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Sandy Shadwell
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Work in campaign management, Cape Town. Astrocat. Vegan
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Petition: Stop Trump’s Plan to Destroy 60 Million Acres of U.S. Forests
These forests are vital homes to bears, eagles, wolves, and countless species. They also absorb carbon and help fight Climate change.
www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/...
Petition: Stop Trump’s Plan to Destroy 60 Million Acres of U.S. Forests
Trump’s plan threatens 60 million acres of protected U.S. forests—putting wildlife and climate at risk. Sign now to stop it.
www.onegreenplanet.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Exactly how it should be, with the turkeys as the guests of honor!

A similar scene at Farm Sanctuary in Acton, CA
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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With only 45 out of 109 boreholes working in Elim and the surrounding villages, residents almost never have access to clean drinking water.

Read groundup.org.za/article/less... by Thembi Siaga
Fewer than half of Elim’s boreholes work and municipal water tankers are a rare sight
Private water sellers are filling the gap, but the municipality says they are acting against the law
groundup.org.za
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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What version of humanity is this.💔
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Great green #macaws are supremely intelligent can live to up to 70 years old. They are critically endangered from #palmoil #meat and #soy #deforestation in #SouthAmerica. Help them by being #vegan and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-183
Great Green Macaw Ara ambiguus
The Great Green Macaw Ara ambiguus are the largest macaw species and in flight they are dazzling symbol of Central and South America’s vanishing rainforests. Draped in shimmering green plumage with…
wp.me
October 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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I'd like to start a vegan, antinatalist eco village (but without esoteric vibes!) with a sanctuary for all kinds of animals, where there is a nostalgic café con library, as well as a few yurts to rent out, a little indie perfume shop and a manufactory, where we create the perfect plant-based cheese.
August 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Where have the geckos gone? Haven't seen any sign of them for a few weeks.
I have ventilated bricks for hidey-holes, and plants on my balcony. Also a flower pot with fruit & veg peels to attract little fruit flies, and just the same - no little gecko poops on the walls.
😟
October 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Wake up.
September 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Hi JG, Yes, a full, liberal #education is the antidote to #facism. This is precisely why the fascists are attacking secular education, universities and professors.
August 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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There are fewer than 10 Vaquita left! Act now to save them from extinction! #SaveTheVaquita #ExtinctIsForever

bit.ly/3HesynZ
Save Vaquitas from Extinction: Only 6-8 Remain!
bit.ly
August 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town was packed on Friday evening for a concert to mark Mandela Day and raise money for Palestine

Read groundup.org.za/article/st-g... by Matthew Hirsch
St George’s Cathedral hosts sold-out fundraiser for Gaza
Songs for Freedom concert raised more than R260,000
groundup.org.za
July 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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🔥 MAGA supporters are literally burning their red hats over the Epstein files. A century after Hitler published Mein Kampf, fascism is devouring its own believers. The fracture is real, and historic.
One Hundred Years After Mein Kampf, Trump's Base Burns Their Own Red MAGA Hats Instead of Other People's Books
How the Epstein Files Fractured the MAGA Movement
theplanet.substack.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I just signed the Polluters Pay Pact to demand that African governments and leaders worldwide enforce binding laws to hold oil, coal and gas companies financially accountable for environmental destruction and lost livelihoods in our communities. act.gp/3FXr8xO
Polluters broke it, we're paying for it
Sign the pact, record your story. Join the global movement to make polluters pay.
act.gp
July 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Horrific News: Completely unexpected
-Antarctic sea ice may be in terminal decline d/t rising Southern Ocean salinity

#Climate
theconversation.com/completely-u...

We may have passed a tipping point & entered a new state of persistent sea ice decline sustained by a newly discovered feedback loop
July 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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On 1 July, tragedy struck in Macibe village, Centane, in the Eastern Cape. Two boys drowned. They had been swimming in an open oxidation pond, part of a sewer project that has been left unfinished for 25 years.

Read groundup.org.za/article/two-... by Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
Two boys drown at abandoned sewer project
Oxidation ponds in Centane, Eastern Cape, were abandoned 25 years ago after objections by the traditional authority and local residents
groundup.org.za
July 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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While US marines are being deployed to participate in Trump’s ethnic cleansing operation alongside ICE, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum quietly sent rescue teams and aid to help the victims of the Texas floods.
July 9, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Walk into a pet shop and for maybe £35, you can walk out with a gecko. No questions asked. No qualifications needed. No understanding of who they are or what they need. Just a confused, frightened, solitary individual shoved in a box 🦎

ko-fi.com/post/No-Ge...
No Gecko Wants a Terrarium
Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
June 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Drizzle this tasty Italian dressing on salads and wraps or use it as a creamy dip. Gorgeous stuff!
theveganlunchbox.co.uk/vegan-creamy...
Oh, and it's a small batch recipe, so no waste. #vegan #veganfood #vegansky #veganrecipes
June 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world—what the G20 can do about it

phys.org/news/2025-06... via @physorg_com
Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world—what the G20 can do about it
Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more resilient to climate change. They take up 23% of the continent. At 674 million he...
phys.org
June 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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May 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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May 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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The Escley Oak - Michaelchurch Escley, Herefordshire 🌳

One of the largest and oldest oaks in England.

It looks as though it has two separate trunks. However this massive tree is hollow, thus creating this illusion.

Photo: Aljos Farjon
May 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM