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12 News & Topics October 1 2022 | World and Press Queen Elizabeth II dies aged 96 Continued from page 1 expected to be held on Monday, 19 September, though that has not yet been confirmed. … 7 As Queen of the UK and 14 other realms, and head of the 54-nation Commonwealth, Elizabeth II was easily the world’s most recognisable head of state during an extraordinarily long reign. Coming to the throne at the age of 25, she successfully steered the monarchy through decades of turbulent change, with her personal popularity providing ballast during the institution’s more difficult times. At her side for most of it, the Duke of Edinburgh remained her “strength and stay” during a marriage that withstood many strains imposed by her unique position. 8 Despite a family life lived under the often challenging glare of publicity, Elizabeth remained a calm and steadfast figure, weathering the divorces of three of her children, and the crisis precipitated by the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car crash in Paris in 1997. 9 There were undoubted low points, but the mass outpourings of affection on her silver, golden, and diamond jubilees testified The then-Prince Charles filling in for Queen Elizabeth II at the State Opening of Parliament in May 2022. | Photo: Picture Alliance to the special place she held for millions. Rarely did she publicly reveal private anguish. Her plea for a fair understanding towards the end of 1992 – her “annus horribilis”, a year rocked by royal scandal and a row over finances – was unprecedented. A devout, churchgoing Christian, the Queen’s annual Christmas broadcast, which she scripted herself, revealed a woman of unshakable faith. 10 She was left bereft at the loss of her lifelong companion, Philip, who died in his sleep at the age of 99 in April 2021 during the COVID pandemic. She sat alone and bereaved in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, during the poignant funeral, hugely scaled down because of coronavirus restrictions. The duke’s death came during one of the most turbulent times for the Queen and her family, when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit as senior working royals and decamped to the US to seek freedom and the ability to earn their own money. 11 At the same time, the Duke of York was in a storm that also threatened the institution, facing allegations from Virginia Roberts Giuffre, which he strenuously denied, that he had had sex with her when she was 17 and had been trafficked by financier Jeffrey Epstein. Giuffre filed a civil suit against the duke seeking unspecified damages at a federal court in New York, which was settled out of court in February 2022, with the duke paying an undisclosed sum. 12 To cap this turbulent time for the monarchy, the Queen then contracted COVID, suffering mild cold-like symptoms, shortly before she marked her platinum jubilee. 13 As age gradually caught up with her, and she had mobility issues, she was seen less often at public events. In April 2022, she did not attend the State Opening of Parliament, instead issuing letters patent, authorising the Prince of Wales and Duke of Cambridge, as Counsellors of State, to deputise for her. It was only the third time in her reign that she had missed a State Opening, the other two being when she was pregnant in 1959 and 1963. 14 Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born on 21 April 1926 at her maternal grandparents’ home at 17 Bruton Street, in London’s Mayfair district, and was not expected to accede to the throne. But at the age of ten, the abdication of her uncle, Edward VIII, over his love for the American divorcee Wallis Simpson, and her father’s rushed coronation as substitute king, changed the path her aristocratic life could have been expected to take. 15 The world witnessed her transformation from shy princess to young Queen, attracting the same global fascination as Diana, Princess of Wales, would 30 years later. But she seemed most content in a thick jacket and headscarf, walking her corgis or tramping Balmoral’s Highland moors. … 16 Illnesses were rare, as she enjoyed robust health. At 85, she was still carrying out 325 engagements a year. Long-haul travel was only curtailed when she reached 87, and Philip 92. She was the most widely travelled of any world head of state. She visited every Commonwealth country bar Cameroon, which joined in 1995, and Rwanda (2009). She visited Canada more than 20 times, Australia 16, New Zealand ten, and Jamaica six. 17 As many nations today mourn a queen, one family is mourning a mother of four, a grandmother of eight, and a great-grandmother of 12. © 2022 Guardian News and Media