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Santago Rare Leopard Project

Mon Jun 29, 2009, 5:42 AM

Today's Spotlight is on or rather his request for help in bringing this information to a greater audience. As my own preference is for wildlife and animal photography I thought I would do what I could to help in this endeavor. I have also created a stamp for those of you that would like to post them on your journals.

"Santago Rare Leopard Project - Threat of closure"

The Santago project, in the UK, is under imminent threat of closure unless money can be raised to fund a dramatic increase in the cost of public liability insurance required to keep the project running. The aim of the project is to breed the most endangered types of leopard, particularly the clouded and snow, to be released back into the wild in an attempt to avoid their extinction.

An unexpected hike in insurance, along with critical illness of owner Peter James, puts the popular Rare Cat Project, Santago, under threat of closure unless money is raised for his partner Jackie to continue.

A popular attraction with many photographers and the destination of many photography workshops, Santago was started in 1989 by Peter James and is now home to a variety of Clouded, Snow, African and Black Leopards as well as Puma; totalling 14 big cats.

Photographers who hold photography workshops at Santago, or have done in the past, include Keith Hughes, Chris Weston, Andy Rouse, David Hemmings, Brian Hall of EOS Experience and John Wright of Photographers on Safari.

Unfortunately, Santago have recently experienced problems with troublesome neighbours and to make matters worse Peter was diagnosed with a terminal illness just a year ago and is now in a critical state. To keep the project alive Peter's wife, Jackie, will take over the business, but she has to acquire a dangerous animal licence to allow Santago to continue. This licence requires public liability insurance, now only provided by specialist insurance companies, and initial estimates suggest this will cost over £7,000, an unexpected and dramatic increase from the previous £180 cost.

While providing 24 hour care for her husband, Jackie now has the added pressure of raising the insurance money by 31st December. If the sum is not raised, Santago is in danger of being closed down.

ePHOTOzine has stepped in to help raise awareness and prevent the project from closing. We are appealing for donations to fund the cause and help Jackie and Peter keep the rare cats.

If you can help in anyway to promote and support this valued Wildlife Project by donations or journal features I would be extremely grateful.

`lns

The theme today? The Santago Project and snow leopards.

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What animal would best suit your personality?

A HERMIT CRAB

You’re a relatively carefree person who likes spending time alone more often than with company. The home and social life aren’t such an important factor to you as maintaining your independence away from the rabble of modern society. You are a hermit! I found this answer oddly funny considering my star sign in Cancer, and appropriate.

"The Animal Personality Test"

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Mood: Anger
Listening to: Bohren and der Club of Gore - Nightwolf
Reading: Glen Duncan - I, Lucifer
Watching: Monk
Playing: Oblivion!
Eating: Pasta
Drinking: Diet Coke with Lime

Wolves, Predator or Prey?

Fri Feb 9, 2007, 2:56 PM

Today's Spotlight is on or at least the journal. My friend Sun-Seeker asked me if I was aware of this, and I was not at the time. Though I have expected it ever since I read the change of status in the Grey Wolf's endangered species title. Please, go read the journal, and read the following rant as well further down on my page. It's not my words, just a reposting of a newspaper article. Those that know me, know where I stand on this issue. I also want to encourage you to get involved, this is your country, your earth, and your world. Ohh and please, add the stamp to your journal, spread the word.

"Wolf vs. rancher: new chapter in Old West dilemma"

Resurgence of the predator imperils livestock, giving teeth to an old debate.
By Todd Wilkinson | Special to The Christian Science Monitor
BOZEMAN, MONT. – More than half a decade after Canadian wolves were reintroduced into the American Wild West, their nightly howls still spook ranchers, fearing for their livestock.
Despite killing at least 40 farm animals in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming over the past year, these predators of fairytale legend have been protected from the farmer's rifle by the federal Endangered Species Act.

