#habitat

[simon-roy]

The incredible Sawyer Lee designed this marvelous creature for REFUGIUM's guidebook section - the Baro Grappler!

Take a look at the campaign here

#simon roy #comics #griz grobus #specbio #scifi #sciencefiction #kickstarter #habitat #speculative biology #speculative zoology #speculative worldbuilding #speculative evolution

[thrivingisthegoal]

Golf Courses ARE Being Converted

The Solarpunk "fantasy" that so many of us tout as a dream vision, converting golf courses into ecological wonderlands, is being implemented across the USA according to this NYT article!

The article covers courses in Michigan, Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, and New York that are being bought and turned into habitat and hiking trails.

The article goes more into detail about how sand traps are being turned into sand boxes for kids, endangered local species are being planted, rocks for owl habitat are being installed, and that as these courses become wilder, they are creating more areas for biodiversity to thrive.

Most of the courses in transition are being bought by Local Land Trusts. Apparently the supply of golf courses in the USA is way over the demand, and many have been shut down since the early 2000s. While many are bought up and paved over, land Trusts have been able to buy several and turn them into what the communities want: public areas for people and wildlife. It does make a point to say that not every hold course location lends itself well to habitat for animals (but that doesn't mean it wouldn't make great housing!)

So lets be excited by the fact that people we don't even know about are working on the solutions we love to see! Turning a private space that needs thousands of gallons of water and fertilizer into an ecologically oriented public space is the future I want to see! I can say when I used to work in water conservation, we were getting a lot of clients that were golf courses that were interested in cutting their resource input, and they ended up planting a lot of natives! So even the golf courses that still operate could be making an effort.

So what I'd encourage you to do is see if there's any land or community trusts in your area, and see if you can get involved! Maybe even look into how to start one in your community! Through land trusts it's not always golf course conversions, but community gardens, solar fields, disaster adaptation, or low cost housing! (Here's a link to the first locator I found, but that doesn't mean if something isn't on here it doesn't exist in your area, do some digging!)

#solarpunk #sustainability #climate change #gardening #activism #hope #climate justice #news #new york times #golf courses #habitat #conservation

[53v3nfrn5]

Aquarium Bags at Marco De Vincenzo SS19

#marco de vincenzo #aquarium #bags #purses #handbags #accessories #fishies #fish #habitat #runway #fashion #quirky #quirky fashion #silly #silly fashion #aesthetic #designer #unique

[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

[celineszoges]

BLUE JAYS

#blue jays #birds #toronto blue jays #habitat #trails #fire protection #nests #feathers #mascot #beak #baseball #hiking #grains

[tail-feathers]

The Futuro was a prefabricated house built between the late 1960's and 1970's. Fewer than a hundred were made.

#habitat #space ship house #1960s #1970s #Futuro

[halleehalfgallon]

I was passing through a neighboring town and seeing the lush, green rolling hills and the blushing blueberry fields and the pale green lichens and fern after fern and while my first thought was my god, what a place to live!, my second thought was how many other animals on this earth look around at their habitat and think the very same, and how sweet that is. my old dog used to sit halfway down our hill and close her eyes. she was listening to the wind pass through, the stream go by, the seasons come in and go out without a sound. I’ll bet the birds and the crickets and the caterpillars do the very same.

#seasons #seasons poetry #poetry #maine #new england #nature #woods #home #homestead #rural living #crickets #natural world #simple #simple life #observations #habitat #rural #slow living #slow life

[hope-for-the-planet]

"Until recently, a visit to the Colorado River’s delta, below Morelos Dam, would be met with a mostly dry barren desert sprinkled with salt cedar and other undesirable invasive plant species. Today, that arid landscape is broken up with large areas of healthy riparian habitat filled with cottonwood, willow, and mesquite trees. These are restoration sites which are stewarded through binational agreements between the United States and Mexico, and implemented by Raise the River—a coalition of NGOs including Audubon"

Thanks to @aersidhe for sending this in!

