It seems like the Olympic committee has a renewed interest in oddly-shaped balls. Word is, golf and rugby are both approved sports for the 2016 and 2024 summer Olympics. Rugby hasn’t been an Olympic sport since 1924 (of course, the US took the gold that year). To learn more, visit http://www.olympic-rugby.org/. Rugby has been one of my favorite spectator sports for several years and I even wrote an article about rugby for my college newspaper back in 2006.
The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) had a very successful Cruise for Compassion in Annapolis, MD last month. Little Ben, a rescued Jack Russell Terrier takes the cake – literally. Watch the video here.
Any news story that combines human-accelerated climate change with the plight of wild animals gets a strong reaction from me. This week I learned of 131 young walruses being trampled to death by a stampede of other walruses. Scientists hypothesize that a decrease in sea ice forced the walruses onto a beach near Icy Cape, Alaska. The AP reports; “Walruses in large numbers on the northern shore of Alaska is a phenomenon seen for the first time in 2007.”
Warmer temperatures and parasites are threatening moose in Minnesota and warmer temperatures are also threatening the migration patterns and health of the Brant goose here in the Pacific Northwest. And the Yellowstone grizzly bears are back on the threatened species list of the Endangered Species Act due to the fact that warmer temperatures are allowing pine beetles to flourish, killing whitebark pine (whose nuts they love to eat in the fall), forcing the grizzly to leave the park looking for other sources of food - where they are being killed by hunters acting in 'self defense.'
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