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The Legend Of World Conservation  Join As Mongabay Advisory Board 

Primate expert Jane Goodall and conservationists theworld famous research simpanse for decades in Africa officially join Advisory Board as Mongabay.org.Jane is known as the first researcher who has studied the behavior of chimpanzees that she left out since the age of 26 years in Gombe Stream National Park,Tanzania...............

Khusus: Sang Legenda Konservasi Dunia Bergabung Sebagai Dewan Penasihat Mongabay

October 17, 2014 Ridzki R. Sigit

Ahli primata dan konservasionis dunia Jane Goodall yang terkenal dengan penelitian simpansenya selama puluhan tahun di Afrika resmi bergabung sebagai dewan penasihat Mongabay.org. Jane dikenal sebagai peneliti pertama yang mempelajari perilaku simpanse yang dia lakoni sejak usia 26 tahun di Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.

Jane Goodal adalah orang pertama dan satu-satunya yang pernah sepenuhnya diterima dalam sebuah komunitas simpanse, dia merevolusi pemahaman publik tentang kecerdasan relatif dan evolusi dengan menemukan petunjuk bahwa simpanse menggunakan alat.

Hingga saat itu, manusia dianggap sebagai mahluk satu-satunya “yang menggunakan alat” di planet bumi. Sejak penemuan Goodall, banyak spesies lain di luar manusia yang diamati ternyata juga menggunakan alat.  Penelitian Goodal pun menunjukkan perilaku simpanse seperti kekerasan, perang antar kelompok yang menjungkirbalikkan bahwa simpanse mahluk yang sepenuhnya damai.

“Jane Goodall adalah legenda konservasi. Dia telah melakukan banyak hal untuk meningkatkan kesadaran global tentang isu-isu lingkungan satwa liar dan konservasi,” demikian Rhett Butler, pendiri mongabay.com dalam penjelasannya. “Ini suatu kehormatan yang luar biasa saat Jane setuju bergabung dalam Dewan Penasihat Mongabay.”

Selama puluhan tahun sebagai peneliti, Jane telah menjelma sebagai salah satu orang yang vokal menyuarakan isu konservasi dunia. Jane mendirikan Jane Goodal Institute dan Roots and Shoots, yang fokus kepada pendidikan lingkungan dan kemanusiaan. Dia juga telah menulis lebih dari dua puluh buku (termasuk sepuluh buku untuk anak-anak), terakhir dia menulis buku yang berjudul: Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

“Saya mulai mengunjungi situs Mongabay ketika saya sedang meneliti informasi untuk buku-buku saya, dan saya segera menemukan mengapa ia telah menjadi salah satu situs web lingkungan yang paling banyak dibaca. Pengunjung Mongabay tersebut mencakup konservasionis, LSM lingkungan, wartawan, dan bahkan Presiden Indonesia, yang menunjukkan betapa populer dan pentingnya situs berita lingkungan di Mongabay ini,” jelas Jane Goodal dalam suratnya.

Saat ini sebagai utusan PBB bidang Perdamaian, Goodall menghabiskan sebagian besar waktunya untuk bepergian ke berbagai negara. Dia berbicara tentang upaya konservasi, hak-hak binatang dan aksi lingkungan. Termasuk baru-baru ini bergabung dengan 400 ribuan orang di New York city guna menarik perhatian dunia tentang pemanasan global.

“Perusakan hutan merupakan salah satu bahaya paling dahsyat yang telah kita timbulkan di planet ini, penyebab hilangnya keanekaragaman hayati, penyebaran gurun, pengurangan pasokan air tawar dan berpengaruh terhadap perubahan iklim yang semakin memburuk,” ujar Jane.

“Kita perlu berusaha untuk menciptakan kesadaran yang lebih besar tentang bahaya yang kita timbulkan terhadap planet bumi, dan menumbukan cara-cara di mana orang bisa saling membantu.”

http://www.mongabay.co.id/2014/10/17/khusus-sang-legenda-konservasi-dunia-bergabung-sebagai-dewan-penasihat-mongabay/

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Oldest fossil evidence of modern African venomous snakes found in Tanzania--Bukti fosil tertua dari ular berbisa Afrika modern yang ditemukan di Tanzania --T-REC semarang--komunitas reptil semarang

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Oldest fossil evidence of modern African venomous snakes found in Tanzania

Oldest fossil evidence of modern African venomous snakes found in Tanzania

Date:

March 20, 2014

Source:

Ohio University

Summary:

Scientists have found the oldest definitive fossil evidence of modern, venomous snakes in Africa. The newly discovered fossils demonstrate that elapid snakes -- such as cobras, kraits and sea snakes -- were present in Africa as early as 25 million years ago. Elapids belong to a larger group of snakes known as colubroids, active foragers that use a variety of methods, including venom, to capture and kill prey.

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Ohio University scientists have found the oldest definitive fossil evidence of modern, venomous snakes in Africa, according to a new study published March 19 in the journal PLOS ONE.

The newly discovered fossils demonstrate that elapid snakes -- such as cobras, kraits and sea snakes -- were present in Africa as early as 25 million years ago, said lead author Jacob McCartney, a postdoctoral researcher in the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. He's part of a team that has been examining the Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania over the last decade to understand environmental change through time in the East African Rift System.

Elapids belong to a larger group of snakes known as colubroids, active foragers that use a variety of methods, including venom, to capture and kill prey.

Colubroid fossils are documented as early as 50 million years ago. But they weren't expected to constitute such a large part of the African snake fauna 25 million years ago, as they became dominant in Europe and North America much later.

"In the Oligocene epoch, from about 34 to 23 million years ago, we would have expected to see a fauna dominated by booid snakes, such as boas and pythons. These are generally 'sit and wait' constricting predators that hide and ambush passing prey," McCartney said.

In fact, the recent study includes a description of the oldest evidence of African booid snakes, he said. The researchers have named this new species Rukwanyoka holmani; the genus name combines the Rukwa region name with the Swahili word for snake, and the species name is in honor of J. Alan Holman, a paleontologist and mentor.

However, the team was surprised to discover that the fauna actually revealed more colubroids than booids. That higher-than-expected concentration of colubroid snakes suggests that the local environment became more open and seasonally dry -- and, in turn, more hospitable to these active foraging types of snakes that don't require cover to hide and ambush prey -- at an earlier time in Africa than in most other parts of the world, as documented in previous studies.

"This finding gives further strength to the idea that tectonic activity in the East African Rift has helped to shape animal habitats in fascinating ways," said Nancy Stevens, an associate professor of biomedical sciences at Ohio University and co-author of the study. "The fossils suggest a fundamental shift toward more active and potentially venomous snakes that could exert very different pressures on the local fauna."

More fossils from additional locations should indicate whether colubroid snakes dominated all of Africa during the Oligocene or just the local region around the Rukwa Rift, McCartney said.

The study published in PLOS ONE describes eight different types of fossil snakes from the Rukwa Rift (five colubroid and three booid), with vertebrae ranging in length from 2.6 mm to just over 5 mm.

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Story Source:

The above story is based on materials provided by Ohio University. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.

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Journal Reference:

1. Jacob A. McCartney, Nancy J. Stevens, Patrick M. O’Connor. The Earliest Colubroid-Dominated Snake Fauna from Africa: Perspectives from the Late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Southwestern Tanzania. PLoS ONE, 2014; 9 (3): e90415 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090415

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140320101515.htm

 

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