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Protecting wildlife & ecosystems via research, evidence-based evaluation, capacity building & advocacy. Fans of biodiversity, protected areas, clean energy, social & environmental justice, democracy, civil rights. Our office cats are strictly indoors.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“In Arizona, many areas of the border will soon have two 30-foot walls right next to each other. This barrier is poised to cut off three of the four most important remaining wildlife corridors between Mexico and Arizona, threatening the jaguar’s re-expansion despite all the positive recent signs.”
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Jaguars Are Ready to Come Back. The Border Wall Might Stop Them.
A lone male roves the Arizona mountains, and a female has been spotted just across the border in Mexico. The sightings raise hopes for the species, despite serious threats.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/07/2026
There is still time to submit your comment and tell the government that you don't want US research to be completely destroyed by politicians meddling in individual grants. You can submit your comments here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Florida's construction boom is encroaching on the habitat of a reclusive reptile known as the gopher tortoise--and creating a lucrative, tortoise-shuffling cottage industry that raises questions about the efficacy of animal translocations.
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Pave Paradise, Relocate a Gopher Tortoise - bioGraphic
As Florida’s human population booms, a lucrative cottage industry has sprung up: moving gopher tortoises away from new developments. What does it mean for the reptiles?
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Climate change-fuelled landslides push rarest great ape closer to extinction About 7% of the entire population of the world’s rarest great ape are estimated to have been killed by landslides in a storm that was worsened by climate change, a new study has found 🧵
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Fernanda Wenzel @nandawenzel.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
At @mongabay.com we uncovered an international wildlife trafficking network targeting Brazil’s endangered golden lion tamarins. The reporting traces cases in Togo and Suriname, and follows a 40-day trans-Atlantic voyage that left three animals dead. news.mongabay.com/2026/06/the-...
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The global trafficking ring preying on a rare golden monkey from Brazil
Smuggled in cars, aboard airplanes, or on sailboats crossing the Atlantic Ocean, tiny golden-furred monkeys are being wrenched from their Brazilian forest homes and trafficked overseas by sophisticate...
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
AS PROMISED: Stop Vought. Save Science. The @standupforscience.net action center is live: fight2win.standupforscience.net REGISTER for our Emergency Science Meeting (6/2, 4pm et), Call and email Congress, and leave your public comment all in one place! #standupforscience #TakeActionNow
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 07/05/2026
A trafficking probe has linked bird specialist Tony Silva to Vantara, a zoo run by India’s wealthiest family. Federal Police seized Silva’s phone and computer in São Paulo as they investigate the illegal trade of protected species. @nandawenzel.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.
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Brazil police seize devices from bird expert in trafficking probe linked to Vantara zoo
The famous bird specialist Tony Silva had cell phones and a computer seized by Brazil’s Federal Police at Guarulhos Airport, in São Paulo, according to a source.
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Wildlife Impact @wildlifeimpact.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Good news!
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Important new investigation here by @foeke.bsky.social & Achmad Muazam for @bellingcat.com & @mongabay.com Meta closed 9 FB groups after our team found evidence of illegal #wildlife trade being conducted openly on their platform in Indonesia One was even trying to sell a rhinoceros hornbill 😑
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Facebook shuts Indonesia groups after Mongabay and Bellingcat report illegal wildlife trade
This story was produced in collaboration with Bellingcat. Read their version here. JAKARTA — A new report by Mongabay and independent journalism organization Bellingcat has uncovered several Facebook ...
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
“Not only are we losing birds, we are losing them faster and faster from year to year.” @borenbears.bsky.social apnews.com/article/bird...
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Shrinking North American bird population is getting worse faster. Experts blame agriculture, warming
A new study finds North American bird populations keep dropping, and that decline is speeding up for many species.
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Save the Boundary Waters @savetheboundarywaters.org · 26/01/2026
Today marks the third anniversary of the 20-year mining ban, which is under threat in Congress. ⚠️ Also, the Chilean mining giant Antofagasta was just fined about $775,000 for failing to comply with regulations in Chile. Call your senators now: www.savetheboundarywaters.org/anniversary-...
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Anniversary of mining ban, Antofagasta fined for non-compliance
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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A confirmation hearing has been set for next Wednesday for Steve Pearce, Trump's latest pick to head the Bureau of Land Management. If you care about public lands, call your senators. I wrote about Pearce's uniquely disqualifying past back in November at Sierra: www.sierraclub.org/sierra/conse...
