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Rev Debbie saves turtles
@turtlegirldebbie.bsky.social
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Ecospiritual minister, shamanic healer, wildlife rehabilitator and educator, nonprofit founder, Pagan, Druid, grad student, vegan, probably feeding the squirrels

Trying to preserve the magic of biodiversity on Earth 🌎
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Rev Debbie saves turtles @turtlegirldebbie.bsky.social · Nov 28
An intro: I'm an ecospiritual minister, Shamanic Reiki practitioner and teacher, and a licensed wildlife rehabilitator and educator in service to all beings, especially turtles.

I'm an AODA druid. My vibe is all wildlife, food forests, and sit spots. Expect squirrels, birds, and turtles.
Eastern painted turtle with tape on the back end of her shell where it was broken, floating on a basking dock under lights
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February 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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I got a break from the madness yesterday when our regional wildlife rehabilitator member organization did public outreach at a mall. I held friends' educational birds while I talked to human people and my face hurts today from smiling.

#AmericanKestrel #CommonRaven #falcon #corvid #FindJoy
Me wearing a green North Country Wild Care hoodie and a goofy smile, looking at the slate and brown American kestrel sitting on the glove on my hand, looking back at me. Kestrels are small falcons. This one is blind in one eye after hitting a car and unable to hunt on his own. He is missing flight feathers on the visible wing but that happened in captivity and they are growing back. Me in a green hoodie with my name on a name tag in a selfie with a black common raven I am holding. She is perched on a glove out of frame. The raven is looking towards the camera. Her name is Melina and she became an educational ambassador after being hit by a car and breaking both wings and both legs. Her bones healed, but there is lingering weakness that prevented her return to the wild. She does educational programs and is also an animal actor. She has appeared in a number of TV shows and movies, including The Pale Blue Eye, a Netflix movie about Edgar Allen Poe.
February 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Snow days call for playing! ❄️

When seeking to play, wolves will dance and bow playfully. Playtime can also include a game of chase, jaw sparring, and varied vocalizations.

For wolves, playtime isn’t only fun, it strengthens family bonds and reaffirms social status within the pack.
February 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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CHP Silver Alert - San Jose / Santa Clara County

SILVER ALERT - Santa Clara County
Last seen: N 10th St. and E Julian St., San Jose

IF SEEN, CALL 9-1-1

#missingperson #sanjose #santaclaracounty #silveralert
Silver Alert Luc Bao 68 years old 5 5 115 lbs gray hair brown eyes wearing blue sweater, blue sweats, gray hat last seen 1600 hours on 2/16/25 (Sunday)
February 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Which British animals eat mice and rats? Stoats, weasels, birds of prey, badgers, foxes, pine marten, polecat, wildcats and lynx. All either actively shot and trapped, verging on extinction or extinct because of human activity. We have nature the wrong way around.
February 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Vimla Bahuguna, who spent a lifetime defending India’s forests, empowering women, and championing the rights of the poor, died on Feb 14th, at the age of 93.

www.butlernature.com/2025/02/16/o...
Obituary for Vimla Bahuguna, A Guardian of Forests, A Champion of Women
Vimla Bahuguna, who spent a lifetime defending India’s forests, empowering women, and championing the rights of the poor, died on February 14th, at the age of 93. Her passing, four years after that of...
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February 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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February 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Low light so the release pictures sucked but I got to release the barred owl I helped rehab the other day, a highlight in an otherwise challenging week.

#druidsky /|\ #wildliferehab #adirondacks
A barred owl sitting on top of a wooden owl box in a space loosely paneled with wood planks and a wire fence ceiling under the rafters. A barred owl perched momentarily on the edge of a cardboard box with wings lifted, ready to fly off.
February 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Can anyone look at this graphic and say that we do not urgently need rewilding on a massive scale?
February 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Did you know wolves are absolutely essential for a healthy ecosystem?
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone the entire system reacted. Small animals became more abundant. Birds began breading more. Rivers changed, small carnivore populations increased.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGGe...
Black wolf walking in the summer grass in front of a forest.
February 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941
February 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.
February 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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South Dakota's Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe received $19.9 million from the EPA for repairing a bridge, replacing asphalt roofs, and climate resilience.

