#destroyed habitat

[thefugitivesaint]

Charlie Page, ‘A Look At The Future’, Overall Winner: British Wildlife Photography Awards (BWPA) (2023) “Red fox. Lee Valley Park:  I knew this area was reliable for foxes, and I wanted a shot with the industrial backdrop. One day when setting up my camera with a remote shutter release, a fox approached from my left. Hesitant about what to do, I stayed still, and surprisingly the fox stopped right in my frame. I took the shot but was confused why it had come so close. In hindsight, this encounter probably tells the story more than the photo itself. Wildlife has become used to us encroaching on them. I think the felled tree and longing look on the fox’s face portray this tragedy perfectly. I hope that all wildlife photography doesn’t look like this in years to come.”

#charlie page #photographers #british wildlife photography awards #bwpa #red fox #animal photography #destroyed habitat #habitat loss

[drumlincountry]

I've taken like...4 classes on peatland restoration now, which isn't enough that they'll let me restore any peatland but IS enough that i can see when a peatland is damaged and needs restoration. Maximum distress minimum autonomy. Caught in the valley of despair. The learner's hellcrotch.

#people do be posting aesthetic pictures of erosion features that are emitting tonnes of carbon a year... #destroying one of the most fragile and rare habitats we have on this island... #not to mention the acidification of downstream waterways .... causing further ecological harm... #i feel like im sort of at this point with a lot of my knowledge #i am only a year into my first Big Job in this industry #let me attem!!!! except don't i don't know what im doing...or do i??? #me fein #farming #eefa sells her labour

[fuwaprince]

Um excuse me ma'am may I also be protected by the endangered species act of 1973 👉👈

#Federal agencies cannot jeopardize listed species' existence or destroy critical habitat (Section 7). #Federal agencies will use their authorities to conserve endangered species and threatened species (Section 7). #it is illegal to “take” an endangered species (Section 9). “Take” can mean kill #harm #or harass (Section 3). #not a jest

[vegance]

~ 2 trillion animals killed every year

~ 5.5 billion a day

~ 228 million per hour

~ 3.8 million a minute

~ 63 thousand a second

how. is anyone ok with so many sentient beings killed directly by humans?

#this doesn’t even include illegal fishing #or the animals that die due to us destroying their habitat #veganism #vegan #hope I didn’t make a mistake calculating it #😬

[coockie8]

posts about how humans are the "weirdest" species in the Universe, the "hold my beer" species so to speak, are also riddled with human-centric arrogance, in my opinion. Yeah funny joke haha humans are so weird, but like are we? We've never met aliens before, so how the fuck would we know? I don't know, they just irk me personally, 'cause I don't find humans the most remarkable or weird species on Earth, let alone in the entire fucking universe 🙃🙃🙃

#trash king rants #I don't *hate* human beings I want to make that clear #I just don't think we're all that remarkable #we're a slightly more intelligent ape that is actively and knowingly destroying our habitat #and yeah yeah ''it's the men in power destroying the planet'' those are still humans #I think it's my thing where I don't like assuming what others think or feel #and that's with other *humans* let alone an entire theoretical extraterrestrial race we know literally nothing about

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

don't you think that's just a normal part of language to some extent ? obviously he was a weirdo about it, but at the same time i also think it's weird to "correct" his pronunciation of the word. in most languages, loanwords change and adapt to the phonology of the language they are introduced into. you probably don't pronounce yacht [jɑxt] even though that's the dutch pronunciation, by the same logic it makes sense to me that he wouldn't pronounce axolotl [aːʃoːloːtɬ] even though that's how it's pronounced in nahuatl.

I've had a bad day and have very little spoons so I apologize if this is short but I don't apologize if this sounds mean. If any wants too add to what I say feel free.

I do not think your example is appropriate or accurate unless you live in a vacuum and ignore setting, context, history, culture etc. A native person bringing up "the critically endangered exotic pet you have, the animals name is an indigenous word in my people language which you can easily approximate" is not the same as someone saying "oh yacht is actually Dutch word you should pronouns it like (this)"

i am a strong believer in descriptive grammar and that language standards especially with English are classist racist colonialist. I hate people who are snob about language and pronunciation. but respecting indigenous language is nowhere near being snob or racist. the fact that you seem to even slightly equate that says a lot of you.