Now, however, there is a growing backlash against those restrictions in some corners of the rural West. Politicians and farmers have successfully pressured the US Fish and Wildlife Service to hunt down several packs of wolves in recent weeks.
But for conservationists – who view the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone Park and central Idaho as a major victory in the campaign to restore wild ecosystems – there's concern that they are witnessing a resurrection of a cultural enmity that doomed lobos to annihilation in the region half a century ago. They're worried that a handful of states are pushing hard to have the West's population of 550 wolves removed from protected status. Already, in Boise, Idaho, the state legislature has passed a controversial law that gives ranchers the right to shoot any wolf the moment it sets foot on private property – regardless of whether it actually menaces livestock.
More immediately, environmentalists are vexed by a recent spate of government-sponsored wolf killings.
• Earlier this month, federal wildlife sharpshooters destroyed an entire wolf pack in Idaho – condemned for preying on four farm animals, including a sheep that had been a young girl's 4-H project.
• In southern Montana near Yellowstone National Park last week, four members of the Sheep Mountain pack were put down by biologists after wolves ran through a horse pasture and were suspected of eating a cow.
• In the northwest corner of the state, members of the Ninemile pack were destroyed after llamas were killed.
Yet by far the biggest debate erupted two weekends ago, when all 10 wolves from the Whitehawk pack, which inhabited forests along the East Fork of the Salmon River near Stanley, were destroyed.
Killing wolves that develop a taste for livestock is part of an agreement the federal government struck with agrarians when wolves were reintroduced from Canada in the mid 1990s, says Ed Bangs, who oversees wolf management in the West for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
"I find it remarkable that given how many wolves and cattle and sheep we have out that there isn't more predation," Mr. Bangs says. "Wolves are not decimating the livestock industry nor are they driving any ranchers out of business."
Although the conservation group Defenders of Wildlife has paid out more than $200,000 compensating ranchers for losses, cattlemen say they don't raise livestock to be eaten by wolves. And Steve Pilcher, executive director of the Montana Stockgrowers Association, said many ranchers still resent the government reintroducing wolves at all.
Mr. Bangs, one of the federal managers who ordered the killing of the Whitehawk pack, says he knew the complete elimination of the pack would cause an outcry, but not one that would result in hundreds of e-mails from angry environmentalists from as far away as Europe. However, he justifies his actions on the rationale that they prevented wolves from inflicting serious economic harm on ranchers – and before the predators could teach the behavior to other pack members. He predicts that as many as 50 wolves could be killed this year to prevent problems.
"I don't like to see dead wolves, but another way to look at this is that our ability to have some flexibility in killing wolves isn't an example of failure," he says. "Rather, I view it as evidence that wolf recovery has been a success."
But Ralph Maughan, a political scientist based in Pocatello, Idaho, who is vice president of the Wolf Recovery Foundation, says wolves are being overcontrolled.
"Idaho is a classic example," he says. "Even though the number of [predations] on livestock and pets has actually gone down for the last three years, wolves have been killed needlessly in the last few weeks and I wonder where this trend is leading us."
Federal agencies spent nearly $15,000 hunting down and destroying the radio-collared Whitehawk wolves, though the livestock the wolves killed were worth only hundreds of dollars and ranchers are compensated for the losses.
In recent years, the Wolf Recovery Foundation, has donated several wolf collars, equipped with radio transceivers to help government biologists track wolves. But, in protest of the recent Whitehawk killings, the group says it will no longer donate collars for wolves outside Yellowstone. "We gave those collars with the understanding they would be used to promote conservation," Maughan says. "Those collars were used as tools for eradication."

`lns

The theme today? Wolves and wolf awareness.

King of the Jungle

You scored higher than 99% on Intelligence

You also scored 58% survival probabillity You did it, you have surpassed all expectations for society and evolved beyond dregs of society we call people. In a world run by idiots and incompetent morons, you have made something of yourself. You have learned how to survive. You must learn to control the others weaker than you, so that you may better your species. Save us from the doom of devolving into slack jawed yolkals!!!

