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[funnywildlife]

Happy #Caturday shout out from our very own #wildographydudette, conservationist & founder of @rememberingwildlife book series founder @margotraggettphotography * In 2023 we will be #RememberingLeopards so keep your eyes peeled for updates. Meanwhile the competition to win one of 20 spots for your image to be immortalised in the most beautiful book on leopards ever. https://rememberingwildlife.awardsplatform.com #rememberingwildlife #rememberingbooks #conservationphotography #leopards #wildearth #wildography #wildlifephotography #margotraggett (at Mombo Camp, Okavanga, Botswana) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn9LC3fsusr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#caturday #wildographydudette #rememberingleopards #rememberingwildlife #rememberingbooks #conservationphotography #leopards #wildearth #wildography #wildlifephotography #margotraggett

[carolwell-art]

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#art #illustration #drawing #draw #arte #handmade #fantasyart #menhir #celtic #slavic #antique #wildearth #watercolour art #watercolorpainting #druidism #druid #spirituality #fantasy #magic realism

[tsalala]

The S8/Imbali Male has died.

#wildearth #mine

[holidaymonk]

The greatest wildlife 'travelling roadshow' on earth.

Know the saying 'the grass is always greener on the other side'? Well, during the great migration, the grass is indeed greener on the other side. Each year, over two million wildebeest, zebra and other herbivores trek from the southern Serengeti to the lush green grasses of the Masai Mara. Known as one of the seven wonders of the world, the great migration is an iconic safari must-see.

#kenya #MagicalKenya #Nairobi #Africa #LuxuryHoliday #LuxuryLodge #LuxuryTravelling #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #WildEarth #Maasai #Safari #October #Gamedrives #Destinations #Experiences #Serengeti #Tanzania #The Great Migration #Family Destination

[ru10]

WildEarth TV - Safari Videos for Android TV

Join the wildest adventure from the comfort of your home with WildEarth TV – Nature Safari for Android TV box! 🐾🌍📺

#WildEarthTV #NatureSafari #WildEarth #AndroidTV #FireTVSafari

[thesmartravelista]

Morning visitors 🦘 

#australia #kangaroo #wildearth

[worldsafarilandtours]

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#summits #kilimanjaro #mountains #outdoors #booking #travel #wildearth #safari #wildlifephotography #hiking #wildlife #climbing

[gazettereview]

Wild Earth After Shark Tank - [year] Update -Read more at https://gazettereview.com/wild-earth-shark-tank-update/ - https://gazettereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Wild-Earth-On-Shark-Tank-Featured.png #Sharktank, #Wildearth #Entertainment

Wild Earth After Shark Tank - [year] Update

Wild Earth Before Shark Tank The pet food market is worth $115.50 billion, with $40.6 billion in the US alone. Dog food makes up almost half of that. However, most of the dog food sold on the market is meat-based. That is why Ryan Bethencourt came up with Wild Earth: a vegan dog food company […]

https://gazettereview.com/wild-earth-shark-tank-update/

#sharktank #Wildearth #Entertainment

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[lajicarita]

To Thin or Not to Thin Still Being Argued

To Thin or Not to Thin Still Being Argued

By KAY MATTHEWS The recent devastating fires in New Mexico—Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon in the north and Black Fire in the south—have once again brought to light the dangerous conditions of our national forests due to a number of causes: a century of fire suppression, decades of drought, and the failure to reduce carbon emissions to mitigate a climate crisis. It has also brought to light a longtime…

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#Black Fire #Caldor Fire #Carl Anthony #Chellis Glendinning #Dr. Chad Hanson #Earth Island Institute #Greg Allen #Grizzly Flats #Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire #Ike DeVargas #J.R. Logan #Jemez Mountains #John Horning #John Muir Project #KCEI Cultural Energy #Southwest Jemez Mountains Landscape Restoration Project #WildEarth Guardians

[syngoniums]

Text is from the Center for Biological Diversity:

For Immediate Release, February 27, 2023

Contact:

Tierra Curry, [phone], [email protected]

Rare Milkweed Gains Endangered Species Protection, Critical Habitat

Plant Is Crucial for Migratory Monarch Butterflies in South Texas, Mexico

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the prostrate milkweed as endangered. Only 24 populations of the plant survive, in south Texas and northern Mexico, where they serve as an important food source for pollinators like bees and imperiled monarch butterflies.

