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As Rob Watson, one of my favorite environmental teachers, likes to remind people: “Mother Nature is just chemistry, biology and physics. That’s all she is.”

You cannot sweet-talk her. You cannot spin her. You cannot manipulate her. And you certainly cannot tell her, “Mother Nature, stop ruining my beautiful stock market.”

No, no, no. Mother Nature will always and only do whatever chemistry, biology and physics dictate, and “Mother Nature always bats last,” says Watson, “and she always bats 1.000.” Do not mess with Mother Nature.

~ Thomas L. Friedman, With the Coronavirus, It’s Again Trump vs. Mother Nature (NY Times, March 31, 2020)

#climate change, #coronavirus, #Thomas L. Friedman, #trump, #donald trump, #covid-19, #conservation

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Day 2243 - Not exactly as I planned, but I was able to keep up with my resolution for submitting an iNaturalist observation every day. The best part about iNat is that all observations are valuable and you can do it wherever you are! (Goodness knows my neighborhood is going to be very well-documented for awhile…) Curious about participating? I’m happy to answer questions!

#citizen science, #community science, #iNaturalist, #biology, #biodiversity, #conservation, #resolution, #2020 resolutions, #science, #everydaydeeds

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Mathura Prasad leads his cattle through the Hasdeo Arand forest in Chhattisgarh. The forest and the lives of the forest residents will be lost if new coalmines go ahead.

Photo by Brian Cassey / The forest is everything’: indigenous tribes in India battle to save their home from Adani

#cows, #forest, #india, #environment, #indigenous rights, #conservation, #fossil fuels, #adani

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“For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our island home. Yet the government is bent on littering the hills with wind turbines and the valleys with high speed railways."

Roger Scruton

#roger scruton, #quotes, #countryside, #english countryside, #conservatives, #conservative politics, #conservation

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Who’s ready to dance?

#Endangered Heritage, #Conservation, #Indonesia, #Textile, #Textile Conservation

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#Endangered Heritage, #Conservation, #Leather Conservation, #Leather, #Textile Conservation, #Textile

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Kew Gardens, South West London

#kew gardens, #nature, #conservation, #summer, #plants

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Green turtle

Hawksbill turtle

Loggerhead turtle

Olive Ridley turtle

Leatherback turtle

watercolour pencils and pen

#watercolour, #water, #colour, #color, #pen, #pencil, #paper, #zenijan, #turtle, #nature, #conservation, #illustration, #artwork, #art, #bird water colour, #david attenborough, #turtles, #reptiles, #drawing, #nurture, #sea, #marine

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https://www.pinterest.com/pin/419749627770577199/

#boho, #hippie, #indie, #art hoe, #cottagecore, #nature, #naturecore, #countrycore, #trees, #conservation, #save the earth, #gardencore, #flowercore

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a breakfast cigarette on my birthday…

alone.

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#cigarro, #uwu, #anorexik, #terrible, #horrible, #i live alone, #conservation

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Are you flexible like an octopus? 🐙
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Video by 🎥📽️ @eyeambdon ! ⬅️
taking inspiration from 4.54 billions years of earth nature @natureinspirations_
#natureinspirations #instaanimal #conservation #wildliferehab #wildlifephotography #global4nature #wildlife_inspired #animalsofinstagram #wildlifeconservation #wildlifeartist #wildlifeofuk #animals #africa #animalpolis #wildlifeowners #wildlife_perfection #animalsaddict #wildlifeonearth #igswildlife #wildlife #wildlifetrust #wildlifephotos #wildlifeprotection
africa #majestic_wildlife_ #wildliferefuge #wildlife_supreme #naturephotography #sharingiscaring #quokka #groundhog
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-KbBPBAcIQ/?igshid=rft16r1vytfa

