Hundreds of fishes found dead in lakes of Brazil Central

Hundreds of fishes of various species and sizes were found dead in lakes of Brazil Central. Photo: TVCA

BRAZIL. MATO GROSSO state. In the city of Porto Alegre do Norte, distant 1,143 km from Cuiaba (capital of the state), hundreds of fishes of various species and sizes were found dead in the waters of  "Lago de Fora" (Lake of Out), situated in a environmental preservation zone at the region called Araguaia.

The opinions about the phenomenon, however, are controversial. An expert of the Secretary of State Environment (SEMA) reports that since October, the same problem is occurring in the other five lakes State Park Araguia and even thus says that it is a natural phenomenon. 

But the representative of the Pastoral Land of the Catholic Church, Luis Claudio Silva - classifies the phenomenon as environmental chaos. For Luis Claudio the fishes death is fault of pesticides used in a soybean nearby the lakes: The poison used in these crops, that is sprayed - on the fields - by airplanes, may have contaminated the water. 

The coordinator of the Unidade de Conservação da SEMA (Unit of Conservation of the Secretary of State for the Environment), Alexandre Batistela, raises a third possibility: an increase in the volume of organic matter that, carried by the heavy rains, can has reached rivers and lakes. 

The situation may have been exacerbated by a fire, suspicious of have be caused by human agents, that recently destroyed 80% of the park vegetation.

At Brazil, the most absurd on this type of occurrence is the slowness of the investigation of causes. Just as in that case. The death of the fishes is happening already there a month in five lakes, but, during whole this time, none laboratory analysis about the causative agent of these deaths was provided by the "experts" .

SOURCE: Peixes de várias espécies aparecem mortos em lago de Mato Grosso.

CIRCUITO MATO GROSSO/BRAZIL, published in 25/11/2012.

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The cannibal leopard of Nepal

Another case: at India, a leopard in full attack to a police officer. Deprived of the forests, their natural habitats, large predators are vying for space with humans in the vicinities of the new urban areas.

NEPAL. Saturday, November 3, 2012. The head of a child of 4 years old that had disappeared on Friday (02/11/2012), was found in western of Nepal. The boy was attacked and eaten by a mysterious and ruthless leopard that is terrorizing to the people at the country.

The police chief of the district of Baitadi - Kamal Prasad Khael, told EFE news agency that the head was found about a mile from the house where the child lived, near to a forest.

In three months, there are already 16 - the fatal victims of feline, 11 children and five women, of whom the oldest was 29. Police suspect it is the same animal that is hunting humans ... because this kind of predator always hunts alone.

In Baitadi district, the population is alarmed. Experts were called in to try to locate the leopard and a reward of 25,000 rupees (about $ 300) is been offered for the capture of the beast.

According to experts, the attacks of big cats to humans are proliferating in the Indian subcontinent because of the process of industrialization and urban expansion that every day is exterminating the forest enviroments that are the natural habitat of these predators.

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SOURCE: El misterioso e implacable leopardo que se ha comido ya a 16 personas.

PERIODISTA DIGITAL, published in 03/11/2012.

[http://www.periodistadigital.com/ciencia/mundo-animal/2012/11/03/nepal-misterioso-felino-implacable-leopardo-nino-crio-humano-comido-16-personas.shtml]