Center for Biological Diversity>again

[fermentor]

These guys can't be serious.
Guess we should be grateful they haven't found these on the trail - yet.
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Change.org

Dale -- There's a new Change.org petition gaining attention, and we think you might be interested in signing it:
Tell the National Marine Fisheries Service to protect delicate dwarf seahorses.
Sign the Petition

Help Protect Delicate Dwarf Seahorses

Started by: Center for Biological Diversity, AZ.

In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the National Marine Fisheries Service has agreed that the dwarf seahorse may warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act and is accepting comments until July 3 before making a decision. The smallest seahorse in America, the dwarf seahorse faces big problems: water quality degradation in the Gulf of Mexico, pollution from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and cleanup and, most importantly, loss of their seagrass habitat.

Dwarf seahorses are habitat specialists, so as seagrasses disappear, the seahorses vanish with them. More than 50 percent of Florida seagrasses have been destroyed since 1950, and in some areas losses are as steep as 90 percent. These one-inch-long fish are not the only wildlife that depends on seagrass to survive, but they are the cutest.

Dwarf seahorses form monogamous pair bonds, and every morning they meet to perform a greeting dance. As with other seahorses, females place scores of eggs inside the males’ pouches, and the males then give birth to even tinier versions of adults. Boat propellers, shrimp trawlers and ocean acidification are all harming the seagrass these delicate animals need to survive.

Please take a moment right now to write to the Fisheries Service and tell it to grant dwarf seahorses the protection they so dearly need.

[Bebe]

As usual, no facts...how many there are, how many there used to be...the mortality rates and causes.

Sea grass is being destroyed by what exactly?

Water quality is degraded every time a Hurricane blows through the gulf

[LYIN' KING]

Hmm, I'm really moved to make a donation so we can shut down a way of life for folks down there, consumers and others. NOT!!! Who needs recreational boating and shrimp anyway?

If they want to stop ocean acidification and save the seagrass perhaps they should look to file suit against China and other MAJOR FORIEGN polluters?

I'll really miss those tasty little Dwarf seahorses and yummy dried seagrass!

[Mad Machinist]

They have to do something because people are seeing through the bullshit with all the MAJOR forest fires we are having.

[Jes]

I just got that e-mail the other day. How did "change.org" get my e-mail address?!?

[fermentor]

Originally Posted by Bebe

As usual, no facts...how many there are, how many there used to be...the mortality rates and causes.

"they are the cutest", "every morning they meet to perform a greeting dance".
Who needs facts when you have cute morning dancers?

Originally Posted by Jes

I just got that e-mail the other day. How did "change.org" get my e-mail address?!?

I started getting them after I signed petition to open Oregon trails.

[CaryW]

Originally Posted by fermentor

"they are the cutest", "every morning they meet to perform a greeting dance".
Who needs facts when you have cute morning dancers?


I started getting them after I signed petition to open Oregon trails.

And pregnant males! How much happier could a liberal tree hugger be? Happy equality!

[Bebe]

Originally Posted by LYIN' KING

I'll really miss those tasty little Dwarf seahorses and yummy dried seagrass!

Sig worthy

[MochaMike]

Originally Posted by Mad Machinist

They have to do something because people are seeing through the bullshit with all the MAJOR forest fires we are having.

They (CBD & others ) will simply sue XXXXXX (XXXXX= any/all gov agencies related) for mis-management of the forests.... Claiming that XXXXX was responsible for said fires.

[Mad Machinist]

Originally Posted by MochaMike

They (CBD & others ) will simply sue XXXXXX (XXXXX= any/all gov agencies related) for mis-management of the forests.... Claiming that XXXXX was responsible for said fires.

They can't sue for this and they know it. If they would try to sue, all the garbage they have pulled over the years would come out in the wash and they would end up being the ones responsible for the mess these have made.

[LYIN' KING]

Originally Posted by Mad Machinist

They can't sue for this and they know it.

Screwing commercial and recreational boaters in that area would prove much tougher than doing it to OHV folks Nationally.

[Bebe]

I got it!!! I know what happening to the Sea Grass!!!!

http://www.wickerparadise.com/seagrass.html

[fermentor]

Originally Posted by Bebe

I got it!!! I know what happening to the Sea Grass!!!!

http://www.wickerparadise.com/seagrass.html

I'm betting it is Chinese Seagrass. Probably has lead in it too.

[J-Bone]

Teh CBD is not about animals, they are about control. Control of how you live, earn a living, where you live, etc. Sure, some of the starry eyed dolts on as staff "scientists" and attorney really think they are saving teh would from ExxonMobil, but the heirarcy know the end game. Watermelons. Green on the outside, red on the inside.