#Eldritch IT Answers #Anonymous #and did you know that part of why axolotl are endangers is bcuz of colonialism destroying their natural habitat #this took me nearly half hour to type bcuz i have to rely on mouse keyboard and predictive text

[showrunnerihardlyknowher]

so i've followed your stuff for a while now, & i have something embarrassing to admit, when i was 14 and scrolling through the g/t tag on ao3 (it was some years ago) i found your jacob & edix fic, and i was so upset after reading it that to calm myself down i had to imagine an entire scenario where a vengeful giant brutally killed edix to save jacob. i'm so sorry your writing is lovely but i hate edix so much. that mofo needs to die. jacob get behind me

when someone finally gets just how fucked up edix is and that he's literally the villain of the entire series no matter how much he tries to justify it on his end

if you also want to hear a secret a big reason i wrote the milo and ben story despite not really liking the borrower trope that much was because i also read a fic on ao3 about an exterminator doing something too fucked up for my liking to a borrower colony so i wrote a (somewhat) fluffy.......ish story to make me feel better and then abandoned it halfway for like a year until i needed a bday gift fic for my bestie lmao

#ask #anon #EDIX SHOULD MAKE YOU MAD HE MAKES ME MAD FOR EVERYTHING MY SWEET BABY JACOB HAS TO GO THROUGH #and for that reason i love him (: #because i love fucked up lil fearplay power dynamics and the angst and the hurt no comfort MMMM #like listen to me #edix is not some cute lil plant nerd just being a silly guy with cat ears #he is actively and willingly a part of an invading species that either forces alliances or destroys a planet's natural habitats #for their own goals of cataloguing the universe #he does not care about anyone's survival or wellbeing outside of the venandi and jacob and thats ONLY because he thinks jacob is a cutie #he does not and will never see jacob as his equal #does he love jacob? yes unconditionally. that doesn't mean its healthy or remotely absolve him of what he's done to him

[ruinakete]

A small letter could be find at the threshold of her rooms: it was finely decorated with handmade purplish flowers, with a very quirky drawing of what it seemed like a lizard-like creature - seemingly a wyvern - and at the center of the paper, a brief text written in a hasty calligraphy, almost as if she was in a hurry or as if she was very tense in writing this. The text was the following:

《 The glance you gave me that evening was fulminating: I was raptured by your words and your attention for the most amazing creatures among all animals - wyverns. You are like one of them: alluring, fleeting and majestic. 》

On the back of the letter, a signature; the Red Dragoon Knight [ wanted to send it as anonymous, but I couldn't ; v ; ]

NEVER HAD MAGE DRAGON ENTERED HER DEN WITH CAUTION, at least, not with the degree she held now; standing at the threshold with an unwavering, bland gaze, accentuated with emotion only by the arch of a brow. it could not be a student. there was a specific box she had set up outside her office for letters from students, as most were pity stories to twist at her heart until she lessened the strict drop of their grade; in which, none worked, and the repeated offers ceased whatever patience she held towards her pupils.

so, if not a student━━━or at least, a student who followed her manner of organization━━━then a fellow instructor or sister / brother of the church. possibly. most likely. she would have to waste away her time actually giving the letter her time of day. unfortunate but the promise of frequent downtime had not been in the admittance papers so she ought to not complain.

poised claws raise the letter to her face, lips pursed and throat humming a low grumble; the barest of factors announcing her minimal curiosity. on instinct, zephia's gaze had followed the spaces of the paper, singling out the presses of ink and their curved letters before registering the intricate, yet amusingly quirky decor of flowers and wyverns.

the letter was read in seconds.

the mage dragon's skin reddened after a minute.

she sighed, turning over the paper to divert her attention unto anything else━━━if not the signature placed carefully there. sangria eyes narrowed and her lips twitched into the beginnings of a grimace, a curt disgust so glaringly opposed to the abnormal heat rising to her neck and ears.

that evening? how utterly vague. she spoke to plenty this past week, not to exclude the many others who sought her out at different periods of the day.

You are like one of them: alluring, fleeting, and majestic.

as if she was not one of the closest beings to a pure-blooded wyvern!

the door to her room was slammed shut by her hand, given hardly a glance as zephia gripped onto the letter, half a mind to toss it into a fire. away and gone, it would be! but that only meant evidence of the stranger's advance would be destroyed... no, that wouldn't do. instead, after a trained breath, mage dragon carefully folded the letter and set it on her desk. though the stranger had an acute taste and a highly respectable eye for wyverns, their worship of her would be best in person rather than through ink.

another sigh. she turned from her desk, rubbing at her temple, "lord sombron, give me strength. to be fooled by a glance yet cower behind words... tsk."

