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The International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA) hosted the #InternationalLeopardDay Webinar. In his opening remarks, Dr @SPYadavIFS Director General, International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA), highlighted the importance of global collaboration for leopard conservation. He noted that while leopards are highly adaptable across diverse habitats, they face growing threats such as habitat loss, human-wildlife conflict, poaching, and declining prey. He emphasized that conservation efforts must go beyond borders, requiring coordinated action, knowledge sharing, and sustained commitment. He reiterated IBCA’s role in fostering partnerships and strengthening global cooperation. He also noted that India will host the first #IBCASummit on 1st and 2nd June 2026 in Delhi, bringing together global leaders and experts to advance big cat conservation, with leopards as a key part of the agenda. #InternationalLeopardDay #IBCASummit2026 #LeopardConservation #Coexistence #Biodiversity #IBCAforLeopards #IBCAforBigCats

A dinosaur with cancer in its leg should have been killed by the tyrannosaurs hunting nearby. It wasn't. It survived long enough for the cancer to spread aggressively through the bone. The reason was its herd. This was 77 million years ago, in what is now Alberta. The animal was a Centrosaurus, a 2-ton plant-eater with a single horn on its nose, like a chunky, scaled-up rhino. They lived in groups of hundreds, sometimes thousands. When this one fell sick, the herd stayed with it. They walked at its pace. They put their bulk between it and the predators. A limping animal in a herd of hundreds is hard for a tyrannosaur to pick off. So the cancer kept growing. It spread through the leg bone and likely into the rest of the body. The dinosaur kept walking on its ruined leg the whole time. A flash flood killed it in the end. Its bones were found in 1989 in Dinosaur Provincial Park. The leg bone was strange-looking, with a bulbous mass at the top end. For 28 years, everyone assumed it was a fracture that had healed badly. Then in 2017, a paleontologist named David Evans took another look and saw something off. He brought in pathologists, radiologists, and orthopedic surgeons, doctors who normally examine cancer in living patients. They scanned the fossil with high-resolution CT, the kind of scan hospitals use to find tumors in people. Then they compared it to a leg bone from a 19-year-old amputee with osteosarcoma, a bone cancer that hits human teenagers more than anyone else. It was the same cancer, with the same aggressive growth pattern. In a person without modern treatment, it would be fatal. The herd that protected the dinosaur died with it. Their bones were found in a massive bonebed alongside hundreds of other Centrosaurus, swept away by what looks like a tropical flood. The sick one died surrounded by the family that had carried it for so long. The same cancer is still here. Survival rates for osteosarcoma in humans haven't improved in over 35 years. A leg bone that one herd protected, 77 million years ago, is now helping researchers understand a cancer they're still trying to cure.

Este dato: ▶️El litio que necesita la transición verde consume cada año el agua potable de 62 millones de personas. Coches eléctricos para algunos, escasez de agua, contaminación y pérdida de medios de subsistencia para otros. Lo advierte @ONU_es 👇 cadenaser.com/nacional/2026/…

Eres un campeón eros .

Esa manía de hacer las playeras de mujer con las mangas bien estrechas y el corte pegado al cuerpo debe acabar

Funny 'coz all the "waste" these lands produce + rural/urban organic waste can be composted and produce super fertilizers at little cost with almost no transporation needed *sips tea in environmental systems*

Martín pescador del pacífico en un manglar. Daba para más recorte pero me gustó el entorno.

La pendeja de @ClaraBrugadaM lucrando ad nauseam con la imagen de una especie que va a extinguirse durante su administración de mierda.

La diversión que es ir a las segundas y comprarte una blusa de lino en $20

Before Netflix had a wildlife category. Before BBC Natural History came to India. Before any of it — three filmmakers were in the field with limited budgets, unfriendly bureaucracies, and the conviction that the right footage shown to the right people could change laws. A thread. 🎬🐘

Te amo, noroeste

Rezando porque restauren el edificio del Colmex a su antigua gloria

“El trabajo te confiere dignidad, por eso hay derechos concretos que se tienen que respetar. El trabajo es con derechos o es esclavo. Y decir esto no es comunismo, es el centro del evangelio”. - Papa Francisco Feliz día a todos los trabajadores.

While we're talking about indigenous hunting, let's talk about the 400 indigenous communities in the Amazon losing their traditional food sources and lands to cattle ranching, which accounts for roughly 80% of deforestation in the Amazon theguardian.com/environment/20…

Similar scene. Another place. Another time. Nilgiri tahr in the Anaimalai Hills, 1854

What did Native Americans think when they discovered the fossil remains of extinct creatures?

Lo más revolucionario no es elegir no tener hijxs. Lo realmente revolucionario es luchar por un mundo mejor para las infancias las hayas parido tú o no. Lo revolucionario es cuidar a quienes cuidan. Lo revolucionario es criar en colectivo. Respeta y procura a las infancias🫵🏼

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