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Biodiversity reminders 🌍 🗓 ❗️

Bodensee enthusiast 🏞 PhD student 🎓 greenwasher hunter ♻️
Friedvolle Ausländerin für Klimaaktion & gegen Kapitalismus, in Stuttgart 🏙🇩🇪

Pfp: grasshopper on the wall; background: Bodensee panorama
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With a HUGE cycad against CO2 tunnel vision 🍃 [see the threats section ⬇ ]

Biodiversity reminders, day #254 (-110)🌍🗓❗️
Muhure

Status: critically endangered

Geographic range: forests, savannas and rocky areas along the Mpanga river in Uganda
Muhures: 6 fern-like leaves of a plant visbile in the middle, 3 leaves and a cone of another one on the left; mixed forest background
September 10, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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End of holiday hiatus & +9 days to next year 😏
Now, a ray with a saw-beak that cuts fish in half!! 🦈

Biodiversity reminders, day #253 (-110)🌍🗓❗️
Green sawfish

Status: critically endangered
Geographic range: tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific
Green sawfish on sandy sea bottom, looking to the right
September 9, 2024 at 8:49 PM
climate-realist.bsky.social
The penguin of Africa calls us to "stop" climate change... 🐧

Biodiversity reminders, day #243 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
African penguin

Status: endangered

Geographic range: South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Mozambique; shore and islands
African penguin standing on a rock, looking to the right
September 8, 2024 at 8:24 PM
climate-realist.bsky.social
Not a wasp, and not gaelic either - a volcano survivor! 🦎

Biodiversity reminders, day #242 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Montserrat galliwasp

Status: critically endangered

Geographic range: Montserrat island (Carribean, part of the UK), one location: Woodland Spring
Montserrat galliwasp, on a carpet of fallen leaves; looking to the left (bird's eye view, good camouflage, the lizard is reddish-brown)
August 29, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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Scaly anteater vs. pseudoscience fans 😶

Biodiversity reminders, day #241 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Sunda pangolin

Status: critically endangered

Geographic range: forests and tree plantations in most of Southeast-Asia
Sunda pangolin hugging a branch near a fork, looking to the left; black night sky in background
August 29, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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Large fruit bat foxin' around... 🦇🦊

Biodiversity reminders, day #240 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Pemba flying fox

Status: vulnerable
Geographic range: Pemba island (part of Tanzania)

Main threats:
⚠ forest loss and fragmentation
⚠ hunting for food
⚠ human disturbance at roost sites (mostly agriculture-related)
Pemba flying foxes, hanging off one bigger and many smaller (curled) branches of a tree (head down, like bats usually do)
August 28, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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Biodiversity reminders, day #239 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Tequila splitfin

Status: endangered
Geographic range: Jalisco, Mexico (one freshwater location; ongoing reintroduction)
Tequila splitfin, looking to the left
August 28, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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Biodiversity reminders, day #238 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Pygmy three-toed sloth
[the smallest sloth ever 😍]

Status: critically endangered

Geographic range: Isla Escudo de Veraguas (islet east off Panama)
Pygmy three-toed sloth, hanging off a branch above a river, smiling…
August 25, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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Waaater angel, water angel...
Biodiversity reminders, day #237 (-101)🌍🗓❗️

Clarion angelfish
Status: vulnerable

Geographic range: Baja California, Mexico (+ small islands nearby)
Clarion angelfish, looking into the camera
August 25, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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Only 49 left... 🐸
Biodiversity reminders, day #236 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Miles' robber frog

Status: critically endangered

Geographic range: northwestern Honduras (one mountainy location)
Miles' robber frog, sitting on a log, looking to the right (bird's eye view)
August 23, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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Biodiversity reminders, day #235 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Reindeer

Status: vulnerable

Geographic range: Canada, Russia, Mongolia, Finland, Norway

Main threats:
⚠ migration barriers: roads, powerplants, tourist resorts
⚠ mining activity (complex effect)
⚠ unregulated hunting
⚠ competition with domestic reindeer
reindeers in snowy forest, the one in the front looks to the bottom left; 4 more visible in the background
August 22, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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Biodiversity reminders, day #234 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Madagascar pochard

Status: critically endangered

Geographic range: Lake Alaotra in Madagascar
two Madagascar pochards swimming in open water, looking to the left
August 21, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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Rare steak for the...

