Nature repairs when Humans are not around

[Platapus]

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/more...iland-beaches/


Beaches See Huge Increase in Leatherback Sea Turtle Nests After Travel Restrictions in Florida and Thailand

From fish returning to the Venice canals to deer in the streets of London, many of the shelter-in-place orders and lockdowns resulting from the coronavirus spread have allowed for nature to come back in some of the least-likely places.


Thailand is the latest nation to make headlines from the phenomenon, after the Thai government placed a ban on international flights and a strong encouragement to stay at home.


Though the coronavirus has shut down Thailand’s tourism economy, a season of peace and salvation for rare leatherback sea turtles has emerged. Endangered in this area of Southeast Asia, they are nesting here for the first time in five years.


The largest of all living turtles, the leatherbacks have made 11 nests on Thai beaches this spring—more than at any time during the last two decades.




“This is a very good sign for us because turtles have a high risk of getting killed by fishing gear and humans disturbing the beach,” the director of the Phuket Marine Biological Centre told The Guardian.


In Florida, too, the number of leatherback sea turtle nests have skyrocketed compared to last year.
File photo by Elisa Peterson, CC Juno Beach is the most densely nested sea turtle beach in the entire world, with an estimated 21,000 nests last year from various species.
Only 2 weeks into the summer nesting season of 2020, staff at the Loggerhead Marine Life Center have found and marked 76 nesting sites for the leatherback—a “significant increase” over last year’s count along the 9 and ½ mile beach.


With no dogs or people walking over nests and exposing eggs, there’s a good chance the eggs will survive the 60 days until hatch day.



“Our leatherbacks are coming in strong this year. We’re excited to see our turtles thrive in this environment,” Sarah Hirsch told West Palm Beach’s WPEC-TV news.
“Our world has changed, but these turtles have been doing this for millions of years and it’s just reassuring and gives us hope that the world is still going on.”


By the end of the nesting season, if the increased numbers continue, it could provide a valuable boost for the vulnerable species.

The take away seems to be that nature is better off when humans are not around.

[mapuc]

Your post made me remember what someone said

When natures gone,Human will not survive - When the Human are gone, Nature will survive.
(Not exact phrase)

Markus

[Platapus]

Which is why I feel that the sooner this failed species called human can become extinct, the sooner the world can start to repair.

[Jimbuna]

Nearly two years back I was fascinated to seeing turtles released at night on the resorts private beach in Mexico.

[Skybird]

You all know this, its famous. By Sara Teasdale.



There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

[August]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Which is why I feel that the sooner this failed species called human can become extinct, the sooner the world can start to repair.

Well if you hate your own species that much I guess there is something to be said for living up to your own ideals Platapus, but personally I heard that baby sea turtle stew is some good eating.

[mapuc]

^^ I did not know
It's beautiful poem

Markus

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by mapuc

^^ I did not know
It's beautiful poem

Markus

Then you have never red Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles!

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Then you have never red Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles!

I know this author and I have seen a lot of his short stories in his Ray Bradbury theater. (I can't remember them though)

I have not read the Martian Chronicles.

Markus

[Skybird]

The poem appears in I think the second last chapter of TMC. Many people learned about the poem by reading TMC, it became somewhat popular again after they turned TMC into a TV miniseries in the 80s I think, the films were not that good, but rose interest in Bradbury again, at least in Germany. Its by this TV project that I learned about Bradbury myself, started to investigate his work, and fell in love with his books in record time, within two days I had bought all books that at that time were available in German translations, and also placed an order for two English readers with his complete short novels, in English.- At that time, mid-80s, that still was a time-consuming and expensive issue...



Since then I'm a fan. Dandelion Wine probably is my favourite by Bradbury.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by mapuc

I I have not read the Martian Chronicles.

A fine book, from back in the days when science fiction was thought-provoking; not just an excuse for putting modern man in weir situations.

[Catfish]

It will take some time until nature repairs this. Surely only after humans are not around

[captainadccdacaptain]

Its amazing how destructive we are as a species

[Jeff-Groves]

@Steve

If you liked The Martian Chronicles?
I suggest you read
'Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life'
Ray credited that as an influence along with 'The Grapes of Wrath'.

Myself? I prefer Slaughterhouse-Five

[Texas Red]

Well, we went to Edisto Island in South Carolina for a very fun camping trip and the Park Rangers wouldn't let you light fires because of the turtles and how they use the moonlight to guide themselves to the water. They can mistake the fires for the light and head to them.

That was a very fun camping trip.