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It is both awful and mundane, just another day that Paul has to suffer in a Russian labor colony for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Another day that our parents have to suffer without being able to see or be with their son, it is both a culmination of lost life – four years of missed birthdays, Christmases, and other experiences – and also not an end point. – American Paul Whelan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Even if the reports about Navalny being transferred to the Melekhovo Penal Colony are true, it is hardly a relief. This colony is known to be one of the toughest and most torturous in Russia, before Navalny’s appeal to a nine-year sentence in a maximum-security prison was upheld, there were already rumors he would be transferred to this colony. – Anna Veduta	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This method attracts males, but if they've already mated, the females are free to fly off and start a new colony. – James Nieh	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If previously an earthquake or flood came into a small village or colony, everybody came together and found ways to rescue. When Covid comes, the first thought everybody has is keep away, it's an unknown ghost. People with collective spirit and traditions of community action are partly wary today of these kinds of things. – Sudarshan Suchi	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's crazy the ones we have removed from there because generally an average colony of bees that have moved in and' set up shop' so to speak, will be about 40,000 bees on average, and as you can see, the ones there are gigantic, word on the street is it's a great place to live ! – Bobby Chaisson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Africanized( honey bee) colony is a whole different ballgame and the way they are managed and behave, especially when you are dealing with that species of honeybee, absolutely, the vibration of a lawnmower, the vibration of a weed eater, kids banging or stomping around close by -- they will get defensive. – Bobby Chaisson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Alexey Navalny is now in the colony, Alexey Navalny life hanging on a thread, alexey Navalny has been on a hunger strike for several weeks now, demanding medical attention. Alexey Navalny condition is critical, and we do not know how much longer Alexey Navalny can hold out. But it is clear that we do not have time. – Leonid Volkov	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Mole rat colonies are incredibly xenophobic. If a mole rat comes from a different colony, within minutes, they are recognized and usually killed by the colony it invades. – Gary Lewin	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Because they huddle together and take care of each other, it doesnt take long for a pathogen to get passed from one end of the colony to the other. – Bruce Patterson	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We're concerned about whether honeybee colony losses are still high and whether we're making any progress in bringing them down. – Peyton Ferrier	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Emperor penguins at the Halley Bay colony in Weddell Sea have failed to raise chicks for the last three years, the colony has now all but disappeared. – Peter Fretwell	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The black-footed ferrets prey on prairie dogs so it was once thought that elimination programs for the dogs, considered a nuisance to farmers and ranchers, were impacting the ferret population. Now, there was a concerted effort by the state to rebuild the black-footed ferret population. On a recent day, volunteers made their way to small-town Seligman and met for training on the first night inside a rented home in a rural neighborhood that Arizona Game and Fish uses for the operation. One of those volunteers is Robert Coonrod, who bought a pick-up truck and rigged it with overhead lights specifically for the night-time searches. Robert Coonrod has been volunteering for five years. Though hes not a biologist, he enjoys helping out wildlife and found a new photography hobby while volunteering. HUNTERS TURN TO HIPSTERS TO HELP BOOST SPORTS DECLINING NUMBERS One of the volunteers is Robert Coonrod, who bought a pick-up truck and rigged it with overhead lights specifically for the night-time searches. ( Fox News) Were looking for a ferret to be outside his hole. We drive down, he gets curious, looks at the lights, you see the green eyes shine, and then its off to the races, Robert Coonrod said. Once the animalis spotted, volunteers run towardit and set up a trap. But they have to first hopscotch around prairie dog burrows that dot the landscape. Sometimes it can be very entertaining watching people run across a prairie dog colony because youre so focused on the ferret that you forget about all these holes on the ground, Holly Hicks said. Yeah, every one of us has tripped and fallen in a prairie dog hole after chasing after a ferret. ARIZONA MAN PICKED UP NEWBORN FAWN, TOOK IT TO LOCAL BAR, OFFICIALS SAY With freezing temperates on the first night of the search, around 10 of the volunteers showed up, including Arizona State Univerisity biology graduate Angelica Varela, who will soon be starting an internship with Bird Conservancy of the Rockies. With freezing temperates on the first night of the search, around 10 of the volunteers showed up( Fox News)( When I started) volunteering( for other wildlife organizations) and