Thanks to Trump's illegal program cuts, however, the tribe is no longer able to access the funds.

The wealthy win while the rest of us lose.
‘It’s demoralizing’: Trump’s climate funding freeze has left tribes and community groups in limbo
Despite court orders to release grants, many organizations working on climate projects still don't have access to contractually obligated money.
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February 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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One of Trump's executive orders seeks to undermine the Endangered Species Act. This move empowers a committee of his own appointees to decide the fate of an endangered species, prioritizing the desires of special interests over wildlife and biodiversity.
An 'Extinction Committee' Is Just the Beginning of Trump's Attacks on Endangered Species
President Trump is already trying to undermine the ESA by invoking a rarely used provision that empowers a committee to decide the fate of endangered species.
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February 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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I love Superb Owl Sunday.
jonathanslaght.com Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · Feb 7
In honor of #SuperbOwl LIX, I am giving away this copy of my OWLS OF THE EASTERN ICE! Like or Reskeet to enter, will pick a winner at random 9am Eastern, Monday Feb 10, 2025 & contact via DM. US addresses only please 🦉🌍
A bald, bearded man holds a book A drawing of an owl in a book. It is sitting on a football
February 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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February 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Some humans really suck
February 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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I hereby create a community of people who love, respect, and admire boglands. They are mysterious, beautiful, and powerful to ecology, archaeology and climate. Yet these systems continue to be misunderstood and threatened. Who wants to join my bog fan club? Please share - bogs need friends right now
February 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Scenes from out back because my professor said feeling oneness with the more-than-humans helps us feel as one with other humans, too. Not gonna lie, really struggling with that at the moment.

#backyardwildlife #adirondacks
A barred owl sleeping on a tree branch. She is far away and blends well with the snow covered trees around her. An eastern grey squirrel eating in a hanging platform feeder with snow on the edges. The evergreens in the background are also snow covered A white-breasted nuthatch perched on the edge of a hanging platform feeder and reaches his open beak towards a nut on a pile of seeds and nuts in the middle of the feeder. The edges of the feeder and the trees in the background have snow on them.
February 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Boglands once were considered portals to the gods and other universes. Liminal spaces between familiar and unfamiliar, water and land - they are eerie, beautiful, pagan. They harbor weird biodiversity and regulate climate. No wonder they are rejected by white, colonial patriarchy. Respect the bogs.
Image of a really pretty bog with red moss and green trees in the background.
February 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Did you know bald eagles are a conservation success story? On this Reverse the Red Day, learn more about these comeback champions! 🌍🧪🦅1/
a bald eagle is flying over a body of water near a forest .
ALT: a bald eagle is flying over a body of water near a forest .
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February 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I don't have a Whole Foods near me so I'm just posting in case anyone else wanted to, I don't know, not shop there.
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Feb 6
Whole Foods, which is owned by notorious union-buster Amazon, is arguing that Trump's dismantling of the NLRB means the company doesn't have to recognize a newly unionized store in Philadelphia.

Looks like Jeff Bezos' investment in Trump is paying off.
Amazon's Whole Foods cites Trump's NLRB purge as grounds for rejecting union win
Last month, workers at a Whole Foods store in Philadelphia voted in favor of joining the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.
www.cnbc.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Coming up in a few hours and giving me something to look forward to.
turtlegirldebbie.bsky.social Rev Debbie saves turtles @turtlegirldebbie.bsky.social · Jan 16
Excited to be hosting JF Therrien, senior scientist at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, for the next @cclusa.org Wildlife Action Team meeting. JF will share about snowy owls and how Arctic ecosystems are impacted by climate change. Open to all. Let me know if you want the link.

#wildlife #climatechange /|\
February 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM