#northeast China

[amurleopards]

“More frequent appearances by wild animals have been observed in the part of the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park located in Hunchun, Northeast China's Jilin Province, by a comprehensive air, space and land system, showing an increase in the amount of wildlife in the area and an improvement in the ecological environment after years of efforts to protect Siberian tigers and Amur leopards in northeastern China, the Global Times learned from the park on Tuesday. Now Siberian tigers can be seen nearly every day, according to Li Wanlu who works at the monitoring center and observes wildlife in the park via an air-space-land comprehensive monitoring system. The more frequent appearance of Siberian tigers captured by the system demonstrates the improvement of the ecological environment in the park, which has led to an increase in the number of wild animals in the area, Li told the Global Times. According to data released in October 2021, the number of wild Siberian tigers in the park has increased from 27 to 50 since the start of the pilot program, while that of Amur leopards has increased from 42 to 60, with more than 10 tiger cubs and seven leopard cubs discovered. As one of the first national parks in China, the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park started pilot operation in January 2017, covering a planned area of 14,065 square kilometers.”

#conservation #Amur leopard #Siberian tiger #China #Far Eastern leopard #Amur tiger #leopard #tiger #big cats #Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park #article #wild

[tsscat]

This is an interesting perspective and article

#during the very first years of independence india and pakistan made major attempts to grab as much land as possible I feel like #like India did this with kashmir and (i believe) the northeast #(and goa later) #and I know it was motivated by the partition and indo-pak tensions but #I also do feel like it came from what im calling 'colonial fear' ? #like in the sense that. the idea that as a newly independent colony you would need to gain power and doing through imperialism #if that makes sense? #China did not have something like the partition (as far as I know correct me if Im wrong) #but it is interesting that there is a parallel between hong kong and goa

[indizombie]

As the Burmese military junta wilts under growing global pressure, collapsing economy and mounting insurgencies, it will draw closer to China, which strongly backs the junta. The military regime has already cleared 15 mega infrastructure projects funded by China since the February 2021 coup, drawing Myanmar into a substantial Chinese debt trap. The Burmese generals are totally dependent on Chinese support to protect their back at the UN and in other global forums. With the Chinese entrenching themselves firmly in Myanmar’s economy and defence sectors, Indian worries over the security implications for its sensitive Northeast will grow.

Subir Bhaumik, ‘Myanmar issue bad news for act East thrust’, Indian Express

#Indian Express #Myanmar #India #Northeast India #military junta #China #debt trap #UN

[sundayandsunday]

Antique Art Deco circa 1920s fantastic 142 piece service for 12 of Theodore Haviland Limoges "Cluny" pattern china, plus the ORIGINAL print advertisement from Ladies Home Journal and protective zip covers. Set is in OUTSTANDING seldom used near mint condition, including the gilding. 1 piece has an edge chip *, the 12-1/2" round platter. All the remaining 141 pieces look as if they have seldom been used, near mint condition. We have owned this set personally since the early 1980s, we purchased it from the original owners from an estate in Silver Lake Ohio. We prefer that you pick this set up in person, as shipping rates are going to be exceedingly high, and because of the rarity of the set, to avoid breakage through mailing. We are in Jacksonville, Florida. DOES NOT INCLUDE CHINA HUTCH CABINET, although that is available as well.

Includes:

12- 9-5/8" plates 12- 7-1/2" plates 12- 8-3/4" plates 12- 5" bowls 12- 7-1/2" bowls 12- 6-1/2" plates 12- 3-5/8" cups 12- 5-3/4" saucers 12- 2-5/8" demi tasse cups 12- 4-3/4" demi tasse saucers 1- tea/coffee/chocolate pot with lid 1- sugar bowl with lid 1- 5-3/4" sugar bowl saucer 1- creamer 1- 5-3/4" creamer saucer 1- 5-1/2" serving bowl 2- 10-1/2" x 9-1/2" covered casserole dishes 2- 11" x 9-1/4" serving plates 1- 12-1/2" platter * chip on edge 1- 10-1/2" serving bowl 1- 7-1/2" gravy boat with attached saucer 1- 9" x 5-3/4" oval serving dish 1- 11-1/4" x 9" oval serving dish 1- 13-3/4" x 10-3/4" oval platter 2- 9-1/2" x 7-1/4" oval serving bowl

1- ORIGINAL Ladies Home Journal advertisement, matted in wood frame with glass front.