really getting boots on the ground and realizing the hard work that actually goes into it, its really important and its really satisfying being able to know that you had a part in helping a species, as conservation work, I mean were doing this so that eventually we dont have to keep doing it. Angelica Varela drove up from Phoenix with Angelica Varela friend, Brandi Kapos, who is an Olive Garden waitress and an Arizona State Univerisity conservation biology graduate. Shes looking to return to school to get a masters degree in Geographic Information Systems. Before Angelica Varela and Brandi Kapos got their assignment from Jennifer Cordova for the night, they said they had energy drinks and candy. Angelica Varela said Angelica Varela was pumped. With freezing temperates on the first night of the search, around 10 of the volunteers showed up, including Arizona State Univerisity biology graduates Angelica Varela and Brandi Kapos. ( Fox News) Jennifer Cordova said the goal is to get the black-footed ferret off the endangered species list. Fox News important because wildlife dont have a say -- theydont have a voice out there, Holly Hicks said. So, its people like us who manage and try to keep that voice out there and people aware. Our passion comes from a lot of places. We love animals. We want to see wildlife in the future for future generations. Only found in North America, this wild animal differs from the European pet ferrets that are domesticated. The black-footed ferret was once thought extinct until 18 were found in 1981. Since then, recovery and breeding efforts have helped the black-footed ferret population grow. I kind of feel like its our duty. – Angelica Varela	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I think its a pity that they have closed what could have been a model prison, they were self-supporting, they (inmates) were producing. They grew vegetables. They had cattle, goats, pigs. There was a fish farm and a salt works ... the problem was political, the authorities decided not to continue as a penal colony, and so little by little it fell apart. – Rogelio Zedillo	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We're still connected to them, maybe as a colony used to be, but we're not governed by them, we just want to stay as we are, British. We don't need anything to change. All we hope is that things on the frontier don't change either. – Steven Grant	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
No relationship between a colony and the federal government can ever be called ‘successful’ because Puerto Ricans lack certain inalienable rights enjoyed by our fellow Americans in the states. The historical relationship between Puerto Rico and Washington is unfair and unAmerican. It is certainly not a successful relationship, this was the worst natural disaster in our modern history. Our basic infrastructure was devastated, thousands of our people lost their lives and many others still struggle. – Puerto Rico	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
One of the reasons that we wanted to bring a bee hive to the vice president's residence was because we wanted to help our bee population and we do have colony collapse disorder. – Karen Pence	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We are truly headed for the status of a colony - and many will struggle to see the economic or political advantage of that particular arrangement. – Boris Johnson	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Hurricane Maria unmasked that we are a colony, i ’m just tired of the way my island has been treated. – Julio Pabon	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Abdul Ghani 65, lived in the northwestern Pakistan city of Jehangira for almost 39 years, and moved Abdul Ghani 65 family to Abdul Ghani 65 native Kunar Province in Afghanistan October. Now Abdul Ghani 65 finds Abdul Ghani 65 and Abdul Ghani 65 family caught up in the struggled that go along with a homecoming. Look at the situation of house, a hut in a tent colony for refugees. We have no safe drinking water and our children have not enough clothes. I never expected to face this condition in my native country. – Abdul Ghani	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Look at nature. A single bee cannot really do much. But you put a group of bees together and they can form a hive. A colony of bees that work in harmony. Each one doing its part. Some bees collect pollen. Some bees tend to the hive. Some bees guard the hive. Some bees tend to the nursery. Together they make a lot of honey. – H.W. Mann	added by howardmann 6 years ago
They are a vulnerable species that need all the help they can get, it’s unlikely the Otago Peninsula colony would exist at all without ongoing human intervention, including the control of introduced predators such as stoats and cats. – Andrea Crawford	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It's the right time for Colony Capital to do more in China, over the next three-to-five years Asia, and China in particular, will be the fastest growing part of our business. – Justin Chang	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This law makes a man insecure, this law is an attempt to make Pakistan a Western colony again. – Fazlur Rehman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I want to sing songs about flowers and butterflies, but while the political system remains unchanged, I can't sing songs about love because I live in a matrix, in a state which is a colony of banks and corporations. – Piotr Liroy-Marzec	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

