Mon, 10 Dec, 2018

Giraffes Facing Silent Extinction

Giraffes Facing Silent Extinction

Posted on Fri, 9 Dec, 2016Sun, 20 Aug, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Giraffes Facing Silent Extinction.

A drop of nearly 40% over a 30-year span according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature is substantial, considering that that is just within a generation. With the rapid loss of their African habitat and the increasingly rampant ongoing poaching, giraffes would likely be extinct in the next 50 years or so. Their ability to replace themselves seems slim as a female giraffe reproduces on average one single calf, twins are rare, with gestation periods of between 400 to 460 days. Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda seems to be where most poaching were carried out, whereas Niger’s attempt at preserving its West African subspecies has been fairly successful; rebounding from 50 animals in the 1990s to around 400 today.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38240760

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December 9: The Moon passes 1.1° north of Saturn, 5h UT (12 AM EST).

December 10: The Moon passes 0.7° north of Pluto, 4h UT 11 PM EST).

December 12: The Moon is at apogee (405,177 km from Earth), 12h25m UT (7:25 AM EST).

December 14: Geminid meteor shower peaks.

December 14: The Moon passes 3° south of Neptune 7h20m UT (2:20 AM EST).

December 14: The Moon passes 4° south of Mars, 23h UT (6 PM EST).

December 15: First Quarter Moon occurs at, 11h49m UT (6:49 AM EST).

December 15: Mercury is at greatest western elongation (21°), 12h UT (7 AM EST).

Credit: Astronomy.

The Flag of Niger was inaugurated in 1959, a year prior to its formal independence from France, consisted of the colours of orange, white and green, in equal horizontal bands, with an orange roundel in the centre. The upper orange band represents the northern regions of the Sahara Desert, the white band represents purity, and the green band represents both hope and the fertile regions of southern Niger. The orange circle is said to represent the sun or independence.

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Sunflowers (Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. On March 30, 1987, Japanese insurance magnate, Yasuo Goto, paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London. The painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

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