2004-10-24

Posted at 03:20 UT by Tamara

HONORABLE MENTION - 7th Annual Earth Vision International Environmental Video Festival Florida's Endangered Species
4 Segments of the Friday evening, 5:30 p.m. weekly Cable Broadcast Series of
Tamara Lynn Scott

Four individual, thirty- minute Segments of " Florida's Endangered Species" in the weekly Broadcast Cable Series of Tamara Lynn Scott have each won Honorable Mention in the 7th Annual Earth Vision International Environmental Video and Film Festival for 2004.

These Segments will be airing on Friday and Saturday evenings and mornings from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. for the next year along with other award winning films chosen from the 2004 International contestants. The Producers will be receiving awards on Saturday, October 30th, at an awards ceremony and party held at Community Television of Santa Cruz County, 816 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, California, at 6 p.m.

Contents of the Four Award winning segments can be perused in the transcripts posted on-line at this site, and cover interviews at Florida's Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary - Flamingo Gardens with Director of Animal Care, on the Florida Wood Stork, Gopher Turtle, Eastern Indigo Snake, Flamingo, Wood Duck, and others, and with Vanishing Species on the Florida Panther, the most endangered of North American species, the Bengal Tiger, and canned animal hunts, amoung others, transcripts also available to peruse on-line.

Copies of the Broadcasts are available to air to all not for profit, public access, educational television stations on a no cost for airing basis.

2004 July 21, Wednesday International Environmental Festival 2004 Entrees Segment 22 Floridas Endangered Species

http://tamarals.blogspot.com/2003_01_26_tamarals_archive.html#88201295 2003-01-29
Posted at 05:57 UT by Tamara Lynn Scott
Tape 6 :Segment 22 Interviews of Tamara Lynn Scott: "Florida's Endangered Species"
Flamingo Gardens Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary with Michael P. Ruggieri: Director of Animal Care
December 31st, 2002 Davies, Florida
:20 seconds: Endangered Wood Storks : Recreate the Habitat of Drying lakes

"They are in South America too?"

"Yes, in South America, You'll find them all along the Gulf coast. Louisiana, Texas, Alabama."

"You were saying that the problem in trying to breed them, Is basically you have to re-create the habitat of the drying lakes."

"Right." See Video under files at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FloridasEndangeredSpecies

Posted at 05:35 UT by Tamara Lynn Scott

Tape 6 :Segment 21
Interviews of Tamara Lynn Scott:Florida's Endangered Species
Flamingo Gardens Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary
with Michael P. Ruggieri: Director of Animal Care
December 31st, 2002
Davies, Florida
1:19 minutes: You Can't Duplicate the Drying of the Everglades

"You can't duplicate the drying of the Everglades."

"No" "We tried increasing the food, We tried putting food out here all day long, To let the birds know You have all the food in the world, If you want to raise your babies, We'll give you everything you need. But it really didn't seem to work, I don't know whether or not, You know, it may take more. But our two pair that we have, Every year they build a huge nest. You'll actually see copulation going on, You'll see the female sitting on that nest for Days and days and days. But they've never dropped the eggs. They go through all the motions, And we think that they're gonna do it every year But they've never dropped an egg."

"And you say that most the populations are heading to the North of Florida where their landscape is still untouched?"

"Yeh, a lot of them have moved up the state."

"And you were saying there was a program to set some of that landscape aside so there's a space for them?"

"Yes. Especially when they get the Kissimmee River back to normal. that will create all these small wetlands areas, and if we ever have a dry season, Some of those ponds will start to dry up. And The fish will get concentrated And may trigger them to breed."

See Video Cuts at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FloridasEndangeredSpecies

2003-01-28 Posted at 05:50 UT by Tamara Lynn Scott
Tape 6 :Segment 21
Interviews of Tamara Lynn Scott:
Florida's Endangered Species
Flamingo Gardens Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary
with Michael P. Ruggieri: Director of Animal Care
December 31st, 2002
Davies, Florida
1:04 minutes:
Barometers of the Wetlands

"In the wild they have to know they have at least 400 pounds of fish within a 3 month period, in order for them to sustain life, and for them to raise an offspring. So if the everglades doesn't dry out naturally and all these fish that are in the everglades get consentrated in small ponds, where it makes it easy fishing for these birds. they will not breed".

"So no one's been able to get them to breed successfully in captivity as far as you know?"

"No. I don't think anybody has, Now where these birds came from, When they first got it, It did drop an egg,

"They had captured them in the wild, and it was already impregnated."

"Right. They artificially incubated it. The baby did hatch out.. but it died 5 days later, it was born with some kind of disease."

"So the only way to save these birds Is to keep their habitat." "Oh Yes! Definitely! Keep Their Habitat! The Wood Stork is also called the Barometer of the wetlands. They're the indicator on how well your welands are doing. If you have wood storks in your wet lands, It's surviving. If they leave it, Thats telling you there's something wrong."