Set also includes protective fitted zipped china covers

#antique #antiques #antique china #antique decor #art deco #art deco china #art deco decor #theodore haviland #haviland #limoges #limoges china #haviland china #jacksonville #jacksonville florida #northeast florida #florida

[snailkites]

Walnut the Crane dead at 42

White-naped Crane Walnut and her keeper/husband, Chris Crowe, in 2021. (Photo: Roshan Patel via NZCBI)

Internet sensation Walnut the Crane became ill on January 2, 2024 and passed away at age 42 at her home at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) campus in Front Royal, VA. A necropsy revealed the cause of death to be renal failure. Walnut far outlived the average life expectancy for White-naped Cranes in captivity, which is 15 years. She leaves behind her husband, zookeeper Chris Crowe, with whom she had 8 offspring, including two housed at the NZCBI: daughter Brenda, age 18, and a granddaughter, age 1.

“Walnut was a unique individual with a vivacious personality,” Crowe said. “She was always confident in expressing herself, an eager and excellent dancer, and stoic in the face of life’s challenges. I’ll always be grateful for her bond with me. Walnut’s extraordinary story has helped bring attention to her vulnerable species’ plight.” (x)

White-naped Cranes are native to Mongolia, northeast China and southeast Russia, wintering in the Korean DMZ, Japan, and China. Habitat loss to agriculture, development, and ongoing droughts are factors in their decline, leaving them classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN. Walnut was an important contributor to efforts to restore the species.

Edit: for those unaware, I refer to the zookeeper as her husband because Walnut was imprinted on humans, meaning she considered him her mate and performed displays and courtship for him. As a zookeeper he was responsible for artificially inseminating the bird. This and more was the source of her viral fame.

#walnut the crane #conservation #crane husband #birds #white-naped crane #smithsonian #I visited the NZCBI last year and could hear various crane calling on campus

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

how cold can winter be in northeast china (dongbei region)

#china #douyin #fun #video #dongbei #winter #weather #snow

[countingstars-17]

so now people are making lestappen talk through videos 🙃:

i: "this is a cloth from the northeast part of china. what people say in northeast china when they see someone is "ni chow sha" it's like "what are you looking at?" so when next time leclerc catching you up, you can just look at him and say ni chow sha. that's not 100% friendly...."

max: "...maybe with a smile!"

I: " yeah, that'll be very cute....let's say ni chow sha and send it to leclerc"

max: "ni chow sha 😁"

#RANDOM LESTAPPEN CRUMB BUT WE TAKE IT #charles leclerc #max verstappen #lestappen #f1 #formula 1 #chinese gp 2024

[prismatic-bell]

It’s 4am and I’m having emotions about calling Mesopotamia “the cradle of civilization” so y’all are just going to have to bear with me.

Like okay, there are technically six so-called cradles of civilization: Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient China, ancient India, and two civilizations in south and Central America called the Olmec (Mexico) and Caral-Supe (Peru). But the one we all learn about in school is Mesopotamia, bleeding into Egypt.

But.

The oldest of those is the Fertile Crescent (Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia), clocking in around 12,000 BCE. That’s the 121st century BCE, if you’re wondering. “Behavioral modernity,” I.e. the thing that separates Homo sapiens from Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis, began 160,000 to 60,000 years ago. Homo sapiens was found in most of Africa before ever beginning the migration to other continents—by over 80,000 years, in some cases.

And we all know how Africa got treated in the post-Roman era.

How do we know there was no cradle of civilization in Africa? Like. It’s generally taken that “cradle of civilization” means cities, agriculture, and usually-but-not-always a writing system. We also know that if all humans on earth disappeared right now, in 15,000 years the only sign we were ever here would be a millimeters-thin line of plastic in the geologic record. And that’s in a world where we have stainless steel, concrete, the ability to carve in stone…

What I’m saying is, the oldest piece of string in the world is 50,000 years old and it was found in a cave. Huge swathes of Africa used to be green and lush. If some group ten thousand years ago decided to build a settlement out of mud bricks and tied-up pieces of wood in the African jungle, we’d never know today. The entire thing would have washed out and rotted away centuries ago. “Okay but agriculture—” one, not all agriculture is white people agriculture, and some of it is so different we wouldn’t recognize it at all (consider the terraforming east coast Native tribes did in North America that was so different from European farming methods it was taken as divine intervention in primeval forest). And two, I forget how many years it’s estimated to take before our fancy modern crops return to their wild roots once we’re gone, but I’m pretty sure it’s less than a hundred. We literally would have no way to tell anything was ever there.

