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1. Of polar bears. As the water rises, their prospects fall. 2. 'Some of these days, you're gonna miss me...." 2011 a catastrophic year for the endangered African elephants. Do we really care? 3. 'This, too, shall pass.' On the majestic Monarch butterfly now in diminished numbers flying indomitable but for how long? Look up in awe, as this great thing of beauty soars above us, threatened.

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Of polar bears. As the water rises, their prospects fall.

By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author's program note. What music is appropriate for the undoubted decline and possible demise of one of the grandest creatures on earth -- Ursus maritimus -- the polar bear? I have selected Edvard Grieg's 1867 masterpiece "From the hall of the mountain king", for this is the story of a race of kings, sovereigns all, ruling over a land of snow and ice... a land now melting, imperiling these princes of the North... whose prospects for survival wane as the sea waters around them rise, a rise which threatens human kind, too. This is their story... and we must heed it for they are not threatened alone. You'll find Grieg's suite in any search engine. Find it now... and listen to its evocative, enigmatic sound. This sound will endure.... but will the polar bears whose tale I tell this day? The seas at the top of the world are rising, rising... While politicians argue about cause and effect, the undeniable fact of global warming and rising seas is beyond cavil and dispute. Sea level has been rising significantly over the past century, according to a newly released study that offers the most detailed look yet at the changes in ocean levels during the past 2,100 years. Researcher Benjamin Horton, director of the Sea Level Research Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, found that since the late 19th century -- as the world's industrialization intensified -sea level has risen more than 2 millimeters per year on average. That's a bit less than one-tenth of an inch... a small amount that signals death for polar bears... and chaos for seaside humans, drip by inexorable drip. It's all about rising temperatures. Rising sea levels are among the hazards that rightly concern environmentalists and progressive governments with increasing global temperatures caused by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels like coal and oil over the last century or so. The heat generated works to steadily melt some of the millions of tons of ice piled up on land in Greenland, Antarctica, and elsewhere. Such melting raises ocean levels and this, in turn, raises the possibility of major flooding in highly populated coastal cities and greater storm damage in oceanfront communities. Polar bears must swim further and further for food... Researcher Anthony Pagano, a US Geological Survey biologist, at the International Bear Association Conference, has, in his newly released study, made it clear what happens to polar bears as the snow melts and the seas rise. He identified and studied 50 long- distance swims by adult female polar bears between 2004 and 2009 in the southern Beaufort and Chukchi seas. "Climate change is pulling the sea ice out from under polar bears' feet, forcing some to swim longer distances to find food and habitat," said Geoff York, a polar bear expert at the World Wildlife Fund who coauthored the study. And the cubs simply fall off... York said polar bears, tracked by satellite devices, routinely swim 10 miles or more for food, principally the seals they dote on and devour. But as the seas rise, these distances increase. Twenty bears in the survey swam more than 30 miles at a time. The longest-distance swim was 426 miles; the longest-lasting swim was 12.7 days, with a few brief breaks on drift ice. All this is bad enough, but here's the tragic element: eleven of the bears that swam long distances had young cubs when researchers attached the tracking collars. Five of those mothers lost their cubs while swimming... http://www.RevenueSource101.com Copyright Elizabeth Evans - 2012 4 of 13

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and thus the breed and its prospects are diminished... Facts about the threatened polar bears, majestic, now vulnerable. The polar bear, universally admired, is the world's largest land carnivore and also the largest bear, together with the omnivorous Kodiak bear, which is approximately the same size. An adult male weighs around 350-680 kg (770-1,500 lb), while an adult female is about half the size. Although it is closely related to the brown bear, it has evolved to occupy a narrower ecological niche, with many body characteristics adapted for cold temperatures, for moving across snow, ice, and open water, and for hunting the seals, which make up most of its diet. The polar bear is classified as a vulnerable species, with eight of the 19 polar bear subpopulations in decline. Researchers estimate there are 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears worldwide; they are listed as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act. "Nanook of the North." Over the course of uncounted centuries, the intricate, necessary symbiosis between the polar elements, the polar bear, and Inuit and other indigenous peoples of the North has slowly, carefully evolved. The Northern people revered the bear whose flesh they enjoyed... they called the polar bear "nanook"... and took the name proudly for themselves. In 1922, Robert J. Flaherty made one of the most celebrated documentaries of the silent film era, "Nanook of the North", calling it "A Story of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic." In the tradition of what would later be called "salvage ethnography", Flaherty captured (and some critics said staged) the struggles of the Inuk Nanook and his family in the Canadian arctic. In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films selected for preservation in the United States Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." But the human Nanook, though most assuredly a predator of the ursine Nanook, was never a problem, for he took only what he needed... and was never wanton. He never forgot he needed nanook. No, he is not the problem, though human kind as a whole most assuredly is. For we as a genus are thoughtless, careless always anxious to shift the guilt, the burden, the responsibility to others for what we have done. And what's terrible about this so sad situation is this: we know what to do and when and how to do it. We don't need more learned studies; for studies about the future of the polar bear and its irrevocably changing environment are frequent, thorough, detailed, and unanswerable. We need action... before this matter becomes, like the histories of so many other species, academic. But, for now, let us end as we began, with Edvard Grieg, master of unsurpassed, haunting melody. A creature of the North, knowing Winter well, he cherished the fleeting glories of Spring. In this spirit, he composed something so beautiful it is painful to listen to. He called it "Last Spring", and you must go to any search engine now to play it. Let it fill your heart with compassion for the great creatures now completely at the mercy of their greatest predators, us. Let us pray that this song of soul by Grieg remains great music only and that there is no "Last Spring" for Ursus maritimus, beloved of man, dying through the works of man. For where shall we find your like again; You who thrilled us so? Where shall we look when you are gone you who have been made by God? When you are gone who will care for why when your great heart beats no more? God will know... ... but He will not say for we who were bade to cherish failed you. http://www.RevenueSource101.com Copyright Elizabeth Evans - 2012 5 of 13

