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#BiodiversityCrisis

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Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​

Heartbreaking.

youtube.com/watch?v=z1-IcHUklfQ

Eva Czislowski, a student and activist, says Carnaby’s black cockatoos used to blacken the sky. ‘I can't believe that I won't be able to experience that,' she says. The endemic WA bird is just one of 2,000 Australian species listed as under threat, in what scientists are calling an extinction crisis
From blackening skies to barely casting a shadow – the Carnaby’s cockatoo faces a bleak future

YouTubeEndangered Carnaby’s black cockatoos, and the teenager building nests for themBy Guardian Australia
#Carnabys_black_cockatoos#BiodiversityCrisis#AusPol
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OccasionalDucks

It's common knowledge that we have known about the greenhouse effect since the late 19th century. Having started Andrea Wulf's "The Invention of Nature" about Alexander von Humboldt, its interesting to read that he observed human activity changing climate as well as destroying ecosystems and tried to warn of the risk at the very beginning of that century.

Good thing we paid attention and rapidly learned not to trash the planet, eh?

When nature is perceived as a web, its vulnerability also becomes obvious. Everything hangs together. If one thread is pulled, the whole tapestry may unravel. After he saw the devastating environmental effects of colonial plantations at Lake Valencia in Venezuela in 1800, Humboldt became the first scientist to talk about harmful human-induced climate change. Deforestation there had made the land barren, water levels of the lake were falling and with the disappearance of brushwood torrential rains had washed away the soils on the surrounding mountain slopes. Humboldt was the first to explain the forest’s ability to enrich the atmosphere with moisture and its cooling effect, as well as its importance for water retention and protection against soil erosion. He warned that humans were meddling with the climate and that this could have an unforeseen impact on ‘future generations’.
#ClimateChange#ClimateCrisis#BiodiversityCrisis
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BellingenNSW

Continuing the trajectory towards extinction...

"Greenpeace chief executive David Ritter said Australia was a global deforestation and extinction hot spot.The declaration of a Great Koala National Park that addresses our deforestation and extinction crises is long overdue."
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canberratimes.com.au/story/890
#BiodiversityCrisis #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #extinction #NSWLogging #FCNSW #Australia #extractivism

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

The geo-political craziness is damaging in more ways than just the obvious horrors (Gaza/West Bank, Ukraine, the current US administration contributing to those and more, the failure of moderates everywhere to address real and perceived problems {I suspect perceived problems are a larger motivator for extreme right or left parties than real problems}.

We're at the point where we have limited time to address the major ecosystem crises - climate, biodiversity, land use change, etc. But the focus on the political absurdities means that we are mostly unaware of the complexity and threats of the ecosystem crisis.

theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · Cop16 nature summit agrees deal at 11th hour but critics say it is not enoughBy Phoebe Weston
#ecosystems#BiodiversityCrisis#pollution
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