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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Deep undercover in Loch Fyne exposing deadly Bakkafrost - can you see through my cunning disguise?
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
A #lynx captured in the #Cairngorms National Park on Friday has died overnight www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Lynx dies after being captured in Cairngorms - BBC News
Four of the wild cats have been captured in recent days, after they were illegally released into the Highlands.
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Killed Women @killedwomennw.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
‘We stand by Jess’: Victims of male violence sign letter praising minister for devoting life to ‘fighting for women and girls’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘We stand by Jess’: Telford survivors criticise Musk’s attack on Phillips
Exclusive: Victims of male violence sign letter praising minister for devoting life to ‘fighting for women and girls’
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Dan Richardson @dan710ths.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The official ‘FOOD FOR THOUGHT’ trailer is here! Check it out over on our brand new YouTube channel. All likes, subscribes and comments enormously appreciated ☺️🙏🏼💚 youtu.be/nEkFfRS218o
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Food For Thought Official Trailer
YouTube video by Food For Thought
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
South Lakes Safari Zoo, nr Dalton, in Cumbria at the centre of animal welfare concerns has announced it is to close at the end of this month. In Oct a BBC investigation heard allegations of avoidable animal deaths, welfare issues and a bullying culture www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
South Lakes Safari Zoo to close at end of month - BBC News
Bosses at the attraction say they are working to find long-term homes for the animals.
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
A male #humpbackwhale has made an extraordinary journey from South America to Africa — traveling more than 13,046 kilometers (8,106 miles) — the longest migration recorded for a single #whale www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/s...
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Humpback whale makes record journey from South America to Africa | CNN
A male humpback has completed the longest recorded migration for a whale from South America to Africa. Scientists explain why this journey is so unusual.
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Whistleblowers claim #MiamiSeaquarium faces funding, food shortages #ShutDownMSQ www.local10.com/news/local/2...
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Whistleblowers claim Miami Seaquarium faces funding, food shortages
Miami-Dade County officials are urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture to take action following allegations from two whistleblowers linked to the Miami Seaquarium.
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
#iceland #banwhalingnow
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A thrifty study uncovers a wealth of data about one of the world's largest and most elusive species. #whales www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Pygmy blue whales: Citizen scientists in Timor-Leste help research - BBC News
A thrifty study uncovers a wealth of data about one of the world's largest and most elusive species.
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Blue Planet Society @blueplanetsociety.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Iceland 🇮🇸 has issued whaling permits for the next five years to Hvalur hf. for fin whales And Tjaldtangi ehf. for minke whales. 🐋 Let’s make sure they feel the full weight of our disgust at this abhorrent decision. 😡 STOP THE HUNT‼️
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Iceland - Bjarni Benediktsson, the acting Minister for Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries, has issued whaling permits for the next five years… 😔 #whaling #banwhaling #iceland #endwhalingnow grapevine.is/news/2024/12...
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From Iceland — Bjarni Ben Grants Whaling Permits
Bjarni Benediktsson, the acting Minister for Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries, has issued whaling permits for the next five years, reports...
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Alex Ⓥ #pigoneer 𓃟 🌱 @alexpigoneer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Neonicotinoid pesticides that harm bees were found in 85% of English waterways tested by the Environment Agency in the last year. Under the influence of neonicotinoids, bees can struggle to fly, and "seem to bring back less pollen" to their hives. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Bee-harming pesticides found in majority of English waterways