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So now we lament... too late Now we shall know you not and nevermore. Never to play again under the great northern lights once your heaven. Where then have you gone? You whom we loved, and failed...

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'Some of these days, you're gonna miss me...." 2011 a catastrophic year for the endangered African elephants. Do we really care?
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author's program note. In 1911 Shelton Brooks wrote and composed a tune that became the signature song for the "Last of the Red-Hot Mamas", Sophie Tucker. There wasn't a woman alive (not a girl, mind, but a card-carrying woman) who didn't love Tucker for getting up off her backside and singing it like it is... about the woman who gave so much, only to be discarded and spurned by her man... the man who thereby let you know he was on his way to other places, other people. And so as Sophie got up and belted out the words, you knew she was singing for you... "Some of these days. You're gonna miss me honey/" Some of these days. You're gonna feel so lonely." And no matter how demur and sweet you were, when Sophie sang this strident song, a declaration of intent, you got up and sang it with her, yeah even if you were an arthritic 88... because you were angry about that no good man; because you were hurtin'... because you needed to make it clear you were still here, still desirable, still alive... and that your best days were not in the past... but just around the corner. Sophie's song was liberating, cathartic, a soul-lifter, helping you get through the lonely days and even lonelier nights... so you could get up and keep going. If only the elephants had a defender like Sophie Tucker... and a tune like this one.which you'll easily find in any search engine)... maybe they wouldn't be facing extinction by 2020. But they don't... and that's just one more reason for despair.... 2011 a catastrophic year for the endangered African elephants. Let's be clear about something: specialists have known for some time, and have regularly reported, that the end of the elephants is at hand unless radical action is taken and taken NOW. One of the greatest creatures on our Third Rock from the Sun, the elephant, is about to go the way of all flesh... only a comparative handful of bullets now stand between them and total, complete, irrevocable extinction. The latest installment of this tragedy is being reported now. On December 29, 2011, for instance, Tom Milliken, an elephant and rhino specialist for the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC said, "2011 has truly been a horrible year for elephants." Why? For the usual reason: ivory. 2011 was the worst year on record since ivory sales were banned in 1989, so bad that the world is just 8 short years away from being present when the last great elephant is shot... thereby demonstrating yet again how unfit we humans are for the task of saving this planet and its creatures, wiped out one by one because of our proven ineptitude and malfeasance. It's all about the ivory. Milliken is clear and emphatic about the problem: "In 23 years of compiling ivory seizure data... 2011 is the worst year ever for large ivory seizures." As many as 3000 elephants were killed by poachers in the last year, a figure of horror... pushing these elephants, bullet by bullet... into a future without their majesty and wonder, In one case in early December, Malaysian authorities seized hundreds of African elephant tusks valued at $1.3 million that were being shipped to Cambodia. The ivory was hidden in containers of http://www.RevenueSource101.com Copyright Elizabeth Evans - 2012 7 of 13

