The Sakumono Bird Watching Bay is under the auspices of The Ministry of Forestry and the Department of Wild Life which also manages other ecological sites around the country.
The Site is situated at the West of Tema, enclosing an area of 1,364.35 hectares of land.
There are thirty-five species of resident birds at the Sakumono Ramsar site and they are all territorial birds.
TMZ has learned that Mel Gibson went on a rampage when he was arrested Friday on suspicion of drunk driving, hurling religious epithets.
TMZ has also learned that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department had the initial report doctored to keep the real story under wraps.
TMZ has four pages of the original report prepared by the arresting officer in the case, L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy James Mee.
According to the report, Gibson became agitated after he was stopped on Pacific Coast Highway and told he was to be detained for drunk driving Friday morning in Malibu.
The actor began swearing uncontrollably.
Gibson repeatedly said, “My life is f****d.”
Law enforcement sources say the deputy, worried that Gibson might become violent, told the actor that he was supposed to cuff him but would not, as long as Gibson cooperated.
As the two stood next to the hood of the patrol car, the deputy asked Gibson to get inside.
Deputy Mee then walked over to the passenger door and opened it.
The report says Gibson then said, “I’m not going to get in your car,” and bolted to his car.
The deputy quickly subdued Gibson, cuffed him and put him inside the patrol car.
TMZ has learned that Deputy Mee audiotaped the entire exchange between himself and Gibson, from the time of the traffic stop to the time Gibson was put in the patrol car, and that the tape fully corroborates the written report.
Once inside the car, a source directly connected with the case says Gibson began banging himself against the seat.
The report says Gibson told the deputy, “You mother f****r. I’m going to f*** you.”
The report also says “Gibson almost continually [sic] threatened me saying he ‘owns Malibu’ and will spend all of his money to ‘get even’ with me.”
The report says Gibson then launched into a barrage of anti-Semitic statements: “F*****g Jews…
The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.” Gibson then asked the deputy, “Are you a Jew?”
There is a proverb of children and drunks telling the truth.
In this case, drunk Gibson of course spoke a blatant untruth on Jews and on the real causes of wars.
However, he may have provided some insight into his true paranoid views; as opposed to spin doctored ones.
The legacy of WA pioneer feminist, broadcaster, pacifist and social activist Irene Greenwood has been captured in an impressive account of a little Aussie battler whose clout belied her size, reports Pam Casellas
Those of us who knew Irene Greenwood in the last decades of her long life remember her as a small and determined figure, often wearing her trademark hat and gloves, whose very volubility made her a woman to be reckoned with.
She could blind a callow reporter with her wealth of knowledge about just about anything — international law and politics, the peace movement, social justice, the place of women in the world.
We never doubted her passion, though we did doubt our own ability to capture it in faltering shorthand made even less reliable by the sheer force of her personality.
We always knew there was much more to Irene Greenwood than her relentless contributions to the letters page of this newspaper and her frequent phone calls to the chief-of-staff when there was a matter she felt needed to be raised.
Her friend and former member of State Parliament Diana Warnock described her as “an elder of the tribe of women liberationists . . . a relentless campaigner against the forces of darkness”.
What we didn’t know how was how much more there was to this lifelong feminist and fighter for justice — this pint-sized pacifist, this pioneer in women’s broadcast journalism, who knew more about life than we’d ever dreamt and whose determination to improve the world never faltered.
Brazilian’s family shocked at ‘hurtful’ decision · Deliberations continue over disciplinary action
Hugh Muir
Saturday July 29, 2006
The family of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent man shot dead by anti-terrorist police in the aftermath of the London bombings, reacted angrily yesterday as Scotland Yard announced that the two officers concerned will return to “full operational duties”.
The media magnate Rupert Murdoch is expected to offer Tony Blair a senior role in his News Corporation empire when he stands down as Prime Minister.
Allies of Mr Blair insist he has made no decisions about his plans when he leaves Downing Street — almost certainly next year.
But some friends say a seat on the board of News Corp could tempt the outgoing Prime Minister, as it would dovetail neatly with the lucrative United States lecture circuit.
Mr Blair’s popularity at home may be waning, but he remains big box office in America.
His close relationship with Mr Murdoch will be highlighted tomorrow when he addresses the annual gathering of News Corp’s executives and senior journalists from around the world.
Meanwhile, Anne Owers, Chief Inspector of Prisons, is still expressing severe concerns about the detention of children at Yarl’s Wood IRC.
In her latest report on the centre published last Wednesday, Owers says: ‘There was still no evidence to suggest that the child’s welfare was taken into consideration when making decisions about initial and continued detention.’
She stressed: ‘We continued to have significant concerns about aspects of safety in the centre.
‘It was even more difficult for detainees to obtain up-to-date and accurate information about their cases, as experienced, on-site immigration officers were being withdrawn.
‘Removals were still being carried out without proper warning or planning.’
Owers made her second inspection of Yarl’s Wood IRC in February of this year and published the report last Wednesday 26th July.
A team from Nature Seychelles (BirdLife in the Seychelles) and the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust visited Frégate Island from the 28 June to 6 July 2006 to conduct a full population survey of the globally threatened Seychelles Magpie-robin Copsychus sechellarum, and to ring un-ringed robins in order to maintain identification of all individual[s] on the island.
A minimum population of 82 individuals was recorded—ten more than the previous census in April 2005 and the highest number of robins ever recorded on Frégate.
The Seychelles Magpie-robin population is now at an all-time high of 178 birds with 82 on Frégate, 46 on Cousin, 32 on Cousine and 18 on Aride.
There are also future plans to translocate birds to Denis Island.
The species was downlisted by BirdLife to Endangered in the 2005 IUCN Red List.
US must abolish secret detention facilities: UN rights panel
28/07/2006
GENEVA - The UN Human Rights Committee has called on the United States to immediately abolish all secret detention facilities, in a report raising deep concerns about the conduct of the “war on terror”.
Information on secret detentions was “credible and uncontested”, the panel said in its final report after an examination of the United States’s human rights record.
“The state party should immediately abolish all secret detention facilities.
It should also grant prompt access by the International Committee of the Red Cross to any person detained in connection with an armed conflict,” the committee said in its final recommendations on Friday.
“The committee is concerned by credible and uncontested information that the state party has seen fit to engage in the practice of detaining people secretly and in secret places for months and years on end,” it added.
Committee member Ivan Shearer said the “war on terror” was “not a legal state of affairs but rather a rhetorical phrase that seems to be taken rather literally… People can be held forever”.
The 18 legal experts appointed by the UN oversee implementation of the world’s core human rights treaty, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
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