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🌍Soraya🌲Bodman🐙
@climate-realist.bsky.social
Biodiversity reminders 🌍 🗓 ❗️

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

Pfp: grasshopper on the wall; background: Bodensee panorama
Ich denke immer dass diese Nancy eine Republikanerin aus der USA ist... konnte wohl dahin reinpassen 🤐
September 15, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Main threats:
⚠ building of a small hydropower plant on the Mpanga River Falls: soil erosion from road constr., knocking down individuals, habitat redcution
⚠ land clearing for crops + slash and burn to enhanche grazing
⚠ seed collection for commercial trade
⚠ leaf harvesting for bulding materials
September 10, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Introducing the sawfish: www.iucnredlist.org/species/3939...
Swim & some info: youtu.be/5QdrgRkx5Bo?...
Pics, some movement, LOTS of info: youtu.be/PKrXQfZnXOc?...
Saw use: youtu.be/itGM1yU0NWk?...
ENDANGERED SAWFISH || The Green Sawfish || Pristis zijsron
YouTube video by ocean wildlife
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September 9, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Main threats:
⚠ intense fishing: prone to bycatch by entanglement of "saw beak" => retained for meat, fins and "beak"
⚠ habitat loss and degradation (by eg. offshore oil and gas extraction)
⚠ Western Australia: "newfound" coastal development (incl. mining, oil & gas) threatening juvenile habitats
September 9, 2024 at 8:49 PM
ℹ Pinguinfo: www.iucnredlist.org/species/2269...
"Commuting" in the city: youtu.be/oZkgZrLyckk?...
Raising chicks in scorching heat: youtu.be/ol5_zk1skx0?...
African Penguins Commute Home in Rush Hour
YouTube video by Nature on PBS
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September 8, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Threats:
⚠ food shortages due to shifts in prey distribution, competition with fisheries & cape fur seals, environmental fluctuations
⚠ egg + guano collection (past)
⚠ oil pollution
⚠ nest predation by kelp gulls, dogs, cats
⚠ predation on adults by sharks (at sea), caracals, mongooses, leopards
September 8, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Main threats:
⚠ proximity to an active volcano (past + present)
⚠ invasive species (incl. feral pigs, cats, dogs, rats, cane toads)
⚠ housing construction near the volcanic flow habitat (↔ need for undisturbed forest)
⚠ plantation, non-native vegetation
⚠ capping of streams for water extraction
August 29, 2024 at 8:41 PM
A bit more info: www.iucnredlist.org/species/6638...

No video about our lizard, sadly too rare... 🙁
but check out their home, Monserrat island, with its fluorishing wildlife despite the volcanic eruptions: youtu.be/BFnetjV8W2c?...
Montserrat - wildlife and heritage
YouTube video by Redfern Natural History Productions
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August 29, 2024 at 8:39 PM
ℹ Pangolinfo:
www.iucnredlist.org/species/1276...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunda_p...
🏃‍♀️ Movement + info in comments (better without sound): youtu.be/eQAJN--tV7A?...
😍 All pangolins, but very informative: youtu.be/nR3EDGin3ik?...
Sunda pangolin - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 29, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Main threats:
⚠ hunting, poaching (meat as luxury food, scales for traditional medicine; international)
⚠ snaring (untargeted ground traps)
⚠ habitat loss due to logging, mining, etc.
⚠ burning of forests, or conversion to oil/rubber/paper plantations (Thailand, Malaysia)
⚠ roadkill (in Singapore)
August 29, 2024 at 7:39 PM
I'd say nuclear fusion is a way bigger pipe dream, otherwise I get what you're saying.
Some nuclear fusion "startups" in the US have been raising money for 15-20 years now, moving their targets constantly... it's kinda funny to read old claims. 😅
August 29, 2024 at 7:03 PM
ℹ Bat-info: www.iucnredlist.org/species/1876...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemba_f...

😍 Re-releasing as part of conservation action: youtu.be/pji8gVvoS90?...
Hard releasing 3 flying-foxes: Crescent, Bondie and Sinclair
YouTube video by Megabattie
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August 28, 2024 at 8:52 PM
🏆This fishy came back from extinction - see the amazing community effort here: youtu.be/4kTTDz6poLc?...
And general info: www.iucnredlist.org/species/1693...
How the Tequila fish became 'un-extinct' - BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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August 28, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Main threats:
⚠ non-native (introduced) fish species (incl. guppies)
⚠ degradation of the river due to dam construction and nearby agriculture (grazing, pesticide pollution, soil erosion)
⚠ construction of spas at springs
August 28, 2024 at 8:15 PM