Bees dying by the millions

Via thepost.on.ca, 19 June 2013 - ELMWOOD - Local beekeepers are finding millions of their bees dead just after corn was planted here in the last few weeks. Dave Schuit, who has a honey operation in Elmwood, lost 600 hives, a total of 37 million bees.

“Once the corn started to get planted our bees died by the millions,” Schuit said. He and many others, including the European Union, are pointing the finger at a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids, manufactured by Bayer CropScience Inc. used in planting corn and some other crops. The European Union just recently voted to ban these insecticides for two years, beginning December 1, 2013, to be able to study how it relates to the large bee kill they are experiencing there also.

Local grower Nathan Carey from the Neustadt, and National Farmers Union Local 344 member, says he noticed this spring the lack of bees and bumblebees on his farm. He believes that there is a strong connection between the insecticide use and the death of pollinators.

“I feel like we all have something at stake with this issue,” he said. He is organizing a public workshop and panel discussion about this problem at his farm June 22 at 10 a.m. He hopes that all interested parties can get together and talk about the reason bees, the prime pollinators of so any different plant species, are dying.

At the farm of Gary Kenny, south west of Hanover, eight of the 10 hives he kept for a beekeeper out of Kincardine, died this spring just after corn was planted in neighbouring fields.

What seems to be deadly to bees is that the neonicotinoid pesticides are coating corn seed and with the use of new air seeders, are blowing the pesticide dust into the air when planted. The death of millions of pollinators was looked at by American Purdue University. They found that, “Bees exhibited neurotoxic symptoms, analysis of dead bees revealed traces of thiamethoxam/clothianidin in each case. Seed treatments of field crops (primarily corn) are the only major source of these compounds.

Local investigations near Guelph, led to the same conclusion. A Pest Management Regulatory Agency investigation confirmed that corn seeds treated with clothianidin or thiamethoxam “contributed to the majority of the bee mortalities” last spring.

“The air seeders are the problem,” said Ontario Federation of Agriculture director Paul Wettlaufer, who farms near Neustadt. This was after this reporter called John Gillespie, OFA Bruce County president, who told me to call Wettlaufer. Unfortunately, Wettlaufer said it was, “not a local OFA issue,” and that it was an issue for the Grain Farmers of Ontario and representative, Hennry Vanakum should be notified. Vanakum could not be rached for comment.

Yet Guelph University entomologist Peter Kevan, disagreed with the EU ban.

“There’s very little evidence to say that neonicotinoids, in a very general sense, in a broad scale sense, have been a major component in the demise of honeybees or any other pollinators, anywhere in the world,” said Kevan.

But research is showing that honeybee disorders and high colony losses have become a global phenomena. An international team of scientists led by Holland’s Utrecht University concluded that, ”Large scale prophylaxic use in agriculture, their high persistence in soil and water, and their uptake by plants and translocation to flowers, neonicotinoids put pollinator services at risk.” This research and others rsulted in the Eurpean Union ban.

The United Church is also concerned about the death of so many pollinators and has prepared a “Take Action” paper it’s sending out to all its members. The church is basing its action on local research. The Take Action paper states among other things, “Scientific information gathered suggests that the planting of corn seeds treated with neonicotinoids contributed to the majority of the bee mortalities that occurred in corn growing regions of Ontario and Quebec in Spring 2012.”

Meanwhile Schuit is replacing his queen bees every few months now instead of years, as they are dying so frequently. “OMAFRA tells me to have faith. Well, I think it’s criminal what is happening, and it’s hard to have faith if it doesn’t look like they are going to do anything anyway,” Schuit says.

MASS BEES DIE-OFF: The Global Food Crisis - 34-50% Of ALL HONEYBEE Colonies Died-Off During Past Winter In England, Scotland, United Kingdom; The Worst Losses Since Survey Began?!

June 14, 2013 - UNITED KINGDOM - More than a third of all honeybee colonies in England died over the winter, according to figures from the British Beekeepers Association, the worst losses since its winter survival survey began.

The level of honeybee colony losses across England is more than double what it was last year, up to 33.8% from 16.2% in 2012, the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) said. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA

On average, 33.8 colonies in every 100 perished over the long winter of 2012-13 compared with 16.2% the previous winter. In the south-west of England, more than half of all colonies were wiped out and in the northern part of the country 46.4% didn't survive.

In Scotland and Wales, honeybees fared no better. The Scottish beekeepers association, which has yet to complete its annual survey, predicts losses of up to 50%. And bee farmers in Wales have reported 38% losses.

The BBKA attributed the alarming high bee mortality to the poor weather during 2012 continuing into 2013 and exacerbated by the late arrival of spring.

"The wet summer prevented honey bees from foraging for food, resulting in poorly developed colonies going into winter. When they could get out there was a scarcity of pollen and nectar. Honeybee colonies which are in a poor nutritional state become more vulnerable to disease and other stress factors," said a BBKA spokeswoman.

Many beekeepers also reported incidence of "isolation starvation", when the cluster of bees in the hive becomes too cold to move close enough to eat their food stores in another part of the hive, and so starve.

