#conservation
#Rhino numbers rebound as global figures reveal a [partial] win for #conservation
Tally rises to 27,000 but is still a far cry from former half a million, and #Javan and #Sumatran rhino remain critically #endangered
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/sep/22/rhino-numbers-rebound-as-global-figures-reveal-a-win-for-conservation-aoe #Wildlife #Environment
After nearly 200 years without a confirmed sighting, a rare Brazilian tree species called the Pernambuco holly has been found in northeastern Brazil.
The team located four trees, two male and two female, in a forest fragment near a sugarcane plantation in the metropolitan region of the city of Recife.
by Liz Kimbrough
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/lost-brazilian-holly-tree-species-found-again-after-nearly-200-years/
#News #Conservation #Environment #Brazil #Plants #EndangeredSpecies #Forests
Rhino numbers rebound as global figures reveal a win for conservation | Global development | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/sep/22/rhino-numbers-rebound-as-global-figures-reveal-a-win-for-conservation-aoe
"Tally rises to 27,000 but is still a far cry from former half a million, and Javan and Sumatran rhino remain critically endangered"
Norristown Fish Passage area
Schuylkill River, PA
The fish ladder facility located here allows fish to migrate upstream and downstream around the dam - helping to restore the American Shad population😊
I didn’t fish, I just checked this area while my son was in a soccer training session 😉
#FlyFishing #Fishing #Fish #Shad #River #Passage #Population #Restoration #Conservation
Very well said. Technology is a tool, not an answer, and we need to be well aware of the uses (intended and unintended) of their collection. The responsibility lies with all of us.
#technology #conservation #AI #artificialintelligence #drone #software
Breaking news: Doug Ford cancels controversial $8.28-billion #Greenbelt land swap: ‘It was a mistake’
Premier Doug Ford is scrapping his controversial Greenbelt land swap in a desperate bid to salvage his sputtering Progressive Conservative government.
#conservation #land #Ontario #Toronto @torontostar
https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/doug-ford-cancels-controversial-8-28-billion-greenbelt-land-swap-it-was-a-mistake/article_68bb891b-f18f-5d0c-940f-b3be7c1ebdfb.html
Wondering where Canada's Department of Fisheries & Oceans (DFO) might be headed in administering the country's Species at Risk Act in Alberta? So am I, after examining lobbying by the Alberta Forest Products Ass'n, which wants to "balance" SARA against loggers' economic interests. Draft report for public review here:
https://ln5.sync.com/dl/d9ca53a90/h9sazg4w-x89r7gbs-bmu6qgs5-ns6c9ibb
#SpeciesAtRiskAct #Canada #Alberta #DFO #Lobbying #Law #Policy #Conservation
Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro has suffered for decades from inefficient sewage treatment, oil spills and mangrove deforestation.
For over thirty years, biologist Mario Moscatelli has been fighting to reverse this process and revitalize the landscape. For denouncing corruption, environmental crimes and government inaction, he faced intimidation and even death threats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRZlESe7hkQ
#News #Environment #Conservation #Deforestation #Mangroves #Brazil
As an epicenter of biodiversity, Vietnam hosts a wide array of reptile species. But new research shows that many species that occur nowhere else on the planet are poorly known and lacking protection.
The researchers also found that many of Vietnam’s rarest species are absent from the world’s zoo collections and conservation breeding programs, risking their disappearance forever should their wild populations collapse.
By Carolyn Cowan
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/for-vietnams-rare-reptiles-lack-of-captive-populations-may-spell-doom/
#NevisIsland Historical and #Conservation Society has entered into a collaboration with the Institute of #Caribbean Studies & The Futures Forum to host an evening of thought-provoking storytelling & A Day of Visioning the Future You Want. https://tinyurl.com/y7ptf94d
Good.