#submission #bird conservation #river conservation #wildlife #biodiversity #conservation #environment #good news #hope #ecosystem #habitat #habitat restoration #river restoration #climate change #global warming

[amyhaigh]

The Layered Woodlouse Mounds [Wildlife habitat sculpture] Stoneware with glaze June 2023

Amy Haigh

This new commission by Amy Haigh is a sculptural habitat (in stoneware with glaze), to be situated outdoors in a publicly accessible greenspace. The Layered Woodlouse Mounds (2023) act as a monument to its namesake species. Although the inhabitants are not seen by human observers for the most part, they live and search for food within the Mounds’ hidden sanctuaries, revealing themselves in fleeting moments as they leave and enter. … for more of my work see www.amyhaigh.com

The Mounds were shown at the Royal Horticultural Society Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival in 2023.

#ceramics #ecology #habitat #outdoor sculpture #artwork #modern art #woodlouse #woodlice #bugs #bug hotel #garden #garden art #garden sculptures #clay #glaze #stoneware #ethology #research #greenspace #outdoor #public sculpture

[solarpunks]

An intertidal habitat for marine life constructed by the company Living Seawalls

Seawalls are causing intertidal habitats to vanish as ocean levels increase. But eco-entrepreneurs say artificial rockpools and crevices can save wildlife

“Species that inhabit the intertidal zone have evolved to live in that environment,” said Pip Moore, a professor of marine science at Newcastle University. These animals find the world’s rising temperatures very stressful, she says. “Lots of organisms use the natural heterogeneity in the rocky shore to hide away from those stresses – [but] a seawall or even a “riprap” boulder don’t have that complexity of habitat.”

Exactly how badly coastal wildlife is affected by coastal squeeze is not entirely clear, but scientists have found that structures such as Artecology’s Vertipools (above) show a “significantly greater” species richness when compared with a normal seawall after five years. One Bournemouth University team found species of crab, fish and periwinkle living in them that had been absent before.

Read more

#sea wall #intertidal #habitat #seas #oceans

[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

[simon-roy]

REFUGIUM (the Griz Grobus Sequel) IS NOW LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! REFUGIUM is a hardcover sci-fi graphic novel about a scribe and a trapper, who find themselves going up-river into the northern wilds of Altamira - in search of a monster. Featuring over a hundred pages of comic art, a 20+ page guidebook to the alien life of Altamira by @jordankwalker , and an additional 30+ pages of alien life artwork from artists like @turndecassette2 @jayrockin @cmkosemen @alexriesart @iguanodont and many more...

Take look HERE at the campaign, and prepare yourself for immersion into a world both alien and familiar...

#simon roy #comics #griz grobus #habitat #scifi #kickstarter #sciencefiction #image comics #miramar #specbio #speculative worldbuilding #speculative zoology #speculative fiction #speculative biology #spec bio #speculative evolution #xenobiology #spec evo #selfpublished

[der-gorgonaut]

// habitat //

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by Georg Nickolaus

#habitat #photographers on tumblr #urban #cusco #architecture #pattern #artists on tumblr #peru #travel #travel photography #urban photography

[jadafitch]

Invertebrates are everywhere!

#childrensillustration #natureillustration #activitybook #invertebrates #pondlife #maineillustrator #massaudubon #activity book #kids #children #illustration #jada fitch #nature #education #bugs #insects #mouse #habitat #art #drawing #pond life #maine #new england

[typhlonectes]

Conserving and Restoring North American Prairie

Home to hundreds of species of birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and pollinators, grasslands are unsung heroes. Alongside providing a haven for wildlife, this iconic landscape sequesters carbon, reduces soil erosion, ensures clean water, protects biodiversity, and more.

You might be asking yourself how we could live without the countless benefits grasslands provide us and wildlife, and the answer is - we probably wouldn’t be able to for very long.

We have lost more than 50 million acres of the landscape in the last 10 years due to climate change, agricultural conversion, invasive species, and other threats. This map can help guide voluntary conservation in this critical landscape - help us help each other keep the green areas green and restore the yellow and purple areas. 

Learn more: http://ow.ly/nHQ550M4GJL

#grassland #prairie #grasslands #conservation #habitat #ecology #north america #environment #nature #science

[upstairsdownstairsandinbetween]

Habitat L, Renon, Italy,

Architekt: Andreas Gruber

#art #design #stairwell #architecture #stairway #staircase #stairs #interiors #staircases #habitat #renon #italy #andreas gruber #minimal