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Kenyan handicrafts. Per usual, avarice was in the driver's seat. Particularly in Asia.... Experts agree that most of the outrages nowadays involve ivory being smuggled from Africa into Asia, where growing wealth has fed the desire for Ivory ornaments and for rhino horn that is used in traditional medicine, though scientists proved long ago that it has no medicinal value whatsoever. And so African elephants die to provide gimcrackery for the nouveau riche and fake medicine for the credulous and duped. Yes, for such trivial causes do these great elephants die... TRAFFIC said Asian crime syndicates are increasingly involved in poaching and the illegal ivory trade across Africa, a trend that coincides with growing Asian investment on the continent. From his headquarters in Zimbabwe Milliken said, "The escalation in ivory trade and elephant and rhino killing is being driven by the Asian syndicates that are now firmly enmeshed within African societies.There are more Asians than ever before in the history of the continent, and this is one of the repercussions." Tom Milliken is a brave man; these syndicates cannot like these words... and it is easy, so easy, to shoot one bullet in the night into an elephant -- or into the good people like Milliken who try to protect them and so notify the world about what's going on. Fewer elephants every single day and less hope for the future. By the end of this day another 25 elephants will die... and with their passing there will be even less chance to preserve the survivors. The problem is acute in Congo, northern Kenya, southern Tanzania, and northern Mozambique... and most of all, in Chad where the elephant population is at crisis level, worsening with every passing day as their dwindling numbers make clear. For instance, in the 1980's experts estimated the total population of African elephants around 1 million, with 70,000 elephants being killed a year. Now, at the commencement of 2012, their numbers are less than 470,000 with poachers more ardent and determined as elephants move closer to extinction. Poachers sense they must act now... or never. Thus, authorities seized at least 13 large seizures in 2011... compared to 6 in 2010. And as the elephant goes, so go all the creatures dependent on it. Earth is a series of interlocking networks; we are all dependent on others who, in turn, are dependent on us. Thus as the elephants die, their essential work of opening habitats for other species is diminished; and so the fate of one becomes the fate of many until there is crisis and extinction for all. The African elephant is at the crucial tipping point where, soon, it will be too late to change the course of events. We are close, so very close to this moment, but the important thing is that we are not there yet. We can still, just now, make a difference by... * Writing to the President of the United States and urging his immediate action. * Sending a few bucks to TRAFFIC and the International Fund for Animal Welfare. * Asking your Congressman and Senator to introduce resolutions on the matter. * Getting the kids in your school to sign a petition, then sending it to your mayor and asking for a "Save the Elephants" Day. Get the picture?. We must not allow what could now so easily happen, allowing the African elephant to go gentle into this good-night. We must fight, fight against the waning of the light, like Dylan Thomas wrote.... and as Sophie Tucker sang... for "when you leave me, I know it will grieve me You'll miss your little baby Yes, some of these days." http://www.RevenueSource101.com Copyright Elizabeth Evans - 2012 8 of 13

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'This, too, shall pass.' On the majestic Monarch butterfly now in diminished numbers flying indomitable but for how long? Look up in awe, as this great thing of beauty soars above us, threatened.
Author's program note. As I write, in early October, the Monarch has just about finished its great conjuring trick for another year; rising, flying, gliding, dancing in its millions with sun beams as it hastens, like so many snow birds, on to Mexico and the warmth that sustains its kind. There are noticeably fewer of them this year when there were noticeably fewer of them than the year before. Deforestation and acutely diminished habitat have allied with the arid lands wrought by draught to extinguish their own colossal numbers. The millions which still migrate remind us of the millions more that migrate no longer. It is the first somber thought in a story, once glorious, now shadowed by sadness and growing woe. This is the story of a Monarch once serene and puissant over continents, now beset at all sides by our human kind who venerate but destroy what it purports to love. It is a story that increasingly defines the pernicious business of man upon a planet we have learned too late is not ours alone or ours to sully. Romulus Augustulus, the last emperor of Rome (d. 507); Moctezuma, the last emperor of the Aztecs (d. 1520); Ferdinand Maximilian, the last emperor of Mexico (d. 1867)... Some of the saddest people in the history of our species are those born to rule, fated to command, but who in the event not only failed but failed completely, totally, catastrophically. We are drawn to such people who have had everything but ended their tragic lives with nothing. Such people remind us of the mutability of life, its whimsey, capriciousness... and the tragedy that lurks at our margins ready to change our lives forever; sovereigns no longer, just those crowned in irony, like Jesus himself. Hark, the monarchs arrive! Throughout history, monarchs, all monarchs, have known the value of a presentation which combines within itself a festival of sight, sound, even smells that proclaim the advent and then the presence of the All Highest. It is a matter of the first importance, and one which no monarch desiring a long and successful reign can ignore. And so for this article I give you ""Music for the Royal Fireworks," composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749. It celebrated the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. It, too, filled the sky with splendor. This brilliant suite by an established master was worth the war (and its disappointing results). Go now to any search engine and find it. It pleased King George II of England, Handel's august, happy and glorious master; it has since pleased a long procession of equally fastidious and gratified monarchs. Imagine it as the music signifying the advent, striking presence and inspiring arrival of the most durable of dynasties, Danaus plexippus, the great Monarch butterfly. Its name. The common name "Monarch" was first published by Samuel H. Scudder in 1874 because "it is one of the largest of our butterflies, and rules a vast domain." It is commonly thought that the name was applied in honor of King William III of England, whose elevation in 1688 secured the Protestant religion and its establishment. Thus the Monarch butterfly became the symbol of a sovereign http://www.RevenueSource101.com Copyright Elizabeth Evans - 2012 10 of 13