"The Darwin Test"

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Mood: Anger
Listening to: Three Days Grace - The Animal I have Become
Reading: Laurell Hamilton - Strange Candy
Watching: Law and Order - CI
Playing: .....I refuse to answer this.
Eating: OUTBACK!
Drinking: Diet Coke with Lime

10:00 a.m. I'm back!!!! Muah! Muah! Muah!

Thu Feb 1, 2007, 7:03 AM

I offered a prize recently for a contest created by two of my favorite stock artists, Gracie and Fantasy Stock called "Heartache & Romance" The contest is closed now, and the winners have been decided. I will feature that winner below, but I wanted to take the time to show my appreciation for both stock accounts for the generous gift of their art, time and dedication. Please, go visit them and check out some of DA's best stock.

"Distant"

I am constantly amazed at the way people resonate here. How you can feel the emotion in their endeavors. While I'd never run across this account before in my habitual browsing I'm glad to say I've found it now. bitchinblack created a wonderful entry for the contest, one that stirred my mind and emotions today. But that is not all, for I couldn't just write her feature here without seeing the rest of her art. I was blown away by the intricate manipulations, the metal work and her whole demeanor if you can call it that. The feel of her page I suppose. It struck a chord. So, I couldn' t pass up sharing some of my favorite pieces with you.

`lns

The theme today? Well of course, enjoy!

King of the Jungle

You scored higher than 99% on Intelligence

"The Darwin Test"

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The Nexus

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Mood: Wow!
Listening to: Godsmack - Moon Baby
Reading: Hannibal Rising
Watching: The Highlander - Season 2
Playing: .....I refuse to answer this.
Eating: Banana
Drinking: Water

12:35 p.m. !0,000 Views!! Scared? I Am.

Thu Nov 23, 2006, 9:44 AM

Today I don't want to spotlight a specific artist, though she is one. I wish to spotlight a friend. One that has taken the time to set up a page that supports other artists and their art. Like oibyrd before her khokolotte has created a Daily Deviation page. For her time, and for her efforts I want to encourage all who visit here to place the stamp in your journal, and go over and visit her page. Help her get it off the ground and inspire your fellow deviants.

MUAH!!!

Genghis Khunt

Random Brutal Sex Master (RBSMf)

We almost called you Brutus the Uterus. But we figured you wouldn't understand, and rightly so. We don't understand either. So you are Genghis Khunt: master of man, bringer of pain--riding your way to conquest after conquest. Your sexual avarice is legendary. You've already had an unusually high amount of experience, and, still you look for more.
You intimidate many. You make no apologies. Personality-wise, you're carefree and relatively easy-going. You don't plan things out ahead of time; you tend to live in the moment. Of course, this can cause some damage when the moment happens to include a screaming orgasm with his younger brother. Hence the 'brutal' tag we've given you.
But you know what, take five seconds to lock the doors, and you'll be fine. There's nothing wrong with a little sex, or a whole lot.

"The 32-Type Dating Test"

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"Fire and Ice"

by Robert Frost.

Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Two extremes, and I've blown both hot and cold alot recently. I am most often attracted to the colder months, but some of the worst things in my life have occured at the same time. You'd think I'd dread them. Instead I'm like a child during that first snowfall, that first hint of chill in the air.

Ohh don't get me wrong I'm still the first person to want to curl up beside a warm fire, light candles, drink a hot cup of chocolate or tea.

I don't think that's strange. I'm sure there are quite a few people that would say the same, but I think I am often the same inside. I've been told I have a dead, cold tone in my voice if I'm angry which I don't hear. Anger is something hot for me, if you understand, I mean I explode, rage and then feel guilty. Of course I can also carry a fight too far, something inside makes it a thing I must win. I know I should stop, most times I'm sorry as soon as the words come out of my mouth, but then it's too late.

Then there's the flipside. The part that shuts up, says not a word and refuses to talk about things good or bad, just cold. The door slammed upon the rest of the world. Right now the world is closing in, and I'm boarding up the doors.

`lns.