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Conservation Leaders Unite to Oppose Steve Pearce BLM Nomination
The Trump pick to lead the land management agency has ties to anti-government extremists
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 18/02/2026
Indonesia legally harvests tens of thousands of freshwater turtles each year for export, even as many species edge toward extinction. A study finds the trade supports only a few hundred people at barely minimum wage and likely relies on illegal catch, raising doubts it should continue.
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Study refutes claim that Indonesia’s legal turtle trade supports livelihoods
With an evolutionary history of more than 200 million years, turtles and tortoises have outlived dinosaurs and persisted on the planet despite mass extinction events. But around the turn of the 21st…
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 15/01/2026
Indonesia’s deforestation is accelerating again. Losses in 2025 were set to match 2024 — the worst since 2019 — as massive projects like the Merauke Food Estate clear millions of hectares. With Indonesia now the world’s 6th-largest emitter, EU scrutiny of palm oil and other exports is mounting.
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After years of progress, Indonesia risks ‘tragedy’ of a deforestation spike
After years of uneven progress, deforestation in Indonesia is poised to accelerate, owing to widespread logging, expanding plantations and mining. In December, Indonesia’s forestry minister, Raja…
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 12/12/2025
Fatal floods in Sumatra have killed nearly 1,000 people. Indonesia has suspended firms operating in the Batang Toru ecosystem, home to the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan. Advocates say curbing deforestation is key as responders continue rescue efforts after Cyclone Senyar.
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Death toll rises in Sumatra flood catastrophe as gov’t moves to protect Batang Toru forest
NORTH SUMATRA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s environment ministry on Dec. 6 suspended private sector activity in a crucial high conservation value rainforest as rescuers continued working through three…
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
How much of the observed global warming was caused by humans? Science's best estimate: ALL OF IT
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Gloria Dickie @gloriadickie.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Satellite images reveal the Martabe gold mine in northern Sumatra has begun expanding toward key habitat used by the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan. Campaigners say the mine's expansion could push the ape to extinction. My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future
Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse
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Wildlife Conservation Society @wcs.org · 29/11/2025
Good news on okapi from #CITESCOP20: the Parties have elected to put it on Appendix I, the highest level of international protection, which will prohibit all international commercial trade in okapi or their parts as well as sub-products. bit.ly/4rxdDb6 🌍
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Manta Trust @mantatrust.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
📣 We did it! All ten species of manta and devil rays are now protected under CITES Appendix I, the highest level of international protection. This historic vote bans all international commercial trade, including gill plates and meat, giving these marine giants a fighting chance.
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Wildlife Impact @wildlifeimpact.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
= massive deforestation incoming
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 19/11/2025
Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory. Acting Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres said the entire Colombian Amazon will be made a reserve for renewable natural resources.
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Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon
Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory, according to a Nov. 13 statement by its environment ministry.…
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Wildlife Impact @wildlifeimpact.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Yikes! Please comment if you can, this could have devastating effects on marine ecosystems and areas of cultural significance.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 10/11/2025
UNESCO has declared the floodplain around Malaysian Borneo’s Kinabatangan River a biosphere reserve, linking the Heart of Borneo to the Lower Kinabatangan–Segama Wetlands. Conservationists warn that the landscape remains heavily fragmented by oil palm plantations and faces persistent threats.
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UNESCO biosphere listing raises hope, questions for Malaysia’s Kinabatangan floodplain
Malaysia’s Kinabatangan floodplain, home to orangutans, pygmy elephants and proboscis monkeys, has officially joined UNESCO’s global network of biosphere reserves, protected areas of high biological…
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The speed with which salmon have returned to the Klamath - like the Elwha - after dam removal is overwhelmingly hopeful. And in both cases thanks to decades of tireless advocacy by local Tribes.
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 25/10/2025
"The Trump administration is weaponizing the government shutdown to gut staffing, weaken environmental protections and normalize its ultimate goal of privatizing public lands. The alarm bells are loud, and our response must be louder." Now, more than ever, we must fight to save our public lands.
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Trump is using the shutdown to try and gut national parks
The government shutdown cut nearly two thirds of National Park Service staff.
