Мужчина, снявший на видео рысь в Алтайском крае, получил штраф!

Мужчина, снявший на видео рысь в Алтайском крае, получил штраф! Животное не пострадало… Фото: instagram.com/min_prirodyak В феврале Минприроды Алтайского края опубликовало в инстаграм-аккаунте видео из Рубцовского района. На видео видно, как рысь сидит на берёзе, а мужчина снимает её на телефон. В Министерстве решили проверить, не угрожала ли животному опасность, и обратились к охотоведам. Стало известно, что мужчины очень хотели рассмотреть рысь поближе, поэтому они начали преследовать рысь на снегоходе. «Когда хищнику надоело это преследование, рысь взобралась на дерево. Что было дальше — видели все. Красоты невероятной рысь! Залюбуешься, пожалуй. Но стресс, который причинили люди животному, дорого им обойдется. Ситуация указывает на признаки „охоты“ (выслеживание и преследование) согласно терминологии Правил охоты, утвержденных Приказом МПР…

U.S. near authorization of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine

By Manas Mishra and Michael Erman (Reuters) – U.S. regulators on Friday said they would work quickly to authorize Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use after a panel of outside advisers backed the one-shot immunization. The Food and Drug Administration is expected to decide on emergency use by Saturday for what would be the third vaccine available in the United States, and the only one that requires a single shot. The agency told J&J that “it will rapidly work toward finalization and issuance of an emergency use authorization,”…

Battle for Nigeria: Our bandits are better than yours

SOON all parts of Nigeria would be boasting about the quality of their bandits. Since criminal atrocities have been down-graded to banditry, the perpetual battle for ownership of Nigeria has assumed newer, more intriguing dimensions. Where is South East in the on-going restructuring of Nigeria? Some indicators: Nigeria deploys full military might on the Eastern Security Network (ESN), but negotiates with AK-47-bearing bandits in the forests of Northern Nigeria. Governors of those parts, their leaders, intellectuals are locked in multi-layered debates about appeasing bandits. Is this option wit…

‘A country that liberated slaves.’ Hawley minimizes racism’s role in US history

Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley pushed back against the national reckoning over systemic racism in a speech Friday, presenting the U.S. as a nation that had “liberated slaves” and positioning himself as leader of a new nationalist movement. Hawley addressed the American Conservative Union’s annual CPAC conference in Orlando and urged the crowd to embrace “a new nationalism” during a speech likely meant to serve as an audition for a future presidential run. He launched a critique of the reckoning that has taken place nationwide in the wake of George…

Time’s Up criticizes lack of Black members among Golden Globes voters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Time’s Up movement on Friday launched a campaign criticizing the lack of diversity in the organization that hands out the Golden Globes for film and television. Two days before the annual Golden Globes awards ceremony, Time’s Up posted banners on its Twitter account saying: “Hollywood Foreign Press Association: Not a Single Black Member Out of 87,” with the slogan “A cosmetic fix isn’t enough.” The Golden Globes are chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFP) and have grown to be one of the most…

Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera in spring training: ‘I feel like I did back in 2014’

LAKELAND, Fla. — Former two-time American League MVP Miguel Cabrera, the elder statesman of the Detroit Tigers, took batting practice Friday, surrounded by up-and-coming prospects, at Joker Marchant Stadium. And then the soon-to-be 38-year-old explained why his body feels like it did in 2014, just two years after he sat on baseball’s throne as the Triple Crown winner. That year, at age 31, he played 159 games — more than in any season since. “Right now, I feel like I did back when I was in 2014,” Cabrera said Friday.…