And let’s say something did, by some miracle of preservation, survive to the “modern cradles of civilization.” Would it have survived subsequent wars and colonization? How about the changing climate as continents broke apart and ice ages came and went? Would we even have found it, given how gigantic it is and how little regard it’s received through the years?

Like. I could be totally wrong. But I also don’t see why it’s impossible for a civilization to have popped up in Africa like thirty thousand years ago for a century or two and then everyone went “ah, fuck this” and went back to being nomads. It happened at Cahokia. The city was abandoned and we don’t know why, but we do know there’s no evidence the mound-builders ever tried to rebuild somewhere else. And right here in my proverbial backyard, in Arizona, we had the Sinagua tribe, and in like the 1500s or so they just…dipped. There was a whole city built into the side of a cliff (two of them, actually, a few miles apart) and for unknown reasons they were abandoned. Archaeological evidence suggests the Sinagua moved northeast to join the Yavapai and Hopi tribes, but we have no idea why they left the Verde Valley. Water was still plentiful and even if Beaver Creek had started to dry up in summer—which is what it does today—only five miles away was a second city built around a sinkhole that’s still full of water today year-round (although it’s not potable by modern standards due to arsenic content in the water). Both were abandoned sometime in the 1400s for unknown reasons, and before you say “white people,” I will remind you white people didn’t come to America until 1492 and the site wasn’t discovered until over 100 years after it was abandoned.

So yeah. Maybe ancient civilizations in Africa so long ago, or so thoroughly erased by racist Europeans, that we’ll never know.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[evilsment]

🪴 Siheyuan | 四合院 🪴

Is a historical type of courtyard residence that is commonly found across China. Designs differ in every region. For example, in the northwest where dust storms are strong, the walls tend to be higher. In the South the houses are built with multiple stories. In the northeast the weather is cold so courtyards are broad and large to increase the exposure to sunlight, and there are more open rooms inside the walls.

#chinese culture #chinese history #chinese architecture #asian architecture #Chinese courtyards #courtyards #china #east asia #siheyuan #east asian cultures #gardens #plants

[bunjywunjy]

As someone who lives in an area without spotted lanternflies, what exactly are they and why must they be squished?

they're a hyper-invasive giant planthopper that's currently making inroads into Europe and the northeast United States, and they MUST be stopped at all costs.

if you see this, and you don't live in eastern China? STOMP IT IMMEDIATELY

#bug

[funkyfrogoftheday]

today's funky frog of the day: the sakhalin toad (Bufo sachalinensis)!! these friendly fellows live in korea, northeast china, and eastern russia. they were recently declared their own species!

photo © Kim, Hyun-tae

#sakhalin toad #Bufo #Bufo sachalinensis #frog #happy thursfday:3

[amurleopards]

“Northeast China has been identified as an important destination for big cats dispersing from source sites in Russia. With support from WildCats Conservation Alliance, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has documented this increase and the establishment of fledgling populations of Amur Leopards & tigers in China.

WCS has been working in northeast China since 1998 and has been instrumental in the creation of safe places for both Amur tigers and Amur leopards to roam. The team works in Hunchun Nature Reserve (HNR)   which is now a part of the newly established Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park (NTLNP), the largest tiger and leopard reserve in the world and 50% larger than Yellowstone National Park in America.

It is estimated that there are probably fewer than 540 Amur tigers in the world and the Amur leopards’ plight is even more precarious, with under 100 left. Historically, the largest and most productive big cat habitats were found in Northeast China, however, development in the nineteenth and twentieth century led to habitat loss and intensive hunting. Today, most Amur tigers and leopards reside on the Russian side of the Manchurian Mountains, but the majority of available habitat is on the Chinese side.”