But there are fears that the death toll for bees in England could be even higher, since the BBKA survey of 846 members closed at the end of March before the arrival of spring.

"April this year was very cold, and the start of May, so bees were confined to the hive for much longer and we still had bees dying from starvation in May. So losses could be much more serious," said Glyn Davies, a beekeeper from Devon and former president of the BBKA.

He said the south-west was particularly badly hit because of the relentless rain. "It was the wet, wet, wet, wet summer followed by an enormously long winter. I've never seen anything like it in the 35 years I've been keeping bees," said the 74-year-old beekeeper.

The winter bee losses come just weeks after EU member states voted for a suspension of three pesticidesalleged to cause serious harm to bees.

Francis Ratnieks, professor of apiculture at University of Sussex, said pesticides weren't the cause of the high bee mortality: "It was the worst summer ever. I had my own bees starving to death in the summer. It is nothing to do with pesticides; bad weather is enough of an explanation. It's not healthy for bees to be trapped in their hives during the summer. Some queen bees couldn't get out to mate and confined bees are more likely to get nosema [a gut parasite] and viruses from the varroa mite."

When the BBKA survey began in 2007-08, winter bee mortality was 30.5%. Since then losses had been steadily falling.

The government's National Bee Unit says its initial 2012-13 findings of around 30% winter bee losses are the highest recorded loss since its bee inspectors began to formally gather their own figures five years ago.

Mike Brown, head of the NBU, commented, "These figures are not surprising given the harsh winter and long cold spring which followed on from an extremely poor summer last year. The National Bee Unit has continued to offer colony husbandry advice to beekeepers through these prolonged periods of inclement weather."

The Scottish government has announced £200,000 in funding to help bee farmers restock their colonies, but a Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spokeswoman said: "We do not provide government money for restocking bees. We are working with beekeepers to provide support and training to help them ensure the health of their bees." - Guardian.

US SUDDENLY LOOKS LIKE A SINKHOLE NATION; ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ MASS FISH AND MARINE DEATHS IN AUSTRALIA

(April 7)  They seem to be everywhere. A neighborhood in Ohio. A road in Kentucky. A beach in New Jersey. There seems to be reports of a new sinkhole come each week. Last month in Florida a sinkhole swallowed a man in his bedroom. Since then we’ve heard similar horror stories – a golfer barely survives when the course opened up beneath him in Illinois; more than 300 people in Louisiana evacuated after the earth crumbled there. So are there more sinkholes are just more headlines about them?

In Florida, sinkhole related claims more than double from 2006 from 2009 . It is now the only state that requires catastrophic ground collapse coverage. It may be that they are having a rash of sinkholes in particular as a result of the drought that’s been going on. The state’s unique limestone bedrock is prone to collapse due to a shift in deep underground rivers. Too much rainfall can help develop more of the limestone and create some of the pockets that allow for sinkholes, but too little rainfall depressurizes causing sinkholes as well. We’re coming off of a dry winter – an unusually drier winter, now the rains are starting to come so between now and July there is a chance there may be more sinkhole activity. (Source)

It is more like a new sinkhole every day and a global epidemic with both China and Russia also in the news lately. Those who have been paying attention would know that it doesn’t just happen suddenly – this topic has been largely ignored by MSM until recently. The record drought is just one of the many factors and soon the media will no longer have answers for these increasingly occurring sinkholes.

Sinkholes: 2011-2013

(April 5) Thousands of fish and marine animals are dying along South Australia’s metropolitan coast. (Source) Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society managing director Mike Bossley said he had never seen such a large number of fish, dolphin and penguin deaths in that Country. Experts believe that algal blooms and high temperatures caused mass deaths over the past month. (Source)

But it’s not just happening in South Australia. In February, thousands of fish mysteriously washed up on the shores of Burrinjuck Dam, north-west of Canberra, New South Wales. Authorities said the cause of the fish kill – including sizes ranging from five to 80 centimetres – was unclear. (Source)

Also in February, thousands of fish were found dead in the Serpentine River in Western Australia. Reduced rainfall and the increase in algal blooms were thought to be the cause. (Source)

Like sinkholes, this is a global trend. Here are the headlines from around the world for the first three months of 2013:

Chile – Just over a week ago, millions of small prawns became stranded on a beach in southern Chile, in the Coronel area, carpeting a three-kilometre strand in red.

Brazil – Last month, more than 65 tonnes of dead fish washed up on Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic rowing venue after rotting plant life reportedly caused water oxygen levels to drop.

Peru – In January, dozens of dead marine species washed up on Peruvian beaches. Almost 100 sea creatures and birds washed up on the coastline, including 18 turtles, 22 sea lions, 16 angular roughsharks, eight dolphins and 22 marine birds. They were discovered along 120km of coastline.

U.S. – Tens of thousands of dead fish also washed ashore on a South Carolina beach in the US in January. Up to 40,000 fish reportedly washed ashore along a stretch of beach from Georgetown County to Pawleys Island.

Those who have been following this end times sign for the past 2 years know that this phenomenon did not simply go away but is becoming so glaring that MSM can no longer ignore it. What is ahead? Please read our posts.

