Caroline Shankel
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BIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK!
A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.
A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.
July 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
BIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK!
A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.
A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.
Reposted by Caroline Shankel
Idaho says it has 1,235 wolves as of May 2024- a drop from last year. But the state also changed its counting method, raising concerns. With a goal of slashing the population to 500, shifting estimates may be more about politics than science.
Read more: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/idah...
Read more: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/idah...
Idaho Department of Fish and Game estimates Idaho’s wolf population decreased to 1,235
Officials with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game estimated the wolf population in Idaho to be about 1,235 wolves as of May 2024, which state officials said Thursday is a decrease of almost 100 wol...
www.newsfromthestates.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Idaho says it has 1,235 wolves as of May 2024- a drop from last year. But the state also changed its counting method, raising concerns. With a goal of slashing the population to 500, shifting estimates may be more about politics than science.
Read more: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/idah...
Read more: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/idah...
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Ein völlig falsches Signal und ein Rückschritt auf Kosten der Natur – so muss man den Vorschlag der EU-Kommission für das kommende Mehrjahresbudget bewerten. Vor allem die geplante Auflösung des LIFE-Programms ist inakzeptabel. Damit würden direkte Mittel für den Schutz der Biodiversität fehlen.
July 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Ein völlig falsches Signal und ein Rückschritt auf Kosten der Natur – so muss man den Vorschlag der EU-Kommission für das kommende Mehrjahresbudget bewerten. Vor allem die geplante Auflösung des LIFE-Programms ist inakzeptabel. Damit würden direkte Mittel für den Schutz der Biodiversität fehlen.
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Rep. Gosar (R-AZ) & 10 anti-wolf members of Congress have introduced a bill to remove the Mexican gray wolf from the ESA. Not because the species has recovered. Not because the science supports delisting. Simply because the livestock lobby can’t handle coexisting with carnivores on public lands.
286 Wolves, One Unhinged Congressman—and a Government Ready to Finish the Job
A new bill from Rep. Paul Gosar aims to gut Mexican gray wolf protections—not because recovery is complete, but to appease the livestock industry’s war on native wildlife.
westernwatersheds.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Rep. Gosar (R-AZ) & 10 anti-wolf members of Congress have introduced a bill to remove the Mexican gray wolf from the ESA. Not because the species has recovered. Not because the science supports delisting. Simply because the livestock lobby can’t handle coexisting with carnivores on public lands.
Blessings from the Eurasian Jay aka “little forest screamer” 🌳💙🪶
Master of mimicry, acorn planter, and woodland storyteller. Proof that even loudmouths have sacred roles in the ecosystem.
#jayfeather #eichelhaeher #garrulusglandarius #lechaîne #naturegifts #forestkids #rewildingchildhood #ecospirit
Master of mimicry, acorn planter, and woodland storyteller. Proof that even loudmouths have sacred roles in the ecosystem.
#jayfeather #eichelhaeher #garrulusglandarius #lechaîne #naturegifts #forestkids #rewildingchildhood #ecospirit
July 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Blessings from the Eurasian Jay aka “little forest screamer” 🌳💙🪶
Master of mimicry, acorn planter, and woodland storyteller. Proof that even loudmouths have sacred roles in the ecosystem.
#jayfeather #eichelhaeher #garrulusglandarius #lechaîne #naturegifts #forestkids #rewildingchildhood #ecospirit
Master of mimicry, acorn planter, and woodland storyteller. Proof that even loudmouths have sacred roles in the ecosystem.
#jayfeather #eichelhaeher #garrulusglandarius #lechaîne #naturegifts #forestkids #rewildingchildhood #ecospirit
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
July 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Rep. Gosar just introduced a bill to strip all federal protections from Mexican gray wolves — a move that could decimate one of the most endangered mammals in North America. Only 286 remain. This bill can’t pass. #SaveTheLobo #ProtectESA
bit.ly/3TXeFxa
bit.ly/3TXeFxa
Bill Would Remove Federal Protections From Endangered Mexican Gray Wolves
U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) introduced legislation this week to remove the Mexican gray wolf from the endangered species list, which would effectively end recovery efforts for this unique, highly i...
nywolf.org
July 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Rep. Gosar just introduced a bill to strip all federal protections from Mexican gray wolves — a move that could decimate one of the most endangered mammals in North America. Only 286 remain. This bill can’t pass. #SaveTheLobo #ProtectESA
bit.ly/3TXeFxa
bit.ly/3TXeFxa
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Once ranging across the continent, gray wolves now occupy 10% of their historic range. Conservationists are back in court urging the fed. gov. to restore protections in the Northern Rockies, citing habitat loss, genetic decline & political interference in science-based management.
bit.ly/3ZZwZJM
bit.ly/3ZZwZJM
Conservation Groups Sue Feds for Alleged ESA Violations in Wolf Decision - Mountain Journal
Conservation groups in federal district court last week alleged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act by inadequately considering challenges faced by gray wolves.
bit.ly
June 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Once ranging across the continent, gray wolves now occupy 10% of their historic range. Conservationists are back in court urging the fed. gov. to restore protections in the Northern Rockies, citing habitat loss, genetic decline & political interference in science-based management.
bit.ly/3ZZwZJM
bit.ly/3ZZwZJM
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I know everything is on fire but PLEASE contact your representatives about the selloff of public lands. It's a heartbreaking proposal that will destroy the soul of America.