It is both awful and mundane, just another day that Paul has to suffer in a Russian labor colony for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Another day that our parents have to suffer without being able to see or be with their son, it is both a culmination of lost life – four years of missed birthdays, Christmases, and other experiences – and also not an end point.

– American Paul Whelan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even if the reports about Navalny being transferred to the Melekhovo Penal Colony are true, it is hardly a relief. This colony is known to be one of the toughest and most torturous in Russia, before Navalny’s appeal to a nine-year sentence in a maximum-security prison was upheld, there were already rumors he would be transferred to this colony.

– Anna Veduta

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This method attracts males, but if they've already mated, the females are free to fly off and start a new colony.

– James Nieh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If previously an earthquake or flood came into a small village or colony, everybody came together and found ways to rescue. When Covid comes, the first thought everybody has is keep away, it's an unknown ghost. People with collective spirit and traditions of community action are partly wary today of these kinds of things.

– Sudarshan Suchi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's crazy the ones we have removed from there because generally an average colony of bees that have moved in and' set up shop' so to speak, will be about 40,000 bees on average, and as you can see, the ones there are gigantic, word on the street is it's a great place to live !

– Bobby Chaisson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Africanized( honey bee) colony is a whole different ballgame and the way they are managed and behave, especially when you are dealing with that species of honeybee, absolutely, the vibration of a lawnmower, the vibration of a weed eater, kids banging or stomping around close by -- they will get defensive.

– Bobby Chaisson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Alexey Navalny is now in the colony, Alexey Navalny life hanging on a thread, alexey Navalny has been on a hunger strike for several weeks now, demanding medical attention. Alexey Navalny condition is critical, and we do not know how much longer Alexey Navalny can hold out. But it is clear that we do not have time.

– Leonid Volkov

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Mole rat colonies are incredibly xenophobic. If a mole rat comes from a different colony, within minutes, they are recognized and usually killed by the colony it invades.

– Gary Lewin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Because they huddle together and take care of each other, it doesnt take long for a pathogen to get passed from one end of the colony to the other.

– Bruce Patterson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We're concerned about whether honeybee colony losses are still high and whether we're making any progress in bringing them down.

– Peyton Ferrier

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Emperor penguins at the Halley Bay colony in Weddell Sea have failed to raise chicks for the last three years, the colony has now all but disappeared.

– Peter Fretwell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The black-footed ferrets prey on prairie dogs so it was once thought that elimination programs for the dogs, considered a nuisance to farmers and ranchers, were impacting the ferret population. Now, there was a concerted effort by the state to rebuild the black-footed ferret population. On a recent day, volunteers made their way to small-town Seligman and met for training on the first night inside a rented home in a rural neighborhood that Arizona Game and Fish uses for the operation. One of those volunteers is Robert Coonrod, who bought a pick-up truck and rigged it with overhead lights specifically for the night-time searches. Robert Coonrod has been volunteering for five years. Though hes not a biologist, he enjoys helping out wildlife and found a new photography hobby while volunteering. HUNTERS TURN TO HIPSTERS TO HELP BOOST SPORTS DECLINING NUMBERS One of the volunteers is Robert Coonrod, who bought a pick-up truck and rigged it with overhead lights specifically for the night-time searches. ( Fox News) Were looking for a ferret to be outside his hole. We drive down, he gets curious, looks at the lights, you see the green eyes shine, and then its off to the races, Robert Coonrod said. Once the animalis spotted, volunteers run towardit and set up a trap. But they have to first hopscotch around prairie dog burrows that dot the landscape. Sometimes it can be very entertaining watching people run across a prairie dog colony because youre so focused on the ferret that you forget about all these holes on the ground, Holly Hicks said. Yeah, every one of us has tripped and fallen in a prairie dog hole after chasing after a ferret. ARIZONA MAN PICKED UP NEWBORN FAWN, TOOK IT TO LOCAL BAR, OFFICIALS SAY With freezing temperates on the first night of the search, around 10 of the volunteers showed up, including Arizona State Univerisity biology graduate Angelica Varela, who will soon be starting an internship with Bird Conservancy of the Rockies. With freezing temperates on the first night of the search, around 10 of the volunteers showed up( Fox News)( When I started) volunteering( for other wildlife organizations) and really getting boots on the ground and realizing the hard work that actually goes into it, its really important and its really satisfying being able to know that you had a part in helping a species, as conservation work, I mean were doing this so that eventually we dont have to keep doing it. Angelica Varela drove up from Phoenix with Angelica Varela friend, Brandi Kapos, who is an Olive Garden waitress and an Arizona State Univerisity conservation biology graduate. Shes looking to return to school to get a masters degree in Geographic Information Systems. Before Angelica Varela and Brandi Kapos got their assignment from Jennifer Cordova for the night, they said they had energy drinks and candy. Angelica Varela said Angelica Varela was pumped. With freezing temperates on the first night of the search, around 10 of the volunteers showed up, including Arizona State Univerisity biology graduates Angelica Varela and Brandi Kapos. ( Fox News) Jennifer Cordova said the goal is to get the black-footed ferret off the endangered species list. Fox News important because wildlife dont have a say -- theydont have a voice out there, Holly Hicks said. So, its people like us who manage and try to keep that voice out there and people aware. Our passion comes from a lot of places. We love animals. We want to see wildlife in the future for future generations. Only found in North America, this wild animal differs from the European pet ferrets that are domesticated. The black-footed ferret was once thought extinct until 18 were found in 1981. Since then, recovery and breeding efforts have helped the black-footed ferret population grow. I kind of feel like its our duty.