Ltd 7 – 8 recognisable “"rek´gnaIz´b´l‘ erkennbar; h.: bekannt — to steer lenken — stay Halt — strain Belastung — unique “ju…"ni…k‘ einzigartig — glare of publicity Licht der Öffentlichkeit — steadfast “"stedfA…st‘; s.w.u. unshakable “øn"SeIk´b´l‘ unerschütterlich — to weather s.th. etw. überstehen — to precipitate “prI"sIpIteIt‘ auslösen 9 undoubted “øn"daUtId‘ unbestritten — mass outpouring of affection Sympathiebekundung der Massen — jubilee “"dZu… bIli…‘ h.: Thronjubiläum — to testify to s.th. “"testIfaI‘ von etw. zeugen — anguish “"œNgwIS‘ Kummer — plea “pli…‘ Bitte — to rock erschüttern — unprecedented “øn"presIdentId‘ beispiellos — devout “dI"vaUt‘ gläubig 10 – 11 to feel bereft “bI"reft‘ s. verlassen fühlen — bereaved “bI "ri…vd‘ trauernd — poignant “"pOInj´nt‘ ergreifend — to scale down reduzieren; im Umfang einschränken — to decamp s. davonmachen — to threaten “"Tret´n‘ bedrohen; schaden — allegation “Æœl´"geIS´n‘ Anschuldigung — to deny strenuously “"strenju´sli‘ entschieden zurückweisen — trafficked h.: zur Sexsklavin gemacht — to file a civil suit e-e Zivilklage anstrengen — to seek damages Schadensersatz fordern — to be settled out of court außergerichtlich beigelegt werden 12 – 14 to cap krönen — to contract s.th. s. mit etw. anstecken — to catch up with s.o. jdn. einholen — letters patent Berufungsurkunde — to deputise for s.o. “"depj´taIz‘ jdn. vertreten — maternal … … mütterlicherseits — to accede to the throne “´k"si…d‘ den Thron besteigen — divorcee geschiedene Person — coronation Krönung 15 – 17 to witness miterleben — to tramp durchwandern — longhaul travel Fernreisen — to curtail “k´"teIl‘ einschränken — bar außer Aggressive feral chickens are overtaking Hawaiian communities HAWAII The mushrooming population of feral chickens has left residents pleading for an end to their constant shrieking. mit Audiodatei By María Luisa Paúl 1 THE cock-a-doodle-doos ring from dusk ‘til dawn. Plants are pecked, vegetable gardens depleted, and yards dug up with holes. Droppings surround houses and streets where the fowl intruders are making neighbors plead for an end to the torment. 2 Hawaii has a feral chicken problem – and it’s being discussed everywhere from city councils to the state legislature. “We receive so many emails and phone calls from all over the state, not just in our district,” Hawaii State Sen. Bennette Misalucha told ‘The Washington Post.’ 3 Feral chickens, which are not native to Hawaii, have become a bit of a fixture on the islands of Oahu and Kauai. Their presence is reflected in dashboard dolls, magnets, and other touristy trinkets. But their mushrooming population – in some places, reaching the thousands – has left neighbors begging for an end to the birds’ earsplitting shrieks. 4 During a Honolulu City Council meeting last week, the city revealed that it had spent almost ,000 to set traps in five areas. Yet, with only 67 chickens A feral chicken on the grounds of Kauai’s Kauai Coffee Company. | Photo: Scott Goodwill/Unsplash caught, the cost for trapping each bird was about 4 – something the city’s Department of Customer Services director, Kimberly Hashiro, said the agency was hoping to bring down, while also expanding the program to other areas. “There needs to be more time really spent to find appropriate locations and to see how effective the funds being spent are,” Hashiro said in the meeting. “We’ve gotten a lot of feedback from the community that is quite divided. It is, you know, be- → 0 FERAL“"fer´l‘ verwildert — to overtake überrennen — to mushroom s. rasant ausbreiten — to plead flehen — to shriek kreischen 1 cock-a-doodle-doo Kikeriki — from dusk ‘til dawn von der Abenddämmerung bis zum Morgengrauen — to peck anpicken — to deplete “dI"pli…t‘ leeren; h.: plündern — yard Garten — to dig up aufgraben — droppings Vogelkot — fowl intruder “faUl‘ gefiederter Eindringling (f. Geflügel) — torment “"tO…ment‘ Qual 2 – 3 city council Stadtrat — state legislature “"ledZIsl´tSU´‘ h.: Parliament von Hawaii — native to … in … heimisch — fixture “"fIkstS´‘ (coll) fester Bestandteil — dashboard Armaturenbrett — trinkets Nippes — earsplitting ohrenbetäubend 4 – 5 Department of Customer Services Ministerium für Verbraucherdienste — agency “"eIdZ´nsi‘ Behörde — funds finanzielle Mittel —