#reddragonprincess #☽ ━━━━━━ ❝ the cruelty of a mother's greed ・ 【 𝐈𝐍 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 】 . #☽ ━━━━━━ ❝ to appease the handmade goddess ・ 【 𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃 】 . #dare i say that this is the best (?) way to make her flustered (?)? compare her to a wyvern? JAJAJEKMWMEKMWKMSDKMK #zephia vc you're a wyvern enthusiast. i like that in a partner #and yeah my anonymous asks are turned off because of past issues. i do turn them on for events though! sorry about that! orz #but no worries since zephia wouldn't think of minerva since she talks about wyverns to A Lot of people. her main topic besides her man #wanted to answer this before march for timeline reasons ^^ THANK YOU ARIIII!!! i need to reply to their event thread but :pleading: #i hope they get to go on a real date in the future. this will affect the trout population ( me ) and destroy a habitat ( my heart ). #though i don't know if zephia understands whether or not to be insulted flustered proud or exasperated. sorry try again in a century #oh but while i do think zephia is Feeling she's definitely seeing this as a coward's attempt at her heart and will have griss hunt t

[werewulvs]

me when ppl reblog my humble nature pix

#i want 2 share wit the world the beauty of the nature thts left in my hometown b4 it gets destroyed by apartment construction #tht area is actually a rare and quickly dying habitat so it means a lot to me

[asgardian--angels]

keeping honeybee hives as a way to ‘save the bees’ is the equivalent of claiming factory farmed chickens are somehow stopping greater prairie chickens from going extinct lmao

#wanna know one of the worst takes I've seen by beekeepers lobbying the government? #putting honeybee hives in national parks #to help bee populations #anyway no offense to beekeepers out there who do what they do as a small business etc etc #but the beekeeping industry actively works to shift focus away from wild pollinator conservation onto honeybees #they have a lot of weight and money to throw around and they use it to influence federal and state policy #the relationship between native pollinator biologists and beekeepers is like that of wildlife biologists and hunters #we should be working together to address common issues that affect all these species. and occasionally we do. some of us are both #but way more frequently than necessary we have to walk on eggshells around you because if we upset you you'll rain hell upon us #i speak from experience as both a pollinator ecologist and a wildlife biologist and lemme tell you it's a drag #as long as you have government subsidy on your side you're invincible #remember kids we only rely on honeybees for so much pollination because we destroyed the habitat of native pollinators on farmland #despite this native pollinators account for a not insignificant portion of pollination but it's not widely publicized #it's estimated that if we provide native habitat free from pesticides then we can reduce reliance on honeybees significantly #enough that for some crops we wouldn't need them at all #galaxy brained athena take here: the next big thing will be 'wild pollinator certified' foods

[ringneckedpheasant]

incredible day for ivorybilled woodpecker truthers

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.10017

#have been mildly obsessed w these things since watching a documentary abt them as a kid #& have always refused to believe they’re extinct. it’s like a conspiracy theory for me #habitat destroyed by Big Sewing Machine but they’re still out there. in the swamps. vibing. #marc.txt

[enbycrip]

Fucking cops next door are cutting down their front trees now. Destroying valuable garden wildlife habitat, and one of Alfalfa’s favourite lurking spots, and scaring him with a lot of noise they didn’t fucking bother to warn us about, making my OH’s wfh day harder and going right through my head.

Ugh. I’m buying a sign blank and burning facts about rewilding and garden habitats onto it 🤬

#fucking cops #rewilding #garden habitats are valuable #don’t fucking cut down your trees #cops just love destroying shit don’t they #black cat #kitteh

[intobarbarians]

if people get angrier and less charitable in the heat, why not other animals as well?

#we might see a rise in animal attacks not just because we’re invading habitats and destroying food sources #but because of the heat. #animals that would otherwise avoid or escape from human interaction might simply become aggressive in the heat

[jellogram]

"Coyotes aren't bad! They're scared of humans and misunderstood!" A family friend's dog got snatched out of their yard this week. The owner was standing there watching the dog the entire time. The coyote hopped the fence, grabbed the dog, and ran off in a space of a few seconds. Fenced in yard, owner supervision. There is literally no way to prevent this shit at this point, if you have a pet in this town that weighs less than 50 pounds it will get fucking eaten.

#they have so much wild space around here too #its not like we've destroyed their habitat #they specifically come into town to eat pets

[gardenstateofmind]

literally most domesticated animals would not exist if not for humans, they've literally been created for us to take care of them and then kill them, this is not a bad thing, and as long as they are treated humanely, they will actually have a much more comfortable life than animals living in the wild. symbiotic relationships are by definition a win-win situation.

#personal #i'm not saying wild animals should be kept in captivity #they have evolve to live in a certain environment and so ideally they should stay in that environment #but 1.) nature is tough #and 2.) humans have destroyed the habitats of so many species #so i think we have an obligation to mitigate the harm these species now experience #i'm digressing but my point is thag domesticated animals living comfortably in captivity is probably the best life out of any living being

[speedsterredhead]

What’s your favorite Animal?

Wally had to think for a moment. “Cheetahs. They are the fastest land mammal, do not see humans as prey as long as they don’t run, and have a really cool pattern. Too bad they are on the endangered species list.”

#poor bbys #@mankind stop murdering big cats and destroying their habitats