MASS FISH DIE-OFF: DISASTER PRECURSORS

January 18, 2012 - UNITED STATES - Tens of thousands of dead fish washed ashore on a South Carolina beach on Tuesday, for at least the second time in a week. Approximately 30,000 to 40,000 menhaden fish washed ashore along a mile-and-a-half-long stretch of beach from Georgetown County, S.C., to Pawleys Island, said Pawleys Island Police Chief Michael Fanning, according to NBC News. It seemed likely that thousands more of the 6- to 8-inch-long fish would wash ashore later. 

Courtesy viewer Lisa Mahan.

This is the second time in one week such an incident has occurred in the area, notes NBC News. Late last week, hundreds of thousands of the small, oily fish washed up near Masonboro Island, N.C. "One time I was here I saw a bunch of jellyfish," South Carolina resident Bill Vogel told NBC local affiliate WMBF Newsof the dead fish. "They were all on the shore but nothing like this, it's really weird."  The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) tried to explain the fish die-off on Wednesday. "It's an occurrence called hypoxia," Sergeant Steve Pop told WMBF. "That is dissolved oxygen levels in the water that drop to a level that is not sustainable for the fish... 

We've got some deep holes off of north inlet that holds these fish. This time of year the fish congregate in these holes which is depleting the oxygen source." Mel Bell, Director of the Office of Fisheries Management for S.C. DNR, elaborated on the theory: “On Friday we had a new moon [which caused] real high high tides and real low low tides,” he told The Sun News. “Probably what happened was a school [of menhaden] got in an area of water on a high tide, in a hole or depression, and at low tide they were trapped and depleted the oxygen in the water. Then, all the fish would suffocate." On Thursday, however, the DNR ruled out low dissolved oxygen, algal bloom or cold temperatures as the culprit for the fish death, according to The Sun. 
Mass animal deaths made headlines back in 2011 when thousands of animals were found dead in countries around the world. The mass deaths continued into 2012. Hundreds of Humboldt squid beached themselves near Santa Cruz, Calif., in December. In September, dead seagulls and fish washed ashore on Lake Eerie.- Huffington Post.

WATCH: Mass fish die-off in South Carolina.

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December 16, 2012 - CHINA - "Seeing so many fish has no overnight, I do not know what to do. "Man achish in East Lake Village, lingshan town, pottery village in meilan district of Haikou has contracted several pond fish, December 10 shortly after 7 o'clock in the morning, he wakes to see fish ponds and found that, overnight, himself strenuously 8,200 grouper are all dead.

Tens Of Thousands Of Fish Found Dead In Haikou Lake.

According to reports, the achish trusted friends to lend more than 1 million Yuan last year, contracted for pond fish. This fish for over a year, has and traders 11th to buy an appointment. The night before the incident, he patrols the pond edge to home until 11 o'clock at night, when fish are good. Did not expect overnight, the fish all died, everything became a bubble in water, "a conservative estimate the loss more than 700,000 yuan. "Achish said sadly, this fish maximum 3 kg of 92, on average every two and a half pounds of fish, a total of 8,200 fish, more than 20,000 pounds, all gone. Looked at has been cleared of dead fish, achish heartache, "not all the fish stomach, it was too hard. "It is reported that after the incident, achish alert the local police station. It is understood that the incident occurred 20 days ago, achish contracted by another more than 30,000 pieces of fish in a pond in deaths overnight. Achish said, generally ten days and a half months, fish insect, need some medicine to pest control. After more than 30,000 pieces of fish for the first time, achish thought it was the fish master take the wrong drug, also called a master. Master fish, raise fish in a dozen years and have never come across such a situation, even if it is more than three times the amount of fish you can't all die. Because the first dead fish are smaller, so dead over more than 30,000 fish, achish had lost at least 350,000 yuan. According to preliminary estimates, the two add up to achish had lost more than 1 million Yuan. - People China [Translated].

Large Fish Kill Found In A River In Shahe City.

According to eyewitness accounts, the fish's small finger-like weight, there are three or four pounds. Estimation of Shahe office cleaning day sailor, salvaging of dead fish has nearly three days pounds. Wuyi University see Shahe journalists 10th day, the River is dark green, there are still sporadic dead fish scattered on the River, shore water floats, a layer of oil. Approached the River, a fish stench blowing, two cleaning vessels are salvaging of dead fish. Reporters along the rivers in Jiangmen direction Wuyi University section going, found no sewage outfall discharges across the Taiwan Strait, in which large outfall outfall Wuyi University canteens have also used iron CAP to seal up. For all of a sudden there were so many fish were killed, public speculation that someone may steal a sewage. This reporter learned that, after the dead fish incident, Jiangmen City Environmental Protection Department immediately started emergency plan, organized law enforcement and environmental monitoring environmental monitoring personnel to the scene for investigation and water quality monitoring. The site survey, found Shahe road section between bridge and white gas stations are dead fish behavior occurs to varying degrees. 