World and Press | October 1 2022 Wildlife 13 Scientists uncover a shady web of online spider sales WILDLIFE TRADE More than 1,200 species of arachnids are part of a largely unregulated global marketplace, according to a new study. mit Übungen | Sprechen By Emily Anthes 1 AT FIRST, it seems like any other unboxing video on You- Tube: A young man presents the viewer with a sealed box, expresses his excitement at what might be inside, and peels away the packing tape. But instead of pulling out a collectible toy or signature sneaker, he carefully unpacks seven live tarantulas, zooming in close enough to showcase the wispy bristles on their multijointed legs. 2 The tarantulas were the highlight of a mail-order spider “mystery box,” a biological grab bag that has become a popular offering in the thriving arachnid economy, much of which now exists, fittingly, on the web. “You can buy yourself a mystery present of mystery spiders,” said Alice Hughes, a conservation biologist at the University of Hong Kong. “It’s like getting your deck of Pokemon cards: You might get a super rare one, or you might get a bunch of random stuff.” 3 In a new paper, published in ‘Communications Biology’ on Thursday, Hughes and her colleagues shine a light on the largely unregulated trade of creatures that prefer to lurk in the dark. Their analysis of online sales listings turned up more than 1,200 species of spiders, scorpions, and other arachnids; just 2% of them are subject to international trade regulations, the researchers report. “Arachnids are being massively traded,” Hughes said. “And it seems to be going completely under the radar.” 4 Many organisms in the arachnid marketplace appear to have been caught in the wild rather than bred in captivity, the study found, and the ecological impact of their harvest remains unknown. “They’re just being removed willy-nilly in large numbers,” said Anne Danielson-Francois, an arachnologist and behavioral ecologist at the University of Michigan-Dearborn who was not involved in the new research. She added, “They’re not this unlimited resource.” 5 Although the wildlife trade is a major threat to the planet’s fauna, regulation and public attention tends to focus primarily on well-known, charismatic animals, such as elephants, parrots, and sea turtles. But there’s a large and growing demand for invertebrates, experts said, and arachnids make popular pets. They are a cinch to ship – “You can literally mail an envelope of little spiderlings,” Hughes said – and many species are relatively easy to care for. 6 “They don’t bark, they don’t need to go for walks – you can set up a simple arachnid in a fivegallon tank on your shelf,” said Ernest Cooper, an independent wildlife-trade expert in Canada. “They have fascinating behaviors. Some have bright colors.” 7 To learn more about the scale of the global arachnid trade, the authors of the new paper used a handful of search terms – “spider,” “scorpion,” “arachnid” – in nine languages to identify websites that might be selling the animals. After eliminating shops selling spider excavators or Spider-Man collectibles, they scraped the data from the re- A captive Brazilian blue dwarf beauty tarantula. | Photo: Julian Schultz/ Unsplash maining sites to generate a list of arachnid species for sale online. (They also used the Internet Archive to find historical sales listings dating back to 2002.) 8 Across these sites, the study found a total of 1,248 arachnid species currently or previously for sale. The list included some showstoppers, such as the enormous Asian forest scorpion and striped Costa Rican zebra tarantula. But it also had some surprises, like daddy longlegs spiders, common denizens of basements across the U.S. “They are literally balls with legs – small balls with legs,” said Caroline Fukushima, a postdoctoral researcher at the Finnish Museum of Natural History and an author of the paper. “You cannot impress someone with that.” 9 Compared with the expansive online listings, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service trade database included only 267 arachnid species, the scientists found. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, which regulates the international trade of a variety of plant and animal species, had just 30 species in its trade database. 10 The online marketplace moves fast, with new arachnid species appearing in shops not long after they are first described by scientists. Nearly 200 of the species that have been discovered since 2000 are already being traded; dozens were available within a year or two of first being described, the researchers found. “That suggests that people are going out to the field, and they’re finding something new and just collecting the heck out of it and then putting it up online for sale,” Danielson-Francois said. 11 Collectors may also be buying species that aren’t yet known to science. Hughes and her colleagues identified about 100 kinds of arachnids in trade that were consistently described as variants of known species, such as the “Vietnam blue tarantula.” (“Not for beginners,” the site Reptile Rapture cautions. “Very Defensive.”) But in many cases, these “variants” may actually be distinct new species, the scientists said. … © 2022 The New York Times Company This article originally appeared in The New York Times. 