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Baby red panda dies due to 'stress caused by fireworks,' renewing calls to ban their public sale (abcnews.go.com)

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A baby red panda named Roxie at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland died from “stress caused by fireworks” after choking on her vomit, just days after her mother’s sudden death.

The incident, occurring around the U.K.’s Bonfire Night celebrations, has led to renewed calls for stricter fireworks regulations.

A petition with over a million signatures urging restrictions on public fireworks sales was submitted to the U.K. government.

Edinburgh recently implemented limited fireworks control zones, but animal welfare advocates argue for broader measures to prevent similar tragedies.

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[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Man, people really do love their fireworks... Noise, light and pollution, Yay!

I wonder how many of you guys complain about cars for the same reasons...

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Over here, it's pretty rare to have a car that causes a lot of noise.
A few days ago, there was a car crossing me that was quieter than my cycle's hub. And it was an ICE.
Only the "sports" cars and bikes tend to be loud and thanks to petroleum prices (and the vehicle's price itself) are much less in number.

But loudspeakers and fireworks, I cannot bear.

Air pollution? Mine is a smoker's country. People like me are lucky not to be handed the Darwin award.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

https://youtu.be/CTV-wwszGw8

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

Coming to answer after being woken up by a neighbour's after-party noise, after a few hours of inadequate sleep caused due to noise from said party. And it's half past ten. On top of that, I have had a bad sleep for the past 2 weeks due to continuous bombardment (no, that's just Diwali) for the past 2 weeks.

And even from the video, you may notice - It's less about cars, but that people are loud:

People like car go vroom vroom
People like farting motorcycles and most of them over here, buy non-farting motorbikes and get them modified to get them to fart. Same for farting cars. Only a few cars that fart by default. Mist of the farters are modded.
The horn problem is also more about people and less about traffic necessity. On top of that, the sound-proof cabins make it hard for car drivers to hear cycle bells. I recently got a near miss from that.
And guess what, that area also gets loud when there's a party
Tire noise, I'd rather have that. How else would I know when there is a car behind me, before they blast the horn? In fact, me detecting the car first, looking back to see their lane and giving way, has prevented a lot of potential horns. But yes, if the low sound roads and the porous roads that help in rainwater infiltration (causing groundwater replenishment and reducing sinkhole probability) are the same, then I would definitely be for it.

Air pollution:

Picture shows cigarette butt on road, implying that someone smoked while driving/riding, causing others behind them to intake/inhale that smoke
Taken from 9:13 in the video.

Roads have been pretty breathable ^[at least as long as you are only considering the vehicle smoke and not the smoke coming out of smouldering sticks in the rider's/driver's mouths] ever since Catalytic converters and I have been mostly fine, breathing heavily while running over 35.
There is another kind of farters. The vehicles who don't get proper maintenance and start puffing white smoke, filling the road air with it, making me have to take a stop or hastily overtake them.

There is just one case, where I would look differently and that is the case of tuk-tuks and mopeds, which turns out to be out of necessity and lack of money. Because those have to be cheap, to cater to the requirement of the target customer, reduced noise comes lower in the list of priorities.

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[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Says it was the "fireworks causing stress" that killed it not imprisoning a wild animal in a foreign environment. I am having a hard time blaming the fireworks here.

[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

Fireworks and red pandas have both existed at the same time for hundreds of years. Red pandas first discovered in 1825 by a French zoologist. One would assume it didn't just blink into existence (however, I can't prove it). Fireworks came about around 200 BC.

One would presume that there's been a lot of overlap.

It's possible the fireworks exacerbated a problem but it's not the root cause.

[-] nifty@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago

Why can’t they put them in a sound safe zone till the fireworks dissipate? This zoo is incompetent and should be investigated

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Or, maybe fireworks should just not be a thing.

[-] Lhianna@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Because a lot of idiots keep shooting fireworks even though the day they're supposed to be used on has not yet come or has long passed. Here, they're supposed for New Year's Eve. The first one this autumn went off sometime in September. The last one usually goes off sometime in February. What are the zookeepers supposed to do?

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