In this regard, the Organization immediately environmental protection departments on the one hand to troubleshoot the day sand river coastal outfalls, Shahe River in the urban areas has been basically pollution-cutting, only a limited number of outfalls vertical sand River through days of troubleshooting, found no illegal sewage of industrial enterprises. On the, in died fish phenomenon more clear of river set multiple section for water monitoring, December 7 of monitoring results indicates that, river water except dissolved oxygen indicators partial low outside, other pollutants indicators and always compared to and no exception; near two day of monitoring results indicates that, as temperatures of rebounded, river water dissolved oxygen indicators has gradually recovery to normal level, River sense views also has been comparison clear. At the same time, marine fisheries sector in Jiangmen city quickly investigate after receiving the report, organized the resources and Environment Management Division, fisheries technician, fishery law enforcement and inspection personnel to conduct on-site investigations. According to the Bureau's law enforcement personnel on-site observations, dead fish species dominated by DACE, and most of the smaller. According to EPA and Marine Fisheries Council two large sector investigation results displayed, "by extraction water, and died fish samples for test detection, found except river water dissolved oxygen partial low outside, remaining is not found detection indicators has exception situation, preliminary judgment is due to by continued low temperature rainy weather (more than 10 days) effect, while days Shahe and is dry season, water in the dissolved oxygen partial low, led to as DACE, and tilapia, does not cold varieties of fish hypoxia death. ” - Information Times [Translated].

Over 350,000 Pounds Of Fish Died In Long Lake.

Area of dead fish in the Lake area, causing huge economic losses to local fishermen. According to the local Government's latest figures show that the fish killed more than 350,000 pounds, including deaths peak in October 3, 7th night of dead fish began to gradually reduce. It is understood that the dead fish later, local government and related departments have taken emergency measures management, organizing manpower to emergency disinfection of fishing and bury the dead fish. Xiaolu is a journalist in the area ran into a bit of downstream fishermen. He is new to cage, cage culture of less than two years. Xiaolu describes his cage in the fen village section of the hole in the lower area, built dams built power stations here. The Wengjiang River and other tributaries converge here, formed a huge Lake. Therefore, this time he farmed fish were not spared, more losses than upstream. "Throughout the vast expanse of the Lake and a stinker, is simply horrible. "Little land so describes the horrors of dead fish peak at that time. "No dead fish, more or less, I probably nearly 6,000 pounds of fish in cages. My losses are relatively small, losses more serious cases than me! Hey, just my luck, it lost two years...... "battered small land face down, he stood in the bow looking confused water, his eyes are filled with confusion. "Now I don't know what should I do in the future, this fish can continue to do? I now have no confidence. But the fish we can do? "Very predicament inside Xiaolu told Xinhua that his father is a fisherman, culture before earning a bit of money, so they expand cage culture of investment in the area, he was responsible for management. A sudden hit Xiaolu negate efforts of father and son, but also completely destroy their confidence. 

It is understood that, in recent years, the rapid development of cage culture in the long Lake area, cage size and significant increase in the number and capacity in cages in the reservoir area is almost at saturation. According to the latest statistics from the local government data show, current cage culture in reservoirs there is approximately 180 households, more than 6,000 cage, deposit box fish probably around 4.5 million pounds. Xiaolu same part and many farmers, are shouted to the cage to make money and have acceded to or expansion of investment. Cage culture of sprawl and blindness makes area significantly increased risk. Yingde city animal husbandry and aquatic products Bureau told Xinhua, cage was farmers in the reservoir area of spontaneous, is difficult to control and master in number, only moderate to boot. However, the large area of abnormal fish mortality events, fishermen's losses are not just the fish in the cage, but also for many years has been adhere to breed confidence. - Shuichan [Translated].

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January 05, 2013 - UNITED STATES - An Oklahoma state park is dealing with a stinky mystery.  Dead fish have been showing up by the hundreds along the shore of the lake at Quartz Mountain State Park. 

Quartz Mountain fish dying – Alicia. KFOR.

Quartz Mountain fish dying – Alicia. KFOR.

Quartz Mountain fish dying – Alicia. KFOR.

Park officials said they’re not sure why or how the fish died but believe it is from natural causes, not something man-made.

The State Wildlife Department is planning to visit the park to conduct tests to see what is behind the die-off.

The lake remains open although it’s not exactly a good spot right now for a stroll beside the water. - KFOR.

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In what authorities believe is one of the worst fish-kills in recent times, a lot of Curiass is being washed up on the Guyanese and Surinamese foreshores, apparently due to murky Atlantic Ocean waters and the discharge of freshwater into the sea.

The Fisheries Department of the Ministry of Agriculture says mostly dead Cuirass have been sighted since January 9 and the situation peaked on January 29 when a "significant amount of dead fish was observed on the beaches in the area. Consultations with Surinamese Fisheries Department officials have revealed that similar occurrences of dead fish have been observed in the vicinity of Nickerie and Coronie during the same period, the ministry here stated. "An on-the-spot observation conducted by the Regional Fisheries Officer revealed that the gills were heavily coated with sling mud and slime. This condition may have resulted in oxygen deprivation to the fish resulting in death," Guyana's Fisheries Department added.

