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MadRockthethird t1_jd1r064 wrote

Reply to Study of asylum-seeking children at an Australian immigration detention facility found 89% of children presented physical health issues, including malnutrition and dental disease, while 79% had one or more mental health symptoms, including self-harm ideation or attempts (45%). by unswsydney

Well the fact that they're selling asylum should tell you something. They're going to be broken children from the get. There's no need to make "detention" just as traumatic as what they've already went through

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unswsydney OP t1_jd1hsb3 wrote

Reply to Study of asylum-seeking children at an Australian immigration detention facility found 89% of children presented physical health issues, including malnutrition and dental disease, while 79% had one or more mental health symptoms, including self-harm ideation or attempts (45%). by unswsydney

Afternoon r/science - sharing the results of a study into the health of children seeking asylum in Australia helmed by UNSW paediatrician and PhD student, Dr Lahiru Amarasena.

The research analysed the health assessments of 62 children and young people held on Nauru, an Australian immigration detention facility, and found physical and/or mental health difficulties in almost all children in the sample.

The team also found that 94% of children had exposure to one adverse childhood experience, 40% had exposure to one or more types of abuse or neglect and 63% had witnessed trauma.

Dr Amarasena says the team’s research adds to the evidence that immigration detention is a harmful practice for children.

The research has been published in Archives of Disease in Childhood and can be accessed here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/3/185

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Lady-Seashell-Bikini t1_jd1duec wrote

Reply to comment by Haterbait_band in Humans are leading source of death for California mountain lions, despite hunting protections by marketrent

Rabbits are not a good food source for mountain lions, but there are options. Colorado is currently working with livestock managers after wolves were reintroduced to the area. One option is to reimburse any livestock lost to wolves.

Nothing can really be done about pets except to keep them under supervision. Even if you live in an area with no large predators, you need to watch your pets anyway (heck, my dog got dangerously close to a deer once, which could easily trample her).

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MatsThyWit t1_jd10vej wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Humans are leading source of death for California mountain lions, despite hunting protections by marketrent

>So what? Can’t really do anything about vehicle collisions, people in rural areas sometimes need to protect livestock… 4-6000 individuals is a pretty healthy population considering how massive their territories are. What is this study trying to even say?

The article is trying desperately to make some statistics meaningful...but they really aren't.

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Haterbait_band t1_jd0yzll wrote

Reply to Humans are leading source of death for California mountain lions, despite hunting protections by marketrent

Maybe someone should inform the mountain lions that humans = bad. It’s not like people expect others to allow some big carnivore to eat their pets/livestock, protected species or not. Maybe we just need to do something to keep the mountain lions from coming into human habitats? Like, maybe release a bunch of rabbits into the wild so they have food to eat?

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marketrent OP t1_jd0xu1i wrote

Reply to Humans are leading source of death for California mountain lions, despite hunting protections by marketrent

Excerpt from the linked content:^1,2

>Mountain lions are protected from hunting in California by a law passed by popular vote in 1990.

>However, a team of researchers working across the state found that human-caused mortality — primarily involving conflict with humans over livestock and collisions with vehicles — was more common than natural death for this protected large carnivore.

>[Lead author] Benson and his colleagues found that mountain lions were at greater risk of mortality from humans when they were closer to rural development.

>They also found that mountain lions were less likely to die in areas where there were higher proportions of voters in favor of pro-environmental initiatives.

>[The] new study showed that populations of mountain lions in California experiencing greater human-caused mortality also had lower population-level survival rates, suggesting that humans do indeed increase overall mortality.

>Most research on mountain lions is conducted at relatively small scales, which limits understanding of mortality caused by humans across the large areas they roam.

>To address this, scientists from multiple universities, government agencies and private organizations teamed up to better understand human-caused mortality for mountain lions across the entire state of California.

>The team tracked almost 600 mountain lions in 23 different study areas, including the Sierra Nevada, the northern redwoods, wine country north of San Francisco, the city of Los Angeles and many other areas of the state.

^1 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 20 Mar. 2023, https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/humans-are-leading-source-death-california-mountain-lions-despite-hunting-protections

^2 John Benson et al. (2023) The ecology of human-caused mortality for a protected large carnivore. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (13) e2220030120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220030120

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