August 3, 2010

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Saving Wildlife From The Midwestern Oil Spill

Far from the Gulf of Mexico, people in Western Michigan are dealing with a large oil spill.

An oil pipe burst this week in Marshall, Michigan, a town on the Kalamazoo River, about 80 miles east of Lake Michigan.

The flow of oil has been shut off but the EPA estimates that more than a million gallons of crude leaked out, affecting a 30-mile stretch of the river.




Scores of dead fish wash up at Lake Shasta's shore

Visitors at the Centimudi Boat Ramp saw hundreds of dead fish along the shoreline and in the water over the weekend at Lake Shasta.

But it’s a mystery how the fish died.

On Sunday there were still dozens of dead fish floating belly-up in the water and scattered on the shoreline.

Redding.com - www.redding.com
01 Aug 2010
D Benda
Photo credit: David Benda
Location: Lake Shasta, Shasta County, California, USA - Map It

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Bleaching of coral: Malaysia dive sites close

Malaysia decided Thursday to close for several months of dive sites around some of its tropical islands tourism because of coral bleaching, probably due to warmer waters.

"Nine of the 83 dive sites in the country have been closed" until the end of October, announced Shahim Abdul Hamid, Marine Parks Service.

Located particularly around the islands of Redang and Tioman, these reefs attract some 500,000 tourists per year.

Cyberpresse.ca - www.cyberpresse.ca (Source: Agence France-Presse)
22 Jul 2010
Photo credit: Associated Press
Location: Redang, Terengganu, Malaysia - Map It and Tioman, Pahang, Malaysia - Map It

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TOP READ LINKS FROM LAST WEEK

NEWS
  1. In the Spotlight - Revisiting a Past Disease Investigation: A Case from the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study (SCWDS) Archives. What is Your Diagnosis?
  2. New Species Comes out of its Shell and onto the Map: Clam-crushing turtle found in Mississippi and Louisiana [USGS Press Release]
  3. Reported number of bird deaths grow on Gulf Coast
  4. Climate Change Causes Larger, More Plentiful Marmots, Study Shows; Implications for Many Creatures That Hibernate
  5. Poisoning of Scottish birds of prey at highest levels in 20 years
  6. Comment Period For Bison Vaccination Extended
  7. Sea turtle death a mystery
  8. Can't Get to the Bat Cave, Robin, as U.S. Seals Lairs Amid Virus Outbreak
  9. Top 10 new species of 2009 named
  10. Hundreds Of Dead Penguins Wash Up In Brazil
PUBLICATIONS
  1. Evaluation of effectiveness and efficiency of wild bird surveillance for avian influenza
  2. Bats Without Borders: Long-Distance Movements and Implications for Disease Risk Management
  3. Transport of the Pathogenic Prion Protein through Soils
  4. The Genome of a Bacillus Isolate Causing Anthrax in Chimpanzees Combines Chromosomal Properties of B. cereus with B. anthracis Virulence Plasmids
  5. Victims and vectors: highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 and the ecology of wild birds


OTHER WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED NEWS
Photo credit: Tim Graham/Tim Graham/Getty Images
Ocean Acidification
Huh, That's Interesting!

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