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Sierra Club @sierraclub.org · 10/10/2025
In an unprecedented move, Senate Republicans just voted to erase public land plans in AK, MT, and ND, all to benefit corporate polluters. And they're not done yet: similar resolutions have already been introduced. Tell your members of Congress to choose the people over polluters: sc.org/LandsAction
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Julia Bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is cool. Adoption of orphaned youngsters in chimps is relatively well documented, but I had not read or heard about this yet in orangs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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A Case of Sibling Adoption in Wild Orangutans: Accelerated Development of Independence Following Maternal Loss
Vanna/Ronnie lost her mother Veli when she was between 4.2 and 5 years old (pictured together on the left). Subsequently, Vanna/Ronnie was seen traveling with and sleeping in the same nest as her old...
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 27/09/2025
There are more than 640 million acres of U.S. public lands that are open for all to enjoy and for wildlife to thrive. These lands are now under attack, however, by the Trump administration. Call your member of Congress at 202-224-3121 and tell them to protect public lands. #PublicLandsDay
Individual with "Not for Sale!" sign in ArizonaIndividual with LCV hat backward and wearing "Protect Mountains" flag looking out at natural scene with mountain in backgroundLCV staff and Oregon Rep. Maxine Dexter stand in front of mountainIndividual with "Not for Sale!" sign at Grand Canyon
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Center for Western Priorities @westernpriorities.org · 23/09/2025
“It’s clear that the American people are speaking with one voice,” Weiss says. “And this is not a partisan issue. This is not a state by state issue. This is unanimous. Americans are telling the Forest Service: ‘Don’t do this.’” via @outdoorlife.com
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More Than 99 Percent of Americans Disapprove of Roadless Rule Rollbacks, According to New Analysis
A public comment period for the planned rescission of the Roadless Rule ended Friday with more than 99 percent of comments opposing the move.
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Wildlife Impact @wildlifeimpact.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Things are pretty terrible up here, but the other America has a new otter! Otters, science, and free speech are nice things, when you can protect them. Hoping for robust monitoring and protection for the northern neotropical river otter, amongst other things.
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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 17/09/2025
Now the Trump Administration is trying to get rid of it. Public comments are open and will close this Friday. I encourage you to make sure your voice is heard:
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Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation; National Forest System Lands
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is initiating an environmental impact statement (EIS) and rulemaking concerning management of inventoried roadless areas on approximately 44.7 million acres of Natio...
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Sierra Club @sierraclub.org · 03/09/2025
We can't let this happen. Send a comment to the US Forest Service telling them that our forests need the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Take Action! sc.org/Roadless/Rule
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐
Fig. 3. Estimated mitigation potential from forestation varies with land availability assumptions. (A) Global and regional ecosystem carbon sequestration. BA19 (10), GR17 (8), and Qin24 (24) refer to respective assumptions of land potentially available for forestation. The “committed” assumption considers only national commitments, and “achievable” shows currently achievable land limited by availability defined in Qin24 (see materials and methods section M3). (B) The currently achievable mitigation potential varies among countries and income groups. Country-specific data are available in data S3 (24). Country codes and corresponding income groups can be found in table S6.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 31/08/2025
New research in Indonesia shows that small islands, often considered extinction hotspots, can act as crucial refuges for rare mammals like the anoa and babirusa, which face severe threats from deforestation and poaching on larger land masses.
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Small islands offer big hope for conservation of endemic species, study shows
Animals living on small islands are often thought to be more susceptible to extinction compared to those distributed across mainland land masses. Small population sizes, limited habitat availability,…
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Joshua Smith @smithmachine.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This is illegal. www.gao.gov/blog/what-po...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 28/08/2025
In a recent move, the Bangladesh government has canceled allocation of more than 4,000 hectares (10,000 acres) of forest land planned for different development activities. The move raised hope for the conservationists who criticized earlier decisions taken by the previous government.
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Bangladesh retreating from development activities planned in forest lands
In the last year, Bangladesh has seen an about-turn from occupying forest land in the name of development activities such as constructing ecotourism parks, football academies, residential and…
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Wildlife Impact @wildlifeimpact.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Hopeful news, for a change
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
These rulings don't just have direct effects on the specific grants in question, but they have much larger indirect effects. If every federal grant can now be terminated with no notice for any (political) reason, no awardee can make any long term (> 3 months?) commitment to infrastructure or people.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The U.S. has led the world in science since the mid-20th century for two reasons: funding & welcoming students and researchers from around the world. The Trump administration is destroying both advantages (1/2)
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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
You don't hear this called out often. But it should be. Appreciation to @mulagostarr.bsky.social for doing so. Funders holding themselves and their grantees accountable would also force right-sizing of grants and inclusion of dedicated M&E/impact analysis $ as needed. ssir.org/articles/ent...