The Service also protected 661 acres of critical habitat for the plant in eight south Texas units in Zapata and Starr counties. Recent border-wall construction degraded another 20 acres of habitat that were proposed for protection last year to the point that they were unsuitable for the plant and withdrawn from designation. All populations of the milkweed in the United States are within nine miles of the border, making it one of hundreds of species threatened by wall construction.

“Protecting prostrate milkweed is a big deal for the monarch butterflies who lay their eggs on these plants as they fly through Texas after spending the winter in Mexico,” said Tierra Curry, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “For the sake of the milkweed and all the pollinators who rely on it, it’s a relief that this important native plant finally has the safeguards of the Endangered Species Act.”

Construction and maintenance for roads, utilities, and the oil and gas industry also destroy the prostrate milkweed, and additional border-wall construction on the Lower Rio Grande National Wildlife Refuge threatens to uproot more of them. These activities and livestock grazing foster the spread of invasive buffelgrass, which is planted as livestock forage. Buffelgrass displaces native plants and is very difficult to control.

Under natural conditions the prostrate milkweed is thought to be able to persist at low densities. It produces so much nectar that far-flying pollinating insects such as tarantula hawks and large bees are so juiced up after visiting it that they can fly farther and pollinate other relatively distant prostrate milkweed populations. But as prostrate milkweed numbers and densities have declined, the plant is also imperiled by lower reproductive success and loss of genetic diversity.

Just 24 populations of prostrate milkweed remain in Starr and Zapata counties in Texas and in Tamaulipas and eastern Nuevo León in Mexico. Nineteen of those populations are rated in low condition, the remaining five are in moderate condition and none are in high condition — indicating acute imperilment.

The Endangered Species Act has been successful in keeping more than 99% of species under its protection from going extinct. But long delays in adding animal and plant species to the endangered list have heightened the perils and made recovery more difficult and expensive. For example, the Service must decide by the end of 2024 whether to protect monarch butterflies as threatened, 10 years after a petition seeking to protect them under the Endangered Species Act was filed.

The prostrate milkweed listing comes in response to a Center lawsuit to gain final decisions on protection for 241 plant and animal species threatened with extinction, including the prostrate milkweed and more than 35 others in Texas. The prostrate milkweed was the subject of a 2007 protection petition by WildEarth Guardians.

The prostrate milkweed’s low and sprawling leaves and stem wilt during droughts. But the plant’s subterranean tuber stays alive and after soaking up moisture from occasional tropical storms sends up stalks and pink and yellow flowers.

#apocynaceae #plantblr #texas natives

[fatehbaz]

The “rarest subspecies of wolf in North America,” the nearly-extinct Mexican wolf.

No Mexican gray wolf has traveled as far north and east since the wolf was reintroduced in 1998.

Headline and text excerpt from: KOAT7. “Historic capture of Mexican gray wolf in New Mexico.” 25 January 2023.

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This week a young female Mexican gray wolf ran into northern New Mexico, passed over the arbitrary Interstate 40 boundary, and is continuing on her way toward Colorado, breaking records for the recovery program’s geographic extent and giving conservation groups a reason to celebrate. The wolf, named Asha by schoolchildren in an annual Pup Naming Contest, is originally from Arizona and part of the Rocky Prairie pack. She moved east of Interstate 25 late in 2022 and has since journeyed back and forth over Interstate 40 east of Albuquerque. “Wolves like Asha clearly show us that political lines like the Interstate 40 boundary are meaningless to a wolf, and the policies limiting wolf dispersal to the northern parts of Arizona and New Mexico must be revised. [...]” said Greta Anderson, deputy director of Western Watersheds Project.