10,000 views. It's right around the corner, and frankly I'm amazed. So for all of those who watch me, for all of those who support me I wish to say thank you, without your help and encouragement I would'nt be the artist I am today.

So to celebrate, the person that can send me a screencap of view 10,000 wins a prize. As I'm broke it's going to have to be art, perhaps a photomanip, a personalized avatar, or id. Post me the image in my mail box and we'll talk about it.

I also have to thank for she recently selected me as one of her top fifty artists of 2006. Thank you darlin, your constant support has always put a smile on my face.

My theme this time around like my rant is Fire and Ice, enjoy!

The Nexus

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Mood: Doubtful
Listening to: Godsmack - The Enemy
Reading: Hellsing Manga No. 2
Watching: The Closer - Season 1
Playing: With my toes.
Eating: Nothing - Turkey later of course.
Drinking: Water

5:30 p.m. Bad Days and Good Friends

Wed Oct 18, 2006, 1:43 PM

Someone has returned. Once we held each other close, but as time went by we couldn't seem to communicate. For those pains, and for the rage, I wish I had the ability to take them all away. I know I can't, and I know time will never reset. But there is one thing Wolf, that I wish you to know. For that time you gave me, for the chiding you did, and for the nudge constantly to come here I will always give thanks. We might not have gotten along at times, hell we damn near killed each other in others, but you are part of the artist's side of my soul. For those of you that read this, go over to his page, check out his words and images. They will linger in your mind, as they have often done mine.

MUAH!!!

Akasha

You are the ultimate in ambition. You don't just want to own the world you want to make crawl to you on its hands and knees begging for mercy or at the least a taste!

"Whose your Vampire personality?"

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"Boy and Platypus"

There are days when the world reaches out and just smashes you into tiny little bits. Frequently. But there are also those times where it seems laughter and good friends give you strength to face the next onslaught. I don't have a rant today, but I do have a story to show you. It came about as many of mine often do from a challenge in an irc server. I am posting it here to give thanks for those I hold dear there, and to tell them all that for all the bad days, there are those that I cherish because of them.