0 TO UNCOVERentdecken — shady zwielichtig — arachnid “´"rœknId‘ Spinnentier; s.w.u. arachnologist “Æœrœk"nÅl´dZIst‘ Spinnenforscher(in) — unregulated nicht kontrolliert; s.w.u. regulation Kontrolle 1 unboxing Auspack- — sealed verpackt — to peel away abziehen — collectible toy “k´"lekt´b´l‘ Sammlerspielzeug — signature unverwechselbar — tarantula “t´"rœntj´l´‘ Tarantel — to showcase präsentieren — wispy dünn — bristles Borsten — multijointed mit mehreren Gelenken 2 – 3 grab bag Wundertüte — to thrive “TraIv‘ florieren — fittingly passend — conservation biologist Naturschutzbiologe(- in) — deck Stapel — random; s.w.u. willy-nilly (coll) wahllos — to shine a light on (fig) beleuchten — to lurk s. versteckt halten — to be subject to s.th. etw. unterliegen — under the radar “"reIdA…‘ (fig) unbemerkt 4 – 6 wild freie Wildbahn — to breed in captivity “kœp"tIv´ti‘ in Gefangenschaft züchten — behavioral ecologist “bI"heIvj´r´l‘ Verhaltensökologe(-in) — charismatic “ÆkœrIz"mœtIk‘ — sea turtle “"t‰…t´l‘ Meeresschildkröte — invertebrate “In"v‰…tIbreIt‘ wirbelloses Tier — to be a cinch kinderleicht sein — spiderling Spinnenjungtier — five gallons ca. 22,73 l 7 – 9 scale Ausmaß — to eliminate “I"lImIneIt‘ aussortieren — spider excavator “"eksk´veIt´‘ Spinnenbagger — to scrape from abschaben von; h.: zus.tragen aus — to generate erstellen — archive “"A…kaIv‘ — showstopper sensationelles Exemplar — Asian forest scorpion Heterometrus spinifer — Costa Rican zebra tarantula Gestreifte Guatemala-Vogelspinne — daddy longlegs Weberknecht — denizen “"denIz´n‘ Bewohner 10 – 11 to collect the heck out of it (coll) sammeln, was das Zeug hält — consistently durchgängig — Vietnam blue tarantula Chilobrachys dyscolus — reptile rapture “"reptaIl; "rœptS´‘ Reptilienbegeisterung — to caution “"kO…S´n‘ warnen — defensive “dI"fensIv‘ wehrhaft — distinct eigen → tween ‘leave the chickens alone’ to ‘it’s about time’ to ‘do we really need to spend funds on this?’” 5 The feral chickens have deep roots in Hawaii. Local lore posits they’re the product of Hurricane Iniki’s destruction in 1992, which knocked down coops and released chickens into the wild. According to a 2015 study, they appear to be descendants of the ancestral red junglefowl the Polynesians brought to the island over 800 years ago that then mated with escaped chickens. 6 But their number has grown significantly these past years, residents say, and managing their pesky antics has become an impossible task. “I have lived in Pacific Palisades for 34 years and observed the uncontrolled proliferation of feral chickens in my neighborhood as well as throughout the Pearl City residential and business establishments,” one resident wrote in a testimony to the state senate. “The crowing begins at sunrise and continues throughout the day until dusk. ... Our once quiet and peaceful neighborhood is deteriorating.” … 7 Who responds to complaints depends on where the chickens are located. State agencies respond to reports of birds at public schools or state parks. When it comes to homes, there’s not much officials can do, except recommend that residents file a complaint with the city council or contact a wildlife-removal service. 8 The lack of solutions prompted Misalucha, the state senator, to draft a bill seeking a five-year study to determine the best way to manage the booming feral chicken population. The proposed bill, she said, offered studying solutions that are “cost-effective and humane” – for instance, prescribing OvoControl, a contraceptive bait found to be effective in controlling pigeon populations. … © 2022 The Washington Post it’s about time es wird höchste Zeit — lore Überlieferung — to posit “"pÅzIt‘ besagen — coop Hühnerstall — descendant “dI"send´nt‘ Nachfahr(in) — the ancestral … “œn"sestr´l‘ der Urahn … — red junglefowl Bankivahuhn — to mate s. paaren 6 – 7 pesky (coll) nervig — antics Possen — proliferation “pr´ÆlIf´r"eIS´n‘ Vermehrung — residential and business establishments Wohn- und Industriegebiete — testimony “"testIm´ni‘ Zeugenaussage — to crow krähen — to deteriorate “dI"tI´ri´reIt‘ verkommen — public school (AE) staatl. Schule — state park (AE) Naturschutzgebiet — official Behördenmitarbeiter(in) — to file a complaint e-e Beschwerde einreichen 8 to prompt s.o. to do jdn. dazu veranlassen zu tun — to draft a bill e-n Gesetzentwurf verfassen — to determine “dI"t‰… mIn‘ ermitteln — to prescribe verabreichen — contraceptive bait “ÆkÅntr´"septIv‘ Köder mit Verhütungsmittel — pigeon “"pIdZ´n‘ Taube

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