Here’s what we know about the the beaver patient 144 at lindsey. She’s been moved to a larger enclosure but seems hesitant in her movements and isn’t using the kiddie pool. She tested positive for roundworm parasite and they have her on antibiotics. She’s eating normally and their scan showed no pregnancy.
I will chat more with the attendant tech today. I’m thinking that if it was our mother beaver she’d be pregnant by now, so that’s useful info anyway. We will chat more about beavers showing neurological signs today.
Appropriately, yesterday was world wetlands day, which means everybody should be talking about beavers. Obviously some people already are.
VIDEO: We must save our wetlands to save humanity, B.C. activist says
To save ourselves, we need to save our wetlands, environmental activist Ted Lightfoot believes.
“Save the wetlands, you save the salmon, you save the beavers, you save the orcas, you save humanity,” Lightfoot said.
Lightfoot spoke Saturday in Langley at the unveiling of a weatherproof mural of an orca at the Kwantlen First Nation cultural centre for World Wetlands Day.
Wow! Hi Ted! i believe we’ve met before but its great to see you again! I actually like how you clearly lay out the link between orcas and beavers. Just about everyone (except seals) loves orcas.
Wetlands buffer coastlines from extreme weather, while coastal wetlands such as salt marshes, mangroves, seagrass beds, and coral reefs act like shock absorbers to reduce the intensity of waves, storm surges, and tsunamis.
Inland wetlands such as flood plains, rivers, lakes and swamps “function like sponges, absorbing and storing excess rainfall and reducing flood surges,” a ramsar.org online message states.
“Wetlands are the most effective carbon sinks on Earth.”
And we all know who makes wetlands right? i like the way this colorful tour is going. The next time Ted makes an orca for wetlands day he needs to have about thirty 6 year- olds help with the artwork and a high school science class do the presentation. He’ll get twice the media coverage and be teaching the next generations to boot.
Am I right?
“Individuals, communities and governments must work together to protect these amazing ecosystems, which help us prepare for, cope with and bounce back from the impacts of climate change.”
Which reminds me. i’ve been talking with Dan Logan of NOAA fisheries about incorporating more salmon teaching into the beaver festival and we think the parade is a great way to do that. He mentioned design he’d seen in the Willitsfest – beautiful and way above our pay grade. But it got me thinking.
What if we had a banner or something that kids could draw beavers and salmon on – with cute and easy language about how they get along. We could have our hundreds of kids paint it at earthday and then let kids march with it in the beaver festival. It can start the conversation and get folks thinking.
Something like this?