FACT SHEET: #Biden -Harris Administration Launches American Climate Corps to Train Young People in Clean #Energy, Conservation, and #Climate
“In its first year, the #AmericanClimateCorps will put more than 20,000 young people on career pathways in the growing fields of clean energy, #conservation and climate resilience”
Resilience Skills, Create Good-Paying Jobs and Tackle the #ClimateCrisis | The White House
#climatechange #uspolitics #uspol #globalwarming https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/09/20/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-launches-american-climate-corps-to-train-young-people-in-clean-energy-conservation-and-climate-resilience-skills-create-good-paying-jobs-and-tackle-the-clima/
Logging Bellingen's biodiversity
Bellingen is being hit by an 'infrastructure tsunami' (William Laurance) this year. Rural country roads are turning into a highway like network. Gleniffer Road is made 'logging ready' and Roses Road gets a daily smear of toxic coal-tar to take the added heavy vehicles.
Gleniffer Road infrastructure cuts through native ecosystems for human convenience. The road is designed solely with fossil fuel traffic in mind. Getting motorists from a to b in the fastest way and getting massive logging machinery into the remaining (Tuckers Nob) forest. Fossil fuel free mobility of humans and non human animals never entered the design considerations.
The habitat of the more-than-human assemblages is fragmented and degraded. Peri-urban sprawl (roads, cars, houses, dogs & cats) further poses a threat to wildlife.
It's estimated that 10 million Australian animals are killed on roads by (signage blind) motorists. For a country with one of the highest rates of animal extinctions in the world this is a lot of biodiversity to sacrifice. The maimed and dead seem to be an accepted 'side effect' of this mobility.
From the public roads the Forest Corporation cuts a labyrinth of logging roads (fishbone pattern) into the heart of the forest. Massive fossil powered machinery is then set to work to clear fell Australia's biodiversity.
Noise pollution, toxins from tyres and exhaust fumes poison freshwater ecosystems, the soil and the air. The survivors of the roadkill and deforestation carnage have nowhere to go. Birds fall silent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_ecology
Can ‘road ecology’ save millions of animals?
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/can-road-ecology-save-millions-of-animals/
How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
https://wwnorton.com/books/crossings
Pollution from tyres
https://e360.yale.edu/features/tire-pollution-toxic-chemicals
#Wildlife #conservation #roadkill #RoadEcology #logging #roads #Bellingen #SaveTuckersNob #BiodiversityEmergency #ClimateEmergency #GlenifferRoad #ClearFelling #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #extinction makers
To Track Bull Sharks, First Hit Their Snooze Button
Researchers are using a button-shaped device to gather data about desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) and their habitats in the Mojave Desert in Southern California.
Using iButtons, the researchers are trying to understand how hot the tortoises get, and the temperatures that they prefer in the burrows where they spend most of their time.
by Abhishyant Kidangoor
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/how-hot-are-the-desert-tortoises-getting-ibuttons-help-find-the-answer/
#News #Conservation #Environment #ConservationTechnology #Wildlife
#Power2Peatlands carries on today. Many mentions of need for better #communication. Might help to connect with animal conservation eg #WetlandBirds ? they didn't get mentioned that often. #peat #conservation
Sustainable farming, mercury-free fishing and circular trade are among the strategies Amazon Indigenous peoples have been developing to survive in one of the most hostile states for Indigenous people in Brazil.
Territorial and Environmental Management Plans are one of the Indigenous-led tools for communities to create strategies to manage their natural resources and provide income for families in their territories.
By Amanda Magnani
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/in-roraima-indigenous-communities-forge-sustainable-solutions-amid-threats/
Calling for #applications for two workshops at the American University of Beirut on 25, 26 and 27 October 2023 co-organised by AUB and the #BritishLibrary #Endangered #Archives Programme (EAP).
