalist and President of Louisiana Exotic Animal Rehabilitation Network addressing Louisiana Master Naturalists Northeast on the subject of Wildlife Rehabilitation at Union Parish Library August 28, 2018. LEARN fulfills a unique role in Env. Ed and wildlife rescue and rehabilitation.

Louisiana Exotic Animal Resource Network Launches Fundraiser

Have you heard of L.E.A.R.N.? This organization based in Shreveport rescues and rehabilitates many kinds of wildlife from native birds of prey and herps to escaped or unwanted exotic pets. Micha Petty is working hard on the front-lines of wildlife conservation, fighting tooth and nail to keep his rescue and environmental education center open. 
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