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#Birds and other creatures 🦜🐸🐟🐒 mimic #sounds to confuse and deceive #predators ⁉️ and impress potential mates 💕 Protect #biodiversity and endangered birds when you #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🩸🔥☠️🧐🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife in the supermarket!

http://palmoildetectives.com/2022/05/01/the-mimics-among-us-birds-pirate-songs-for-personal-profit/


#News: #Research in @thelancet
finds #pandemics are linked to #ecosystem and #biodiversity declines, with viruses jumping from animals to humans. Urgent #publichealth and #conservation needed #Boycott4Wildlife
@palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/09/08/protect-nature-to-avoid-future-pandemics/



#News: 🌿 #Study finds #biodiversity loss linked to spread of #zoonotic diseases. Animal #agriculture, #deforestation and #climatechange intensify disease spillover from wildlife to humans. Be #vegan for them and #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/declining-biodiversity-and-emerging-diseases-are-entwined-more-study-needed/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer


#News: Brazil’s #biofuel industry: #Biofuels are promoted as a "clean" alternative, but in Brazil, they’re driving #deforestation, #biodiversity loss, and #land conflicts. Are biofuels a solution —or just greenwashing? Story: @monicapiccinini.bsky.social
https://revistacenarium.com.br/en/brazils-biofuel-boom-green-growth-or-greenwashing/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer


By expanding taxon coverage to 10 horseshoe bat species, we identify new variants of SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2, & report convergent functionally important residues that could explain wider patterns of susceptibility across mammals. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02638-2 #biodiversity #genomics


1 million plants and animals are threatened. #Wildlife and #biodiversity are at a crossroads before #extinction. Here are 7 practical ways to stop #species wipeout. Story @360info_global #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #extinction @palmoildetect
https://wp.me/pcFhgU-79E?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer


🌳 #News: University of #Oxford #Research finds while selective logging alters tropical #forests, converting them to #palmoil causes greater harm, especially to #biodiversity. Preserving logged forests is crucial. #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250109141136.htm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer


#Amazonia🌳🥀 is the lungs 🫁 of the world 🌎 Massive #deforestation and #biodiversity loss puts zoonotic diseases 🦟🤒 closer to humans. We must stop the damage right now! Story: @MAPICC2021 #Boycottpalmoil Fight extinction at #COP16 🙏@palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-91G?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer


Ancient #sturgeons are 200-million-year survivors, many are now critically endangered due to overfishing for #caviar 🤮 habitat destruction, and #climatechange. Be #vegan and protect them learn more 🌊🐟 @OuranosProject #EndangeredSpecies #Biodiversity https://ouranosproject2023.wixsite.com/ouranos/copie-de-rhone-streber


#News: #COP16's great promise concluded in confusion. Experts pointed to a lack of leadership from #EU, China, #Canada and #Australia to arrest the #biodiversity crisis. One watershed moment was the inclusion of #indigenous representation in the UN's biodiversity process. Consensus in decision-making was weak and inadequate #ClimateActionNow #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/03/cop16-ends-in-disarry-and-indecision-despite-biodiversity-breakthroughs


#News: "Whether it's #cocoa, #palmoil or #rubber – all crops contribute to #deforestation. Cote d'Ivoire has lost 'nearly 80% of its #forest cover" says head of Roots Wild Foundation, Halal Bilal #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife Save #biodiversity from #extinction! #COP16 https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20241021-cote-ivoire-lost-nearly-80-percent-forest-wildlife-cover-biodiversity-elephants


🌍📊 Join Our Team! Meise Botanic Garden is looking for Data Scientists in Biodiversity Informatics. Collaborate on global projects, digital management & work in a flexible, hybrid environment. Apply by Nov 14! 🌿💻 #DataScience #ICT #Hiring #Biodiversity

https://vlaanderen.be/werken-voor-vlaanderen/vacatures/datawetenschapper-biodiversiteit-08a65f


"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


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


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


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

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