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"The bottom line is that, globally, deforestation has gotten worse, not better, since the beginning of the decade.
We’re only six years away from a critical global deadline to end deforestation, and forests continue to be chopped down, degraded, and set ablaze at alarming rates,”
Ivan Palmegiani, consultant at the research group Climate Focus

#Forests #Deforestation #Trees #Environment #Biodiversity #ClimateEmergency #Beef #Soy #PalmOil

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/08/deforestation-destruction-demolition-beef-soy-palm-oil-nickel?CMP=firstedition_email


@UQ_News research published in @TheLancetPlanet finds that #pandemics are linked to #ecosystem and #biodiversity declines, with viruses jumping from animals to humans. Urgent #publichealth and #conservation policies needed #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives
https://wp.me/pcFhgU-77u


@UQ_News research published in @TheLancetPlanet finds that #pandemics are linked to #ecosystem and #biodiversity declines, with viruses jumping from animals to humans. Urgent #publichealth and #conservation policies needed #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect

http://palmoildetectives.com/2024/09/08/protect-nature-to-avoid-future-pandemics/


A team of scientists from the University of Bristol recently released research that pushed the date of our Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) back to about 4.2 billion years ago.

This suggests that the life that is in each of us, and in each of the organisms that make up our very large extended family, runs in an unbroken chain backward for 4.2 billion years.

That’s a pretty considerable investment by the universe in every living thing.

Perhaps we should reflect on that a little more as we continue to muck around on this planet.

It might be time to start fitting in.

http://www.aspenproposal.org

#sustainability #philosophy #ClimateChange #biodiversity #nature #politics #economics #religion #Science


#News: Recent #research finds that #deforestation in #Africa during the last two decades induced a higher warming and cloud level rise than that caused by #climatechange, which threatens #biodiversity and water supply in African montane forests. Scientists call for urgent protection of ecosystems #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240819130748.htm


Extinction On Our Plates: 🔥😿 Expanding agricultural land for #meat 🥩 #dairy 🧈 and #palmoil is pushing #biodiversity past limits for survival. Help animals, use your wallet 🤑 as a weapon, be #vegan 🥦 #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-71v


#News: #Pesticide use has surged in the #Amazon, with #fungicide mancozeb increasing by 5,600% and herbicide atrazine by 575% over 10 years.
Experts warn of severe impacts on #biodiversity and #health risks to #Indigenous communities @EHNewsroom https://www.ehn.org/a-new-pesticide-law-in-brazil-endangers-amazon-s-biodiversity-2668679672.html


Extinction On Our Plates: 🔥😿 Expanding agricultural land for #meat 🥩 #dairy 🧈 and #palmoil is pushing #biodiversity past limits for survival. Help animals, use your wallet 🤑 as a weapon, be #vegan 🥦 #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-71v


Stop APRIL, Indonesia’s ruthless paper and pulp giant!
#nature #biodiversity #Ecosystem #ecosystems #forest #forests #rainforest #tree #trees #deforestation #Petition
https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1288/stop-april-indonesias-ruthless-paper-and-pulp-giant


Extinction On Our Plates: 🔥😿 Expanding agricultural land for #meat 🥩 #dairy 🧈 and #palmoil is pushing #biodiversity past limits for survival. Help animals, use your wallet 🤑 as a weapon, be #vegan 🥦 #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-71v


#News: Huge #deforestation and #biodiversity loss in #Cameroon spurs local community orgs to write an #openletter to the EU to call for immediate action to implement tougher policies on corporates for #landrights and #ecocide protection #EUDR #CSDD #Boycottpalmoil https://www.afrik21.africa/en/massive-deforestation-in-cameroon-an-urgent-call-for-international-action/ #Afrik21 @EU_Commission


Deforestation harms biodiversity of the Amazon's perfume-loving orchid bees #Amazon #environment #biodiversity #forest #deforestation #bees https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240410112645.htm


Converting rainforest to plantation impacts food webs and biodiversity #rainforest #environment #food #FoodProduction #biodiversity #ecosystem #ecosystems #wildlife #rubber #PalmOil https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240221160431.htm


More on the exceptionally stupid closing of the #Duke herbarium:

“Duke will never be a leader in #biodiversity like it was before” - Kathleen Pryer

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/02/duke-university-plants-biodiversity-herbarium-climate-commitment-kathleen-pryer


"The Coalition will strip funding from the Environmental Defenders Office if it wins the next federal election, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has promised."

https://abc.net.au/news/2024-01-30/dutton-commits-to-defunding-environmental-defenders-office/103403866
#EDO #Biodiversity #climate #law #destruction #conservation #ExtinctionCrisis


Guard Old-Growth Forests from Logging
#Petition #nature #biodiversity #Ecosystem #ecosystems #forest #forests #rainforest #tree #trees #deforestation
https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/Vmt7It_mD0674rGG1gGlWQ2



Tom Cavalier-Smith prize DEADLINE EXTENDED https://www.isep-protists.com/post/tcs-prize-deadline-extended

We are pleased to announce that we are extending the deadline for Tom Cavalier-Smith prize nominations to January 31st, and that in light of the complicating factor of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are extending eligibility to 4 years post-PhD.

The Tom Cavalier-Smith prize recognizes contributions to evolutionary #protistology, or related fields (e.g. #protists #biology, #biodiversity or #ecology), by #EarlyCareerResearchers.


Happy New Year!!!
This is my last shot of 2023: rainbow bee-eater in Myall Lakes NP in Eastern #Australia enjoying a cicada

#biodiversity #birdphotography #wildlife #birds #birdsofmastodon #bird #ecology #rainbow




What needs to be done, clearly I am not biased, is to fund more studies in entomology, and to open and expand entire new undergraduate and graduate schools dedicated to invertebrates, with emphasis on insects.

Sadly, "Soon, we may not be estimating how many species there are on Earth. We will be estimating how many there were."

#EcosystemCollapse #biodiversity


Indian political commentator Bharat Dogra writes that #India turning towards #palmoil growth is a massive mistake for local #biodiversity #landrights and #climatechange, resist and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/09/24/instead-of-risky-palm-oil-in-india-indigenous-trees-should-get-more-attention/ via @palmoildetectives


A significant new study, using massive biodiversity datasets, shows that invasions by non-native plants set the stage for later invasions by non-native insects.

"nonnative plant introductions are a major driver of insect invasions, and that insect invasions lag behind plant invasions. In the near future, new insect invasions are estimated to increase by 35% worldwide based on recent nonnative plant introductions."

#Biodiversity #Ecology #invasivespecies #Science

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2221826120


New study in Ecology Letters shows how moths are crucial yet underappreciated nocturnal pollinators; check out short summary at popsci.com:

https://www.popsci.com/environment/moth-pollination-resilience/

#ecology
#biodiversity
#insects


A colleague of mine created a collection of unique cutout images with precise high quality assets (by combing several hundred images into a high resolution image to magnify across the full "depth of field").

Please visit him
https://itemcreationstudio.com/en/

#biodiversity #flowers #photography #mosstodon

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