Depending on your background and interest, you are invited to opt for:
(i) Common #Conservation Issues in leather #Bindings
(ii) Introduction to #Digitization
Further details and application form:
https://aub.libwizard.com/f/eap-conservation-fall2023
#Nature .. “We urgently need a joined-up, cross-regional approach to save some of the world’s most remarkable #flowers, most of which are now on the brink of being lost,” ~Dr Chris Thorogood, from the University of Oxford Botanic Garden
Article and photos of #Rafflesia. #Parasitic plant known as the #CorpseFlower
#Nature .. “We urgently need a joined-up, cross-regional approach to save some of the world’s most remarkable #flowers, most of which are now on the brink of being lost,” ~Dr Chris Thorogood, from the University of Oxford Botanic Garden
Article and photos of #Rafflesia. #Parasitic plant known as the #CorpseFlower
In five centuries, human actions have triggered a surge of genus extinctions that would otherwise have taken 18,000 years to accumulate
—what the paper calls a "biological annihilation."
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-human-driven-mass-extinction-entire-tree.html
#environment #ecology #extinction #earth #climatechange #conservation
Diversity, distribution and intrinsic extinction vulnerability of exploited marine bivalves: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40053-y
Leader for COICA, the confederation of Indigenous Communities of Amazonia Jose Gregorio Diaz Mirabel shares their initiative Amazonia for Life, their biodiversity-saving daily efforts to save the Amazon forests. #COICA #CGI2023 #Amazonia #conservation
I've been thinking about what direction to take my career and was wondering if any fellow Mastodoners had any insight:
I have 2-3 years experience working with WordPress/React, but have a degree in Environmental Studies and years of experience in #conservation field work (invasive species management).
I've been hoping to combine these skills together somehow - conservation data science? I want to learn #Python and move away from WordPress and client websites in general. Does this job exist?
New data from the newly launched platform Marine Sand Watch suggest that the dredging industry is extracting about 6 billion tons of sand from the marine environment annually.
Experts say the extraction of sand can have numerous impacts on the marine environment, such as harming biodiversity, polluting water and making coastlines more vulnerable to sea level rise.
by Elizabeth Claire Alberts
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/totally-unsustainable-sand-mining-harms-marine-environments-new-data-suggest/
Demonstrations are taking place daily in Panama against a new deal with the Cobre Panamá copper mine in Colón province.
The protesters argue it gives mine operator First Quantum Minerals too much power and will lead to environmental damage over the next 40 years.
by Daniel Harkins
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/panama-protests-to-protect-ecosystems-and-canal-against-pending-mining-deal/
🌳 A #rewilding project has led to the return of a number of bird species that are in critical decline.
Seven birds on the #Conservation Concern Red List have been spotted at #WildWoodbury in #Dorset.
#Dorset #WildlifeTrust has been transforming the 170 hectare (420 acre) former agricultural site, near Bere Regis, since acquiring it in 2021.
The charity said it had logged more than 1,600 species on the nature reserve - 300 more than last year.
Join RECORD - Local Environmental Records Centre and Chester Zoo for an online talk about pollinators & B-Lines from Buglife B-Lines Officer, Rachel.
🗓️ Wednesday 27 September 2023
🕖 19:00-20:30
📌 online, via Zoom
Find out more & book your place
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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/b-lines-and-how-you-can-support-pollinators-online-talk-tickets-719671074557
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#Conservation #Wildlife #Nature
Did you know? 🤔
Millions of years ago, finches arrived in the #Hawaiian Islands through #storm winds, leading to "adaptive #radiation". Similar to the #Galapagos, these islands supported over 50 #honeycreeper species. Today, #conservation efforts aim to protect these unique #birds. 🐦🌺
👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/jewels-of-the-forest-kauais-endangered-honeycreepers
images of Stokes State Forest in New Jersey. I grew up here. It's a beautiful place to go camping if youre ever in northern New Jersey ~ #nature #naturelovers #newjersey #nj #art #photography #photographs #environment #environmental #stateparks #conservation #arts #inspiration #motivation
A new study reveals that protected areas in Southeast Asia not only boost bird and mammal diversity within their confines, but they also elevate numbers of species in nearby unprotected habitats.
The researchers say their findings back up the U.N.’s 30×30 target to protect 30% of Earth’s lands and waters by 2030.