#natureinspirations, #instaanimal, #conservation, #wildliferehab, #wildlifephotography, #global4nature, #wildlife_inspired, #animalsofinstagram, #wildlifeconservation, #wildlifeartist, #wildlifeofuk, #animals, #africa, #animalpolis, #wildlifeowners, #wildlife_perfection, #animalsaddict, #wildlifeonearth, #igswildlife, #wildlife, #wildlifetrust, #wildlifephotos, #wildlifeprotection, #majestic_wildlife_, #wildliferefuge, #wildlife_supreme, #naturephotography, #sharingiscaring, #quokka, #groundhog

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#cute, #Gorilla, #wildlife, #conservation, #primate, #captivity, #animals, #nature, #earth

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On the verge: a quiet roadside revolution is boosting wildflowershttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/14/on-the-verge-a-quiet-roadside-revolution-is-boosting-wildflowers-aoe

“Vast stretches of roadside have been transformed. Where there were thick clumps of grass, there are low-growing wildflowers such as black medic, birds-foot trefoil and red clover. The verges are cut two or three times a year, not 12, saving the council tens of thousands of pounds. Butterflies and other invertebrates have returned in their droves.”

#environment, #biodiversity, #wildlife, #plants, #conservation

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In the early morning light, the wildebeest were extraordinary and beautiful in numbers and presence. Serengeti plains, Tanzania.

#wildebeest, #serengeti, #africa, #tanzania, #migration, #outdoors, #conservation, #morning

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Coronavirus: 'Nature is sending us a message’, says UN environment chiefhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/coronavirus-nature-is-sending-us-a-message-says-un-environment-chief?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0QhsRuwzUM0BI9EHdh2jCPRiNcWoDeo1fMqOZBvBNH3IcPXmH-b21SLT0

#coronavirus outbreak, #environment, #wildlife, #conservation, #climate change

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Cheetah on the Serengeti Plains, Tanzania.

#bigcats, #cats, #cheetah, #africa, #serengeti, #conservation, #beautiful

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Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' show how invasive species can restore a lost worldhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/24/pablo-escobars-cocaine-hippos-show-how-invasive-species-can-restore-a-lost-world-aoe

When the drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot dead in 1993, he left behind a zoo stocked with wild animals alongside his multibillion dollar cocaine empire. The lions, giraffes and other exotic species were moved from the luxurious Hacienda Nápoles estate east of Medellín to new homes, but nearly three decades later, dozens of hippos, descendants of animals left behind, are thriving in small lakes in northern Colombia, making them the world’s largest invasive animal.
Now scientists say that contrary to the conventional wisdom that large invasive herbivore mammals have strictly negative effects on their new environments, Escobar’s “cocaine” hippos show how introduced species can restore a lost world.
A team of conservation biologists has compared the traits and impacts on the ecosystems from large invasive herbivore species like the Colombian hippo with their extinct counterparts from the Late Pleistocene (around 116,000-12,000 years ago) period like mammoths, giants sloths and giant wombats. They found some modern day invasive species restore parts of ecosystems not seen since before humans began driving the widespread extinctions of megafauna.
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#conservation, #environment, #colombia, #hippopotamus, #invasive species, #ancient ecosystem restoration, #megafauna, #animals, #mammals

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Coronavirus poses lethal threat to great apes, experts warnhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/24/coronavirus-poses-lethal-threat-to-great-apes-experts-warn

#wildlife, #coronavirus outbreak, #conservation, #infectious diseases, #science

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my piece is a dump <3

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#horrible, #terrible, #uwu, #fuck yeah, #food, #education, #art, #Crepúsculo, #conservation, #language

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A Letter to Congresshttps://vimeo.com/203607557

Wallace Stegner wrote this letter to Congress… in 1960. https://vimeo.com/203607557 monuments

A Letter to Congress

I originally set out to make this film as a sort of homage to Wallace Stegner and the enduring words he wrote in his famous ‘Wilderness Letter’ to Congress…

#conservation, #wilderness, #national, #FindYourPark, #camping, #hiking, #backpacking

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