The hunters become the hunted: Indian state sanctions shooting animal poachers
A western Indian state has declared war on animal poaching by sanctioning its forest guards to shoot hunters on sight in an effort to curb rampant attacks against tigers, elephants and other wildlife.
The government in Maharashtra says injuring or killing suspected poachers will no longer be considered a crime.
According to the Wildlife Protection Society of India, 14 tigers have been killed by poachers in India so far this year — one more than for all of 2011. The tiger is considered endangered, with its habitat range shrinking more than 50 per cent in the last quarter-century and its numbers declining rapidly from the 5,000-7,000 estimated in the 1990s, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. (AP Photo/Corbett Tiger Reserve)
Spotted in DC today: An ad sponsoring Bradley Manning’s fight for freedom. It was paid for via EpicStep, which appears to be a Kickstarter for nonprofit advertising campaigns. Here’s the successful entry for this ad.
I’m at Dodge tonight! Come say hi WITH YOUR MOVES
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Mark your calendars: Radio CPR is having a Pi(e) Day! On March 14 (that’s 3.14) at St. Stephen’s (1525 Newton St. NW). Highlights of the party will include all-you-can-eat homemade sweet and savory pies, live old-time music, Radio CPR Djs a-DJin’, and a Pi(e) Walk (walked in a circle of circumference pi(r)squared) where you can win a pie to take home!
The menu is looking fine, with banana cream pie with salty bourbon caramel, vegan avocado pie [a Pi(e) Day classic, 3 years running], a bacon onion tart, classic key lime, and a few surprises all on the list.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzwlfkPbmL1qh3ac5o1_500.jpg)
Mark your calendars: Radio CPR is having a Pi(e) Day! On March 14 (that’s 3.14) at St. Stephen’s (1525 Newton St. NW). Highlights of the party will include all-you-can-eat homemade sweet and savory pies, live old-time music, Radio CPR Djs a-DJin’, and a Pi(e) Walk (walked in a circle of circumference pi(r)squared) where you can win a pie to take home!
The menu is looking fine, with banana cream pie with salty bourbon caramel, vegan avocado pie [a Pi(e) Day classic, 3 years running], a bacon onion tart, classic key lime, and a few surprises all on the list.
In case you could NOT FREAKING OH MY GOD I JUST CANNOT BELIEVE I COULDN'T care less about SXSW, install this browser extension. It'll basically hide the Twitter feeds of anyone at SXSW or talking about SXSW.
We plan to celebrate by retweeting EVERY SXSW tweet we see. I mean, you’re not gonna see it, right? (ht Matt; added minor grammar correction)
(Source: shortformblog)
He Belonged To Someone Else!
