#animal habitat

[mmwm]

LINK FEST: 3 OCTOBER 2023

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. article: Five Simple Ways to Create Habitat this Fall (Davis Mizejewski and Mary Phillips/National Wildlife Federation). All good ideas. 2-min video: Hands of Sicily (Marko Roth/Vimeo). A meditation on place through hands in motion. article with…

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#animal habitat #fall habitat #hands #leave the leaves #library #linkfest #links #native plants #New York Public Library #pre-Google #questions #seedlings #seldom seen in the wild #self-sowers #Sicily #videos #volunteer plants #weight lifting #wood carving

[pixoplanet]

26 Aug 2023 – Happy Painted Dog Day! Painted dogs are amazing apex predators of the African savanna, who by regulating prey populations, help preserve this important ecosystem. ☮️ Peace… Jamiese

#endangered species #painted dog #savannah #animal habitat #endangered animals #endangered wildlife #african wild dog #african wildlife #wildlife photography #animal photography #animal photoshoot #serengeti #biodiversity #poaching #animal art #habitat loss #habitat destruction #animal lover #predator #unique species

[sunny-prongs]

Sirius *show a weird and ugly animals pic to Regulus*: Look

Regulus *eyes immediately shining and taking his brother's phone to get the name and make research*

Sirius *looking at James*: Told you he would like it.

James *confused*: But this animal was so ugly??

Sirius *laughing a bit*: Uglier it is, better Reggie love it.

Sirius *stop laughing and looking at James with a smirk*: Probably why he love y-

James: Fuck off Pads!

#Reggie just like ugly animals more than humans #100% he love the way blobfish look in their NATURAL HABITAT #I need to stop projecting myself in the Marauder era character #(I will never stop projecting myself in the Marauder era characters) #marauders #regulus black #james potter #sirius potter #sirius black #regulus and sirius #black brothers #jegulus #potter brothers

[jadafitch]

Florida mangroves, for Mass Audubon and Storey Publishing‘s Nature Smarts Workbook, Ages 7-9.

#illustration #jada fitch #art #bird #nature #birds #design #drawing #mangroves #mangrove #mangrove forest #habitat #habitat illustration #florida #wildlife #florida wildlife #FL #cutaway #fish #animals #maine artist #maine illustrator #activity book #kid's book #kids illustration #children's book #audubon

[rebeccathenaturalist]

This is super exciting! Invertebrates are often overlooked in favor of the charismatic megafauna, but in a lot of ways they're even more ecologically crucial. These little native snails are detritivores, helping to break down decaying matter and convert it back to nutrients more accessible to other living beings. The invasive snails that overtook their habitat--the African giant land snail and the rosy wolf snail--don't fulfill the same ecological roles. The former voraciously chows down on live plants, while the latter is a carnivore that hunts down other snails.

It's even more important to be reintroducing the native partula snails, because these species have been declared extinct in the wild. The last few members of each species were brought into captivity and bred in safe enclosures, and now their descendants are heading back to their historic range in places that have had all of their predators removed so they have a good chance of building up a healthy population before spreading out beyond those safe confines.

And to that I say: "Go, little snails, go!"

#snails #nature #invertebrates #animals #molluscs #wildlife #endangered species #extinction #biodiversity #environment #habitat restoration #ecology #conservation

[feather-bone]

Border collie! Had the chance to see a dog herding sheep recently and it was very cool, her name was Kate and she did such a good job. When she was done herding the sheep she moved onto herding the folks watching her demonstration. :-)

[ID: an illustration of a border collie, a long-furred dog with black and white markings, rolling onto its back slightly. It is facing the viewer with a joyful expression and is surrounded by daisies on a purple background. End.]

#dogs #pets #border collie #herding #dogs with jobs #animals #daily creature #this is for September creature mail. rural habitats! finally getting around to some #domestic animals

[nordicfatcheese]

its wild to me you can just go on tumblr and say stuff

theres no rules or mods or finding the right sub

u can just say shit and nobody can stop you

#reddit refugee #196 #is this what freedom feels like #i feel like an animal released into my natural habitat #mypost

[littlepawz]

In Dr. Douglas Gurr's words, "This breathtaking and poignant image allows us to see the beauty and fragility of our planet. His thought-provoking image is a stark reminder of the integral bond between an animal and its habitat and serves as a visual representation of the detrimental impacts of climate warming and habitat loss."

