If you want some more evidence of how messed up things have gotten in the oceans, please just take time to read this passage from Los Angeles Times’ “Altered Oceans” series: The Los Angeles River carries enough trash each year to fill the Rose Bowl two stories high, and despite efforts to corral some of … Read more
The ongoing discovery of scores of fatigued and disoriented California Brown Pelicans is causing concern among biologists and bird lovers, but yielding few concrete answers to what’s causing their condition. Since late in December, the giant seabirds have been found in frail condition along highways and backyards, miles from their coastal homes. At both IBRRC … Read more
The Los Angeles Times has a really terrific story this weekend about our efforts with young starving pelicans at our Southern California center. Julie King, IBRRC’s San Pedro center manager is quoted near perfectly: …”Will they survive after we let them go? Hard to say,” King said. “But I do know this; we are giving … Read more
David Helvarg: Death by the Bay, Opinion page, Los Angeles Times: “…I’m sitting by the dock of the Bay — that’s what Otis Redding called the Berkeley Municipal Pier in his famous song. Only now it smells like a gas station. On the rock pile below me, a surf scoter — a diving duck — … Read more