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Demand the Clean Energy Future We Deserve
Friday 3 October 2008
Protect Wild Tigers From Poachers
Monday 11 August 2008
Sponsored by: Care2.com
The beautiful wild tiger is heading quickly toward extinction, with its diminishing numbers estimated at a meager 3,500.
Indian studies suggest that if poaching increases, wild tigers will almost surely be pushed into extinction. Yet China is considering a policy that would open its market to tiger parts, which could entice more poaching of wild tigers. Although Chinese officials would keep the ban on wild tiger products, it is difficult to distinguish between wild and farmed tiger parts, and equally difficult to enforce.
Moreover, killing a tiger in the wild is 250 times cheaper than breeding and raising a tiger in captivity, and then killing it. Such a profit would be irresistible to poachers.
We must preserve the irreplaceable wild tiger by refusing to put a bounty its head. Urge China to keep its successful ban on the tiger part trade, and protect wild tigers from extinction.Sign the petition!
Signature goal: 20,000
Current signatures: 11,700
Butterfly Bait: How-To Formula
Sunday 3 August 2008
Adapted from The Butterfly Garden, by Matthew Tekulsky (Harvard Common Press, 1985).
We love butterflies! They have lifted human hearts for millennia with their fragile, colorful beauty. There are specific flowers that butterflies love, but what if you don’t have the space or time to grow butterfly-attracting plants? We can make Butterfly Bait! Because not all butterflies are only attracted to flower-nectar, this magic stuff will attract butterflies to your yard, even if all you have is a balcony.
Just wait until you find out the ingredients of Butterfly Bait! They’re not as pretty as the butterflies, that’s for sure–but this magic goop will have White Admirals, Mourning Cloaks, Viceroys and many others flocking to your place. Here’s the formula:
Many butterflies prefer rotting fruit, tree sap, dung, carrion, urine, and other non-nectar sources of nutrients. You can allow fruit from your fruit trees to decay on the ground, leave your pet’s droppings where they lie, or place a bit of raw meat or fish in a discreet part of your garden.
And here is the formula for Butterfly Bait:
INGREDIENTS
1 pound sugar
1 or 2 cans stale beer
3 mashed overripe banana
1 cup of molasses or syrup
1 cup of fruit juice
1 shot of rum
Mix all ingredients well and paint on trees, fence posts, rocks, or stumps–or simply soak a sponge in the mixture and hang from a tree-limb.
For more information about butterflies, including some fascinating facts, and a listing of plants that will attract them, see Care2’s How to Attract Butterflies.
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