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[phx]

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. Herb Tarlick.

A classic, but it was Arthur Carlson:

 

https://youtu.be/lf3mgmEdfwg

Edited by phx, 16 April 2024 - 08:07 PM.

[Matt R.]

And lest we forget, he was right.

[Victoria Watcher]

Since his return, officials say they’ve received reports of harassment towards the seal.

 

“Unleashed dogs have been approaching and barking at Emerson, often at the instigation of their owners; people have approached Emerson to try and pet him, take selfies with him, and on occasion prompted their small children to do the same,”

 

In one report, DFO says a child was persuaded to touch their nose to Emerson’s.

 

 

 

https://www.cheknews...es-dfo-1199676/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 17 April 2024 - 12:39 AM.

[LJ]

A classic, but it was Arthur Carlson:

 

https://youtu.be/lf3mgmEdfwg

You are right, I had it wrong twice, the guy I thought said it was Les Nessman.

[Victoria Watcher]

Ehattesaht First Nation launches GoFundMe to recoup costs of orca calf rescue efforts

 

 

 

On Thursday, the Nation launched its GoFundMe, with a goal of raising $500,000 to help cover the ongoing rescue efforts and costs.

 

The online fundraiser is calling on the federal and provincial governments to pitch in on the funding, as well as anyone who is interested in the rescue.

 

The Nation says it has been feeding and housing the DFO team that has arrived to help rescue the orca, but that costs are adding up, particularly because it is expensive to bring resources up to the remote community.

 

 

 

https://www.cheknews...fforts-1200066/

 

 

 

 

 

A two-year-old, as brave as she is, still needs her family. She has not yet learned to hunt, she has learned to be wary of humans and rightly so. As she frantically swam nearby her mother lay stranded on the beach in the dark and at first light she was suddenly surrounded by humans and her mother never came back.

 

The hard part of the work we are doing. We don't know when it will end and we can't turn our backs on our kʷiisaḥiʔis. She has been taught well in her tow and half years. She is scared and she is lonely and she has just lost her mother and she has no idea that we are trying to help her. We also know that as much as we want to connect we have to keep our distance because our world is not safe for her.

 

But our family is small and we are learning to understand our own limitations so we are asking both the Federal and Provincial governments to support us. We have build an amazing team with the Marine Mammal Response Unit. Our Nation has called on all of its partners and they have been limitless in their response and we have been overwhelmed by the offers of equipment and ideas from around the world. But mobilization like this takes dozens of professionals, people and time. We have to keep everyone fed and housed and our community is small and isolated with limited options.

 

Everything is expensive here and we can no longer carry all of the burden. We can give our time in being part of the crews, of feeding everyone, of housing them but as this carries on we are having to adjust our budgets and make sure that we are all in this with good intention and with a good heart.

 

 

https://www.gofundme...unter-baby-orca

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 April 2024 - 07:27 PM.

[Nparker]

...we are learning to understand our own limitations so we are asking both the Federal and Provincial governments to support us...

Unfortunately, the taxpayers are broke - more than $1.2 trillion broke this year. At this point it's best to just let nature takes its course.

[phx]

 

 a goal of raising $500,000 to help cover the ongoing rescue efforts and costs.

 

 

 

 

I’m relieved to learn that all the serious problems facing our country have been resolved and the whale is the only remaining issue of any importance.

[Matt R.]

I pledge my carbon tax and motor fuel tax on my propane to this worthy cause, and hereby give the various levels of government my permission to forward these dollars to this porpoise.

[aastra]

 

I’m relieved to learn that all the serious problems facing our country have been resolved and the whale is the only remaining issue of any importance.

 

Whenever one of these celebrity-animal-in-crisis stories is persisting in the news cycle I try to remind people that there are many other whales and all kinds of other animals stranded and/or in desperate situations right this very second in remote locations where no human being happens to be observing them. People generally get angry at the reminder, methinks because they like to imagine: a) TV news is omnisciently aware and informative, and b) human beings have some control over the natural world.

[Mike K.]

The stress from the pursuing rescuers may ultimately harm this animal.

[Nparker]

And when it dies, the death will be blamed on a lack of public funding for the rescue and/or corporate greed/climate change.

[Victoria Watcher]

$12,300 raised out of $500,000 goal.



>. Our Nation has called on all of its partners and they have been limitless in their response and we have been overwhelmed by the offers of equipment and ideas from around the world. But mobilization like this takes dozens of professionals, people and time. We have to keep everyone fed and housed and our community is small and isolated with limited options.

Everything is expensive here and we can no longer carry all of the burden. We can give our time in being part of the crews, of feeding everyone, of housing them but as this carries on we are having to adjust our budgets and make sure that we are all in this with good intention and with a good heart.





Presumably any government workers already receive food and lodging expenses. Who else are they feeding and housing?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 19 April 2024 - 12:27 PM.

[LJ]

Total waste of money and manpower, let him fend for himself, he will either live or die.

[Victoria Watcher]

https://gofund.me/2cf63ae8

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 20 April 2024 - 03:31 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Whale experts confident orca calf will survive, find family if rescue plan succeeds

The last confirmed sighting of members of the young orca's pod was more than two weeks ago in the Barkley Sound area south of Zeballos and near Port Alberni.

https://www.timescol...ucceeds-8632211

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 April 2024 - 12:17 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

$35,000 raised.

[Victoria Watcher]

Emerson the elephant seal should be going through the painful process of moulting on a remote beach.

 

But the celebrity seal for some reason is choosing to make his ordeal very public.

 

He’s been gawked at by school groups and tour buses, sniffed by dogs and the subject of selfies and media attention for weeks now around the capital region.

 

And now he needs some bodyguards.

 

Volunteers from the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea have been following Emerson’s vagabond moulting ways for a few days now, making sure people stay off the beach or keep their distance and speak in hushed tones as the two-year-old northern elephant seal moults both hair and skin.

 

They’re working shifts from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily wherever Emerson shows up.

 

Halle Bell was taking a shift to watch over Emerson and educate onlookers on what the young elephant seal is going through Wednesday afternoon at Oak Bay Marina, his latest landing spot after spending a couple of days at McNeill Bay and then Kitty Islet in South Oak Bay.

 

Two hours into her shift, about 30 people had come by. She said Emerson “does OK if there are no dogs on the beach or people aren’t too loud … We’re just trying to make sure people keep their distance and be as quiet as possible,” said Bell.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...gawkers-8650044

Edited by Victoria Watcher, Yesterday, 05:33 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Orca calf leaves B.C. lagoon

 

According to the Ehattesaht Nation, the orphaned orca "swam past the sand bar her mother passed away on, under the bridge, down Little Espinosa Inlet and onto Esperanza all on her own" around 2:30 a.m., at high tide.

The calf, named Brave Little Hunter, had been caught in a lagoon near Zabellos on Vancouver Island for over a month. 

The Ehattesaht says members will encourage the calf "out toward the open ocean" Friday, with the hopes her family will hear her calls and that they can be reunited.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, Today, 08:10 AM.