#Conservation #Amur leopard #Siberian tiger #big cats #endangered #Far Eastern leopard #Amur tiger #WildCats Conservation Alliance #Wildlife Conservation Society #Article #China #wild #Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park #habitat protection

[dinodorks]

[ The fossilised remains of a Psittacosaurus, an Early Cretaceous ceratopsian, and Repenomamus, one of the largest mammals during the Mesozoic. ]

"When dinosaurs ruled the Earth, we tend to think of the mammals at the time — including our distant ancestors — as small and quivering in the shadows. "We've always had this picture of mammals as the literal underdogs," says Elsa Panciroli, a paleontologist at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. "They're being trampled. They're cowering in the darkness at night, just trying to avoid being eaten." But a remarkable new fossil, originating in the early Cretaceous some 125 million years ago and now described in the journal Scientific Reports, conjures a rather different possibility. It consists of two intertwined skeletons — an upstart mammal sinking its teeth into a much larger dinosaur. "Our best guess is that the mammal was in the middle of attacking the dinosaur," says Jordan Mallon, one of the authors of the new study and a paleobiologist at the Canadian Museum of Nature. If true, such a revelation shakes our traditional view of dinosaur domination and mammal submission. It suggests a more complex ancient food web in which certain dinosaurs were prey and some mammals were predators. In the case of this particular fossil that was unearthed in modern-day northeast China, "this mammal appears to have been particularly gutsy or voracious," Mallon says."

Read more: "This fossil of a mammal biting a dinosaur captures a death battle's final moments" by Ari Daniel.

#palaeoblr #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Fossil #Cretaceous #Psittacosaurus #Dinosaur #Ceratopsian #Repenomamus #Mammal #Mesozoic #Extinct #Prehistoric #Article

[afeelgoodblog]

The Best News of Last Week - March 13, 2023

🐝 - Did you hear about the honeybee vaccine? It's creating quite the buzz! But seriously, it's a major breakthrough in the fight against American foulbrood and could save billions of bees.

1. Transgender health care is now protected in Minnesota

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed an executive order protecting and supporting access to gender-affirming health care for LGBTQ people in the state, amidst Republican-backed efforts across the country to limit transgender health care. The order upholds the essential values of One Minnesota where all people, including members of the LGBTQIA+ community, are safe, celebrated, and able to live lives full of dignity and joy.

Numerous medical organizations have said that access to gender-affirming care is essential to the health and wellness of gender diverse people, while states like Tennessee, Arizona, Utah, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, South Dakota, and Florida have passed policies or laws restricting transgender health care.

2. First vaccine for honeybees could save billions

The US government has approved the world's first honeybee vaccine to fight against American foulbrood, a bacterial disease that destroys bee colonies vital for crop pollination.

Developed by biotech company Dalan Animal Health, the vaccine integrates some of the foulbrood bacteria into royal jelly, which is then fed to the queen by the worker bees, resulting in the growing bee larvae developing immunity to foulbrood. The vaccine aims to limit the damage caused by the infectious disease, for which there is currently no cure, and promote the development of vaccines for other diseases affecting bees.

3. Teens rescued after days stranded in California snowstorm: "We were already convinced we were going to die"

The recent snowstorms in California have resulted in dangerous conditions for hikers and residents in mountain communities. Two teenage hikers were rescued by the San Bernardino County sheriff's department after getting lost in the mountains for 10 days.

The boys were well-prepared for the hike but were not prepared for the massive amounts of snow that followed. They were lucky to survive, suffering from hypothermia and having to huddle together for three nights to stay warm.

Yosemite National Park has had to be closed indefinitely due to the excessive snowfall.

4. La Niña, which worsens Atlantic hurricanes and Western droughts, is gone

The La Nina weather phenomenon, which increases Atlantic hurricane activity and worsens western drought, has ended after three years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That's usually good news for the United States and other parts of the world, including drought-stricken northeast Africa, scientists said.

The globe is now in what's considered a "neutral" condition.

5. Where there's gender equality, people tend to live longer

Both women and men are likely to live longer when a country makes strides towards gender equality, according to a new global study that authors believe to be the first of its kind.

The study was published in the journal PLOS Global Public Health this week. It adds to a growing body of research showing that advances in women's rights benefit everyone. "Globally, greater gender equality is associated with longer [life expectancy] for both women and men and a widening of the gender gap in [life expectancy]," they conclude.

6. New data shows 1 in 7 cars sold globally is an EV, and combustion engine car sales have decreased by 25% since 2017

Electric vehicles are the key technology to decarbonise road transport, a sector that accounts for 16% of global emissions. Compared with 2020, sales nearly doubled to 6.6 million (a sales share of nearly 9%), bringing the total number of electric cars on the road to 16.5 million.