By Carolyn Cowan
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/protected-areas-a-boon-for-vertebrate-diversity-in-wider-landscape-study-shows/
#News #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #Asia #ProtectedAreas #Animals
Indonesia saw an increase in land and forest fires recently as the El Niño weather phenomenon brings a prolonged dry season.
Official data show a fourfold increase in hotspots up to September, compared with the same period last year.
by Hans Nicholas Jong
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/el-nino-leads-to-more-fires-and-toxic-air-pollution-in-indonesia/
#News #Conservation #Environment #Indonesia #Weather #Climate
It drove them batty... BlahBlah. Bats in the bellfray... BlahBlah. They're in a flap... Etc. Dead parents... Zzzzz.
"The Race to Save the Pekapeka-Tou-Poto, #NewZealand’s Unique #Bat
"For #Scientists, monitoring the feisty, #Endangered burrowing bat includes moments of 'actual madness..."
#News #Nature #Bats #Zoology #Conservation #PekapekaTouPoto
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-zealand-bat-pekapeka-tou-poto
when the insects are all gone, all plants & wildlife -- AND PEOPLE -- will follow them into oblivion ...
graphic via ForkRanger
#insects #Plants #plantsandnature #Wildlife #conservation #Nature #Food #people #Extinction
Red Kites above Argaty in Doune, Perthshire, #Scotland.
"This morning are they fled away and gone;
And in their steads do ravens, crows and kites,
Fly o'er our heads and downward look on us"
- #ShakespeareSunday, Julius Caesar
https://argatyredkites.co.uk/
@photography #conservation #birds #RedKite #WildlifePhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdsOfPrey
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#CarnivorousPlants return to #Lancashire #peatland after 100 years https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/14/carnivorous-plants-return-to-lancashire-peatland-after-100-years
"#Insect-eating sundew #plants among 17,500 reintroduced as part of carbon-sequestering #conservation scheme"
A couple of months back, we created this wildlife pond.
It seems to be settling in nicely and is greening up around its margins.
I'm particularly pleased with how happy the two alder trees seem about their new neighbour.
I'm looking forward to seeing what sort of wildlife takes up residence over the next couple of years.
At least 177 environmental defenders were killed last year globally, according to a new report from Global Witness. At least 155 of them were in Latin America.
There have been 1,910 murdered defenders since 2012, the year that Global Witness started tracking this type of violence. Last year, the murders took place across 18 countries worldwide, 11 of them in Latin America.
by Maxwell Radwin
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/latin-america-most-dangerous-place-for-environmental-defenders-report-says/
Madagascar is a hotspot for gecko diversity, and the latest to appear on the tree of life is Uroplatus garamaso.
U. garamaso, with a length of 8.3-13.9 cm (3.3-5.5 in), is one of the larger leaf-tailed lizards inhabiting the island, but is still a master at hiding in plain sight.
by Malavika Vyawahare
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/newly-described-gecko-from-madagascar-a-master-of-disguise/
#News #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #Madagascar #NewSpecies #Biodiversity #Animals
It's thanks to these people that we are lucky to have the Bearded vulture gracing our mountains in the Sierra Nevada. You have to be lucky to see them here, but it's such a buzz when you do ❤ Enjoy the lovely short video and article about the work being done.
https://4vultures.org/blog/the-story-of-the-bearded-vulture-by-lizzie-daly/ #birds #vultures #conservation #spain #andalucia #mountains
I am just incandescent with rage over the Save the Redwoods League and their active role is robbing us of redwoods and other heinous behavior, thanks to Greg King’s book The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods. https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/09/greenwashing-sacrificed-california-redwoods/ #conservation #nature #redwoods #bookstodon
"In 2022, Dr. Jäger announced that he had named a genus of spiders after the music of #DavidBowie...
He said in a statement that he meant to “commemorate this incomparable artist who left us much too early, but what matters most to me here is the idea of #conservation.”
“We only protect what we know — and an attractive name is much more likely to be remembered,” he said."
#GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/science/star-trek-spider-species.html?unlocked_article_code=8lolHpYjVUnddZnuTv1YvrwsUMwlU0Dma4hDNOorUNejWewTKMHXMykGvSjYPxoAmDozOI29AIJBvMB6viNXwqUTyXni4UWfv6THChp2yvfjY4sDYqBvydLoOwCZJuoUFsrGukJSEmhB0sRaIMi8OC6ctUuJuvklOKcTq8LQ_XFqt3qHx3Fii54ngc7qaoQxDuXmBBJryTEeqgKcDNkZifUK_gsKxDEBoJU4ysH8jubrd4b0o9ZLTRLIlzyuiJVG6AAN18POxQU4pgJxlfCnsIYMcIL_W3C0i-FW_Ow9AVQsInsJ5kE95i-mkPcIYavcynu3WQawU5Z2LmTOX6kdtsFL&smid=url-share
The National Party is proposing to reduce the already stretched budget of the NZ #DepartmentofConservation by a whopping $46 million.
The chief executives of Forest & Bird, WWF-New Zealand and the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) have just put out a joint press release highlighting how insane this is.
“I can think of no more expedient way to shoot ourselves in the foot,” said Dr Kingdon-Bebb [CEO of WWF-New Zealand]
We won a Global Ocean Treaty - but what happens next?, https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/we-won-a-global-ocean-treaty-but-what-happens-next/?utm_medium=share&utm_content=postid-61009&utm_source=mastodon
Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus) is a species of deer that is now extinct in the wild.
After learning of this deer's situation, watching it graze in its zoo enclosure evoked a great deal of pathos and disillusionment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_David%27s_deer
#deer #zoo #animals #conservation #extinction #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #tbt #thursday #donnerstag
The Netherlands weighs up its future amid farmer protests and dying ecosystems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP2SzOu5wmE
The Race to Save the Pekapeka-Tou-Poto, New Zealand's Unique Bat
For scientists, monitoring the feisty, endangered burrowing bat includes moments of "actual madness."#conservation #wildlife #animals #science #scientistsatwork #bats #section-Articles
The Race to Save the Pekapeka-Tou-Poto, New Zealand's Unique Bat
Interested in nature and rewilding? Experience as a video editor? Then come join us at Mossy Earth :) Feel free to ask any questions. Please boost or forward onto your network so we can get a diverse range of applicants https://www.mossy.earth/jobs #Rewilding #VideoEditing #Conservation #Nature #Jobs #RemoteWork
This was an interesting read, highlighting the fact that we are very good at removing habitat and refuges for wild animals, but very bad at trying to replace it.
#conservation #ecology
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In Search of Safer Refuge: The Challenges of Replicating Nature
https://undark.org/2023/09/11/in-search-of-safer-refuge-the-challenges-of-replicating-nature/
Up to 4 metric tons of wild meat is illegally entering Europe through Brussels’ international airport alone every month, a new study says.
The source for much of this meat is West and Central Africa, with some of the seized meat found to be from threatened or protected species such as tree pangolins and dwarf crocodiles.
by Sean Mowbray
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/study-wild-meat-trade-from-africa-into-belgium-a-health-and-conservation-risk/
Ecuador’s Jama-Coaque Reserve, home to a vibrant cloud forest ecosystem, is part of what may be world’s most endangered tropical forest, of which only 2.23% remains.
Third Millennium Alliance manages the Jama-Coaque Reserve, protecting one of the few remaining forest areas by monitoring and rebuilding the surrounding forest and with sustainable cacao farming that supports the local economy.
By Liz Kimbrough
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/can-agroforestry-chocolate-help-save-the-worlds-most-endangered-rainforest/
An Indonesian court has rejected lawsuits filed by two plantation companies operating in the Tanah Merah mega oil palm plantation project in the country’s Papua region.
The ruling means the companies are legally required to stop clearing forest in their concessions and preserve what remains.
By Hans Nicholas Jong
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/court-ruling-spares-papua-forest-from-further-clearing-for-palm-oil/
A new partnership between NASA and researchers is measuring the impact of beavers reintroduced to landscapes in Idaho.
