The main reason behind the decline of #orangutan populations is #habitatdestruction and #fragmentation due to #illegallogging, #agriculture, and #palmoil #plantations.
#BoycottPalmOil #SiblingBeings #IndigenousBiodiversity #WebOfLife #DeterioratingCarbonSinks
https://themeghalayan.com/in-the-shadows-of-extinction-orangutans/

the lawn in the middle picture might be the problem?

#LandUse #LandAbuse #HabitatDestruction

Lots of kookaburra activity around our house lately, I've had two close encounters today.... but there's always that nagging feeling that it's not a good thing #BirdsAU #HabitatDestruction #ClimateChange

Some German content for a change! Watched this documentary last night and thought it's well worth sharing. Interested to hear your thoughts!

https://youtu.be/3XOMF2QzNuE

"Welche Antworten hat die Kunst auf den fragilen Zustand der Welt? Sie warnt, sie rüttelt auf und sucht nach Lösungen."

#German
#documentary
#DWDocumentary
#DW
#DeutscheWelle
#Climate
#ClimateBreakdown
#Deforestation
#Amazon
#HabitatDestruction
#Artists
#Nature
#Indigenous
#knowledge
#TraditionalKnowledge
#TEK
#TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge

Yet more on Canada's treatment of species at risk. Industry trumps any attempt at effective recovery.

H/T Jesse Zeman on the hellsite for drawing attention to this link.

https://thenarwhal.ca/spotted-owl-emergency-order-documents/
#Conservation #Canada #BC #HabitatDestruction #SpeciesAtRiskAct #CumulativeEffects

More on Canada's permitted destruction of legally "protected" critical habitat, harassment of a at-risk species listed under the Species ar Risk Act, and potential damage to, or destruction of redds of a listed trout species at Rock Cr, AB. Amanda Follett Hosgood writes in The Tyee:

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/07/25/Alberta-Pipeline-Endangers-Threatened-Fish/

(See previously https://ecoevo.social/@dmayhood/110724653228022043)

#SpeciesAtRiskAct #Canada #Conservation #Pipeline #HabitatDestruction #Law #Litigation

modern human life is not sustainable

#agriculture #beef #ranching #farming #deforestation #HabitatDestruction #ClimateCrisis

Just to add hashtags: #Conservation #Canada #SpeciesAtRiskAct #HabitatDestruction #WestslopeCutthroat #Alberta #Pipeline #EnvironmentalDestruction

yet more lies: tropical forest loss last year exceeded 2021 levels despite climate action vows to end the massacre

#trees stop the lies & #SaveTrees #deforestation #HabitatDestruction https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/27/forest-decline-surges-despite-climate-action-vows-to-end-it

Housing crisis versus koalas: Which is more important?

#HousingCrisis #koalas #EndangeredSpecies #HabitatDestruction #logging #Australia https://au.news.yahoo.com/housing-crisis-versus-koalas-which-is-more-important-041047288.html

JOIN ME in signing this petition to protect important habitat from destruction by Australia's greedy runaway WAR ON NATURE & on its CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES

Petition from delegates of the Australian Ecological Society Conference, Darwin 2023

https://www.ecnt.org.au/esa_delegates #conservation #HabitatDestruction #EndangeredSpecies #Australia

To try & slow down the human caused ecological crisis that is & will increasingly disrupt life as many people know it, we need?

(Multiple choices poll)

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #SpeciesExtinction #wildlife #nature
#ecological #polyCrisis #corruption #apathy #BusinessAsUsual #economy #economics #politics
#AirPollution #technology #mining #habitatDestruction #PlasticPollution #ClimateHeating #ForestFires #SeaLevelRise #desertification

Federal Environment Minister @Tanya_Plibersek approves #Australia's #HabitatDestruction at Lee Point

"It's really hurtful to Larrakia people … this nature is part of our life … it's important for our survival, as we've survived for hundreds of thousands of years."

#birds #wildlife #EndangeredSpecies https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-20/tanya-plibersek-lee-point-defence-housing-project-gouldian-finch/102493770

@GrrlScientist

Just to let you know that someone 12,440 km away, on the opposite side of Spaceship Earth, learned what Tanya Plibersek did, and despises her cowardice and infantilism.

#birds #EndangeredSpecies #habitatdestruction #Australia

Australians are driving ANOTHER BIRD INTO EXTINCTION to satisfy THEIR GREED

minister of environmental destruction, Tanya_Plibersek, will allow land clearing to proceed at Lee Point in Darwin, despite the risks the development poses to one of Australia’s most beautiful songbirds

#birds #EndangeredSpecies #habitatdestruction #Australia https://www.ecnt.org.au/lee_point_clearing

"More than 800 million trees have been cut down in the #Amazon #rainforest in just six years to feed the world’s appetite for Brazilian #beef, according to a new investigation, despite dire warnings about the forest’s importance in fighting the #climate crisis.