While the observance of dead fish is said to be an annual occurrence by local fisherfolk in both countries, Guyana's Fisheries Department believes that this year's was "noticeably worse" and may have resulted from one of or a combination of factors. They include turbidity of the water in the area – caused by excessive rainfall in the general region resulting in excessive cloudiness of the water due to suspended particles from the rivers which flow into the ocean and reduced dissolved oxygen levels. The other major factor could have been a high fresh water discharge – the high discharge of fresh water from the rivers may have disrupted the salinity content of the water in the area which could adversely affect fish in the area.

The University of Guyana's Biodiversity Centre is expected to conduct tests on samples collected on January 22 to determine the cause of death of the fish. Results will be available several weeks later. The Fisheries Department said it was also conducting continuous water quality tests to determine the effects of the rainfall on the water quality in the area. According to officials, the situation has improved greatly since Sunday January 22 and Wednesday, with far less dead fish observed on beaches along the Upper Corentyne Coast. "The situation is being continually monitored by staff of the Fisheries Department," the Agriculture Ministry department said. - The Daily Herald.

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The Ohio Division of Wildlife got a call on Sunday from a fisherman who told the agency they should probably come see the flood of fish carcasses in the Rocky River.

When they arrived, they discovered a waterway filled with dead aqua life. The fish kill is still under investigation. Today, the ODW announced the final death toll: 28,613 fish, along with other species. But the mere process of counting the dead was merely a first step. The interesting part, in terms of going after whoever was responsible for whatever caused the mass deaths (that's about as specific as we can get right now), comes next. 

Via the News-Herald:

“The investigators aren’t going back to the stream today because they believe they have all the data that they need,” said Jamey Graham, spokeswoman for the Wildlife Division’s District Three (Northeast Ohio) office in Akron. “They are now sorting the fish according to species and we should that information available soon.”

The reason for the separation of the fish by species is so that the Wildlife Division can determine how much to charge in fines and restitution if and when the culprit is identified. The state has assigned a dollar figure for each fish species.

- Yahoo.

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Mass Animal Deaths: December 2012

(Dec 6) As a 40,000-pound, 40-foot fin whale carcass rapidly decomposes on Little Dume beach in Malibu, California, officials are still trying to determine how, when and who should remove the remains. (Source)

(Dec 6) The Bureau of Land Management(BLM) is investigating the deaths of 19 wild horses at its Cañon City Wild Horse Inmate Program facility in Colorado. (Source)

(Dec 5) A dead sperm whale was seen drifting out at sea in Robe, South Australia. Local fishers said it was uncommon for a sperm whale to be in the area at this time of year. (Source)

(Dec 5) THE body of a sperm whale has been found at Young Husband Peninsula Beach in South Australia, just weeks after another carcass was washed up on the southern coastline. (Source)

(Dec 5) The number of EHD cases in deer this year was the highest ever documented in many states. The virus has taken a chunk out of deer population in Iowa and Maryland.

(Dec 5) Approximately 190 elephants in Zimbabwe have been listed dead due to water shortage this year, according to wildlife authorities. (Source)

(Dec 3) About 200 dead carp have washed up at Pinto Lake in California in the past week. Because of their advanced state of decomposition, it may be difficult to say for sure what happened. (Source)

(Dec 3) Scores of abandoned cats in Angthong province, Thailand have died of cat flu disease. Since last week, many had died the disease one by one, at about two a day. (Source)

(Dec 3) The sudden death of 38 cranes in the wetlands (salt pans) of Amreli district in Gujarat, India has raised fears of a return of the deadly bird flu virus. (Source)

(Dec 2) There’s an eerie scene in McKinney, Texas. There are close to 50 dead birds, mostly Grackles, Starlings and Pigeons, lining Transparent Avenue and Central Expressway. (Source)

(Dec 1) Florida wildlife researchers are trying to get to the bottom of what killed clusters of catfish in waters around Marco Island last week. (Source)

(Dec 1) At least 33 migratory Greater Cormorant birds have died in Kaziranga National Park in upper Assam, India since yesterday, Park authorities said but claimed Avian Flu was not the cause. (Source)

Mass Animal Deaths from September to November 2012

(Oct 31) City workers on Tuesday began the smelly task of removing at least 15,000 fish found dead on Lake Madeline in Galveston, Texas. (Source)

(Oct 31) More than 125,000 laying hens have been culled at a farm in Northern Ireland following the discovery of salmonella gallinarum. (Source)

(Oct 31) Millions of these little fish, all dead, in a great strand, all along the Illawong Beach in Australia. (Source)

(Oct 31) Over 33,000 birds the Central Poultry Development Organisation in Bangalore, India, will now be culled to prevent the spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1). (Source) (Oct 26) About 3,600 Turkeys have died of avian influenza (H5N1) in Bangalore, India. (Source) (Oct 15) Authorities in Bhaktapur’s Bode in Nepal have culled more than 1500 chickens following a suspected outbreak of bird flu. (Source)

(Oct 28) Shoals of fish were found some dead, some alive, along the east coast of India. They were predominantly sardines and skip jack tunas, with big fish like eel and mullet (gal maalu) also in significant quantities. (Source)

(Oct 26) Dozens of whales beached themselves and died on North Andaman Island in the Bay of Bengal in India this week, the first time that such a large number of whales have died in the area. (Source)

(Oct 26) A fish kill at the Iowa Great Lakes is still a mystery for environmental officials. It’s primarily happening on the lower chain of lakes, affecting mostly transparent and yellow bass. File Photo (Source)
(Oct 26) The DNR is investigating a fish kill in Prairie Creek just west of Blairstown in Benton County, Iowa. (Source)

Deer deaths continue to rise due to epizootic hemorrhagic disease or EHD across the Country.

