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First Big Cats Saved by US Organization Following Guatemala Circus Ban
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March 2018. Eighty-seven percent of the City’s beaches during those months received A and B grades, of which two are A+’s. This is up from last year's 62 percent A and B grades. Alamitos Bay received A+ and A grades for both summer dry months and winter dry months. Rainy weather remains a challenge for the region as well as the City of Long Beach, with the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers flowing into Long Beach waters, resulting in C, D and F grades during wet weather throughout the year. The City will continue to work with upstream cities, state and federal regulatory agencies and other stakeholders to address impacts from stormwater runoff. Here are some examples of how the City is using infrastructure improvements, grant funding, regional partnerships and technology to meet quality standards compliance goals and improve water quality in Long Beach: • Colorado Lagoon Restoration Phase 2B: As a component of the Colorado Lagoon Master Restoration Plan, this completed project included hydraulic dredging of the lagoon and created new subtidal and eelgrass habitats. Additional improvements
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included installation of a new decomposed granite walking trail, reclaimed water irrigation system, replanting with all native species, and a vegetated bioswale to assist with the removal of pollution from surface runoff water. • Long Beach Municipal Urban Stormwater Treatment (LB-MUST): This upcoming facility project will capture and treat stormwater from 12,000 acres in Long Beach to reduce pollution that enters the Los Angeles River and local beaches. The project is funded by the California
Department of Transportation and Proposition 1 (Water Bond) Tier 1 grant funds from the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy (RMC). These funds will be used to build the first phase of the project, including the treatment facility and nearby wetlands. For current information on water quality in Long Beach, visit https://bitly.com/ LBWaterQuality. The Heal the Bay 2017-2018 Beach Report Card is available at www. healthebay.org.
A mission to enforce a new law banning the use of animals in circuses in Guatemala is nowunderway, with the US-based organization Animal Defenders International (ADI) removing the first animals–lions Sasha, Nena, and Kimba. ADI President Jan Creamer said, “Sasha, Nena, and Kimba will no longer suffer in the circus and a new life awaits them in Africa. With many more animals in desperate need of our help, we need the support of the public to save them all.” Voluntarily giving up its animals, Circo Navarro described its new animal-free status as “a new chapter for the circus”. The lions are now being cared for at an officially designated ADI temporary custody center ahead of their relocation to the organization’s new sanctuary in Africa. Guatemala’s ban on the use of animals in circuses was passed in April 2017. The circuses were given 12 months to relocate their animals, but around 50 animals remain
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with circuses, including tigers, lions, monkeys,and pumas. ADI is working with the authorities (the police, CONAP, UBA) to remove another two lions and nine tigers from a second circus. Following the recent eruption of the Fuego volcano, members of the ADI team have also headed into the disaster zone to help animals with food, care and veterinary treatments. It is expected to take many months to complete the documentation and permits
needed to take animals removed from the circuses to their forever homes, and ADI is seeking urgent funds to construct holding units and to feed,care for, and treat the animals until their relocation. For the lions, this will be a new sanctuary ADI is building in South Africa, their natural homeland; for the tigers, US tiger sanctuaries have offered permanent homes. Online social cause
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ments and the evidence presented to the jury, Kunnaragthai did not live in the property in Moreno Valley. Instead, he was a landlord and rented the three-bedroom house to college students. The evidence showed that Kunnaragthai actually lived with his family nearly 70 miles away in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles. Nevertheless, he provided HUD with annual certifications during the
three-year period stating that he lived at the property in Moreno Valley as his sole residence. Kunnaragthai also omitted his Eagle Rock residence on a security clearance form. When confronted with this omission, Kunnaragthai told the background investigator with OPM that he “never” lived at the Eagle Rock apartment. The case against Kunnaragthai was investigated by the Department
of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Inspector General; Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General; Customs and Border Protection, Office of Professional Responsibility; and Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys MiRi Song and Roger A. Hsieh of the Central District of California, General Crimes Section.
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