[13:27] * Samuel_C nibbles on the ladee till she tells a story.
[13:27] <ladynightseduction> You guys have to think up the things in it.
[13:27] * libby rubs her eyes
[13:27] <libby> I need to make a list.
[13:28] <libby> A rubber ducky, ladynightseduction
[13:28] <Samuel_C> umm... it should containt... weretigers.
[13:28] <^Angelic^Succubus^> a box of Lucky Charms
[13:28] <Erratic> and gummies!
[13:28] <libby> No, a ruber ducky, duckbill platypus, three pieces of bright pink string, and a dyslexic with Turet's.
[13:29] * libby nods
[13:29] <CSwanderin`> The dyslexic has turrets?
[13:29] <CSwanderin`> Like a castle?
[13:29] <libby> Like the syndrome.
[13:29] * libby sticks out her tongue
[13:29] <ladynightseduction> lmao
[13:29] * libby starts making her book list.
[13:29] <ladynightseduction> Good gods.
[13:29] <libby> Oh my goodness, leatherbound Shakespeare.
[13:30] <ladynightseduction> I told you!
[13:31] <libby> Poe!
[13:31] <libby> I don't own Dickens either.
[13:31] <libby> I don't know what to do!
[13:31] * libby panics
[13:32] *ladynightseduction begins: Once upon a time in the land of the fire giants there lived a young boy. He wasn't like most young boys, well who could be with fire giants and all. Still he perservered and tried to survive, but he was having a hard time this morning. First there was bath time, and lets just say his next door neighbor turned all his water into steam and melted his rubber duckie.
[13:32] * Samuel_C curls up once more and perks his ears to the story.
[13:34] *ladynightseduction continues: This wouldn't have been so bad really, except it was the absolute LAST rubber duckie in the Kingdom. How did he know this? Well because he'd had to replace them frequently, not a week went by without loosing at least one and sometimes two!
[13:34] <Samuel_C> eep! those poor rubber duckies.
[13:34] * Samuel_C waves to Cherish. "The ladee is telling a story."
[13:35] * libby hands the poor boy her pirate rubber ducky set of 4.
[13:35] * Cherish waves back wildly.
[13:35] * Cherish licks libby.
[13:36] * libby licks Cherish
[13:36] *ladynightseduction continues: So he was in a rather foul mood, and when he was in such a mood all the speech therapy he'd undergone went right out the window. Literally out the window, screaming a dozen curses to the sleeping fire giant next door. Of course, he got them rather mixed up and they came out of his mouth in not quite the way his brain heard them.
[13:36] <ladynightseduction> lolol
[13:37] * libby giggles
[13:39] *ladynightseduction continues: The fire giant paid no mind to this, not only was he sleeping, he regularly ignored the young boy who never did much of interest, at least to him. But this stream of mangled curses totally dumbfounded the Platypus which just happened to be walking past. Yes I know duckbill platypi don't belong in the land of Fire Giants, but really, neither did the young boy and god always has the last laugh.
[13:40] * libby giggles
[13:41] *ladynightseduction continues: The Platypus stopped dead in his tracks, bill opened and his ears smoking. Well that last bit might have been the fire giant too, I'm not really sure. At anyrate he couldn't believe his ears. "....What!"
[13:41] * Samuel_C hides behind libby from the duckbill.
[13:41] <Cherish> lol
[13:43] *ladynightseduction continues: The Boy's string of words stopped. His train of thought was abruptly derailed. Even the engineer that controlled the fuel for the stacks ground to a halt. He peeked out the bathroom window and looked down. Noone had actually spoken directly to him before. "....Who's there?"
[13:44] *ladynightseduction continues: Not to be outdone the Platypus spoke right back, though like the boy noone in this land had ever spoken to him, either. "...Me! I'm here!"
[13:46] *ladynightseduction continues: The Boy craned his body all the way over on the windowsill. So far in fact he was in danger of tumbling out the window and would have fallen but for the strength of three pieces of pink string. You see string especially pink string has remarkable powers in the land of Fire Giants, and braided together it can perform miracles. In actuality those pieces of string held together the whole house, the Boy and the Platypus all at once.
[13:48] <Samuel_C> ooo the power of pink string.
[13:49] *ladynightseduction continues: So there we are, perched on the windowsill with the Boy and the Playtpus. You know there's not much conversation to be had among those with such diverse backgrounds. But! Loneliness is sometimes the impetus for change. The young boy, being a boy, and more interested in a playmate than anything else invited the Playtpus in for breakfast.
[13:52] *ladynightseduction continues: The Platypus agreed, I mean who wouldn't really? Especially in a land that would otherwise probably cook him to a cinder. Actually I think that's why playtpi are extinct to this very day, they were burnt to a crisp. But that's in the future, far in the future when the Fire Giants are nothing more than wisps of light and cooking tools.
