Vanessa

I know there are big issues going on right now but this is one reality of the #PalmOil industry 😢 Please do what you can to avoid it (which is very difficult, it’s in almost everything) and contact companies demanding they refrain from using it in their products 🙏

Canada built bridges for bears, and it worked better than anyone expected. The Trans-Canada Highway cuts through Banff National Park for 82 kilometers. For decades it was a killing field. Animals on one side couldn't reach animals on the other, which fragmented populations and cut off migration routes. Starting in 1996, Parks Canada built 44 wildlife crossing structures, along with fencing to guide animals toward them. Critics called it a waste of money. Editorials said animals would never use them. They were wrong. Since monitoring began, animals have used the crossings more than 250,000 documented times. Wolves, grizzly bears, elk, moose, cougars, wolverines, lynx, bighorn sheep. Wildlife-vehicle collisions dropped 80% overall. It took grizzlies about five years to trust the structures. Elk tested them while they were still under construction. Every species had its own preference. Grizzlies and elk liked the wide open overpasses. Cougars and black bears preferred the narrow tunnels. This is now the longest-running wildlife crossing research program in the world. Delegations have come from China, Mongolia, Costa Rica, and Argentina to copy the model. Is your state building these?

@earthcurated But, in the reality more sadness. Their habitat turn into oil palm plantation or Food Estate Mega Corruption Project. Ivory poachers still active due Chinese demand, the business set bad trap for them. I'm from Sumatra so don't debate with me.

Two #extinct #marsupials in #WestPapua found alive! The #marsupials highlight the need to protect #Papuan forests or they are gone for good! Resist for them and #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife when you shop 🌴🙊🔥☠️🚫 @palmoildetect #Boycott4Wildlife wp.me/pcFhgU-iOH

I'm not a commie or some hippie environmentalist, but there is something wrong with an economic system that encourages the destruction of over 50,000 sq. miles of Indonesian rainforest to produce palm oil. That's an area the size of Pennsylvania, the only habitat for endangered orangutans, being destroyed so we can produce billions of Oreo cookies and millions of jars of Nutella.

I am devastated to share the news that one of my heroes — and a woman who has had an enormous impact on wildlife conservation — Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas has died. She was 79. I feel so grateful that I had the honor of spending time with her. Over the years, I have connected with so many of you over my love of orangutans (and elephants and mountain gorillas, of course); Dr. Biruté gets all the credit. Orangutans would likely be extinct were it not for Dr. Biruté’s pioneering and exhaustive work over the last six decades. Dr. Biruté was one of three women handpicked and mentored by legendary paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey to transform our understanding of the great apes. Jane Goodall studied chimpanzees, Dian Fossey studied gorillas, and Dr. Biruté dedicated her life to orangutans, and together they revolutionized primatology and the case for great ape intelligence, emotional depth, and conservation. While Jane Goodall proved that chimpanzees use tools, form complex social bonds, and possess a capacity for empathy once thought uniquely human, Dr. Biruté proved that orangutans are slow-breeding, highly intelligent, and extremely vulnerable. Dr. Biruté built the conservation model to try to save orangutans and dedicated her life to protecting them. Dr. Biruté is credited with conducting the longest-running longitudinal study by one principal investigator of any wild mammal in the world. She was the first to document the long orangutan birth interval, which averaged 7.7 years, and recorded over 400 types of food consumed by orangutans. Dr. Biruté’s research that fundamentally reshaped how scientists understood orangutans. Before her field studies, the orangutan was the least understood of the great apes. The orangutan population as it exists today, as fragile as it is, would not exist without her. Many conservationists go as far as saying the orangutan, our cousin, would likely be extinct or close to extinct were it not for Dr. Biruté’s discoveries and her sacrifice. Dr. Biruté took on palm oil conglomerates, illegal loggers, poachers, and gold miners. She did so often at great personal risk, including death threats and kidnapping, She remained in Borneo for over 40 years as an outspoken advocate for orangutans and the preservation of their rainforest habitat. In 1986, she founded Orangutan Foundation International, with sister organizations established in Australia, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom. We owe so much to Dr. Biruté and her incredible legacy.

@yashar @ECOWARRIORSS Oh what a loss 😢🦧

Cadburys Easter eggs are being boycotted in all shops! People do not want palm oil they want the proper eggs we used to have! Get it off the shelves! Boycott Cadbury!

Denmark, particularly in Copenhagen, has installed floating platforms/islands planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in its harbors and canals. These create safe urban habitats and sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life.

Hidden on page 744 of the farm bill the House Agriculture Committee passed Thursday is a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates. Rebranded the 'Save Our Bacon Act,' it's a pork-industry play to wipe out every state law banning the sale of pork from crated pigs — laws the conservative Supreme Court upheld in 2023. Over 85% of Democrats and Republicans oppose these crates. Voters have backed ballot measures to ban them in state after state. The pork industry knows it can't win a straight vote on this. So it's burying the provision in an 800-page bill and hoping no one notices. Contact your senators and representative today and tell them: oppose the farm bill unless the Save Our Bacon Act is stripped out. You can reach them at senate.gov and house.gov — it takes two minutes and it matters.

Fireflies are disappearing so fast that scientists think we are the last generation to see them. [📹filmwshiv]

Right now in Canada, a male who r*ped a 3-month-old and drowned a 3-year-old is serving time in a female prison with moms and their small children. "While in prison, the British Columbia government paid for him to get breast implants."

@BlueOctober2020 There are two petitions In this one you find a video in the updates at the bottom of the text: #bbfb=181503837" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/429… Here is the other one: change.org/p/relocate-luc… Thank you for caring 🙏🐘🧡 #FreeLucy

Relocate Lucy the Elephant from Edmonton Valley Zoo to Tennessee Elephant Sanctuary - Sign the Petition! c.org/YfkVQRP57c via @Change #FreeLucy #Sanctuary4Lucy

This photo was taken 10 years ago in Toronto. The transit machine was broken, so high-trust Canadians just left their cash on top. I wonder what would happen today.

Please leave the dandelions! Please do not spray the dandelions! Just leave them for the bees please!!!

@iPopBase Sustainable palm oil does not exist

Pahu and Pari are identified as the last known female Bornean rhinos to exist under conservation care. The subspecies is considered functionally extinct due to isolation and severe habitat loss from coal mining and palm oil plantations.

Devastating. Once these pony-sized rhinos are gone, they’re gone forever. What have we done.

Costa Rica has outlawed recreational hunting, solidifying its role as a worldwide leader in animal protection and a safe haven for the remarkable 5% of global biodiversity it hosts. Home to an astonishing proportion of Earth's plant and animal species, Costa Rica stands as one of the planet's most vital biodiversity hotspots. Yet this extraordinary natural heritage faces ongoing threats from human activities—including unsustainable wildlife tourism, illegal wildlife trade, domestic animal neglect, and organized animal fighting. As encounters between people and wildlife grow more frequent, the country's fragile ecosystems require proactive safeguards to protect their most vulnerable residents. Costa Rica has responded with groundbreaking animal welfare laws that reflect a deep national commitment to conservation. Building on its landmark 2012 nationwide ban on sport and trophy hunting, the country introduced stringent anti-trafficking measures in 2017 to combat poaching and biodiversity loss. By imposing mandatory prison sentences for animal cruelty and creating a national registry of offenders, Costa Rica demonstrates that effective conservation demands strong legal enforcement alongside widespread societal resolve to safeguard all living beings within its borders.

I don't want a city on Mars. I don't want AI in every app. I don't want data centres in space. I want clean water. I want a stable climate. I want bees to survive.

What is wrong with people?