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An Australian zookeeper on Tuesday urged people to catch and donate deadly funnel-web spiders, to help replenish stocks of antidote running low after a spate of spider bites stanley cup . A Sydney funnel-web spiders rears up on its hind legs as a tube used to extract venom is placed nears its claws at the Australian Reptile Park at Gosford, 100km north of Sydney. Reuters File Photo The Australian Reptile Park, the countrys sole supplier of funnel-web venom to antidote producers since 1981, relies on th stanley cup e public to hand in spiders that are milked for the venom used to produce an antidote. The anti-venom program was now at risk after too few spiders were donated last year and a recent heatwave encouraged more spider activity and bites, the parks general manager, Tim Faulkner, said on Tuesday. We rely on community support to keep this program alive, Faulkner said in a telephone interview. We have tried to catch enough spid stanley cup ers ourselves and we just cant. Funnel-web spiders live throughout southeastern Australia, but the only known killer is the Sydney funnel-web spider, found in the Sydney region and as far north as Newcastle and south to Illawarra, the park says on its website. The large fangs and acidic venom make the bite very painful, it said, noting that a major bite can cause death within an hour if left untreated. After milking the spiders, the park delivers the venom to a division of the blood plasma and vaccine maker CSL Ltd, which converts it into the life-saving a Eotz Violence hit Lahore hours before polls
The chasm between rich and poor on how to address climate change burst into the open at the G-8 summit on Thursday, showing how difficult it will be to persuade the world to make lifestyle and economic sacrifices needed to save the planet from global warming. HT Image President Barack Obama urged emerging e air force 1 conomies to do more to curb global warming, while the UN chief demanded developed countries set an example and take more concrete steps to reduce pollution. Especially reluctant to commit to change were two budding powers that are just now getting comfortable economically: India and Chin airmax a. Obama said industrialized countries, the United States included, had a historic responsibility to take the lead in emissions reduction efforts because they have a larger carbon footprint than developing nations. And I know that in the past, the United States has sometimes fallen short of meeting our responsibilities. So, let me be clear: Those days are over, he said. But he said developing nations have to do their part, as well. With most of the growth in projected emissions coming from these countries, their active participation is a prerequisite for a solution, Obama said. Two days of negotiations between the world s major industrial polluters and developing nations failed to make any major breakthrough on firm commitments to reduce carbon emissions. While both sides said for the first t stanley cup ime that global average temperatures shouldn t rise over 2 degrees Celsius, they di |
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