Todd Kemper
@kempertodd.bsky.social
Conservation biologist. Wildlife and nature conservation, cycling, skiing, and good vibes. Sometimes geopolitics gets the best of me. Kelowna, BC
An important and oft-ignored fact: in many ecosystems, protected areas need to be actively managed, rather than left alone. People have always been a part of nature.
Why national parks and nature reserves don’t always safeguard ecosystems as expected
A study reveals that national parks and reserves often support more wildlife but not necessarily the ecological balance that sustains them.
theconversation.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
An important and oft-ignored fact: in many ecosystems, protected areas need to be actively managed, rather than left alone. People have always been a part of nature.
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Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
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Stunning painting of an old man. Just perfect -- sensitive, moving, beautiful, human. By Jan Lievens, who was born OTD in 1607.
October 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Stunning painting of an old man. Just perfect -- sensitive, moving, beautiful, human. By Jan Lievens, who was born OTD in 1607.
Honestly can we not just put an end to this vile administration yet? Crimes against humanity, crimes against the planet, crimes against democracy... when will someone stop him?
Breaking News: The U.S. will allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest remaining tracts of pristine wilderness in the country. nyti.ms/3WhrQui
October 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Honestly can we not just put an end to this vile administration yet? Crimes against humanity, crimes against the planet, crimes against democracy... when will someone stop him?
The news shouldn't be that a private company fired someone for speech they didn't condone... the news should be that the Trump Administration threatens regulatory action against broadcast companies that won't fire people who say things they dislike...
September 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The news shouldn't be that a private company fired someone for speech they didn't condone... the news should be that the Trump Administration threatens regulatory action against broadcast companies that won't fire people who say things they dislike...
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
I keep seeing news articles and clickbait that EV sales are slowing. Seems like someone wants us to think that, but it isn't even remotely true.
August 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I keep seeing news articles and clickbait that EV sales are slowing. Seems like someone wants us to think that, but it isn't even remotely true.
Some movement in the right direction! But we still spend 20x on suppression what we do on prevention... (at least).
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Here's where $46M in federal wildfire research funding is going across the country | CBC News
As firefighters across the country battle Canada's second-worst wildfire season on record, the federal government announced details Tuesday of $45.7 million in research funding to better understand an...
www.cbc.ca
August 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Some movement in the right direction! But we still spend 20x on suppression what we do on prevention... (at least).
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
How we doin' Canada?? Time for some better climate mitigation and forest management yet, or....?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Canada wildfire season already second worst on record as experts warn of ‘new reality’
More than 470 Canadian fires classified as ‘out of control’ as scientists say climate change exacerbating the burning
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
How we doin' Canada?? Time for some better climate mitigation and forest management yet, or....?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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The extraordinary loss of August #Arctic sea ice thickness over the last four decades...
Data available at psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro.... More info at climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data...
Data available at psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro.... More info at climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data...
August 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The extraordinary loss of August #Arctic sea ice thickness over the last four decades...
Data available at psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro.... More info at climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data...
Data available at psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro.... More info at climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data...
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Canada: Walk away from negotiations. Don't retaliate. Diversify. Find new markets. Buy European military equipment. Reinstate the digital services tax. Let Americans pay more for the things they want from us. Keep up the public boycott. Welcome American refugee talent. Be Canadian. #cdnpoli #USpoli
August 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Imagine the damages they will have to pay if they lose this. To companies, importers, foreign powers. It will bankrupt the country.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
Judges question Trump's authority to impose tariffs without Congress | CBC News
Appellate court judges expressed broad skepticism Thursday over U.S. President Donald Trump's legal rationale for his most expansive round of tariffs, including the tariff on Canada that he just raise...
www.cbc.ca
August 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Imagine the damages they will have to pay if they lose this. To companies, importers, foreign powers. It will bankrupt the country.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
Periodic reminder that Trump's border wall (like ALL border walls for that matter) is an absolute nightmare for wildlife and conservation.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/c...