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religion and its establishment. Thus the Monarch butterfly became the symbol of a sovereign successful in war, far seeing in peace; in short, the ideal monarch. The Monarch was one of the many species originally named by Linnaeus in his "Systema Naturae" of 1758. It was first placed in the genus "Papilio". In 1780, Jan Krzysztof Kluk used the Monarch as the type species for a new genus: Danaus, a great-grandson of the king of the gods of Olympus, Zeus. He was a mythical king of Egypt or Libya, who founded Argos. "Plexippus" was one of the fifty sons of Aegyptus, the twin brother of Danaus. In short, royalty in all its aspects was his metier and pressing business. Its taxonomy. The Monarch is closely related to two very similar species which formed the Danaus subgenus before 2005. The first is the Jamaican monarch. The second is the southern monarch of South America south of the Amazon river. The southern monarch is almost indistinguishable from the Monarch as an adult, though the pupae are somewhat different; it is often considered a subspecies of the Monarch proper. However, recent DNA analysis makes the fact clear that the Monarch and southern monarch are quite distinct from each other. Monarchs value such findings; after all successions to the throne and who rules (or who doesn't rule) a kingdom is often the result of a slight genealogical advantage and the (almost) inevitable war that was necessary to ensure the desired result. Its range. Monarch butterflies reign over a domain larger, far larger, than Rome's empire at its height. It ranges from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Mariposa Monarca Biosphere Reserve within the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt in the Mexican states of Michocan and Mexico. The western population overwinters in various sites in central coastal and southern California, notably in Santa Cruz, and Grove Beach. Monarchs understand that a territory unvisited is a territory lost to someone else. Thus each year, they undertake what earlier sovereigns called "a progress", that is descending en masse on the land of a valued member of the Court; "honored" to become bankrupt entertaining the king. The monarch's mere motion is considered a command; noblesse oblige. Its greatest achievement. Even school children know what the Monarch is renowned for... flying some 2500 miles in the autumn..... flying some 2500 miles in the spring. Everything about this audacious migration interests us. Why do they do it; how do they know when to do it; how do they stay in the sky so long; how do they know where to go and why do they, without the gadgets of mankind, unerringly find their way? And we want to know, too, why predators, birds for instance, don't turn so many flying kings into a mash fit for them? Like I said, everything about these graceful flyers interests us. Here are some answers and some queries yet unresolved. What causes millions of these insects, so popular with the public that at least five states (including Alabama, Idaho, Minnesota, Texas and Vermont) have adopted it as the state insect? Scientists do not know thus leaving each to forward his own as yet unproven hypothesis: sun angles, or visual cues such as coast-and-ridge-lines, or an internal magnetic compass. But these are unproven assertions, not fact; that the monarchs keep secret in their genetic code. It is the "secrete du roi" and, for now it remains so. But there is one thing we do know about the Monarch; it is a thing the monarchs themselves wish to have disseminated as widely as possible, namely that they have certain protection against predators like birds. When monarchs reach the southern, warmer climes, they lay their many eggs on milkweed plants, then die. When the eggs hatch, the caterpillars feed on the milkweed, ingesting http://www.RevenueSource101.com Copyright Elizabeth Evans - 2012 11 of 13

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nourishment and, equally important, milkweed toxins which do a nasty job on a bird's stomach. If they make that mistake once, no bird ever makes it again. Monarchs think it a courtesy to predatory birds et al to get this intelligence out... and now they have. Unfortunately they have no such remedy for man and his depredations, depredations which are destroying everybody's habitat, Earth. A boy remembers. When I was growing up in Illinois over 6 decades ago, I'd take a break from mowing the yard on a hot and sticky day to watch the perfection of the Monarchs as they wafted from plant to plant, always the masters of grace and grandeur. It grieves me more than I can say to watch them dying by inches before our eyes, instead of flying high, coloring the sky and making us happy, glad such a thing of enchantment and magnificence, sublime, exists.... but for how long, how long? We want the great Monarch to pass -- over head, not into history as a beautiful thing that was but is no longer because of our negligence.

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About the Author Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books. Republished with author's permission by Elizabeth Evans http://RevenueSource101.com.

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