Your favorite campgrounds, hiking trails, and forests could soon be up for auction
Republicans want to make 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale to housing developers.
grist.org
June 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I know everything is on fire but PLEASE contact your representatives about the selloff of public lands. It's a heartbreaking proposal that will destroy the soul of America.
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Less livestock ➡️ more trees.
Across the entire planet, from Ireland to Costa Rica, livestock farming has been an utter catastrophe for forests and other natural habitats, replacing unimaginably species-rich ecosystems with sterile cattle or sheep pastures.
How we eat is killing life on Earth 🌎
How we eat is killing life on Earth 🌎
June 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Less livestock ➡️ more trees.
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Three years ago, my team and I created a 30-minute movie that provides a comprehensive systems analysis of the human predicament. This beautifully animated film aims to help viewers understand the interconnected crises defining our era.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xr9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xr9...
The Great Simplification | Film on Energy, Environment, and Our Future | FULL MOVIE
YouTube video by Nate Hagens
www.youtube.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Three years ago, my team and I created a 30-minute movie that provides a comprehensive systems analysis of the human predicament. This beautifully animated film aims to help viewers understand the interconnected crises defining our era.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xr9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xr9...
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Seeing a whale breach? Awesome
Seeing famous Bigg's killer whale T63 "Chainsaw"? Super awesome.
Seeing Chainsaw breach? OUT OF THIS WORLD!!! 🤯
📷: Sara Jenkins, Wild Whales Vancouver
Seeing famous Bigg's killer whale T63 "Chainsaw"? Super awesome.
Seeing Chainsaw breach? OUT OF THIS WORLD!!! 🤯
📷: Sara Jenkins, Wild Whales Vancouver
June 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Seeing a whale breach? Awesome
Seeing famous Bigg's killer whale T63 "Chainsaw"? Super awesome.
Seeing Chainsaw breach? OUT OF THIS WORLD!!! 🤯
📷: Sara Jenkins, Wild Whales Vancouver
Seeing famous Bigg's killer whale T63 "Chainsaw"? Super awesome.
Seeing Chainsaw breach? OUT OF THIS WORLD!!! 🤯
📷: Sara Jenkins, Wild Whales Vancouver
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And this is how extinctions too often happen, if we let them. Incrementally, cumulatively via isolated ‘development’ projects which on their own seem innocuous. Strategic landscape environmental assessment is essential: far better than project-specific EIAs.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘All the birdsong in the world in one sound’: England’s nightingale haven at risk from planning bill
Conservationists warn that losing Lodge Hill in Kent to housing could be a catastrophe for one of Britain’s most at-risk birds
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
And this is how extinctions too often happen, if we let them. Incrementally, cumulatively via isolated ‘development’ projects which on their own seem innocuous. Strategic landscape environmental assessment is essential: far better than project-specific EIAs.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A Hopi rancher schools New Mexico ranchers on the need to coexist with the natural world. Do better, New Mexico!
www.eacourier.com/free-access/...
www.eacourier.com/free-access/...
OPINION Anger about wolves shows a lack of perspective
The hysteria around gray wolves across the United States, and Mexican wolves in particular, needs to be addressed urgently. First, the wolf named Ella was found murdered on ancestral Hopi
www.eacourier.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A Hopi rancher schools New Mexico ranchers on the need to coexist with the natural world. Do better, New Mexico!
www.eacourier.com/free-access/...
www.eacourier.com/free-access/...
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Thrilled to witness this first descent celebrating the free-flowing Klamath River and the sovereignty of Klamath Basin tribal nations. Thank you Ríos To Rivers — and to the kayakers, all of us at American Rivers are cheering you on! ashland.news/first-klamat...
First Klamath River descent by tribal youth begins June 12 - Ashland News - Community-Supported, NonProfit News
The First Descent Expedition of the Klamath River by young tribal members living along the waterway will begin Thursday, June 12.
ashland.news
June 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Thrilled to witness this first descent celebrating the free-flowing Klamath River and the sovereignty of Klamath Basin tribal nations. Thank you Ríos To Rivers — and to the kayakers, all of us at American Rivers are cheering you on! ashland.news/first-klamat...
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Endangered wolves are still being killed in Colorado. On May 31, male wolf 2507 was found dead — the 8th reintroduced wolf to die since 2023.
