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#extinction

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DoomsdaysCW

So, May 27th, and no #bumblebee sightings here in my little acre of York County #Maine. I thought I heard one or two buzzing around before the latest round of rain, but now it's been a few days of warm, dry weather, and all I'm seeing are little bees. Usually the bumblebees are all over the lilacs, which are now past peak. I hope they show up soon, but I'm a bit worried about my little friends.

Photos are from the past two years -- the first one is from May 21, 2024 , and the second one is from May 11, 2023.

#BeeHuggah #Bees #ClimateDiaryMaine #WildlifeDiaryMaine #WildlifeDiary #GardeningForPollinators #Extinction?

A bumblebee on a lilac bush. In the background are bushes and a composter.
A bumblebee on a onion flower in a planter on concrete steps. In the background is grass and iris greenery.
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Silkester

Do we have too many people on Earth as it is?

My opinion to this question: youtube.com/watch?v=P9gRdOeRg7

Yes. Currently, there are too many people with bad habits on this planet!

So don't force women to have babies for pensions, ...

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...but also don't resort to genocide or random forced sterilisation or one baby legislation.. or any such measure.

YouTubeLBC caller goes apocalyptic on TomBy LBC
#population#pension#exponentialGrowth
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NSW.Biodiversity

When the 'Australians dream of home ownership' becomes a nightmare for Australian biodiversity.

Put new mass housing on completely degraded land with no biodiversity values or in the middle of a last biodiversity hotspot? South-east Queensland sprawl, Ipswich, Woogaroo Forest, Lot 9999

There are "plans to sculpt and flatten this land to make way for about 1,800 houses for south-east Queensland’s booming population."

“There is plenty of completely degraded land with no biodiversity values at all to put those houses on...here’s degraded agricultural land, there’s abandoned land, there’s abandoned mines … south-east Queensland is 6m hectares."
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theguardian.com/environment/20
#biodiversity #degradation #sprawl #housing #EndangeredHabitats #WoogarooForest #LandTenure #wildlife #koalas #birds #extinction #Australia #SEQ

The Guardian · The fight for Woogaroo Forest: new housing could silence some of Queensland’s ‘virtuoso songbirds’By Joe Hinchliffe
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NSW.Biodiversity

Half the remaining habitat of Australia’s most at-risk species is outside protected areas

"Our new research examines how much habitat is left for 305 of Australia’s critically endangered species – more than 70% of the total. Alarmingly, we found almost half the remaining habitat is outside the protected area estate. That means the last remaining areas where these species are clinging on could very easily be cleared.

Agricultural potential poses another challenge. More than half (55%) of the habitat we identified has a clear overlap with lands suitable for farming or grazing. These preferred areas are usually flat and on fertile soils.

Conversion of habitat to farms or paddocks is a major reason why Australia is still one of the top land-clearing nations. In just one year, 6,800 km² of woody vegetation was cleared in Queensland – largely to make way for agriculture. ">
theconversation.com/half-the-r
#biodiversity #grazing #cattle #IllegalLandClearing #agriculture #extinction #regulation

The ConversationHalf the remaining habitat of Australia’s most at-risk species is outside protected areasHundreds of Australia’s unique species are clinging to life in small patches of habitat. Now researchers have found half of their habitat has no legal protection.
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KilleansRow 🇺🇲 🇺🇦🍀

You*Must*Be*Mad Dept : Outraged even ! Yes. Anyone who understands healthy #Democracy as a metric, possibly THE metric for avoiding #Extinction level events knows what I’m talking about. There is a but tho. Our sphere of influence as individuals mostly does not scale with our anger. We want a bigger sphere…but it keeps shrinking.
More anger, less sphere. This is inherently funny but by now you’re too mad to laugh. You need to stop at being too mad not to laugh

A Moose. A very serious Moose. Can’t you tell ?
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Petra van Cronenburg

Exactly 45 years ago a whole mountain exploded: Mount Saint Helens.

It was an incredible disaster and people thought that something like an #ecoysystem would never come back on the burnt ground. It was extinction.

Then came the famous pocket #gophers. Listen to the story how they restored a whole landscape: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

Two pictures with a man on a snowy mountain. On the first pic he stands and watches another mountain with a lot of dark smoke coming out. On the second pic he sits. The other mountain is now only smoke, completely exploded. John "Jack" V. Christianson took these photos from Mt. Adams, 54 km to the east, as his friend reacted to the eruption at 8:32 am on 18 May 1980.
#restoring#ecology#extinction
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