Trump Wants a New Border Wall. It Would Block a Key Wildlife Corridor.
www.nytimes.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Periodic reminder that Trump's border wall (like ALL border walls for that matter) is an absolute nightmare for wildlife and conservation.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/c...
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Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.
July 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.
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A 34x convicted felon and rapist named as one of the perpetrators in one of the largest and most powerfully connected human trafficking networks in human history, sent his own corrupt personal lawyer to meet with the other perpetrator.
DOJ wants America to believe the perpetrators, not the victims.
DOJ wants America to believe the perpetrators, not the victims.
July 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A 34x convicted felon and rapist named as one of the perpetrators in one of the largest and most powerfully connected human trafficking networks in human history, sent his own corrupt personal lawyer to meet with the other perpetrator.
DOJ wants America to believe the perpetrators, not the victims.
DOJ wants America to believe the perpetrators, not the victims.
Dear Scotland,
If he so much as throws a BigMac wrapper on the ground, arrest him.
Thank you,
The World.
If he so much as throws a BigMac wrapper on the ground, arrest him.
Thank you,
The World.
July 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Dear Scotland,
If he so much as throws a BigMac wrapper on the ground, arrest him.
Thank you,
The World.
If he so much as throws a BigMac wrapper on the ground, arrest him.
Thank you,
The World.
Just me, or is France turning into the leader of the free world again?
France will recognize an independent state of Palestine in September at the U.N. General Assembly, President Emmanuel Macron said.
“The urgent need today is to end the war in Gaza and to rescue the civilian population,” Macron wrote on X. wapo.st/45jiof3
“The urgent need today is to end the war in Gaza and to rescue the civilian population,” Macron wrote on X. wapo.st/45jiof3
July 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Just me, or is France turning into the leader of the free world again?
Time for Canada to recognize that forest management (and our generally poor record of it) is a national security consideration...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
Canadian wildfire smoke ruining Americans' summer, says letter from Congress members | CBC News
Canadian wildfire smoke is travelling south and making it difficult for some Americans to enjoy their summer, says a letter from six members of Congress to Canada's ambassador in Washington.
www.cbc.ca
July 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Time for Canada to recognize that forest management (and our generally poor record of it) is a national security consideration...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
This is all you need to know about the state of American 'democracy'. Spoiler alert: it's been destroyed for the benefit of a crime family.
DEAN: Do you have any concerns about your conflicts of interest and the president's?
BONDI: What I would be concerned about in Pennsylvania is all the child sex cases
DEAN: Did you hear my question?
BONDI: What I would be concerned about in Pennsylvania is all the child sex cases
DEAN: Did you hear my question?
June 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This is all you need to know about the state of American 'democracy'. Spoiler alert: it's been destroyed for the benefit of a crime family.
Anyone else think the real reason Trump left the G7 is so he didn’t have to look Zelenskyy in the eye again?
June 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Anyone else think the real reason Trump left the G7 is so he didn’t have to look Zelenskyy in the eye again?
Is Donald Trump LITERALLY using the G7 forum to complain that nobody is nice to Russia?!?!?!
JFC what a nightmare this is.
JFC what a nightmare this is.
June 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Is Donald Trump LITERALLY using the G7 forum to complain that nobody is nice to Russia?!?!?!
JFC what a nightmare this is.
JFC what a nightmare this is.
Great to see articles like this hitting the mainstream news outlets!
How prescribed burns can help ecosystems thrive | CBC News
Low, controlled fires, also known as prescribed burns, are being used not just for wildfire protection but ecosystem health. Many ecosystems rely on fire, and it can help germinate seeds, keep brush a...
www.cbc.ca
May 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Great to see articles like this hitting the mainstream news outlets!
Oh man, somebody better tell Alberta that Trump himself invented equalization.
Trump: “Basically, what we’re doing is equalizing. That’s a new word that I came up with, which I think is probably the best word.”
Trump brain is pudding.
Trump brain is pudding.
May 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Oh man, somebody better tell Alberta that Trump himself invented equalization.
Imagine if Obama had accepted a $400M 'gift' from Amir TAMIM bin Hamad...
May 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Imagine if Obama had accepted a $400M 'gift' from Amir TAMIM bin Hamad...