Dreaming of upcoming thrasher surveys, and looking through the recently-completed Desert Thrasher Conservation Strategy. If you, too, are in the mood to read the #conservation strategy for LeConte's and Bendire's thrashers, here it is!
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"The release of the 2025 U.S. State of the Birds report was announced today at the 90th annual North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. The report, produced by a coalition of leading science and conservation organizations, reveals continued widespread declines in American bird populations across all mainland and marine habitats, with 229 species requiring urgent conservation action".
#birds #wildlife #conservation #biodiversity
EurekAlert!US bird populations continue alarming decline, new report findsThe 2025 U. S. State of the Birds Report, produced by a coalition of leading science and conservation organizations, reveals continued widespread declines in American bird populations across all mainland and marine habitats, with 229 species requiring urgent conservation action.
In 2025, Mongabay will be increasing coverage of pangolins, the world’s most trafficked mammals. As part of this effort, we are hosting a webinar on March 27, 2025, to discuss how journalists can improve reporting on their illegal trade. Don’t miss this important conversation. Live on YouTube and LinkedIn.
Register: https://forms.gle/ZEkevwtD8SVKkvzZA
If you are caught cutting down the Amazon Rainforest illegally, chances are you will get off without being required to pay for the environmental damage. According to a recent report, only 5% of offenders have paid court-ordered fines for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.
By Shanna Hanbury
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/03/only-5-of-deforesters-in-brazils-amazon-fully-paid-fines-report-finds/
Conservation staff evacuate a wild Sumatran tiger to prevent conflict with humans in the Agam district. Sumatran tigers are listed as critically endangered, with fewer than 400 left in the wild, West Sumatra, #Indonesia
Photograph: Adi Prima/Anadolu/Getty Images
Africa’s elephants have been in dramatic decline for 50 years. A new study explores what can be done to save them.
From @ConversationUS: The research "put together data from 1,325 surveys of elephant populations — everything we could find — to evaluate how elephant numbers in Africa have changed."
The ConversationAfrica’s elephants have been in dramatic decline for 50 years. What can be done to save them – new studyMaintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.
"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture" (Aldo Leopold, writing in 1948).
#conservation #environment @bookstodon #climatechange #nature
Gebe Island in eastern Indonesia is the site of seven nickel mining concessions.
Local Indigenous communities say the mining sites have put their food security at risk, with pollution affecting fruit trees and root vegetables as well as depletion of local fisheries.
Forestry campaigners say the mining clashes with a 2007 law on small islands designed to prevent large-scale environmental destruction in these fragile ecosystems.
By Jaya Barends
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/nickel-miners-dig-up-indonesias-gebe-island-despite-indigenous-and-legal-opposition/
Mongabay Environmental News · Nickel miners dig up Indonesia’s Gebe Island despite Indigenous and legal oppositionGEBE ISLAND, Indonesia — Abdul Manan Magtiblo watched the excavator dump a piece of Gebe Island into the back of a truck. Barely a thicket remained on the buzz-cut upland above Umera village as the vehicle drove off to the nearby port. “That’s the PT Bartra Putra Mulia [BPM] nickel mine,” Manan, the village chief, […]
@helenczerski Imperative that we #standupforscience every day. Every #federal agency every #university. Not a once and done protest on a sunny Friday. That was a great start. Now we need the campaign. Awareness interest decision action.
From a #Farm family and #conservation landscape designer in #virginia. Formerly marketing advertising and strategy for mnc corporate brands.
A campaign, y’all. Let’s get this done.
From: @helenczerski
https://fediscience.org/@helenczerski/114149085022572373
FediScience.orgHelen Czerski (@helenczerski@fediscience.org)Attached: 1 image
It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs, and the research that could save lives.
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/johns-hopkins-federal-funding-foreign-aid-cut-ca841d31?st=EJYFJk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
#America #science
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@helenczerski Imperative that we #standupforscience every day. Every #federal agency every #university. Not a once and done protest on a sunny Friday. That was a great start. Now we need the campaign. Awareness interest decision action.
From a #Farm family and #conservation landscape designer in #virginia. Formerly marketing advertising and strategy for mnc corporate brands.
A campaign, y’all. Let s get this done.
The Galápagos rail, a small, black, ground bird, hadn’t been seen on Floreana Island in the Galápagos since 1835, when Charles Darwin first described it. That changed recently when researchers monitoring birds on Floreana recorded the rail at three different locations. These new sightings after 190 years are likely the result of efforts to eradicate invasive species on the island.
By Bobby Bascomb
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/03/a-bird-last-seen-by-darwin-190-years-ago-reappears-on-a-galapagos-island/
Mongabay Environmental News · A bird last seen by Darwin 190 years ago reappears on a Galápagos islandThe Galápagos rail, a small, black, ground bird, hadn’t been seen on Floreana Island in the Galápagos since 1835, when Charles Darwin first described it. That changed recently when researchers monitoring birds on Floreana recorded the rail at three different locations. These new sightings after 190 years are likely the result of efforts to eradicate […]
#Survival of Eurasian #lynx in the human-dominated landscape of #Europe
#OpenAccess
#ConservationBiology
#IllegalKilling was the main cause of #mortality (33.8%), and mortality rates were similar in protected and hunted populations (8.6% and 7.0% per year, respectively). Due to the low natural mortality rates in protected and hunted populations, #anthropogenic causes of mortality are likely close to additive, such that maintaining or increasing refuge #habitat with little human #disturbance is critical to lynx #conservation.
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.14439
"Donald Trump’s administration, backed by House Republicans and Elon Musk’s Doge agency, are carrying out an attack on the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and federal wildlife agencies that, if successful, will almost certainly drive numerous species into extinction, environmental advocates warn."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/trump-wildlife-agencies-species-extinction
The Guardian · Trump orders likely to drive species’ extinction, wildlife advocates warn
That's too bad makes me think twice about saving #rainwater for #conservation purposes https://www.vox.com/climate/401600/pfas-microplastics-pollution-rain
Vox · We got rid of acid rain. Now something scarier is falling from the sky.
Trump orders likely to drive species’ extinction, wildlife advocates warn https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/trump-wildlife-agencies-species-extinction #Trumpadministration #Endangeredspecies #Conservation #Environment #USpolitics #Wildlife #ElonMusk #Animals #USnews
The Guardian · Trump orders likely to drive species’ extinction, wildlife advocates warn
Recent events and policy decisions across the world are worrying conservationists and climate researchers.
Here, Mongabay lists out ten unique community-led initiatives across the world that show positive and proven impacts.
By Sonam Lama Hyolmo
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/10-unique-community-led-conservation-solutions-in-the-face-of-environmental-despair/
Mongabay Environmental News · 10 unique community-led conservation solutions in the face of environmental despairNumerous events and policy decisions across the world in the last several months are causing despair among many environmentalists. The abrupt freeze, and potential termination, of international funds for conservation have hit global conservation and environmental projects, resulting in the halt of activities that have so far aided forest and wildlife conservation and supported Indigenous […]
He makes it sound easy...and it is.
Once you get around politics and burocracy
"Rewilding will save Florida! #conservation #florida #wildlife #rewild #nature #wild" [ ± 1min]
by sergeirunningwild [Sep 3, 2024]
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k17QJSFM95Q
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
One of several clumps of #Crocus in a rather shady border near the pond. Late afternoon, when the sun does finally penetrate the magnificent but rather too big spruce tree.
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