@servedrcountry.bsky.social
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The deference shown to industry concerns conservation groups and Game and Fish retirees, who called the agency's shrinkage of a protected corridor antithetical to science-based wildlife management.
"If it's going to be a political decision, let the politicians own it," one biologist said.
"If it's going to be a political decision, let the politicians own it," one biologist said.
Wyoming appeases stockgrowers, trims Red Desert and southwestern Winds from ‘Path of the Pronghorn’ - WyoFile
Wyoming Game and Fish retirees and conservation groups say the state agency's planned shrinkage of a protected corridor runs counter to science-based wildlife management.
wyofile.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The deference shown to industry concerns conservation groups and Game and Fish retirees, who called the agency's shrinkage of a protected corridor antithetical to science-based wildlife management.
"If it's going to be a political decision, let the politicians own it," one biologist said.
"If it's going to be a political decision, let the politicians own it," one biologist said.
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Today, in a move that has alarmed conservationists, the Department of the Interior unveiled a proposal to rescind the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule—effectively removing conservation as an equal priority in public-land management.
#publiclands #BLM #protectpubliclands #parkchat
#publiclands #BLM #protectpubliclands #parkchat
Interior Department Proposes to Rescind Wildly Popular Public Lands Rule
Mining, drilling, and logging is now officially more important than land conservation
thenationalparksexperience.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Today, in a move that has alarmed conservationists, the Department of the Interior unveiled a proposal to rescind the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule—effectively removing conservation as an equal priority in public-land management.
#publiclands #BLM #protectpubliclands #parkchat
#publiclands #BLM #protectpubliclands #parkchat
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HOA going after woman planting pollinator yard that larger community is encouraging. what bullshit www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6TTermw/
A woman who replaced her front lawn with native plants was issued a fine because officials said it was too ugly and violated a village code. The case testing whether beauty is in the eye of the behol...
TikTok video by CBS New York
www.tiktok.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
HOA going after woman planting pollinator yard that larger community is encouraging. what bullshit www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6TTermw/
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5 beavers and a muskrat. It always makes us especially sad when we see a dead baby beaver laying alongside his slaughtered family. By the way, beavers mate for life.
#BanTrapping #TheConservationLie #ProtectWildlife
#BanTrapping #TheConservationLie #ProtectWildlife
February 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
5 beavers and a muskrat. It always makes us especially sad when we see a dead baby beaver laying alongside his slaughtered family. By the way, beavers mate for life.
#BanTrapping #TheConservationLie #ProtectWildlife
#BanTrapping #TheConservationLie #ProtectWildlife
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Nobody is covering the devastation to public lands and the West's communities better than @sfgatedotcom.bsky.social.
February 24, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Nobody is covering the devastation to public lands and the West's communities better than @sfgatedotcom.bsky.social.
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Australian bushfires leave wildlife facing increased predator risk, decades of recovery
focusingonwildlife.com/news/austral...
focusingonwildlife.com/news/austral...
Australian bushfires leave wildlife facing increased predator risk, decades of recovery | Focusing on Wildlife
Simultaneous wildfires since December 2024 have left Grampians, Little Desert and the Great Otway National Parks in Australia devastated. Scientists say it
focusingonwildlife.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Australian bushfires leave wildlife facing increased predator risk, decades of recovery
focusingonwildlife.com/news/austral...
focusingonwildlife.com/news/austral...
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Not good 😢.
Hot frogs and sizzling salamanders: climate change is pushing amphibians to their limits
theconversation.com/hot-frogs-an...
theconversation.com/hot-frogs-an...
Hot frogs and sizzling salamanders: climate change is pushing amphibians to their limits
New research shows frogs and other amphibians are already on the brink of overheating in a warming world. Here’s how many will suffer as global temperatures rise.
theconversation.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Not good 😢.
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Sharks are dying at alarming rates, mostly due to fishing. Retention bans may help
phys.org/news/2025-03... via @physorg_com
phys.org/news/2025-03... via @physorg_com
Sharks are dying at alarming rates, mostly due to fishing. Retention bans may help
Despite the fear they may inspire in humans, sharks have far more reason to fear us. Nearly one-third of sharks are threatened with extinction globally, mostly as a result of fishing.
phys.org
March 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Sharks are dying at alarming rates, mostly due to fishing. Retention bans may help
phys.org/news/2025-03... via @physorg_com
phys.org/news/2025-03... via @physorg_com
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Alaska wildlife managers are once again proposing to shoot and kill bears from helicopters. Disease and lack of food are causing caribou herds in western Alaska to decline.
The state wants to blame bears.
Help us take these bears out of Alaska's crosshairs ➡️ bit.ly/4nzKIRM
The state wants to blame bears.
Help us take these bears out of Alaska's crosshairs ➡️ bit.ly/4nzKIRM
July 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Alaska wildlife managers are once again proposing to shoot and kill bears from helicopters. Disease and lack of food are causing caribou herds in western Alaska to decline.
The state wants to blame bears.
Help us take these bears out of Alaska's crosshairs ➡️ bit.ly/4nzKIRM
The state wants to blame bears.
Help us take these bears out of Alaska's crosshairs ➡️ bit.ly/4nzKIRM
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‘The Trump administration is hobbling Australian scientists studying dwindling sea ice in Antarctica with a sudden decision to shut down civilian access to key satellite data, as research reveals the alarming effects of “extraordinarily low” sea ice.’
