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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-1--443467357 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Hi all, Unfortunately, the Passenger Pigeon is only one of thousands of species = that we have driven to extinction. Our problem is our ignorance of = Ecology. I wrote an essay that appeared in The Chronicle Herald about = our disregard for the realities of ecology. I can copy it for anyone = that might be interested. Paul Ruggles. On 2014-08-31, at 12:19 PM, Laurie Murison wrote: > =46rom Birds Studies Canada: > =20 > You may want to pause for a minute of silence at 1 p.m. on Monday, = September 1, the centennial of the moment when =93Martha=94 =96 the last = Passenger Pigeon on the planet =96 quietly kicked the bucket at the = Cincinnati Zoo. Many organizations are acknowledging what is arguably = the world=92s most infamous extinction event, including the Royal = Ontario Museum, the Canadian Museum of Nature, and the Smithsonian = Institution.=20 > =20 > In case you missed it, please read =93One Hundred Years after Martha, = the Last Passenger Pigeon=94 from the Summer issue of Bird Studies = Canada=92s magazineBirdWatch Canada, written by our Director of National = Programs Jon McCracken. --Apple-Mail-1--443467357 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head><base href=3D"x-msg://2/"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space; "> Hi all,<div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">Unfortunately, the Passenger = Pigeon is only one of thousands of species that we have driven to = extinction. Our problem is our ignorance of Ecology. I wrote an essay = that appeared in The Chronicle Herald about our disregard for the = realities of ecology. I can copy it for anyone that might be = interested.</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 18px/normal Helvetica; ">Paul Ruggles.</div><div><br><div><div>On = 2014-08-31, at 12:19 PM, Laurie Murison wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = bgcolor=3D"#ffffff"><div><font size=3D"2" face=3D"Arial"><div>=46rom = Birds Studies Canada:</div><div> </div><div>You may want to pause = for a minute of silence at 1 p.m. on Monday, September 1, the centennial = of the moment when =93Martha=94 =96 the last Passenger Pigeon on the = planet =96 quietly kicked the bucket at the Cincinnati Zoo. Many = organizations are acknowledging what is arguably the world=92s most = infamous extinction event, including the<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><a = href=3D"http://www.rom.on.ca/en/exhibitions-galleries/exhibitions/current-= exhibitions/passenger-pigeons"><font color=3D"#403a26">Royal Ontario = Museum</font></a></b>, the<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><a = href=3D"http://nature.ca/en/plan-your-visit/what-see-do/whats/passenger-pi= geons"><font color=3D"#403a26">Canadian Museum of Nature</font></a></b>, = and the<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><a = href=3D"http://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/Once-There-Were-Billions-Van= ished-Birds-of-North-America-5126"><font color=3D"#403a26">Smithsonian = Institution</font></a></b>. <br></div><div> </div><div>In case = you missed it, please read<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><a = href=3D"http://www.birdscanada.org/organization/images/news/pdfs/BWCsu14PA= PI.pdf"><font color=3D"#403a26">=93One Hundred Years after Martha, the = Last Passenger Pigeon=94</font></a></b> from the Summer issue of = Bird Studies Canada=92s magazine<i>BirdWatch Canada</i>, written by our = Director of National Programs Jon = McCracken.<o:p></o:p></div></font></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div= ></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-1--443467357--
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