Dr Tom Montgomery
@drtomontgomery.bsky.social
Marine biologist. USA based; work mainly in Americas & Arctic regions.
I specialize in marine mammals, predominantly cetaceans, in a team of 16 international marine scientists.
I write about rare & endangered species, science and nature.
I specialize in marine mammals, predominantly cetaceans, in a team of 16 international marine scientists.
I write about rare & endangered species, science and nature.
There is only one organization in the world dedicated to the Binturong.
They do important work, inc teaching locals why it's against their interests to kill them for their skins, to eat, for TCM, or to trap as pets.
They are desperate for urgent support if you can help:
abconservation.org/en/
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They do important work, inc teaching locals why it's against their interests to kill them for their skins, to eat, for TCM, or to trap as pets.
They are desperate for urgent support if you can help:
abconservation.org/en/
4/4
May 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
There is only one organization in the world dedicated to the Binturong.
They do important work, inc teaching locals why it's against their interests to kill them for their skins, to eat, for TCM, or to trap as pets.
They are desperate for urgent support if you can help:
abconservation.org/en/
4/4
They do important work, inc teaching locals why it's against their interests to kill them for their skins, to eat, for TCM, or to trap as pets.
They are desperate for urgent support if you can help:
abconservation.org/en/
4/4
We are utter fools to wipe out species which disperse seeds which restore the forests we destroy.
They have never been more important for the planet and mankind.
Source: Binturong ecology and conservation in pristine, fragmented and degraded tropical forests
cambridge.org/core/journal...
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They have never been more important for the planet and mankind.
Source: Binturong ecology and conservation in pristine, fragmented and degraded tropical forests
cambridge.org/core/journal...
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May 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
We are utter fools to wipe out species which disperse seeds which restore the forests we destroy.
They have never been more important for the planet and mankind.
Source: Binturong ecology and conservation in pristine, fragmented and degraded tropical forests
cambridge.org/core/journal...
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They have never been more important for the planet and mankind.
Source: Binturong ecology and conservation in pristine, fragmented and degraded tropical forests
cambridge.org/core/journal...
🧵3/4
Few animals suffer in more ways at the hands of humans than the binturong (Arctictis binturong).
Facing national extinctions, not only from massive deforestation in SE Asia, but throughout their range they're eaten, skinned for fur, killed for TCM, trapped for zoos & trafficked as pets.
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Facing national extinctions, not only from massive deforestation in SE Asia, but throughout their range they're eaten, skinned for fur, killed for TCM, trapped for zoos & trafficked as pets.
🧵2/4
May 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Few animals suffer in more ways at the hands of humans than the binturong (Arctictis binturong).
Facing national extinctions, not only from massive deforestation in SE Asia, but throughout their range they're eaten, skinned for fur, killed for TCM, trapped for zoos & trafficked as pets.
🧵2/4
Facing national extinctions, not only from massive deforestation in SE Asia, but throughout their range they're eaten, skinned for fur, killed for TCM, trapped for zoos & trafficked as pets.
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Source:
Chinese pangolins facilitate ecological restoration in burned forest sites.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Chinese pangolins facilitate ecological restoration in burned forest sites.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Source:
Chinese pangolins facilitate ecological restoration in burned forest sites.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Chinese pangolins facilitate ecological restoration in burned forest sites.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thank you, Pam.
April 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Thank you, Pam.
Thank you, Sherry. Friendship, integrity and trust are fundamentally important to me.
February 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Thank you, Sherry. Friendship, integrity and trust are fundamentally important to me.
No. Quite a few ppl do it, a good friend on X complained to a big account, someone one would never have believed would stoop so low, that he'd lifted his work & passed it off as his own, asked him to delete it, but no reply.
That account (highly-respected wildlife activist) then did the same to me.
That account (highly-respected wildlife activist) then did the same to me.
January 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
No. Quite a few ppl do it, a good friend on X complained to a big account, someone one would never have believed would stoop so low, that he'd lifted his work & passed it off as his own, asked him to delete it, but no reply.
That account (highly-respected wildlife activist) then did the same to me.
That account (highly-respected wildlife activist) then did the same to me.
Unfortunately not. I wish it could have been, I thought we were friends.
January 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Unfortunately not. I wish it could have been, I thought we were friends.
Source:
Con McCarthy, of Rathcoole, Co Dublin, had his conviction for offences under the Wildlife Act dropped on appeal.
A subsequent donation offered instead was rejected because the Wildlife Trust viewed it as "buying himself out of a conviction".
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024...
Irish Wildlife Trust rejects donation from developer who ‘entombed’ badgers
Con McCarthy (61), of Greenogue Business Park, Rathcoole, Co Dublin, was spared a criminal conviction on appeal
www.irishtimes.com
January 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Source:
Con McCarthy, of Rathcoole, Co Dublin, had his conviction for offences under the Wildlife Act dropped on appeal.
A subsequent donation offered instead was rejected because the Wildlife Trust viewed it as "buying himself out of a conviction".
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024...
the project. When Brian Keeley (who conducted the wildlife survey) returned to the site and saw what had been done he said
"I’ve been enforcing the law for twenty years and this is the most willfully cruel act I’ve seen”.
"I’ve been enforcing the law for twenty years and this is the most willfully cruel act I’ve seen”.
January 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
the project. When Brian Keeley (who conducted the wildlife survey) returned to the site and saw what had been done he said
"I’ve been enforcing the law for twenty years and this is the most willfully cruel act I’ve seen”.
"I’ve been enforcing the law for twenty years and this is the most willfully cruel act I’ve seen”.
In court, an ecologist, Brian Keeley, testified that he had conducted a badger survey prior to the works. He found two badgers bringing bedding into their sett & presumed they were breeding.
He made the developer aware of the badger sett but was told to step down from 🧵
He made the developer aware of the badger sett but was told to step down from 🧵
January 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
In court, an ecologist, Brian Keeley, testified that he had conducted a badger survey prior to the works. He found two badgers bringing bedding into their sett & presumed they were breeding.
He made the developer aware of the badger sett but was told to step down from 🧵
He made the developer aware of the badger sett but was told to step down from 🧵