Beavers are one of the world’s most powerful ecosystem engineers, building new habitats by slowing water flow and reducing flooding, while also boosting biodiversity.
By Jeremy Hance
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/nasa-satellites-reveal-restoration-power-of-beavers/
#News #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #Biodiversity #ClimateChange
I love it when trees grow on rocks. It shows just how determined and resilient they can be, if we let them.
This oak is part of one of the few remaining areas of temperate rainforest in the UK - look at the tree ferns growing on it.
We need to protect and extend these precious remnants.
This is in portrait format.
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Photography #Trees #Woodland #Dartmoor #Ferns #Nature #Conservation
ℹ️ Our new web pages outline what IIAs are, how they were identified and mapped as well as the decisions that have gone into selecting species. They also explore some case studies of IIAs and how IIAs will be used to support and prioritise invertebrate conservation into the future.
🔎 Join us each "𝐹𝑟-𝐼𝐼𝐴-𝑑𝑎𝑦" as we explore and share information about IIAs.
𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐈𝐀𝐬
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www.buglife.org.uk/our-work/important-invertebrate-areas/
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#FrIIAday #IIAs #Conservation
💥𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐅𝐫-𝐈𝐈𝐀-𝐃𝐚𝐲!💥 (a little delayed dueto issues posting)
We are delighted to be able to officially introduce to you 𝑰𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑰𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔 (IIAs) and a fantastic suite of free to use information and web resources to help secure a better future of our invertebrate populations!
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www.buglife.org.uk/our-work/important-invertebrate-areas/
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#FrIIAday #IIAs #Conservation #JoinedUpThinking
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (ASFA) recently held a meeting in Kinshasa to argue for the reorienting of food production around agroecology in the Congo Basin.
Civil society groups, donors, government representatives and small-scale farmers gathered to exchange views on challenges and solutions to food security.
By Elodie Toto
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/drc-food-sovereignty-summit-yields-support-for-agroecology-local-land-rights/
#News #Conservation #Environment #Africa #CongoBasin #Agriculture #Agroecology
Beautiful damage in a copy of Theodosian Code (Lyon, 6th century). #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #Parchment #LegalHistory #HistoryOfLaw #Conservation #oops
@bookhistodons @medievodons
The Netherlands is one of the smallest countries in Europe, but also one of its biggest food producers and exporters, thanks to a wildly successful intensive agriculture sector.
With the highest density of livestock in Europe, the Netherlands has been in the throes of a years-long crisis over nitrogen emissions from manure, which ecologists say are destroying the country’s ecosystems.
By Ashoka Mukpo
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/how-manure-blew-up-the-netherlands/
🌟 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐮𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦! 🌟
We currently have two very exciting opportunities available to join the Buglife Cymru team, as part of Wales' flagship conservation programme 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑚 𝐵𝑦𝑡ℎ!
Help Wales’ invertebrates to survive and thrive
💛 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐫
🌊 𝐒𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐚 𝐁𝐚𝐲: 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬 & 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐫
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https://www.buglife.org.uk/jobs/
💡Closing date for applications for both posts is 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒚 25 𝑺𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓.
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#Jobs #Conservation #Cymru #ConservationCareers
Environmentalists condemn Australia’s ‘woeful record’ after 48 plants and animals added to threatened species list
“This many species being added to the list in one go is a sign of widespread ecological collapse,” Tim Beshara of the Wilderness Society.
“Australia has a woeful track record when it comes to protecting our unique animals and plants. We are a world leader in sending mammals to extinction – and it is mostly because we keep allowing their homes to be bulldozed, logged and overrun,” Nature campaigner Jess Abrahams
“We need stronger laws to protect these species and significantly more funding to do it with."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/07/environmentalists-condemn-australias-woeful-record-after-48-plants-and-animals-added-to-threatened-species-list
#Australia #EnvironmentalManagement #sprawl #roads #cats #dogs #deforestation #logging #NSWLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #biodiversity #EndangeredSpecies #wildlife #koalas #conservation #care #extinction makers
Candidates running in Indonesia’s presidential election next year must make clear their plans for transition the country away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy, policy experts say.
