If you have news, event or classified listings that you want to share with the NBN community, send your info to me for posting on the community board, to get the word out to everyone! Submissions can be sent to sanderling [at] symbiotic [dot] ca, with the subject line “NBN Bulletin Board”. Don’t forget to include your blog’s name and URL. The weekly board will be posted every Sunday.
NBN News
Don’t forget to contact Wren (or leave a message here) to have your blog added to the NBN map, if you haven’t done so already! This allows our members to find fellow bloggers in their area, or for them to find you - a great opportunity to meet and network with your “neighbours”!
Meet-ups and Field Trips
Connie of Birds O’ The Morning is organizing a Birds And Brews meet-up in Colorado. The event will be held in Delta, Colorado, on August 6. “It’s a time to meet other birders, maybe find a carpool or birding buddy, ask about where to find target birds, share cool research projects you might be working on, ask a bird feeding question, share life lists, a great new book, project ideas, digiscoping tips, promote your blog–the sky is the limit!” For more information on location and to RSVP, visit Connie’s post.
Contests and Promotions
In case you missed the original post, the NBN is giving away a copy of Olivia Gentile’s new book Life List, a biography of birder and big-time lister Phoebe Snetsinger. There are three ways to garner yourself a copy of this enjoyable book. The first two are explained at 10,000 Birds. The third is to go out, be it to your neighbourhood park or conservation area, or further afield, and try to find a species of bird that you haven’t seen before. Blog about it and submit your post to Mike (mike AT 10000birds DOT com). All submissions will be included in a post announcing the winner on the NBN blog. Make sure to get your posts in to Mike by July 20! Go here for more details on the contest.
One of Canada’s greatest wildlife artists and environmental educators, Robert Bateman, will be creating a painting that incorporates photos submitted by thousands of outdoor enthusiasts. Want to see yours become part of it? Submit your photo of you (and your family or friends if applicable) out enjoying nature to the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s “Lets Go Outside” project. For more information on how to participate visit the project’s website.
Amber of Birder’s Lounge also reminds members that her photo ID challenge and Do Something! (Good) campaign are always ongoing. Some great causes benefit from both of these, so swing by and participate, if you haven’t already!
Community Causes - what our members are getting involved in
Nickolay of Portraits of Australian Animals submits a post about government-sanctioned kangaroo kills and commercial kangaroo hunting in Australia, targeting species felt to be overabundant. Nickolay encourages readers to learn more about these activities, and to sign a petition directed to the government to reduce or eliminate unnecessary killing.
One Comment
Hi Seabrooke,
Thank you for mentioning the issue with the largest wildlife slaughter going on in the world!
6,5 million wild Kangaroos (and their babies) are killed annually in Australia. The problem is politically and morally painful for a society with a terrible record of exterminated species.
Any animal now extinct was considered prolific in the past.
Australia shouldn’t be left undisturbed to continue this anti-humane practice.
Giving better publicity to the problem, would hopefully put politicians under more pressure to stop this nightmare.
I encourage all bloggers to learn more about the mass Kangaroo slaughter, sign the petition and even post links to it on their blogs.
All of you might want to check these sites as well:
http://www.kangaroolives.com/
kangaroo killing in Australia
Online petition - Stop Australia’s Wildlife Slaughter
Online petition - Moratorium urgently needed: Kangaroos heading for Extinction
Thanks again for the support and for the great Nature Blog Network, which we’re all part of!
Nickolay