– Angelica Varela

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I think its a pity that they have closed what could have been a model prison, they were self-supporting, they (inmates) were producing. They grew vegetables. They had cattle, goats, pigs. There was a fish farm and a salt works ... the problem was political, the authorities decided not to continue as a penal colony, and so little by little it fell apart.

– Rogelio Zedillo

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We're still connected to them, maybe as a colony used to be, but we're not governed by them, we just want to stay as we are, British. We don't need anything to change. All we hope is that things on the frontier don't change either.

– Steven Grant

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

No relationship between a colony and the federal government can ever be called ‘successful’ because Puerto Ricans lack certain inalienable rights enjoyed by our fellow Americans in the states. The historical relationship between Puerto Rico and Washington is unfair and unAmerican. It is certainly not a successful relationship, this was the worst natural disaster in our modern history. Our basic infrastructure was devastated, thousands of our people lost their lives and many others still struggle.

– Puerto Rico

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

One of the reasons that we wanted to bring a bee hive to the vice president's residence was because we wanted to help our bee population and we do have colony collapse disorder.

– Karen Pence

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are truly headed for the status of a colony - and many will struggle to see the economic or political advantage of that particular arrangement.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Hurricane Maria unmasked that we are a colony, i ’m just tired of the way my island has been treated.

– Julio Pabon

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Abdul Ghani 65, lived in the northwestern Pakistan city of Jehangira for almost 39 years, and moved Abdul Ghani 65 family to Abdul Ghani 65 native Kunar Province in Afghanistan October. Now Abdul Ghani 65 finds Abdul Ghani 65 and Abdul Ghani 65 family caught up in the struggled that go along with a homecoming. Look at the situation of house, a hut in a tent colony for refugees. We have no safe drinking water and our children have not enough clothes. I never expected to face this condition in my native country.

– Abdul Ghani

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Look at nature. A single bee cannot really do much. But you put a group of bees together and they can form a hive. A colony of bees that work in harmony. Each one doing its part. Some bees collect pollen. Some bees tend to the hive. Some bees guard the hive. Some bees tend to the nursery. Together they make a lot of honey.

– H.W. Mann

added by howardmann
6 years ago

They are a vulnerable species that need all the help they can get, it’s unlikely the Otago Peninsula colony would exist at all without ongoing human intervention, including the control of introduced predators such as stoats and cats.

– Andrea Crawford

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It's the right time for Colony Capital to do more in China, over the next three-to-five years Asia, and China in particular, will be the fastest growing part of our business.

– Justin Chang

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This law makes a man insecure, this law is an attempt to make Pakistan a Western colony again.

– Fazlur Rehman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I want to sing songs about flowers and butterflies, but while the political system remains unchanged, I can't sing songs about love because I live in a matrix, in a state which is a colony of banks and corporations.

– Piotr Liroy-Marzec

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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