A survey shows young Indonesians, who make up the majority of potential voters, view environmental issues in general, and a just energy transition in particular, as crucial issues for a new president to tackle.
by Basten Gokkon
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/indonesia-presidential-election-clean-energy-transition-coal-fossil-fuel-prabowo-ganjar-anies/
I think a lot about the interconnections and causes of increasing #natureBlindness and #historyBlindness, as I encounter it especially in social media in *all* educational levels. About the consequences and the possible ways out of this dangerous dilemma.
If you know of any enlightening and inspiring articles or books on the topic - I would be happy to receive links.
#alienation #reconnectingWithNature #nature #histodon #anthropocene #lost #Knowledge #culturalHeritage #conservation
Forestry Corporation's logging operations halted in Tallaganda State Forest, glider found dead
"After discovering a dead endangered marsupial, Forestry Corporation NSW (FCNSW) has been issued a stop-work order in a state-owned forest near Canberra".
"EPA investigators discovered a dead southern greater glider beside a logging area within the Tallaganda State Forest. This habitat is ground zero in the race to save this critically threatened species," she said. WWF conservation scientist Kita Ashman"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-31/southern-greater-glider-dead-forestry-corporation-logging-halted/102797160
EPA issues Stop Work Order on forestry operations in Tallaganda State Forest
Stop logging native forests in a climate and biodiversity emergency!
#FCNSW #logging #StopLogging #StopEcocide #TallagandaSF #EndangeredSpecies #conservation #gliders #extinction makers
Prehistoric bird once thought extinct returns to New Zealand wild https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/29/prehistoric-bird-once-thought-extinct-returns-to-new-zealand-wild Eighteen of the birds were released in the Lake Whakatipu Waimāori valley, on to slopes they had not been seen roaming for about 100 years 🌏 #NewZealand #Conservation
{📷©Douglas Thorne Photography}
Environmental groups recruit people of color into overwhelmingly white conservation world.
AP reports: https://flip.it/7_asNO
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#backpacking #camping #conservation #conservationphotogrphy #Forest #HikeAmerica #Hiking #Landscape #NANPA #nature #naturephotography #outdoors #outside #Trails #photography #sonyalpha #outside #outdoors
Council introduces laws to help protect endangered koalas from dogs
"Dog owners living in parts of the Gold Coast must now follow strict rules or face fines under tough laws designed to keep koalas safe...New laws in a Queensland city mean people who live in designated koala habitat area must prevent their dogs from attacking the animals, by providing a range of options so the marsupials can enter and escape."
"Each year, probably about 100 koalas get taken into animal hospitals … due to dog attacks, around about 75 per cent of them die — so it's a major issue."
"The proposed new laws have been designed to help protect koalas by ensuring dog owners in designated koala areas provide koala-friendly backyards"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-26/gold-coast-city-council-new-laws-koala-habitat-dog-owners/102778360
#pets #dogs #fences #PetsIndoors #Bellingen #council #endangered #koala #wildlife #conservation #biodiversity
"Hunters, dairy farmers, utility operators, loggers, government agents and conservationists have all supported the tribe in helping North America’s largest land-based birds." Great article by @Toastie about the re-introduction of #condors by #indigenous people. So much to learn in this article! Great #journalism. https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.6/indigenous-affairs-birds-the-yurok-tribe-is-bringing-condors-home-to-northern-california-skies #biodiversity #conservation #ecology #BiodiversityLoss #goodNews
NSW environment protection laws unlikely to succeed without major overhaul, damning review finds
"A scathing review of NSW environment laws warns half of the species under threat in the state are on course to become extinct within the next 100 years.. Biodiversity is not being conserved."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/24/nsw-environment-protection-laws-unlikely-to-succeed-without-major-overhaul-damning-review-finds
#NSW #biodiversity #law #EnvironmentalManagement #conservation #failure #Koala #extractivism #NativeForest #logging #SaveTuckersNob #extinction makers