(Oct 25) Michigan – More than 11,000 deer, up from 900 last month, have been reported dead of EHD. (Source)
(Oct 24) Missouri – There were more than 5,000 cases as of Oct 10. (Source)
(Oct 9) Nebraska – Over 4,768 reported deaths attributed to the disease in the past few weeks. (Source)
(Oct 7) North Carolina – Hundreds of deer have died of EHD but those are just the reported cases — the number of deaths could be in the thousands. (Source)
(Oct 5) Illinois -  2,043 reported deaths. (Source)

(Oct 24) A dead whale, estimated to be about 54 feet long, lied sprawled across the beachfront in Rockport, Massachusetts. (Source)

(Oct 23) Foshan, Guangdong, China

(Oct 23) Scallops suffer massive die-Off in New York. (Source)

(Oct 23) The mass deaths of fish in some coastal areas of Sri Lanka were found to be due to natural causes – the lack of oxygen in water, increase of temperature of sea water due to monsoons and decay of plankton they eat. File Photo (Source)

(Oct 22) There’s a fish kill involving “tens of thousands” of gizzard shad on the shore of Oneida Lake in Bridgeport, Central New York. (Source)

(Oct 21) A 14-metre-long male whale, which has been dead for at least 10 days and a dead dugong (a relative of the manatee), measuring two metre long, were found washed ashore in the Vadakadu and Panaikulam seashore, respectively, off the Palk Strait in Rameswaram in India. (Source) (Oct 11) An injured big whale, which later died, was seen floating at Balipatha near the Devi river mouth in India. (Source)

(Oct 21) An entire shipment of Australian sheep stranded in the Pakistani port city of Karachi has been culled after authorities said the flock of 28,600 carried disease. (Source) (Oct 9) Over 400 cows and goats have died due to some unknown disease in Assam, India. (Source)

(Oct 19) A 25-foot whale washed up on More Mesa Beach on Friday, and the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department in California plans to have it towed out to sea this weekend. (Source)

(Oct 19) Dead doves have been popping up all across the Permian Basin in Texas. The trend of sick or dead doves goes back to early August. The birds were found in Midland, Odessa, Big Spring and other surrounding areas. Scientists found the cause to be a virus in the group of avian paramyxovirues. (Source)

(Oct 19) Environmental experts in Namibia are puzzled after finding a high number of flamingos and avocets in the Walvis Lagoon Bayer dead. For about four weeks, dead birds are picked up by residents almost daily. Such a phenomenon has not happened here before. (Source)

(Oct 19) Cases of bird flu have been reported in Dien Bien, Vietnam. Since the outbreak, authorities have detected and culled more than 1,000 sick livestock in the commune. File Photo (Source)

(Oct 18) Nearly 300 dead or dying loons and other fish-eating birds are found on the beaches of northwestern Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore the past few days — all victims of botulism that has scientists concerned about the changing ecology of the Great Lakes. (Source)

(Oct 17) Pakistan’s disaster relief agency estimates that weeks of monsoon flooding have killed 455 people and affected more than five million others. Officials said every section of the country has been affected over the past five weeks. The southwestern province of Baluchistan suffered the most loss to livestock, with nearly 7,000 cattle killed. File Photo (Source) In Sualkuchi, India, nearly 500 to 600 cattle have been affected by disease after the second wave of floods. (Source)

(Oct 17) Thousands of bass die-off prompts investigation in Dickinson County lakes in Iowa. (Source)

(Oct 17) Dead fish are continuing to show up on the beaches and in the water of the Neuse River in North Carolina. Some fish are floating, others are sinking to the bottom, but with a peak of 90 dead fish per foot, he estimates the total number could be in the millions. (Source)

(Oct 16) An 8.1 metre Minke whale and calf washed up on shore the Black Point Beach in Nova Scotia, Canada. (Source)

(Oct 16) The youngest of four young pilot whales rescued from a mass beach stranding on Sept. 1 in St. Lucie County, Florida died unexpectedly. The whales are the only ones that survived out of 22 sickly whales, of all ages, that beached themselves at Avalon State Park Beach. (Source)

(Oct 16) A group of long-finned pilot whales has been buried after stranding on a remote East Cape beach in New Zealand. The 51 whales came ashore in two-metre swells at Whangaparaoa Beach, near Cape Runaway, early on Sunday. Forty-four of the whales died relatively quickly from natural causes, while the other seven were injured during the stranding and were euthanised. (Source)

(Oct 15) The deaths of a dolphin, three turtles and a seven-meter, 8-ton whale shark at the weekend have illustrated the Phuket region’s losing battle to save its marine environment. (Source)