Headline, image, caption, and text excerpt from: Chris Smith. “Conservationists celebrate northward-roaming Mexican gray wolf.” A press release from WildEarth Guardians. 11 January 2023.

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A female Mexican gray wolf known as Asha was captured in northern New Mexico by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today. Conservationists deplored the capture, which ends the wolf’s historic northward journey. Asha will be held in captivity to potentially be re-released into the wild at a later date. Asha journeyed further north and east than any wolf has since reintroduction began in 1998 as she moved into the southern Rocky Mountains. [...] U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials say they intend to pair Asha with a male Mexican gray wolf and release the pair into Mexico. Conservation groups support Mexican wolf recovery in Mexico but have expressed concern about dispersing wild wolves being continually removed from the U.S. population.

Headline and text excerpt from: Chris Smith, Greta Anderson, et al. “Removal of Wandering Mexican Wolf Dismays Conservationists.” A press release from Center for Biological Diversity. 23 January 2023.

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For context, here is the historic/former and current distribution range of the nearly-extinct Mexican wolf.

And here’s a look at “designated” wolf region in Arizona and New Mexico.

Here, you can see Interstate 40, an “arbitrary” political barrier to wolf movement. (The US government generally does not allow Mexican wolves to travel north of the interstate.)

[plethoraworldatlas]

A pair of conservation coalitions on Monday made good on their threats to sue the U.S. government over its denial of federal protections for gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains, where state killing regimes "put wolves at obvious risk of extinction in the foreseeable future."

The organizations filed notices of their plans for the lawsuits in early February, after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) determined that Endangered Species Act protections for the region's wolves were "not warranted." The Interior Department agency could have prevented the suits in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana by reversing its decision within 60 days but refused to do so.

"The Biden administration and its Fish and Wildlife Service are complicit in the horrific war on wolves being waged by the states of Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana," declared George Nickas, executive director of Wilderness Watch, one of 10 organizations represented by the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC).

"Idaho is fighting to open airstrips all over the backcountry, including in designated Wilderness, to get more hunters to wipe out wolves in their most remote hideouts," Nickas noted. "Montana is resorting to night hunting and shooting over bait and Wyoming has simply declared an open season."

Brooks Fahy, executive director of Predator Defense, another WELC group, pointed out that "these states are destroying wolf families in the Northern Rockies and cruelly driving them to functional extinction via bounties, wanton shooting, trapping, snaring, even running over them with snowmobiles. They have clearly demonstrated they are incapable of managing wolves, only of killing them."

KC York, founder and president of Trap Free Montana, also represented by WELC, said that "Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming know that they were let off the hook in their brutal and unethical destruction of wolves even acknowledged as such by the service."

"They set the stage for other states to follow," York warned. "We are already witnessing the disturbing onset of giving the fox the key to the hen house and abandoning the farm. The maltreatment is now destined to worsen for these wolves and other indiscriminate species, through overt, deceptive, well-orchestrated, secretive, and legal actions."

The other organizations in the WELC coalition are Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Friends of the Clearwater, International Wildlife Coexistence Network, Nimiipuu Protecting Our Environment, Protect the Wolves, Western Watersheds Project, and WildEarth Guardians.

The second lawsuit is spearheaded by the Center for Biological Diversity, Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund, and Sierra Club, whose leaders took aim at the same three states for their wolf-killing schemes.

"The states of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming act like it's 1880 with the most radical and unethical methods to kill as many wolves as possible in an effort to manage for bare minimum numbers," said Sierra Club northern Rockies field organizer Nick Gevock. "This kind of 'management' is disgraceful, it's unnecessary, and it sets back wolf conservation decades, and the American people are not going to stand by and allow it to happen."