A data-driven investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), the Guardian, Repórter Brasil and Forbidden Stories shows systematic and vast forest loss linked to cattle farming.

The beef industry in #Brazil has consistently pledged to avoid farms linked to deforestation. However, the data suggests that 1.7m hectares (4.2m acres) of the Amazon was destroyed near meat plants exporting beef around the world."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/02/more-than-800m-amazon-trees-felled-in-six-years-to-meet-beef-demand

#Amazon #Rainforest #Climate #ClimateCrisis #HabitatLoss #HabitatDestruction #Habitat #Brazil #Agriculture #AgriculturalIndustry #Forest #Ecosystems

Iconic #Ibises
"We destroyed their #habitat, so they adapted to our habitat."
Car crashes, bad diets and tree falls are killing Sydney's #ibises and WIRES wants your help."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-19/wires-recruiting-more-ibis-carers/102232080

In Australia the Ibis is relegated to feed from #garbage bins, due to #HabitatDestruction.
Elsewhere the #Ibis was sacred to and associated with Thoth the God of wisdom and #Writing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/sLmf3VJmSRqBF6FmKju1HQ

#Birds #Insects #Freshwater #Wetlands #Cars #Dogs
Image: Public art, #Bellingen

no Where else to go;
This will happen more often.
Sin Nombre Virus.

#Haiku #ClimateCrisis #HabitatDestruction #ZoonoticDisease #HumanWildlifeInterface #EcologicalPressure #UnderPressure #Haikoot

"A wake-up call’: total weight of wild mammals less than 10% of humanity’s - From elephants to tigers, study reveals scale of damage to wildlife caused by transformation of wildernesses and human activity"

"The total weight of Earth’s wild land mammals – from elephants to bisons and from deer to tigers – is now less than 10% of the combined tonnage of men, women and children living on the planet.

A study by scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, published this month, concludes that wild land mammals alive today have a total mass of 22m tonnes. By comparison, humanity now weighs in at a total of around 390m tonnes.

At the same time, the species we have domesticated, such as sheep and cattle, in addition to other hangers-on such as urban rodents, add a further 630m tonnes to the total mass of creatures that are now competing with wild mammals for Earth’s resources. The biomass of pigs alone is nearly double that of all wild land mammals."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/18/a-wake-up-call-total-weight-of-wild-mammals-less-than-10-of-humanitys

#Species #SpeciesExtinction #Biodiversity #Habitat #HabitatLoss #HabitatDestruction #Humans #DomesticAnimals #Earth #Biosphere #Mammals #LandMammals #Wildlife

Today in Labor History March 12, 1928: The St. Francis Dam failed in Los Angeles, California, killing 431 people. It is the second deadliest disaster in California, after the 1906 earthquake, and one of the worst U.S. civil engineering disasters ever. A defective foundation and design flaws caused the failure. Yet, the inquest absolved chief engineer, William Mulholland, of all criminal responsibility, and he continued to earn a salary from the Bureau of Public Works (though his career was effectively ended). The authorities continued to find victims of the flood until the mid-1950s. Many of the victims were out to sea. Some washed ashore as far south as Mexico. Mulholland was also the designer of the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct, which sucks water from the Owens Valley and is a major cause of the depletion of the fragile Mono Lake. As its water levels continues to decline, it threatens the world’s second largest gull rookery, home to up to 50,000 birds. The aqueduct’s construction, and the shady methods Mulholland used to acquire the water rights, led to the California Water Wars between LA County and Owens Valley farmers. Many of those same Anglo farmers (or their predecessors) usurped the land from Piute people during the 1863 Owens Valley Indian War, which was precipitated, in part, by the vast loss of human and cattle lives, and the displacements, caused by the Megaflood of 1861, which inundated much of the West, from Idaho and Oregon, down to northern Baja California. The corruption related to the construction of the aqueduct has been portrayed in the film Chinatown, and in the nonfiction book, “Cadillac Desert.”

For more on the Megaflood of 1861, please read my article, “Worse Than the Big One”: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2023/01/04/worse-than-the-big-one-californias-coming-megaflood-2/

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #flood #dam #mulholland #MonoLake #OwensValley #NativeAmerican #indigenous #piute #ecology #chinatown #IndianWar #HabitatDestruction @bookstadon