{"id":6139,"date":"2025-04-02T17:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T00:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2025-04-03T11:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:18:49","slug":"otnp-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/otnp-april-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"OTNP APRIL 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning lovely people.<\/p>\n<p>In Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s acceptance of the 26th Mark Twain Prize he said: \u201cAccepting an award named after Mark Twain is a responsibility. One cannot invoke Twain without understanding who he was and what he stood for.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;.<br \/>\n&#8220;Twain wrote, \u2018Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-181.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-181-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-181-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-181-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-181-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-181-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-181.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chng.it\/9Dj4vKwbK5\">https:\/\/chng.it\/9Dj4vKwbK5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please ask our environmental organizations to provide basic information on what pesticides Our [toxic!] national parks are spraying.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240905_092541-scaled.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nHow many of you remember my gold spotted oak borer post (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/dirt\/\">https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/dirt\/<\/a>) where I criticized California&#8217;s use of carbaryl in our oak forests?<\/p>\n<p>Well just a current update<br \/>\nQuote:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ajfCC7VHLi\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewlede.org\/2025\/03\/judge-orders-wildlife-service-to-do-more-to-protect-imperiled-species-pesticides\/\">Judge orders wildlife service to do more to protect imperiled species from pesticides<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Judge orders wildlife service to do more to protect imperiled species from pesticides&#8221; &#8212; The New Lede\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenewlede.org\/2025\/03\/judge-orders-wildlife-service-to-do-more-to-protect-imperiled-species-pesticides\/embed\/#?secret=YlwMiI40IT#?secret=ajfCC7VHLi\" data-secret=\"ajfCC7VHLi\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nA federal judge ruled late Wednesday that the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) must finish assessing the impact of five pesticides on endangered and threatened species, and that the agency had violated federal law with its \u201cunreasonable\u201d delay in completing the required analyses.<\/p>\n<p>The five chemicals include the weed killers atrazine and simazine, and the insecticides chlorpyrifos, diazinon, and carbaryl.<br \/>\nEnd quote:<\/p>\n<p>Carbaryl<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit above was brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Thank goodness there are still some people who are thinking in the world.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/download.jpeg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And why does the _Canadian_ Sierra Club have a big section on pesticides? The US Sierra Club strategically has a page (supposedly) but the link is broken and has been for over a year even though I&#8217;ve notified them of it many times. I would never think that they are taking mega donations from the pesticide manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>91% of the 1,800 animals and plants supposedly protected by the Endangered Species Act were found to be _likely_ harmed by carbaryl. _91%_ but hey it breaks down quickly. Well _not_. &#8230;. So it&#8217;s okay.<br \/>\nWell _not_.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160126_135812-300x170.png\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is not just Trump. Somehow it started in California under Biden. And I know many of you don&#8217;t want to hear that, but the pesticide industry has both sides in its pocket, as well as our national park bureaucracy, and a few of our big environmental organizations as well.<\/p>\n<p>Carbaryl, and many other pesticides that aren&#8217;t even on this current lawsuit are just not good for our oak forests or Our Toxic National Parks.<br \/>\nThe best to you all!<\/p>\n<h5>For past OTNP (#_OTNP on X) issues.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/past-ourtoxicnationalparks-posts\/\">https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/past-ourtoxicnationalparks-posts\/<\/a><\/h5>\n<h6>But you may want to start here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/why-i-started-this\/\">www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/why-i-started-this\/<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>If you have received this as a forward and would like to continue receiving it please email me <a href=\"mailto: vidaaquatic@gmail.com\">&#8220;vidaaquatic@gmail.com&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nAnd if you would like to donate as little as $5 to the cause, you can Zelle it to vidaaquatic@gmail.com. thank you very much. 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