Stories of Ukrainians who survived under #Russian occupation need to be heard. Here's one of them, a testimony of Victoria Shcherbak, a teacher from #Balakliya, #Kharkiv region, who was held in Russian #captivity during the #occupation in 2022, along with her minor daughter and husband.
https://www.facebook.com/tetyana.dotsyak/posts/pfbid0bwimLvKjNd6ZYAzSaMrC39r9krpJuYFpUfv9qgNSwSoU5Fv58nVSzLSbYt1W1pAUl
#RussianWarCrimes #Ukraine #genocide

"Sinclair told the Senate at the original bill's second reading late in 2020 that there were 22 elephants in captivity across Canada: 16 Asian elephants at African Lion Safari near Hamilton, a lone Asian elephant named Lucy at the Edmonton Valley Zoo, two African elephants at Parc Safari in Quebec plus the three at Granby Zoo."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-zoo-elephants-new-home-bill-ban-captivity-1.6394276

#elephants #zoos #captivity
#CanPol #cdnpoli
#CBC

Il faut déconstruire l'idée que le #zoo est un endroit merveilleux dans l'éducation des enfants. Le zoo est une prison ou des innocents sont enfermés et auquel les bourreaux se font de l'argent sur leur privation de liberté.

#StopZoo #captivity #Stereotypie #EndSpecisme

28 June 2023
I am the only one awake right now.
Most mornings, when I wake, as my eyes become accustomed to the dimness, but before my brain can cope with finding the kettle, let alone making coffee, I sit, and I wonder at just what I would do if the word awake was the word alive.
Would I sit here forever, too scared to move?
Would I continue to look outside the window at a world I seldom get to touch?
Or would I be brave, take the chance and seize my freedom?

#musing #freedom #captivity

Alleged Russian spy whale Hvaldimir is in Sweden — and danger : NPR https://www.npr.org/2023/05/31/1179114070/russian-spy-whale-sweden-hvaldimir #Captivity #Whales

One year on, #Kherson activist #kidnapped by #Russian troops remains in #captivity

https://kyivindependent.com/one-year-on-civilian-woman-kidnapped-by-russian-troops-remains-in-russian-captivity/
#Ukraine

Being close on a Lynx!

The photo is taken on of our visits to Langedrag Nature Park, where I had the pleasure of taking part in a guided lynx hike. Something not many has had the pleasure of experiencing!

The hike and the photo shoot was a fantastic way to learn more about one of the most shy predators we have in Norway.

Thank You Langedrag!

#langedrag #captivity #naturephotography #photography #norway #lynx #photooftheday #pictureoftheday

Being close on a Lynx!

The photo is taken on of our visits to Langedrag Nature Park, where I had the pleasure of taking part in a guided lynx hike. Something not many has had the pleasure of experiencing!

The hike and the photo shoot was a fantastic way to learn more about one of the most shy predators we have in Norway.

Thank You Langedrag!

#langedrag #captivity #naturephotography #photography #norway #lynx #photooftheday #pictureoftheday

Rethinking #River #Water temperature in a changing, human-dominated world : Nature

World risks descending into a #Climate ‘#Doom loop’, warn #Thinktanks : Guardian

The #Animals and #Plants that only exist in #Captivity — and why time is running out to restore them to the wild : Misc

Check our most popular #KnowledgeLinks

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I've been keeping up with Leon the Lobster since he was first purchased. I love wildlife rescue stories, & learning about various species. I grow increasingly tired & frustrated by these sorts of stories though.

Leon is blind. I know this because as soon as Brady said he didn't know what Leon sees in this video, I looked it up. I learned their eyesight is based on reflection not refraction, that he's evolved for extreme lowlight situations, that he has 180° vision, that scientists use this vision array to inspire space telescope design, & that, with that much light, Leon is basically blinded. I learned this in a few minutes.

It seems to me to be deeply worrying that this isn't something his owner has considered before. Not only would less light decrease Leon's stress levels, but it would also save energy & therefore money. A good hide would probably do Leon's stress levels the world of good too! Just like it does for my reptiles & most exoskeletal pets. Why does Brady not know this? Why has he not learned of Leon's vision structure? Why has he not provided?