Just days earlier, CPW killed a yearling from the Copper Creek pack to appease ranchers. Colorado, your wolves deserve better. #ProtectWolves
bit.ly/3ZImyKb
Just days earlier, CPW killed a yearling from the Copper Creek pack to appease ranchers. Colorado, your wolves deserve better. #ProtectWolves
bit.ly/3ZImyKb
Another wolf in Colorado is dead, but wildlife officials haven’t said how yet
The cause of death will follow a necropsy by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The male from British Columbia and was released in Colorado in January.
coloradosun.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Endangered wolves are still being killed in Colorado. On May 31, male wolf 2507 was found dead — the 8th reintroduced wolf to die since 2023.
Just days earlier, CPW killed a yearling from the Copper Creek pack to appease ranchers. Colorado, your wolves deserve better. #ProtectWolves
bit.ly/3ZImyKb
Just days earlier, CPW killed a yearling from the Copper Creek pack to appease ranchers. Colorado, your wolves deserve better. #ProtectWolves
bit.ly/3ZImyKb
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Hi friends - In the face of unprecedented cuts to the basic research science funding, climate scientists are staging an 100-hour live stream of why science matters. There will be many talks on all sorts of things (I'm Saturday at 12:30 PT). Please share widely! wcstreamathon.netlify.app. 🌊🧪
The Weather & Climate Livestream
Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.
wcstreamathon.netlify.app
May 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Hi friends - In the face of unprecedented cuts to the basic research science funding, climate scientists are staging an 100-hour live stream of why science matters. There will be many talks on all sorts of things (I'm Saturday at 12:30 PT). Please share widely! wcstreamathon.netlify.app. 🌊🧪
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Loss of great white sharks triggers a domino effect down the food chain. 🦈
A study carried out in South Africa’s False Bay, 🇿🇦shows the removal of great white sharks has triggered a trophic cascade in the local marine ecosystem.
news.mongabay.com/2025/04/loss...
A study carried out in South Africa’s False Bay, 🇿🇦shows the removal of great white sharks has triggered a trophic cascade in the local marine ecosystem.
news.mongabay.com/2025/04/loss...
Loss of great white sharks triggers domino effect down food chain, study shows
CAPE TOWN — South Africa’s False Bay was once known as a global hotspot for great white sharks. But within the span of a few years, between 2015 and 2019, this apex predator vanished from the area, le...
news.mongabay.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Loss of great white sharks triggers a domino effect down the food chain. 🦈
A study carried out in South Africa’s False Bay, 🇿🇦shows the removal of great white sharks has triggered a trophic cascade in the local marine ecosystem.
news.mongabay.com/2025/04/loss...
A study carried out in South Africa’s False Bay, 🇿🇦shows the removal of great white sharks has triggered a trophic cascade in the local marine ecosystem.
news.mongabay.com/2025/04/loss...
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I’ve two essays out over the last week on the fascism-serving takeover of “free speech,” art, and our sense of self by billionaires and their AI ventures. The political stakes could not be greater, but most of us are being seduced into our own annihilation. 1/
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
How the Rich and Powerful Destroyed Free Speech
And how we get it back.
www.thenation.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I’ve two essays out over the last week on the fascism-serving takeover of “free speech,” art, and our sense of self by billionaires and their AI ventures. The political stakes could not be greater, but most of us are being seduced into our own annihilation. 1/
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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We advocate for the removal of all livestock from public lands. A healthy prairie will store almost as much carbon as a forest. Cattle are an invasive species and graze very differently than the native species here in North America, destroying the terrestrial carbon sinks.
May 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
We advocate for the removal of all livestock from public lands. A healthy prairie will store almost as much carbon as a forest. Cattle are an invasive species and graze very differently than the native species here in North America, destroying the terrestrial carbon sinks.
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Planned as the “world’s first five-minute city” where everything you need is within a 400m walk … this is the new (former industrial) Nordhavn district in Copenhagen.
May 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Planned as the “world’s first five-minute city” where everything you need is within a 400m walk … this is the new (former industrial) Nordhavn district in Copenhagen.
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How in the hell can wolves, a keystone native predator, be a "threat to biodiversity"???
Nobody should have any illusions: the misinformation when it comes to the ecological crisis is easily on a par with, and probably exceeds, that of climate denial.
Nobody should have any illusions: the misinformation when it comes to the ecological crisis is easily on a par with, and probably exceeds, that of climate denial.
Fine Gael MEP Regina Doherty said: “A high wolf population can be a threat to biodiversity conservation, farmers, rural communities and tourism.”
Not to mention Red Riding Hood. And von der Leyen's pony. Not the brightest scientific mind our Regina
Not to mention Red Riding Hood. And von der Leyen's pony. Not the brightest scientific mind our Regina
May 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
How in the hell can wolves, a keystone native predator, be a "threat to biodiversity"???
Nobody should have any illusions: the misinformation when it comes to the ecological crisis is easily on a par with, and probably exceeds, that of climate denial.
Nobody should have any illusions: the misinformation when it comes to the ecological crisis is easily on a par with, and probably exceeds, that of climate denial.