(Oct 13) Wildlife officials Friday afternoon were trying to determine what killed a young and healthy female moose found on Sylvan Lane in Weston, Massachusetts. (Source)
(Oct 10) A fresh moose carcass was discovered along the Selkirk Crest’s popular Harrison Lake Trail in Washington State prompting local Forest Service officials to issue a wildlife hazard warning. (Source)

(Oct 13) A 6m strap-toothed whale, a species of beaked whale, washed ashore at St Kilda Beach in New Zealand. (Source)

(Oct 13) A parasite that causes fish to choke to death has resulted in hundreds of tonnes of salmon being killed in fish farms across the Western Isles, Scotland. (Source)

(Oct 12) In Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, an oarfish washed ashore on the bustling Medano Beach, which features a view of the end of the Baja California peninsula. Oarfish are deep-water denizens that are rarely seen. But because of their long, slender appearance, and their bright-orange dorsal fins and manes, they helped spawn myths of sea serpents and sea monsters among ancient mariners. They’ve been known to reach lengths of 30-plus feet. (Source)

A series of earthquakes may be responsible for sending a rare deep ocean fish to its death on a beach in Baja – oarfish are traditionally known as the harbinger of a powerful earthquake. There are scientific theories that deep sea fish are sensitive to the movements of tectonic plates and may act uncharacteristically before an earthquake.

Dozens of great oarfish were found washed up on the shores of Japan roughly a year before the massive March 11 earthquake. The most recent sighting was on December 21, 2011, causing a commotion among the locals that another big earthquake may soon strike Japan. (Source)

Chances of Big Quake Below Tokyo Rising – Japan government prepares plan to flee Tokyo

Seismic activity has certainly increased this month along the Ring of Fire. (Oct 12) For the second time in a week, an earthquake with a magnitude greater than 5 hit Costa Rica’s pacific coast. (Oct 1) A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck off Mexico’s Pacific coast.

Powerful Earthquake Rattles Colombia: The 5th Magnitude 7 Quake to Strike in 45 days; The Ring of Fire Becoming Very Volatile

(Oct 12) THOUSANDS of fish have died in a Top End creek in the Northern Territory in Australia. (Source) A WEEKEND downpour in the Northern Territory has resulted in thousands of fish dying in the Katherine River. The mass fish kill at the popular river is thought to have been due to a combination of warmer temperatures and heavy rains on the weekend washing organic matter into the waterways. (Source)

(Oct 11) Nearly 50,000 of bangus (milkfish) went belly up in Dagupan City in the Philippines. (Source)

(Oct 10) A post mortem examination on the 11ft female juvenile whale which died after it beached at Fraisthorpe in the UK showed it was many miles from its usual feeding grounds and hadn’t fed for some time. The Sowerby’s beaked whale died from a bacterial infection of the brain, called vibrio vulnificus. (Source)

(Oct 9) A GROUP of former inmates lost about $13,000 after 8000 tilapia from their fish farm in Nadi, Fiji, mysteriously died. (Source)

(Oct 9) A large section of coastline in South Africa has been closed after a 30-metre whale washed ashore following an attack by Great Transparent sharks. Authorities say it’s possible the whale was already dead when sharks ripped into it. (Source)

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(Oct 9) The largest red tide bloom to affect Southwest Florida in years stretches nearly 100 miles from Lee County to Pinellas, with reports of fish kills and irritating red-tide air concentrated in Sarasota County. The widespread nature and intensity of the bloom, strongest off Charlotte Harbor, is the largest to affect the Sarasota area since 2007. More than seven tons of dead fish have been scooped up from Sarasota County beaches alone. (Source)

(Oct 9) Anthrax has killed hundreds of animals mostly in the communal parts of Manicaland in Zimbabwe within the past two months. Though there were no immediate reports of human deaths in the outbreak. (Source)

(Oct 7) Residents all over Chicago have been reporting a bizarre increase in bird carcasses over the last few weeks–most of them without any visible wounds–while the City of Chicago picked up 150 dead birds in September, a 50% increase from the month before. The phenomenon isn’t limited to a single species. (Source)

(Oct 7) A dead finback whale more than 50 feet in length was found floating in Boston Harbor early Sunday morning — a rarity for the area, officials said. (Source)

(Oct 7) A striped dolphin, possibly a male and approximately seven-feet long and 300 pounds, was found near a jetty at Lincoln Boulevard beach in New York. (Source)

(Oct 7) Fish farmers are incurring heavy losses due to epidemic deaths of climbing fish, locally known as koi, in Bangladesh in the last two months. (Source)

(Oct 5) More than 1,000 fish have been killed following a chlorine contamination incident in one of the last salmon-bearing streams in Vancouver, Canada. (Source)

(Oct 4) Volunteers at a fish hatchery on the Coquitlam River in British Columbia, Canada, are devastated after something killed 15,000 coho fry in their tanks last month. (Source)

(Oct 3) Three more endangered rhinos were found dead on Monday in the flood waters of the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India. While eight rhinos in the park have so far died in the ongoing third wave of floods which began on September 26 (Source) and nearly 600 wild animals including rhinos perish due to floods in July. (Source)