Biodiversity reminders, day #233 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
...Slender-billed vulture

Status: critically endangered

Geographic range: Nepal, Bangladesh, nearby pt. of China; Myanmar; Cambodia
Slender-billed vulture sits on tree branch, spreading wings, head to the left
August 20, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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The devil is in the details...

Biodiversity reminders, day #232 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Spinetail devil ray
Status: endangered
Geographic range: coastal and continental sea/ocean shelves, worldwide
Spinetail devil ray, swimming toward the bottom left
August 20, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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Biodiversity reminders, day #231 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Galápagos pink land iguana

Status: critically endangered

Geographic range: Volcán Wolf islet (Galápagos Islands - part of Ecuador)
Galápagos pink land iguana, on dry ground with only a little green; looking to the left
August 18, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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Biodiversity reminders, day #230 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Maathai's longleg

Status: endangered

Geographic range: mountain forest streams of Kenya, likely also Uganda (near border)

Main threat: deforestation for logging

No video (too mysterious of a 🐲fly), but some info: www.iucnredlist.org/species/5993...
Maathai's longleg, with its wings between the arms of a pinch, looking to the left
August 17, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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Biodiversity reminders, day #229 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Black abalone

Status: critically endangered

Geographic range: rocky seashores of California, USA and Baja California, Mexico
Two black abalones on a rocky shore, with two more partially visible on each side
August 16, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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Biodiversity reminders, day #228 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Chacoan peccary

Status: endangered

Geographic range: Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia - dry savannas
Chacoan peccary walking in savanna (white sand and loose green grasses in background); to the right
August 15, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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Biodiversity reminders, day #227 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Fosa

Status: vulnerable

Geographic range: Madagascar's coastal forests

Main threats:
⚠ hunting for food (or killed as pest)
⚠ deforestation due to agriculture, quartz mining, rosewood logging
⚠ competition with feral cats and the small Indian civet
Fosa in the intersection of a tree trunk; looking to the bottom left
August 14, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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Biodiversity reminders, day #226 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Chinese crested tern
Status: critically endangered

Geographic range: East coast of China (3 locations)

Main threats:
⚠egg collection (despite bans)
⚠ typhoons (connected to former: late breeding => loss of second nest in typhoon season)
[...]
Two chinese crested terns, standing on a sandy beach, looking to the right
August 13, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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#greenwashing #healthcare #boycott

Nachhaltig?! 😱

Die denken wirklich, dass man den MOBIL-Logo nicht sofort erkennen würde?

Offiziell das unverschämteste Greenwashing-Trick des Jahres.
August 13, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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Biodiversity reminders, day #225 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Giant freshwater whipray

Status: endangered

Geographic range: freshwater and inshore marine habitats in SE Asia, Bangladesh and East India
Giant freshwater whipray, lying at the bottom of a river, looking to the left (tail not fully visible)
August 12, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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Biodiversity reminders, day #224 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Sagalla caecilian

Status: endangered

Geographic range: a mountain (Sagalla Hill) in southeastern Kenya

Main threats: groundwater depletion of the soil by eucalyptus and pine plantations
Sagalla caecilian, on brown leaves (+ a green leaf in the background too); looking to the right
August 11, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Biodiversity reminders, day #223 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Pico de El Sauzal

Status: critically endangered

Geographic range: Northern Tenerife (Canary Islands - part of Spain)

Main threats:
◾ trampling (by fishermen and hikers)
◾ collection
◾ predation by rabbits
◾ competition with nitrophile species
Pico de El Sauzal, with its sprawling green leaves and orange flowers
August 10, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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Biodiversity reminders, day #222 (-101)🌍🗓❗️
Web-footed tenrec

Status: vulnerable

Geographic range: Eastern Madagascar

Main threats:
◾ need for clean, fast-flowing water ↔ siltation and soil erosion caused by deforestation
◾ habitat fragmentation by agricultural expansion
◾ drowning in fish traps
Web-footed tenrec sitting on a riverside rock; lookin to the bottom left
August 9, 2024 at 9:00 PM