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Bats invade the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia - 29 Feb 2008
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It is census time in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens.But it is not humans who are being counted. It is the furry winged invaders that occupied the green sanctuary during the drought and have turned it into their inner-city squat. A year ago, said Tim Entwisle, the executive director of the Botanic Gardens Trust, it was thought the gardens were home to about 11,000 grey-headed flying foxes. Now, he suspects, there could be twice that many. "They are slowly trashing the place," he said. Branches have been breaking under their weight and their urine and droppings have been poisoning plants. "They are destroying the palm grove," said Dr Entwisle. "They are killing the trees. We have had 12 trees die and 45 are on the critical list. A couple on the critical list were planted in the 1820s."Although the new count, being undertaken by volunteers, will not be completed for several weeks, Dr Entwisle expects it will confirm that previous estimates of the flying fox population have been wildly underestimated. Among trees under threat is a flowering ash that was almost killed by the drought.In the 1990s, flying fox numbers were dramatically reduced by staff bashing metal lids, frightening the animals away. Now the gardens trust is seeking government permission to resume the evictions, possibly using mobile loud speakers on buggies to disturb them. Dr Entwisle said the evictions, if approved, would probably not begin until autumn next year, after the next breeding season. "The welfare of the flying foxes is important to us."
Bat Colony Overwhelming Botanic Garden
BAT COLONY OVERWHELMING BOTANIC GARDEN
It's census time at Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens; however, it isn't people or even flowers that are due to be counted but a swarm of furry winged squatters.
A drought has meant that the lush spaces of the botanical gardens have...
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USA Volunteer Group Lags in Replacing Gulf Houses
Volunteers prepare to cut wood at Habitat for Humanity's musician village in New Orleans February 7, 2007. Almost 18 months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than 250,000 homes, Habitat for Humanity says it has built just 10 houses for poor hurricane victims here, 36 in New Orleans, and a total of 416 along the entire coast, from Alabama to Texas. More are under construction, for a total of 702.
That slower pace reflects, in part, the more complex houses that Habitat builds in the United States, as well as the mind numbing issues involving insurance costs and government regulations that seem to have bogged down efforts to rebuild after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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JERRY HALL HELPING VOLUNTEERS AT THE THAMES LANDSCAPE STRATEGY LOTTERY FUNDED PROJECT 'LONDON'S ARCADIA', LONDON, BRITAIN - 16 MAY 2005
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Jerry Hall helping volunteers as part of the Thames Landscape Strategy's GBP 3.3m Heritage Lottery funded project, London's Arcadia.
JERRY HALL HELPING VOLUNTEERS AT THE THAMES LANDSCAPE STRATEGY LOTTERY FUNDED PROJECT 'LONDON'S ARCADIA', LONDON, BRITAIN - 16 MAY 2005
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EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DISASTER, THAILAND - 31 DEC 2004
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Volunteers sort the bodies out so they can be put into body bags, and then they can be taken to the morgue, where they will have DNA sample taken from them. Near Khao Lak, about 100kms north of Phuket
EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DISASTER, THAILAND - 31 DEC 2004
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EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DISASTER, THAILAND - 31 DEC 2004
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Leon Schadeberg / Rex Features (507913d)
Volunteers sort the bodies out so they can be put into body bags, and then they can be taken to the morgue, where they will have DNA sample taken from them. Near Khao Lak, about 100kms north of Phuket
EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DISASTER, THAILAND - 31 DEC 2004
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ASIAN EARTHQUAKE DISASTER, PHUKET, THAILAND - 27 DEC 2004
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Leon Schadeberg / Rex Features (507717k)
Volunteers clean up of Patong beach, in the aftermath of the tsunami. Patong is the busiest part of Phuket with hotels, bars, and shops in a very tightly condensed area, and being peak season had thousands of tourists in the area
ASIAN EARTHQUAKE DISASTER, PHUKET, THAILAND - 27 DEC 2004
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ASIAN EARTHQUAKE DISASTER, PHUKET, THAILAND - 27 DEC 2004
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Leon Schadeberg / Rex Features (507717j)
Volunteers clean up of Patong beach, in the aftermath of the tsunami. Patong is the busiest part of Phuket with hotels, bars, and shops in a very tightly condensed area, and being peak season had thousands of tourists in the area
ASIAN EARTHQUAKE DISASTER, PHUKET, THAILAND - 27 DEC 2004
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ASIAN EARTHQUAKE DISASTER, PHUKET, THAILAND - 27 DEC 2004
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Leon Schadeberg / Rex Features (507717h)
Volunteers clean up of Patong beach, in the aftermath of the tsunami. Patong is the busiest part of Phuket with hotels, bars, and shops in a very tightly condensed area, and being peak season had thousands of tourists in the area
ASIAN EARTHQUAKE DISASTER, PHUKET, THAILAND - 27 DEC 2004
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TERRORIST ATTACK ON WORLD TRADE CENTER, NEW YORK, AMERICA - 11 SEP 2001
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At 26 Federal Plaza volunteers make stretchers and jump on trucks with them to go to the World Trade Centre disaster site.
TERRORIST ATTACK ON WORLD TRADE CENTER, NEW YORK, AMERICA - 11 SEP 2001
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Mono Negative
These prisoners from the California Penal Institution have offerd themselves as ' Human guinea pigs ' to assist science in the battle of the dreaded ' Black Death ', which takes the various forms of bubonic, pneumonic and septicemic plagues. The purpose of the tests carried out at San Quentin, California, is to ascertain how much immunity is built up in the bloodstreams of individuals after vaccination and to establish for the first time a numerical index of immunity in human beings.
Seen here: Dr Karl F Meyer, Director of the Hooper Foundation for Medial Research of the University of California, injects a vaccine made from ' killed ' plague bacilli into a San Quentin prison inmate as other prisoners - volunteer Human Guinea Pigs line up, waiting for their turn.
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