"So they're like the canaries of the mines, for the everglades."

"Right. "

See Yahoo Group Site for Video Cuts and Photos

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FloridasEndangeredSpecies

Posted at 05:42 UT by Tamara Lynn Scott
Tape 6 Segment 22
Interviews of Tamara Lynn Scott:
Florida's Endangered Species
Flamingo Gardens Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary
with Michael P. Ruggieri Director of Animal Care
December 31st, 2002
Davies, Florida
1:19 minutes

" What About the Gopher Tortoises?"

"There is going to be some problems. Where years ago they drained some of the Everglades. You have areas of land out there that's been dry for 20 years, Now that land is going to be back underwater. And My biggest concern is what are they going to do with these animals? What about the Gopher Tortoises?"
I hope they remove some of these animals before they open up the dams, And flood these areas."

" Maybe they can do it gradually, so the animals will have a chance to run away."

" Exactly. Exactly."

"People around the world are watching this scenario. Are there any other similar senarios in other lands? Where they have the same problems and could use the same solutions?"

"Well there's problems all over this world Some of our river systems are so polluted with factories along side of them. There are quite a few animals that are endangered around the United States, due to just poor water quality, the water is so poor to drink."

"Now which department is handling that. down here? Is it Fish and Game?"

"It would be Water Management. It would be the Army Corp of Engineers."

"Do You Think They're Doing a Good Job? Do You Think They're Doing All They Can Do? "

" Well---"

See Yahoo Group Site for Video Cuts and Photos

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FloridasEndangeredSpecies

Posted at 05:36 UT by Tamara Lynn Scott
Tape 6 :Segment 21 Interviews of Tamara Lynn Scott:
Florida's Endangered Species
Flamingo Gardens Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary
with Michael P. Ruggieri: Director of Animal Care
December 31st, 2002
Davies, Florida
48 seconds:
Flamingo Roundup:Double Clutch

"Whenever Zoos want Flamingo's they get permits to collect them out of the wild. Well the wild flock here in Florida is the Hialeah Racetrack. So they use to go down there when they had the babies, The babies couldn't fly yet. They'd go out there and herd up all the babies, And then take how many babies they have for the permit. Well this year we decided let's take the eggs, Cause if we take the eggs, Then They'll probably double clutch. They'll go ahead and lay another egg cause they lost their first egg.

"That's Clever!"

"That way They can produce that population without having the impact of collecting them."

"And are these eggs shared with places all over the world?"

"All over the United States. I don't know about all over the world."

See Yahoo Group Site for Video Cuts and Photos

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FloridasEndangeredSpecies

Posted at 00:01 UT by Tamara Lynn Scott
Tape 6: Segment 21 Interviews of Tamara Lynn Scott;
Florida's Endangered Species
Flamingo Gardens Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary
Michael P. Ruggieri Director of Animal Care
December 31st, 2002
Davies, Florida
1:09 minutes
Reflooding the Everglades

"The Kissimmee River use to twist and turn for miles and miles. And what they did, is they made it one big straight canal. So they dug it down like 40 - 50 even 60 feet deep. So all along side the river there's a 35 foot high wall of dirt, And that dirt has to go somewhere So they have to put that dirt back into the canals." "Well When they put it back into the canal, Whats gonna happen is the land will start to flood around it, creating these big wetlands areas. That's what happened years ago. There were so many farmers in that area, and small towns, And these towns during a hurricane would be 4 to 5 feet underwater. So they built this canal to try to drain off the land quicker so they wouldn't have these floods. So now they have to buy back all this land that they're going to start flooding."

"So They know what the solution is. It's a matter of getting it into place now."

"Right."

"And so they think it's about a 30 year program?"

"Yes, it's about a 30 year program they said we'll take up."

See Video Cuts on-line at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FloridasEndangeredSpecies 2003-01-27

Posted at 23:04 UT by Tamara Lynn Scott
Tape 6: Segment 21
Interviews of Tamara Lynn Scott at Flamingo Gardens:
Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary
with Michael P.Ruggieri - Director of Animal Care
December 31st, 2002
Davies, Florida
43 seconds:
We Can Conquer Our Own Ills.

" They don't want to go in there and destroy that whole canal system, and find out they did something wrong. So right now they're on the testing program of it.".

"And the whole world is watching to see what's happening."

"Oh yes. Oh Yes. I mean this is very important. This is our Drinking Water"

"It's our life chain.."

"Right." "If the everglades is ever gone... Plus the Everglades is the largest swamps and environmental area, It's the largest in the United States. It's known worldwide. You know." "There are species here that are nowhere else." "And its like we have to prove We have to prove as a nation, as a civilization that we can Fix whatever we ( mess up )"

"That we can Conquer our own ills."

"Exactly. Exactly."

See Yahoogroup Site for Video cuts:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FloridasEndangeredSpecies