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate people for making mistakes. I have made many. But I make them after I have searched high & low for information & answers. How does one own a pet & not be vastly curious about it?

https://youtu.be/lD7ViRJ0X2o

#Crustaceans #Lobsters #Captivity #OceanAnimals #SeaCreatures #ExoticPets #LobsterEyesight #LobsterVision #Leon #LeonTheLobser

2023-02-22 #photo

Oleh #Mudrak, commander of Azov's 1st Battalion, defended #Azovstal. Then he went through 6 months of Russian #captivity.

Today his heart stopped beating. His nephew wrote: "Oleh lit up the hearts of everyone around him."

#RIP, Hero.

Photos: before and in Russian captivity.

#RussiaIsATerroristState
#RussianWarOfAgression

This is how Canada keeps Beluga whales in captivity just for fun. https://nitter.net/walruswhisperer/status/1624470738701889538? #Canada #BelugaWhales #Captivity

Wow... This is both interesting and truly sad.

Japanese zookeepers finally know how Momo the gibbon who lived alone had a baby - CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/asia/japan-zoo-gibbon-pregnancy-mystery-intl-hnk/index.html

"The (DNA) test showed the father to be Itō, a 34-year-old agile gibbon, who was in an adjacent enclosure to Momo around the time she became pregnant.

The zoo told CNN on Friday it believed that Momo and Itō had managed to mate through a small hole in a steel plate between their enclosures. The hole measured about 9 millimeters (0.3 inch) in diameter."

This is just the tip of the iceberg of our cruelty to animals but it does put things in perspective that this animal lived in isolation, on display its whole life and found a way to secretly mate through a freaking improvised glory hole.

#animals #animalRights #captivity #gibbon #zoo #EveryThingIsTrash

2023-02-04 #photo

Instead of a thousand words.

Warrior Maksym #Kolesnykov before the war and after months in #Russian #captivity.

He said he hasn't seen any #fruits while he remained captured.

#RussianWarOfAgression #RussiaIsATerroristState
#RussianWarCrimes
#WarCrimes

Being close on a Lynx!

The photo is taken on of our visits to Langedrag Nature Park, where I had the pleasure of taking part in a guided lynx hike. Something not many has had the pleasure of experiencing!

The hike and the photo shoot was a fantastic way to learn more about one of the most shy predators we have in Norway.

Thank You Langedrag!

#langedrag #captivity #naturephotography #photography #norway #lynx #photooftheday #pictureoftheday

2023-01-21 #video:

Teenager from Mariupol told the truth about Russian filtration camps at #Davos.

Oleksandr #Radchuk, 12, told how Russians took him away from his mom and told him a family would #adopt him.

Oleksandr was returned to #Ukraine. His mom is in #captivity, there is no information about her.

#FiltrationCamps
#WarCrimes #RussiaIsATerroristState #RussianWarOfAgression #Ukraine

🔥#Armenia trying to escape the #Russian #captivity

Armenian PM #Pashinyan is criticizing the Russian failure to provide security guarantees to Armenia. At the same time, the discontent is growing in Armenia due to #Russia also sacrificing Armenian interests while trying to force Armenia into a position of “union-state” (making it into a quasi-soviet style republic without any sovereign right).

Three #Ukrainian border guards who defended #Zmiiny Island returned from #Russian #captivity to #Kiliy #Odesa Oblast — DPSU.

#Heroes, you are at home 🥺

Great article by #ChristopherSebastianMcJetters. And the answer is clearly YES!
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/12/21/an-exploded-aquarium-and-chimpanzees-shot-dead-is-it-time-to-stop-keeping-animals-in-capti #Zoos #Captivity #AnimalResistance #Injustice #Prison

[ #Diokak Week 2022 | Day 2 | Fashion & Jewellery ]
He adorns his pretty little pet with all manner of jewels to accentuate his beauty. Said pet does not seem appreciative, but his pouting only makes him lovelier.
He'll come around soon enough.
#jjba #captivity #abuse