#climatecrisis
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
#climatecrisis
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
Trump cuts satellite data on Antarctic sea ice just as it’s needed most
Scientists at the Australian Antarctic Partnership Program are just beginning to understand the dire effects of extremely low sea ice in the Antarctic summer, but they will lose access to their main d...
www.smh.com.au
July 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
‘The Trump administration is hobbling Australian scientists studying dwindling sea ice in Antarctica with a sudden decision to shut down civilian access to key satellite data, as research reveals the alarming effects of “extraordinarily low” sea ice.’
#climatecrisis
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
#climatecrisis
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
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You’re telling me the trawl footage in Ocean was the PG version!?
Filmmakers cut footage of fishing boats destroying seagrass meadows from Sir David Attenborough’s Ocean film because it was deemed too shocking.
"It was a bit too harsh for the public,” said Zafer Kizilkaya.
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
"It was a bit too harsh for the public,” said Zafer Kizilkaya.
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
July 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
You’re telling me the trawl footage in Ocean was the PG version!?
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A humpback whale was severely injured in Glacier Bay.
National Park Service staff say they first saw the injury last week, and it's the result of an apparent collision with a vessel. They don’t know if the whale will survive.
National Park Service staff say they first saw the injury last week, and it's the result of an apparent collision with a vessel. They don’t know if the whale will survive.
Humpback whale severely injured in Glacier Bay National Park
A humpback whale was deeply wounded in what National Park staff say is an apparent boat collision.
alaskapublic.org
July 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
A humpback whale was severely injured in Glacier Bay.
National Park Service staff say they first saw the injury last week, and it's the result of an apparent collision with a vessel. They don’t know if the whale will survive.
National Park Service staff say they first saw the injury last week, and it's the result of an apparent collision with a vessel. They don’t know if the whale will survive.
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What we’ll lose if bird banding ends
Opinion | What we’ll lose if bird banding ends
Scientists have tagged birds for more than 100 years. That preservation program might be defunded.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:57 AM
What we’ll lose if bird banding ends
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Petrobras has been conducting surveys since 2013 using seismic airgun blasts that can destabilize marine ecosystems by interrupting essential communication in the marine food chain.
Seismic noise from oil companies threatens Amazon River Mouth marine life
OIAPOQUE, Brazil — At the northernmost tip of Brazil, where the Amazon spills into the Atlantic, a fragile web of estuaries, mangroves, submerged reefs and open sea is showing signs of distress.…
news.mongabay.com
July 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Petrobras has been conducting surveys since 2013 using seismic airgun blasts that can destabilize marine ecosystems by interrupting essential communication in the marine food chain.
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"Frontal Assault" on Climate Justice: Rolling Stone's Antonia Juhasz on Trump's Budget Law
“Frontal Assault” on Climate Justice: Rolling Stone’s Antonia Juhasz on Trump’s Budget Law
We speak with investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz about how President Trump’s major tax and spending bill hurts environmental justice efforts in Louisiana communities affected by the climate crisis...
www.democracynow.org
July 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Frontal Assault" on Climate Justice: Rolling Stone's Antonia Juhasz on Trump's Budget Law
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Check out our new report by Center staff @peccarynotpig.bsky.social and @laikenjordahl.bsky.social that exposes how plans for new border wall construction in southeast Arizona pose dire threats to one of the last remaining jaguar corridors between the U.S. and Mexico. ➡️ biodiv.us/4nCzRX3
July 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Check out our new report by Center staff @peccarynotpig.bsky.social and @laikenjordahl.bsky.social that exposes how plans for new border wall construction in southeast Arizona pose dire threats to one of the last remaining jaguar corridors between the U.S. and Mexico. ➡️ biodiv.us/4nCzRX3
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If illegal logging starts again, Liberia could lose more than its beloved pygmy hippos | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
If illegal logging starts again, Liberia could lose more than its beloved pygmy hippos | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
About 270,000 people died in Liberia’s timber trade-fuelled civil war. I helped to rebuild and protect its forests. Now Europe is threatening to undermine all our hard work, says the country’s former president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
www.theguardian.com
May 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM
If illegal logging starts again, Liberia could lose more than its beloved pygmy hippos | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked the Trump admin’s push to fast-track the Oak Flat land swap—halting the giveaway of sacred Apache land + rare desert ecosystems to a foreign mining giant until SCOTUS rules.
May 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked the Trump admin’s push to fast-track the Oak Flat land swap—halting the giveaway of sacred Apache land + rare desert ecosystems to a foreign mining giant until SCOTUS rules.
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Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most
A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.
www.bloomberg.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Researchers found 2% of amphibian species are already experiencing temperatures beyond their physiological limits.
The study revealed that tropical species in the Southern Hemisphere face greater heat risk, and in the Northern Hemisphere, species at higher latitudes are more vulnerable.
The study revealed that tropical species in the Southern Hemisphere face greater heat risk, and in the Northern Hemisphere, species at higher latitudes are more vulnerable.
Warming climate is already too hot to handle for 2% of amphibians, study shows
For about 2% of the world’s amphibian species, it’s already getting too hot to survive in their natural habitats, according to a new study in Nature. If the planet keeps warming unchecked, this…
news.mongabay.com
May 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Researchers found 2% of amphibian species are already experiencing temperatures beyond their physiological limits.
The study revealed that tropical species in the Southern Hemisphere face greater heat risk, and in the Northern Hemisphere, species at higher latitudes are more vulnerable.
The study revealed that tropical species in the Southern Hemisphere face greater heat risk, and in the Northern Hemisphere, species at higher latitudes are more vulnerable.