[13:52] * Erratic laughs, "This is great."
[13:54] <libby> brb
[13:56] *ladynightseduction continues: Boy and Playtpus had quite the breakfast that morning, sharing all the things that first-time friends do. You know the drill; favorite this or that, stories that just couldn't keep to themselves, and of course how they'd planned on destroying the fire giants. Boy and Platypus seemed to have destruction much in common. So, over the breakfast of Lucky Charms and rapidly smoking milk, they hashed out their plan.
[13:56] * ^Angelic^Succubus^ chuckles
[13:59] *ladynightseduction continues: Paper curling at the edges and the tip of the crayon melting didn't stop them. Ohh no! They contrived a plan; so daring, so determined, and so decidely heartstopping it had to be acted on, and quickly. The first part of the their plan was easy, gather all the Fire Giants together in one swoop.
[14:00] * Samuel_C gasps.
[14:00] *ladynightseduction continues: To this end the Playtpus suggested a neighboring country, much harried by flames and the giants. The land of Weretigers. Of course the Tigers were almost as bad as the Fire Giants, what with the teeth and the slashing tails that destroyed houses with just one smack. But, it had to be better than living in a veritable cook pot all the time.
[14:02] <Samuel_C> eep! evil weretigers!
[14:03] *ladynightseduction continues: So, they sent a message to the King of the Tigers. Who had a couple of hours worth of belly laughs at something as silly as this plan seemed to be. He was intrigued though, and after another hour of really thinking about it agreed. The Tigers surrounded the land of Fire Giants, and they brought the most hideous thing of all. Fire Extingushers.
[14:03] <Samuel_C> oh noes!
[14:05] *ladynightseduction continues: Boy and Playtpus, who ended up riding on the back of the second in command of the Weretiger Army, threw out a dozen awful curses mangled still, of course, and cheered the Tigers on. Until finally all the Fire Giants were huddled together trying to keep each other warm and avoid the nasty blasts of the Extingishers at the same time.
[14:09] *ladynightseduction continues: Now, with their mutual enemies corralled and the Tigers with the upper hand, the last part of the plan could be released. All once from out of nowhere a million pink strings came tumbling out of the sky. (You forgot about the strings holding them together didn't you?) Every Fire Giant was tangled up so tightly they couldn't breathe, they couldn't jump, and they couldn't eat oxygen to build their flames, and slowly petered out into the ground. As a matter of fact the Strings were so terrifying to the Giants that the Weretigers turned tail and ran as well.
[14:10] <Samuel_C> those poor giants!
[14:11] <Samuel_C> hiyas MeganLez
[14:11] * MeganLez __ hi Samuel_C
[14:11] *ladynightseduction continues: Boy and Playtpus lived happily every after, tending after the Strings, and threading them around a dozen spools that always seemed to be the color of flames. The moral of this story? Sometimes you need to put up with alot of tangles before you can take a bath.
[14:11] <libby> LOL
[14:11] <Erratic> lmao
[14:11] *ladynightseduction giggles.
[14:12] <Cherish> OMG
[14:12] <Erratic> Boy and Playtpus could actually be a childrens story
[14:12] <Samuel_C> lmao
[14:12] <Samuel_C> that was awesome
[14:13] * Samuel_C gives the ladee a cookie.
[14:13] <ladynightseduction> Whoohoo!
[14:13] <ladynightseduction> cookies!
[14:15] * Samuel_C nibbles on a cookie for himself.
[14:19] * CSwanderin` slips out the door to chase the rest of the day...have fun today, folks - fantastic stories all-around...;chuckle;
[14:22] <Samuel_C> okies, I'm off. see ya around!
[14:22] * Samuel_C blows kisses and waves, then runs out the door.
[14:23] <Cherish> Bye Samuel_C!
[14:24] <ladynightseduction> Thank you darlin

`lns.

I did have a theme of a sorts this time around. Fantasy and or Fan Art, considering the story posted I figured they might intrigue.

The Nexus

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Mood: Content
Listening to: Morphine - The Night
Reading: The Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Watching: Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 1
Playing: Might and Magic VI
Eating: Gummie Lifesavers
Drinking: Lime Diet Coke

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Journal History

Jun 29, 2009 Santago Rare Leopard Project
Feb 9, 2007 Wolves, Predator or Prey?
Feb 1, 2007 10:00 a.m. I'm back!!!! Muah! Muah! Muah!
Nov 23, 2006 12:35 p.m. !0,000 Views!! Scared? I Am.
Oct 18, 2006 5:30 p.m. Bad Days and Good Friends
Sep 22, 2006 1:30 p.m. Warning Labels - Yes or No?
Aug 2, 2006 7:30 p.m. Men - Good or Bad?
Jun 29, 2006 Wings, Zombies and Freedom
Jun 15, 2006 3:03 p.m. Sex, Cyber: Give Me Both!
May 10, 2006 11:51 a.m. The Rest of the World

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*ladynightseduction: LOL, Blade and Frost, now that's interesting.
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