The chemicals can harm insects and marine wildlife, environmental charities warn.
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Orcas failed again- there is NO sanctuary… 😔 today.rtl.lu/news/science...
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Antibes: French marine park to close over law banning killer whale shows
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Only seven spade-tooth whales have ever been documented, now work is beginning on a specimen that washed ashore in New Zealand in July #whales www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Scientists dissect ‘world’s rarest whale’ for clues on little-known species
Only seven spade-tooth whales have ever been documented, now work is beginning on a specimen that washed ashore in New Zealand in July
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
NEW INVESTIGATION: Shocking suffering of foxes revealed on fur farms in Finland 💔 www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
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Horror truth of fur industry as new video shows farms full of animals suffering
The Mirror has been campaigning to ban imports of fur into the UK alongside HSI/UK which has exposed new suffering at farms in Finland - one of the last remaining countries in the UK in which farming ...
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
NEW INVESTIGATION: Shocking suffering of foxes revealed on #furfarms in Finland 💔 Sign #FurFreeBritain petition to help end the UK's complicity in the cruel fur trade: hsi.org/FurFreeBritain
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Sign our Fur-Free Britain petition today!
Animals like raccoon dogs, rabbits and foxes suffer in the name of frivolous fur fashion. Please ask the UK government to ban the sale of cruel animal fur today!
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
RIP LOKE 😔 www.facebook.com/share/p/19ep...
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years www.livescience.com/animals/orca...
livescience.com
Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years
Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it's the 1980s, but researchers still aren't sure why they do it.
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Defend the wildlife of Middlewick Ranges you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Defend the wildlife of Middlewick Ranges
Sitting on the southern edge of Colchester, the Middlewick Ranges is a former Ministry of Defence firing range that has become a much-loved wildlife space in an increasingly congested city. Locally kn...
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Jeremy Clarkson, a notorious supporter of hunts, owns a pub and farm business. If you don’t want your money supporting those linked to wildlife cruelty, check out bloodbusiness.info to make ethical spending choices.
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK #govegan #stopeatinganimals #friendsnotfood www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no...
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KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK
Chain says it won’t be able to stop buying fast-growing breeds by 2026 because poultry industry cannot supply enough higher-welfare animals
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
RIP KETO ✨🖤✨ He was NEVER your ambassador. Please, never ever buy a ticket. www.dolphinproject.com/blog/keto-th...
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Keto the Orca Has Died | Dolphin Project
Keto, who has been used as a “must-see” tourist attraction at Loro Parque in Tenerife for the last 18 years, has died.
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Lewis Pugh Foundation @lewispughfdn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Just 70 mothers stand between survival and extinction for North Atlantic right whales. With only 372 individuals remaining, every birth is a miracle and every loss is a tragedy 🐋💔 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Can 70 Moms Save a Species?
Here’s the story of Squilla, a rare North Atlantic right whale mother, and her firstborn. To help their species continue, they’d have to navigate an increasingly dangerous ocean.
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Helen Laycock @helenlaycock.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This poem was inspired by the true story of Tahlequah, an Orca mother, who carried her dead baby for 17 days, for thousands of miles... evidence that animals do experience #grief. Shared today for #twentyforecopoetry Published in 'ELEMENTAL'. #poetry #Orca #Blueskypoets #poetsofBlueky #SkyPoets
AN OCEAN OF ORCA TEARS by Helen Laycock

