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[NPBlue]

Two families of Beavers wrre observed in the River Otter in East Devon a decade or so ago. No one knows how they arrived there, but when it bacame piublic knowledge, the government asked the local authority to destroy them, as they were regarded as pests with no legal protection.

Beavers were eradicated in the UK 400 years,ago, and a local conservation group asked for a stay of execution, to see what impact it would have on the environmet. The Government agreed to that request, and the results have been transformative.

The river flows have reduced to such an extent with their dams, flooding has been eliminated in the towns down river.
The new wetlands that have formed with the increase in the water table have produced a haven for flora and fauna, and the quality of the river water has increased by such a margin, the river is alive with plants, crustaceans and fish.

The impact they had in such a positive way has been so successful, the government allowed their release in other parts of the country, and an area in Scotland where they were set free is now reporting similar benefits of reduced flooding and increased bio diversity.

Beavers are now a protected species in the UK, and families have now been released in parts of Wales and also Delamere Forest.

 

[chris63]

 

[pepguardiola'smoustache]

clearly these are rough figures because it's impossible to ask everyone on the planet but the current global religious percentage breakdown is something like this...

christian 30%
non-believers 25%
islam 23%
hindu 12%
buddhist 5%
folk/traditional/native/etc 4%
others 1% (including jews 0.2%)

 

[KS55]

clearly these are rough figures because it's impossible to ask everyone on the planet but the current global religious percentage breakdown is something like this...

christian 30%
non-believers 25%
islam 23%
hindu 12%
buddhist 5%
folk/traditional/native/etc 4%
others 1% (including jews 0.2%)

Tree huggers?

 

[pepguardiola'smoustache]

Tree huggers?

in with the 1% you'd assume.

 

[.db.]

clearly these are rough figures because it's impossible to ask everyone on the planet but the current global religious percentage breakdown is something like this...

christian 30%
non-believers 25%
islam 23%
hindu 12%
buddhist 5%
folk/traditional/native/etc 4%
others 1% (including jews 0.2%)

Non-believers are the fastest growing from all those.

There’s quite a movement away from Catholicism in South America, at the moment, of people claiming to not follow a religion.

Number Of Catholics Drop In Latin America, More Identify As ‘Nones’

Catholic affiliation is declining across much of Latin America, while the number of religiously unaffiliated adults is rising sharply, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Despite these shifts, belief in God, prayer and the personal importance of religion remain widespread throughout the r

religionunplugged.com

This started a few hundred years ago in Northern Europe, with a facet of The Enlightenment seeing people scrutinise and ask critical questions of religion as reason and evidence became important to people.

A secular world, maintaining some of the core moralistic tenets of religions, would be a better world.

 

[pepguardiola'smoustache]

Non-believers are the fastest growing from all those.

and a rapid growth too, as people realise it's all a bit stupid.

A secular world, maintaining some of the core moralistic tenets of religions, would be a better world.

in theory, you'd like to think so, yes,
but then along comes some knobhead like stalin or mao or polpot to weaponise it and we're back to square one.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

FROM next season, there will be no professional snooker player called Davis for the first time.

For the past 99 years there has been at least one player with that surname involved in the sport at the highest level.