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Scientists are alarmed by a rise in mass mortality events – when species die in their thousands. Is it all down to climate change?
Link Source 1: (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ity-events-animal-conservation-climate-change
here was almost something biblical about the scene of devastation that lay before Richard Kock as he stood in the wilderness of the Kazakhstan steppe. Dotted across the grassy plain, as far as the eye could see, were the corpses of thousands upon thousands of saiga antelopes. All appeared to have fallen where they were feeding.
Some were mothers that had travelled to this remote wilderness for the annual calving season, while others were their offspring, just a few days old. Each had died in just a few hours from blood poisoning. In the 30C heat of a May day, the air around each of the rotting hulks was thick with flies.
The same grisly story has been replayed throughout Kazakhstan. In this springtime massacre, an estimated 200,000 critically endangered saiga – around 60% of the world’s population – died. “All the carcasses in this one of many killing zones were spread evenly over 20 sq km,” says Kock, professor of wildlife health and emerging diseases at the Royal Veterinary College in London. “The pattern was strange. They were either grazing normally with their newborn calves or dying where they stood, as if a switch had been turned on. I’ve never seen anything like that.”
The saiga – whose migrations form one of the great wildlife spectacles – were victims of a mass mortality event (MME), a single, catastrophic incident that wipes out vast numbers of a species in a short period of time. MMEs are among the most extreme events of nature. They affect starfish, bats, coral reefs and sardines. They can push species to the brink of extinction, or throw a spanner into the complex web of life in an ecosystem.
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5th March 2018 - Millions of dead sea creatures wash up along the coast of Yorkshire, England
Link Source 2 : (Yorkshire Post) https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/our...atures-wash-up-on-yorkshire-beaches-1-9047120
SCENES of devastation shocked people going to the beach this weekend as millions of sea creatures - from fish to lobsters and whelks - were washed up on Yorkshire’s East Coast.
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8th March 2018 - 700,000+ animals have died due to extreme cold in Mongolia
Link Source (some foreign news) http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/07/c_137022569.htm
ULAN BATOR, March 7 (Xinhua) -- A total of 710,740 animals have died so far this year in Mongolia due to the extreme wintry weather known as "dzud", the country's meteorology service said Wednesday.
The dzud is a brutal weather phenomenon in Mongolia where a dry summer followed by a frigid winter kills vast numbers of livestock either by starvation or cold.
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8th March 2018 - 24,000 ducks dead due to avian flu in Guangxi province, China. Link
7th March 2018 - Thousands of sheep found dead after snow storm in Cumbria, England. Link
5th March 2018 - 140,000 birds killed due to avian flu in General Toshevo, Bulgaria. Link
4th March 2018 - Tens of thousands of dead starfish wash up on a beach in Kent, England. Link
4th March 2018 - Hundreds, maybe thousands of dead fish wash up on a beach, 'a mystery' in Marseillan, France. Link
25th February 2018 - Thousands of dead fish wash appear in Bluff harbour, Iowa, America. Link
22nd February 2018 - Thousands of dead fish wash up on beaches in North Carolina, America. Link
21st February 2018 - Tens of tons of fish suddenly die in a lake in West Lampung, Indonesia. Link
14th February 2018 - 25 pilot whales wash up dead on Maio island in Cape Verde. Link
12th February 2018 - Mass amounts of fish wash up 'a mystery' in a lagoon in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Link
3rd February 2018 - Hundreds of starlings fall dead from sky in Rome, Italy. Link
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I could go on with more examples of the above going all the way back to 2011. Question is why is this happening the world over? With almost no explanation being able to be given for literally 95% of these cases.
Let's hear what you *sherdoggers* and *experts* (you know who you are already) have to say.
Link Source 1: (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ity-events-animal-conservation-climate-change
here was almost something biblical about the scene of devastation that lay before Richard Kock as he stood in the wilderness of the Kazakhstan steppe. Dotted across the grassy plain, as far as the eye could see, were the corpses of thousands upon thousands of saiga antelopes. All appeared to have fallen where they were feeding.
Some were mothers that had travelled to this remote wilderness for the annual calving season, while others were their offspring, just a few days old. Each had died in just a few hours from blood poisoning. In the 30C heat of a May day, the air around each of the rotting hulks was thick with flies.
The same grisly story has been replayed throughout Kazakhstan. In this springtime massacre, an estimated 200,000 critically endangered saiga – around 60% of the world’s population – died. “All the carcasses in this one of many killing zones were spread evenly over 20 sq km,” says Kock, professor of wildlife health and emerging diseases at the Royal Veterinary College in London. “The pattern was strange. They were either grazing normally with their newborn calves or dying where they stood, as if a switch had been turned on. I’ve never seen anything like that.”
The saiga – whose migrations form one of the great wildlife spectacles – were victims of a mass mortality event (MME), a single, catastrophic incident that wipes out vast numbers of a species in a short period of time. MMEs are among the most extreme events of nature. They affect starfish, bats, coral reefs and sardines. They can push species to the brink of extinction, or throw a spanner into the complex web of life in an ecosystem.
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5th March 2018 - Millions of dead sea creatures wash up along the coast of Yorkshire, England
Link Source 2 : (Yorkshire Post) https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/our...atures-wash-up-on-yorkshire-beaches-1-9047120
SCENES of devastation shocked people going to the beach this weekend as millions of sea creatures - from fish to lobsters and whelks - were washed up on Yorkshire’s East Coast.
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8th March 2018 - 700,000+ animals have died due to extreme cold in Mongolia
Link Source (some foreign news) http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/07/c_137022569.htm
ULAN BATOR, March 7 (Xinhua) -- A total of 710,740 animals have died so far this year in Mongolia due to the extreme wintry weather known as "dzud", the country's meteorology service said Wednesday.
The dzud is a brutal weather phenomenon in Mongolia where a dry summer followed by a frigid winter kills vast numbers of livestock either by starvation or cold.
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8th March 2018 - 24,000 ducks dead due to avian flu in Guangxi province, China. Link
7th March 2018 - Thousands of sheep found dead after snow storm in Cumbria, England. Link
5th March 2018 - 140,000 birds killed due to avian flu in General Toshevo, Bulgaria. Link
4th March 2018 - Tens of thousands of dead starfish wash up on a beach in Kent, England. Link
4th March 2018 - Hundreds, maybe thousands of dead fish wash up on a beach, 'a mystery' in Marseillan, France. Link
25th February 2018 - Thousands of dead fish wash appear in Bluff harbour, Iowa, America. Link
22nd February 2018 - Thousands of dead fish wash up on beaches in North Carolina, America. Link
21st February 2018 - Tens of tons of fish suddenly die in a lake in West Lampung, Indonesia. Link
14th February 2018 - 25 pilot whales wash up dead on Maio island in Cape Verde. Link
12th February 2018 - Mass amounts of fish wash up 'a mystery' in a lagoon in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Link
3rd February 2018 - Hundreds of starlings fall dead from sky in Rome, Italy. Link
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I could go on with more examples of the above going all the way back to 2011. Question is why is this happening the world over? With almost no explanation being able to be given for literally 95% of these cases.
Let's hear what you *sherdoggers* and *experts* (you know who you are already) have to say.