Tahlequah corkscrews,
throwing her belly to the light,
showing the sky her feat
through the wobble of water;

she has made flesh and fin
in the time the earth
has rolled around the sun.

Like water from a whip,
she spins out the little life –
Tali –
tail first,
a dark fizz of celebration
exploding like her silent joy.

Parallel shadows,
they are carbon copies,
paper and ink,
swimming with
magnetic hearts,

noses softly drilling
the beginning of miles.

Thirty sleek minutes
of nourishment,
mimic, brushing,
no rush,
eye to eye,
knowing love

before the stopped breath.
The tsunami of grief.
Death.

The calf is limp,
bent over her mother’s beak
like a wilted stalk,
brined,
dying,
tail a broken arrowhead
skimming the waves.

Tahlequah adorns herself
with a Tali headdress,
hour upon hour,
straining to keep it afloat,
as though it is made of flowers
the water will brown.

For a thousand miles,
death squats on her face,
replaces the horizon,
the rise and fall of
seventeen suns,
the spill of the milky moon,
night after night after night.

The carcass rots as she
carries it aloft,
bearing it
like a saved gift.

She dives when it
slides
and sinks,

scoops the corpse
like a haul of silver,

lifts it to the sun,
maybe in prayer,

maybe to warm its blood.

She follows the pod,
eyes pleading
as though a healer will emerge,
and they tip the body
from whale to whale,
feeling the grief,
sharing the load,

until she

sheds the load.

She does not turn as it
slips away,
submerges in her wake.

Waves swill
the blemish of death
from her skin;

it braids the tide of a far land,

but she bears the cliff fall
of its weight.
Feels the density of emptiness,
pressing, pressing,

though she is now
wholly indiscernible
from the rest.

From 'ELEMENTAL'
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Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D. @ertrunnell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The #3Rs just aren't cutting it. We need an ethical framework that is enforceable, takes into account what we now know about animal sentience, the booming world of #NAMs, & perhaps offers a fourth "R" - Rejection. New blog by @katibertrand.bsky.social: www.scienceadvancement.org/reflections/...
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Exposing the Gaps: How the 3Rs Fail to Protect Animals in Research - Science Advancement and Outreach Division
Exposing the Gaps: How the 3Rs Fail to Protect Animals in Research Written by Kati BertrandNovember 2024 A lot has changed since Russell and Burch defined the 3Rs—Replacement, Reduction, and Refinemen...
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Delle, a solitary dolphin in Baltic Sea may be talking to himself. #dolphins #solitarydolphin #solitarycetaceans www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
independent.co.uk
Lonely dolphin in Baltic Sea may be talking to itself, study finds
‘Self-talk’ may be byproduct of intrinsic need for social interaction, researchers say
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Causes of death confirmed for two of three Gulf World Marine Park dolphins… “Care of” #thedolphincompany —- eu.newsherald.com/story/news/l...
eu.newsherald.com
Causes of death confirmed for two of three Gulf World Marine Park dolphins
Here is a follow-up to the News Herald's initial coverage of the deaths of three dolphins at Gulf World Marine Park.
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The price for each dolphin ranged from $30,000 USD to ¥20,000,000 ($128,626.00 USD). The majority of the higher priced #dolphins are bottlenose. #Risso’s dolphins were priced at $30,000 USD. #Taiji #Japan #1Voice4Dolphins #DolphinProject www.dolphinproject.com/blog/taiji-d...
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Taiji Dolphin Sales are Being Revealed | Dolphin Project
There has been great effort to conceal not only dolphin drive hunts, but also the information of where live-captured dolphins were being sold to.
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Interesting that there’s wall to wall coverage of the farmer’s protest in London today (10,000 in attendance) Meanwhile the restore nature march a few months ago which saw well over 50,000 in attendance hardly got any press coverage at all 🤔
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
4 monkeys remain free nearly 2 weeks after escaping Alpha Genesis 😔 #animaltesting #macaque #animalexperiments apnews.com/article/rese...
apnews.com
4 monkeys remain free nearly 2 weeks after dozens escaped a South Carolina compound
Authorities say four monkeys remain free nearly two weeks after a group of 43 escaped from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for medical research.
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Michael Dahlstrom @michaeldahlstrom.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Customers at a Chinese aquarium were furious the whale shark inside was “fake”. Rick O’Barry from @dolphinproject.bsky.social advocates against the keeping of captive marine animals, but he doesn’t think replacing them with robots is the answer. malaysia.news.yahoo.com/innovation-d...
malaysia.news.yahoo.com
Innovation or deception? China’s robotic fishes in public aquariums spark heated debate
BEIJING, Nov 16 — Videos of a life-size man-made whale shark at China’s Xiaomeisha Sea World in Shenzhen, Guangdong, hav...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this. Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.
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Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky
It’s not just an Alf pics repository.
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The Boudewijn Seapark dolphinarium in Bruges must close its doors by 2037 It holds 6 #dolphins, sea lions & seals, & is the last location in Flanders where dolphins are still held in #captivity #Emptythetanks #dontbuyaticket www.brusselstimes.com/1315790/dolp...
brusselstimes.com
Dolphinarium in Bruges ordered to close its doors by 2037
Boudewijn Seapark is the last place in Flanders where dolphins are held in captivity.
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Jo @byjo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
SHAMEFUL! 😡 #youbettheydie
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