Margie Robinson, staff attorney for wildlife at the Humane Society of the United States, stressed that "under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service cannot ignore crucial scientific findings. Rather than allow states to cater to trophy hunters, trappers, and ranchers, the agency must ensure the preservation of wolves—who are vital to ensuring healthy ecosystems—for generations to come."

The Center for Biological Diversity's carnivore conservation program director, Collette Adkins, was optimistic about her coalition's chances based on previous legal battles, saying that "we're back in court to save the wolves and we'll win again."

"The Fish and Wildlife Service is thumbing its nose at the Endangered Species Act and letting wolf-hating states sabotage decades of recovery efforts," Adkins added. "It's heartbreaking and it has to stop."

#ecology #enviromentalism #biden administration #us politics #let wolves live #wolves #endangered species act #us fish and wildlife service #wildlife services #wildlife #Fuck Wildlife Services #montana #idaho #wyoming #department of the interior #center for biological diversity

[vague-humanoid]

“This is a sad day for Mexican wolves and a devastating loss for the Mangas pack, which could be welcoming pups at any moment,” said Maggie Howell, Wolf Conservation Center executive director. “Apart from endangering the Mangas pack’s survival, science has shown that removing a wolf parent from the family can destabilize the pack and increase the likelihood of further conflicts.”

The Fish and Wildlife Service issued the order to kill Rusty because of his alleged involvement in multiple killings of cattle, most on public lands, and after an unspecified number of cattle carcasses from animals that had not been killed by wolves were found in the Mangas Pack’s territory. The Service has refused to follow the recommendations of scientists that livestock owners be required to remove the carrion from non-wolf-killed stock before wolves scavenge. In this instance it is not known whether the wolves fed on the carrion.

Conservationists warn that the removal of a breeding male could have severe consequences for the pack’s survival. It also might not reduce predations on domestic animals at all. Scientific studies show that wolf removal can exacerbate the potential for conflict, especially when breeding adults are killed. The remaining pack members, many of whom are learning to hunt, are more desperate to find food without the help of an experienced adult and thus are more likely to turn to unprotected livestock.

[parablr]

check out the minis I got from Heroforge when they did their sale last month :3

Left to right:

Tegan Twinkleblinkle, my short-tempered gnome arcane trickster and princess and Top Girl (also pictured: unseen servant Leeland and invisible mage hand Rico)

Rosen Deswaldes, my nature-loving monstrosity-hating pretty-boy hunter and massive brat who can't pronounce his R's and speaks in a heavy German accent

Merric Wildearth, my problematic halfling wild magic sorcerer who intentionally fucks around and finds out by default and can only pick up 1 social cue per short rest

#d&d #only played the first 2 in a campaign #playing merric in bg3 but he'll have his time to shine eventually

[maverick-werewolf]

Wolf News - Wolves given a reprieve in Montana!

I don’t always post wolf conservation news on this blog, but it’s immensely important to me, and it’s obviously a part of my greater argument about werewolves, to a degree, as well.

Finally, some good news! And it came on my birthday, too! :D

Court grants temporary reprieve for Montana’s wolves

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced wolf hunting and trapping regulation changes as required by a Montana State Court granting a

temporary restraining order

(TRO) against the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, the State of Montana, and the Fish and Wildlife Commission. These changes significantly curb the number of wolves permitted to be killed in hunting and trapping districts adjacent to Yellowstone and Glacier national parks, reduce the annual “bag limit” of individual hunters by 75%, and stop the use of strangulation snares once trapping season begins later this month.

The TRO was issued in response to a Motion for Temporary Restraining Order filed by conservation groups WildEarth Guardians and Project Coyote, a project of Earth Island Institute, on November 10, 2022. The order expires on November 29, 2022 and a hearing is scheduled in Helena for November 28 at 1:30 pm, which is the same day that the wolf trapping season is set to start.

Read the full article here.

#wolf #wolves #wolf conservation #animal conservation #good news #yay!!! #I hope the wolves can be safe again #watching what's been happening has been so painful