Abstract This paper explains that the petite Channel Island fox, urocyon littoralis, endemic to the California Channel Islands, has become near extinction because of the invasion of non-native species, misguided conservation efforts and rampant canine distemper disease. The author points out that, in an effort to save the San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike, lanius ludovicianus mearnsi, one of the most endangered birds in the world, which is a prey of the Channel Island fox, careless conservation efforts reduced the San Clemente (one of the Channel Islands) fox so rapidly that its population then became endangered. The paper stresses that conservation is more complex than looking at a primary cause alone: For the Channel Island Fox, this means trapping and relocating golden eagles, reintroducing bald eagles, removing feral pigs, replacing exotic grasslands for native ones, and above all, monitoring the foxes. The paper is attractive with many photographs and captions.
Table of Contents:
Scorch and Sizzle
Plagued by an Epidemic
The Hitch with the Shrike
The Flying Catastrophe
Taking a Wider Glance
From the Paper "The good news is that predator control is starting to work. Since 2004, there have been no golden eagles on the islands of San Miguel and Santa Cruz. San Miguel Island has also released ten island foxes from their captive breeding program to begin to repopulate the subspecies. In addition, all three islands now have a total of 25 resident bald eagles that have been relocated there in order to bring this native species back. The bald eagles kept the golden eagles away once before, so they may be able to do it again."
Abstract This paper discusses how, when King Lear abdicates the throne and invests his daughters with power, he unwittingly ushers in disorder, chaos and discord and how the language used unequivocally conveys turmoil inflicted by the female. Goneril and Regan are ambitious, unscrupulous, they precipitate unrest and perpetrate violence. It looks at how the discomposed state in the kingdom, in the family and in the individual is gendered female where Shakespeare depicts the frequent disorganization and distempers as originating in the woman. It also discusses how witches, perverse goddesses, omens of ill-portent are images employed by Shakespeare to further illustrate and impress the state of anarchy and the reign of abomination.
From the Paper "Sexual disorder and sexual immorality in Lear are more ascribed to the female. The whore and the adulteress are dissolute women given to desire and lust - objectionable qualities in women. Gloucester proudly boasts that Edmund's mother was a whore who gives birth to a deviant, bastard child. Goneril refuses to accommodate Lear's one hundred knights for she fears that the palace be degraded to a "brothel". This opinion is loaded with irony since she prostitutes herself for power and later for her paramour, Edmund. The palace is already tainted with whoredom. Blind Fortune who curses and dooms the downtrodden at her very caprice is called "that arrant whore who ne'er turns the key to the poor". Likewise Cordelia calls blind Fortune "False Fortune" which signifies that she is an adulteress who is unfaithful to her conjugal pledge. "