This photo is heartbreakingly beautiful. No wonder the ‘Ice Bed’ by Nima Sarikhani won the 'Wildlife Photographer of the Year ' Award.

#polar bears #habitats #climate warming #habitat loss #sleeping bear #touching images #wildlife photography #beautiful nature photography #awww #iceberg #Norway #frozen North #wildlife #wild animals #sleeping animals

[hope-for-the-planet]

“There’s a huge untapped potential to consider conserving animals as a climate solution. If you do some of the rough calculations, the numbers rival those of what the IPCC is right now promoting in terms of converting everything to solar or wind generation...the numbers are in the same ballpark”

This is called called “trophic rewilding”--many animal species naturally cycle carbon into the soil just by living their lives and restoring these species to their natural range can turn their ecosystems back into carbon sinks.

 “Fortunately, we have the technology to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere. It’s called nature.”

Looking at the list of environmental issues--pollution, climate change, species extinction, etc.--can feel overwhelming, but the reality is that nearly all of these issues are intimately connected. This is just one of many examples of how working on one issue also helps solve the others; if you conserve wildlife and restore habitat it also helps mitigate climate change.

(quotes from Oswald Schmitz)

#rewilding #wildlife #trophic rewilding #climate change #global warming #environment #hope #good news #animals #conservation #biodiversity #ecosystems #habitat #habitat restoration #hopepunk #postivity #ecoanxiety #climate anxiety #environmental despair #environmental grief

[beaulesbian]

One Piece || Wano arc - ep. 898

#one piece #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #basil hawkins #one piece ep 898 #one piece wano #wano arc #wano kuni #zolu #luzo #the sillies in their natural habitat - shit talking in front of the enemy #mine #gif:one piece #gif:zolu #gif:op anime #mix of animanga subtitles bc the first line hawkins says just sounds better in the manga translation #onepieceedit #opedit #opgraphics

[hmtaxidermy]

Something a little fancy for this evening

#first time using wall habitat! #mule deer #shoulder mount #taxidermy #vulture culture #taxidermist #cw dead animal #tw animal death #tw dead animal #cw animal death #oddities

[snekdood]

*casually posts this at the same time to further my agenda of growing native plants instead of grass and shitty ornamentals*

#gardening #water conservation #biodiversity #kill your lawn #native plants #native pollinators #pollinator garden #climate change #sustainability #environmental rehabilitation #habitat restoration #wildflowers #native flowers #animals #water crisis #didnt mean to post that grass one whoops. i think i skimmed it and wasnt thinking about it too much #but ig its true grass would be better than roads. lets just uh. make it native grass yaknow?

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My wife and I were deciding whether to convert our bedroom into a habitat for ostriches.

#dream #wife #habitat #ostrich #animal

[jaubaius]

Snow fishing?

Source

#snow #awesome #funny video #ferret #animals #awwww cute #natural habitat #pikaboo

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Here, have a spark of hope.

The reality is that no single person can fix the entirety of the current ecological imbalance that has been literally centuries in the making at this point. Yet there are so, so many of us who care, and who are doing what we can to make a difference in whatever every day to day ways we're able. I often think of conservation efforts like the Loren Eiseley story "The Star Thrower" (aka, "the starfish story"). Amid a beach full of stranded starfish, one person cannot possibly save them all, but they can spend what time they have saving those they're able.

And this study shows that these efforts do, in fact, make a difference, not just for starfish but a myriad of species. This meta-analysis of almost 200 studies definitively proves that conservation preserves and restores biodiversity, keeping more species from going extinct. It's all too easy to get entangled in the losses, but we even more need to allow ourselves to celebrate the wins.

That success is crucial to convincing governmental entities and other stakeholders that putting funds toward conservation efforts makes a significant difference and is not only worth the investment, but worth increasing. And, on a personal level, it's necessary for those of us who care so deeply for this world to know when our efforts are having an impact, to buoy us up when the anxiety and grief over ecological destruction wears us down.

There is hope. Keep it up, folks; it's helping <3

#conservation #environment #environmentalism #extinction #endangered species #animals #wildlife #biodiversity #nature #science #scicomm #hope #solarpunk #hopepunk #hopecore #hopeposting #optimism #ecology #habitat restoration #restoration ecology

[heartspurgatorio]

(My art summary for 2023!! Can't wait for 2024!)

#my art #chonny jash #technically #animated inanimate battle #hearts harrowing horizontal habitat