"In the for-profit world, firms are accountable to their customers. If customers don’t value their products, the firm doesn’t make a profit. If the firm doesn’t do better, it goes out of business and investors lose their money. Both firms and investors are accountable to the customer. Provide value or die.

The nonprofit world doesn’t work like that. The customers—we presume to call them “beneficiaries”—pretty much have to take what they’re given. There’s no meaningful way for them to signal whether the “product” has value for them or not. There are no direct consequences for a failure to benefit the beneficiaries.

Meanwhile, the investors—funders of all stripes—are even more insulated from consequences. We can fund whatever ineffective crap we want. Blindly funding stuff that doesn’t work won’t sully your image as a generous champion of the poor (or the environment, or whatever). Your reputation—the one thing funders really care about—doesn’t suffer." from https://ssir.org/articles/entry/funders-do-your-job
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Center for Large Landscape Conservation @largelandscapes.org · 25/07/2025
A new study shows that the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico is a significant barrier to wildlife movement. Researchers monitored animals along the border for two years capturing new data that shows how wildlife avoid border infrastructure. www.hcn.org/articles/see...
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See what trail cams captured about Borderlands wildlife - High Country News
Alongside stunning footage, scientists found that the border wall deters wildlife.
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Helena @helena350.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Hey hey-- thinking of getting an #EV or improving your home's efficiency? Now is the time. grist.org/buildings/co... @ayanaeliza.bsky.social also talks about this on the latest episode of her amazing "What if we get it right" podcast. ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/debriefing... Listen and read!
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Congress is killing clean energy tax credits. Here's how to use them before they disappear.
There are just a few weeks left to take advantage of federal tax credits that make purchasing an EV, heat pump, or solar panels more affordable.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 16/07/2025
A new study has uncovered how traffickers obtain valid CITES permits for trafficked animals — Galápagos iguanas in this case — and trade them legally, highlighting the role of national CITES authorities in enabling illegal wildlife trade.
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Suspicions surround international legal trade in Galápagos iguanas
In 2013, when Sandra Altherr, co-founder of the German NGO Pro Wildlife, began looking into the reptile trade in Europe, she wondered why people paid thousands of euros for little-known reptiles…
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Wildlife Impact @wildlifeimpact.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
This is so appalling - intentional wastefulness with no purpose other than to hurt people.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Conservation actions should always be evidence-based and the outcomes, successful or not, made public. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with failure but the risks vs. rewards and reasons why sometimes things don’t go to plan should always be made clear. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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More than half of koalas relocated to NSW forest died in failed government attempt at reintroduction
Exclusive: Translocation and deaths of seven out of 13 koalas in April, with some showing signs of septicaemia, not made public by state government
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 03/07/2025
In a democracy, government employees can voice respectful dissent to their leadership. But today, EPA leadership retaliated against its own employees for expressing disagreement w/ the admin’s actions & policy directions. Punishing gov't employees for this expression is an alarming development. 🧵
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2025
Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Science didn't turn partisan! It's been politicized & partisanized by conservatives whose cruel, theocratic, destructive policies (banning books, forced birth, climate denialism, gender essentialism) are all directly contradicted by scientific evidence.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 23/06/2025
“Our cherished #publiclands are the backbone of the West and the core of our identity as Americans. It’s disgusting that anyone would back this plan to permanently privatize and bulldoze these beautiful places,” said Laiken Jordahl, Southwest conservation advocate at the Center. Take action. ⬇️⬇️
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Stop the Largest Public Lands Sell-off in History
It’s the largest attack on public lands in U.S. history: Senate Republicans have proposed selling off nearly 3 million acres of these lands as part of their tax bill. Urge your senators to oppose any ...
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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
From the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. Apart from the overwhelmingly largest cause of population declines - habitat loss and destruction - what are the other big killers of birds? A reason to consider keeping cats inside.🪶🌎
A chart showing that cats kill around 2.6 billion birds annually in North America, compared to 624 million killed hitting windows, 214m by cars and 64m by collisions with industrial installations (e.g. wind turbines, factories, lighthouses, communication towers, etc). Graphic from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center.
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