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CSRAJim
at Fri Jul 17 18:10:56 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by CSRAJim ]
Andrew,
Sincere thanks for posting this announcement…
This is right out of the US Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Program playbook as well as UNESCO's Seville Strategy (ca. 1995) which resulted in the "Statutory Framework of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves"…Which was followed five years later by the Seville+5 meetings which in turn was followed by the Madrid Action Plan (current "action plan" of this agenda)...
The three basic objectives are 1) conservation of biological diversity; 2) sustainable use of the resources and 3) fair and equitable sharing of the benefits of genetic resources…
The invasive species issue (along with climate change) falls under the first objective…And an invasive species is a threat to this (as well as World Heritage Site distinction)...This is the source of this "agenda" and why it continues to reappear year after year…
The Everglades National Park is the “core area” of the three zones of “zonation” as defined by the “Statutory Framework of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves” (Seville Strategy & Madrid Action Plan) of each legally defined and protected biosphere reserve “core area”. The state wildlife management areas that surround the park (that continues to increase in size) is the “buffer zone”…Which includes an “approved” list of permitted human activities that can occur here (e.g., recreational-ecotourism, cultural, etc.) as part of the “provisioning” definition…
I notice the use of their terminology in Salazar’s announcement…They’ve been using this same terminology for decades in their papers, reports, press releases, testimony, etc. that includes “ecotourism”, “stakeholder”, “partners”, “education”, “training”, etc…
Every one of those federal agencies listed (NPS, FWS & USGS) in the announcement are ALL listed as “institutional” members of the US MAB National Committee (which in 1998 was the “policymaking” body for the US MAB Program)…
It is no wonder that “they” are so upset with this non-native, invasive species in one of their precious World Heritage Sites. They could loose their “honorific” title here…What an embarrassment for all of these bureaucrats on the world-wide stage of the United Nations/UNESCO arena…
Let the Invasive Species Rapid Response Team in their Black Hawks and C-130’s roll out from the tarmacs to combat the Burmese Python invasion…Hut, two, three, four…Stand up! Hook up! Stand in the door! GO! GO! GO!
They’ll actually be government sanctioned bounty hunters in their boats, ATV’s and 4 x 4’s and I’m sure that we’ll be “blessed” with the “body counts” (complete with reports of the stomach contents) in their periodic “press releases” and progress reports to the media…If this wasn’t real…I’d say we were in a “twilight zone”…Maybe we are…Scotty, beam me up as there’s no intelligent life down here…
Four early predictions regarding the Burmese Python invasion are as follows;
1) they’ll NEVER eradicate the python (jeopardizing the “honorific” distinction of a World Heritage Site for the Everglades National Park);
2) their eradication “program” will as unsuccessful as their “operation” against the Brown Tree Snake - that they’ve been unsuccessfully engaged in for how many years and for how much money? After all, this ain’t an ISLAND;
3) the cost(s) will continue to “escalate” over the next few DECADES (another tax payer funded, governmental money pit);
4) the SRS (South Carolina) python experiment will be successful in that, the pythons WILL “miraculously” survive in winter to justify the propaganda of the invasion of giant snakes across the US (coming to a neighborhood near you - mothers be afraid, be very afraid).
Pardon my cynicism here but, that Salazar announcement is so patently predictable…As is everything listed in the “plan” within the announcement itself…
WOW!!!! UAV’s over the everglades!
>>Unmanned aerial vehicles and thermal imaging – NPS is working with USGS and the University of Florida to test small, remotely operated airplanes and heat-detecting sensors for use in detecting pythons in the Everglades. These technologies may be useful to detect and aid in the capture of pythons in their natural habitats.
Ummm, this is a novel use of US technology and certainly one that potential adversaries will read with interest when they publish complete details, specifications, sensitivity, etc in the “papers” that will surely be written by a MS or PhD candidate or professor from UF or some other “expert”…This stuff is simply U-N-B-E-L-I-E-V-A-B-L-E!!!!
Later,
Jim.
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CSRAJim
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MADNESS!!!! - CSRAJim, Fri Jul 17 18:10:56 2009