Sales were highest in China, where they tripled relative to 2020 to 3.3 million after several years of relative stagnation, and in Europe, where they increased by two-thirds year-on-year to 2.3 million. Together, China and Europe accounted for more than 85% of global electric car sales in 2021

7. Lastly, watch this touching moment as rescued puppy gains trust in her new owners

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[yourtongzhihazel]

Why I hate the '89 天安门广场 protests

In 1991, the Soviet Union was illegally dissolved. A few years later, the piece-meal destruction of Yugoslavia ended in war and genocide. The western, liberal/neoliberal world celebrated their destruction of state socialism. What had they accomplished?

CW: child prostitution, drug use, violence, death

Child prostitution in post-USSR Russia during the 1990s

The Children of Leningradskiy

Homeless children drug use

1993 constitutional crisis protests

These videos are about Russia only. There were 15 republics in the USSR. The dissolution of the USSR was an unmitigated humanitarian and economic disaster. All standards of life metrics from income to lifespan dropped to the floor. The GDP of Russia plummeted. Billionaires, bureaucrats, and especially foreign capital snatched up formerly Soviet state assets for pennies and reduced millions to poverty and destitution. At least 12 million people died as a DIRECT result of the dissolution of the USSR. Look at the former USSR: 15-20 countries (depending on who you ask) fighting each other in perpetual regional warfare. The concrete and cement plants in Turkmenistan sit empty and decaying. The Ukrainian shipyards on the Black sea, too.

So why bring up the USSR or Yugoslavia at all? Because they are a case and point in why you cannot let attempted color revolutions and liberalization protests take hold. The imperialists found that by employing this trick, of 'peaceful protests' they can destabilize then split apart nations then rob them blind. When a color revolution succeeds, people suffer on an unbelievable scale. The protestors in the USSR during glasnost wanted liberalization of the economy, freedom, democracy, so on and so forth, the usual western imperialist dog whistles. What they got was Yeltsin (and later Putin), poverty, and death.

Thankfully, the color revolution in China failed. It was crushed. so now we have a compare-and-contrast game (how fun!!!) between the handling of color revolutions in the USSR and in China. The MATERIAL EFFECT of the color revolutions in the former Soviet-bloc was the destruction of state socialism, the robbing of state assets, the destitution of the whole population, the penetration of foreign capital, the splitting of a once unified country into warlord states. On the other hand, the Chinese state remained and by 2020, eliminated absolute poverty.

IF the protestors had gotten what they wanted, IF the Chinese state was destroyed, we would see the EXACT same thing that happened to Yugoslavia, the USSR, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Albania, and so on and so on repeat here. Except on an UNIMAGINABLE scale. 1.1 BILLION people were living in China in 1990. 1.1 BILLION reduced to poverty like you see in those videos, if not worse. Hundreds of billions of dollars of state assets in banks, factories, military, science, would have been stolen. Every bit of progress that Mao had accomplished would be rolled back to line the pockets of western imperialists. The country would most definitely be split up into warring regions, Xinjiang, TIbet, the Northeast, the Southwest, as much carnage as can be wrought to a people. THIS is the material reality that would greet the Chinese people if the '89 protestors got what they wanted.

They were chanting for child prostitution. For mass slavery. For mass poverty. For mass starvation. They stood on the side of the most evil entity to ever grace this planet. I will never forgive them.

Some reading on the '89 protests

#i fucking hate liberals

[mindblowingscience]

A trio of paleontologists, two with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the third with Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, UMR, has found the fossilized remains of two large lamprey species from the Jurassic in northeast China. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, Feixiang Wu, Philippe Janvier and Chi Zhang describe the site where the fossils were found, their condition, and features of the ancient lampreys. Prior research has shown that lampreys—eel-like, jawless, aquatic vertebrates with sucker-like mouths—first evolved approximately 360 million years ago. They still exist today in many of the world's oceans and some fresh-water environments. During their early development, they were small, only a few centimeters long. Over time, they have grown much larger—some modern species grow to over a meter long. Little is known about the evolutionary history of the creatures due to the rarity of fossil finds. In this new study, the researchers found two fossils representing two species that date back approximately 160 million years—a find that helps to fill in some gaps in the lamprey's history.

Continue Reading.

#Science #Lamprey #Fish #paleontology #biology #China #zoology #stem #evolution