(Oct 2) A crew on the Mississippi River near the Highway 190 bridge spotted a four to five-foot dolphin and suspect it’s from the Gulf of Mexico. (Source)

(Oct 2) The Australian government admits the Great Barrier Reef has been neglected for decades after a study showed it has lost more than half its coral cover in the past 27 years.(Source)

(Oct 2) Scores of dead fish were found floating in the temple pond in Teppakulam, India. File Photo (Source)

(Oct 2) Complaints about dozens of dead bass, bluegills, catfish, carp and other fish lying on the surface of Rohnert Park’s Roberts Lake in California have been streaming in to the Press Democrat, online forums and even the city government. (Source)

(Oct 2) Locals on a remote island in eastern Indonesia on Tuesday cut up several dead pilot whales for food after a mass stranding that killed at least 41 of the mammals, an official said. A total of 44 pilot whales beached themselves late Monday on the island of Savu in East Nusa Tenggara province, where there is a culture of whale hunting for consumption. (Source)

Canada: More Dead Baby Beluga Whales Washed Ashore; Australia: Dramatic Increase in Whale Strandings

(Oct 1) A 40-foot humpback whale has washed ashore near a Kodiak Island community and probably will be a feast for the island’s famous bears, according to a whale expert. File Photo (Source)

(Oct 1) A whale,which is about 10m (33ft) in length, has died after beaching on a shingle bank off the Suffolk coast in the UK. (Source)

First the sea life, then follows more disease and pestilence and mass kill offs of humans. Sound depressing? Well things are just getting started! By the way, avoid swimming in lakes and ponds, because every body of water is becoming infected with viral diseases. If you enter the water with a cut or swallow the infected water, you will most likely get a very bad infection or a virus if ingested and it will spread throughout your body either way.

(Nov 11) A critically endangered Bryde’s whale has washed up dead on Motuihe Island in the Hauraki Gulf in New Zealand. (Source)

(Nov 9) HUNDREDS of dead fish have been found washed up in St Peters Billabong in New South Wales, Australia. (Source)

(Nov 9) A rare dolphin washed ashore in La Jolla in California earlier this month with a bite mark that may be from a great transparent shark. (Source)

(Nov 7) The Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Wildlife estimates that at least 6,900 fish and tadpoles died when a newly installed manure system developed a blockage. File Photo (Source)

(Nov 7) WATERBIRD experts are unsure why so many birds are dying on Lake Neangar in Victoria, Australia. (Source)

(Nov 7) Hundreds of dead fish were found along a seven-mile stretch of Bradford Branch and Bradford Creek in Ohio. (Source)

(Nov 7) An outbreak of anthrax has killed at least 30 hippopotamus and wiped out nearly 50 percent of the rare roan antelope population in South Africa’s famed Kruger National Park wildlife reserve. (Source)

(Nov 7) Shenzhen, China

(Nov 6) More than 100 cases of hemorrhagic disease have been reported in sick or dead deer in southern parishes along the Mississippi River in Louisiana. Deer deaths continue to rise (Sept, Oct) due to EHD across the Country.(Source)

(Nov 6) SCOTTISH fish farms are spreading a deadly parasite that now kills more than a third of wild salmon in the north-east Atlantic. A new international study found “unexpectedly large” numbers of wild salmon are dying in European waters every year, with 39 per cent killed by the flesh-eating lice. (Source)

(Nov 6) Nanchang, China

(Nov 5) More than five hundred pigeons suddenly dropped dead at a village in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district in India over the last four days, causing residents to fear that something was amiss. (Source)

(Nov 5) Six dead grey seal pups were found on the shore by Sauðárkrókur in Northwest Iceland. (Source)

(No 4) At least 1 240 cattle have died across Zimbabwe due to persistent drought, as the government battles to provide adequate relief to affected farming communities. File Photo (Source)

(Nov 4) For a third successive day, locals have discovered distressed animals beached on the islands northwest of Tasmania in Australia. On Saturday, 60 pilot whales and 20 bottlenose dolphins were found on New Year Island. (Source)

(Nov 4) Department of Livestock Services (DLS)in Bangladesh culled more than 4000 poultry birds as the avian influenza has started to inject the local poultry farms in onset of winter. File Photo (Source)

(Nov 3) In a dramatic scene along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Schoolcraft County, researchers have recently discovered the carcasses of nearly 700 dead waterbirds, thought to be the victims of Type-E botulism. (Source)

(Nov 2) The body of a 13.6m (44.6ft) whale has been found washed up on a Dorset beach in the UK. Specialists believe the animal could be a juvenile fin whale – the second largest species of whale in the world. If correct, this will be the first recorded fin whale reported dead or alive in Dorset. (Source)

(Nov 2) On Friday, 13 dolphins were found beached at Quarantine Bay on King Island in Tasmania, Australia. (Source)

(Nov 1) An investigation is underway to determine the deaths of dozens of sea turtles that washed up on Egypt’s Mediterranean shore last week. (Source)

(Nov 1) Casualties of Hurricane Sandy included 1 million unfortunate bees at the Brooklyn Grange’s Navy Yard urban farming project. Twenty-five hives each containing around 40,000 bees were torn apart Monday night. (Source)

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