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#this looks so cool! #I love the texture around the wings and the goopy-ness of the shade #hollow knight #other people's art #hk ghost #reblog

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(lot of big frog wins)

For the first time in five years, northern corroboree frogs have been spotted in Namadgi National Park by ACT government ecologists.

The species is listed as critically endangered and the government has been attempting to restore their population in the park for more than a decade.

Ecologists have been releasing frogs and eggs into the park as part of a breeding program, but they had not been spotted in the wild since 2019.

This year, 16 male frogs were identified at the Ginini Flats Wetlands site and a further 21 frogs were counted at a lower elevation site in the park. "Having not seen these frogs in the wild since 2019, we were beginning to think all hope was lost, and that the species was close to extinction," Environment Minister Rebecca Vassarotti said.

She told ABC Radio Canberra the frogs were under pressure due to many issues including climate change, habitat loss and the invasive chytrid fungus.

That deadly fungus affects the frogs' skin and stops them from being able to take in water and important salts.

Ms Vassarotti said ecologists had been experimenting with the breeding program and releasing frogs in different areas to see if they could make a difference.

"We've been ... releasing eggs in some other areas in Namadgi, where they hadn't previously been seen," she explained.

"These were at slightly lower elevations. And the reason we were doing that is that they were elevations where there wasn't such an impact of this awful fungus."Ms Vassarotti said this was an "exciting" development but acknowledged there was more work to be done through the breeding program.

"Australia is the extinction capital of the world," Ms Vassarotti said in a statement.

"Way too often, climate change and human impact on the environment has resulted in us losing unique species permanently as they become extinct.

"I've been heartbroken to have to continue to list species as close to extinction.

"The identification of new northern corroboree frogs across a range of sites restores my confidence that we can save this incredible frog that is so unique to our region."

#enviormental news #frog win let's go! #reblog

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#this is so so cool! #I've never thought about how you could utilize red-blue glasses for art #and the artwork is amazing no matter what colour(s) you're looking at #it's like three paintings in one! #other people's art #art inspiration #art ideas #skeleton #reblog

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you seem familiar

#the lighting is so cool #hollow knight #hk ghost #hk broken vessel #other people's art #reblog

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Reblog so everyone can hear what they need.

#tumblr polls #writing poll #polls #reblog

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Armored woodlice:

1. Pseudarmadillo spinosus 2. Unknown, Armadillidiidae 3. Loreola sp. 4. Loreola sp. 5. Unknown, Armadillidiidae 6. Echinarmadillidium fruxgalli

Photos by Nicky Bay // Facebook // Website

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

#I didn't know they could be so spiky! #drawing inspiration #reblog

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I also love it when they have different hues of blue and red to fit the mood and environment :3

#that's a cool idea #transformers #art inspiration #reblog

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You know what? Fuck it.

The amount of notes that this post gets by the end of April is the amount of words I'll write for one of my books.

#reblog

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Had a very scary medical emergency yesterday (not me but close family) and I made this to try and distract. Things seem to be better though

#monsoon-of-art #other people's art #other people's ocs #I love the lighting and the glitch effect on the wings! #reblog

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#I was out today #and it's true #all I needed was a light jacket #reblog

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Realizing I have never shared any pictures of my S H R I M P I love my SMIM-P-

Okay context; Me and some of the fellas from HallowHome were talking about the possibility of aquatic vessels that live in the void sea and what adaptations they might have. This is Artem! They're part of a trio with @phantomgrape and @frolicinq as triplets that hatched from the same egg!

I have fallen madly in love with them I just love lil SWIMP Auughds oooug

#shrimp vessel! #that's such a cool idea! #I love their design #they look so cute in the second picture with their tail curled around themself #hollow knight #hk vessel #hollow knight vessel #hollow knight oc #hk vessel oc #other people's art #other people's ocs #reblog

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IM SO SICK OF YOU ALL

No nuance allowed. please share for a bigger sample 💕💕💕💕💕

*by eat i mean how do you prefer your cereal.

#Personally cereal is cold #meanwhile oatmeal is warm #tumblr polls #polls #reblog

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Orange Lappet Moths (Alompra roepkei), male and female, family Lasiocampidae, MCM Nature Discovery Villa, Fraser's Hill, Malaysia

photographs by David Fischer

#oh my gosh it's a living cheeto #orange lamppet moth #Alompra roepkei #moths #lepidoptera #entomology #insects #reblog

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#I should spend more time at my local library this summer #I remember checking out a series one book at a time for months when I was younger #it was where I found the MTMTE Transformers comics that have become my favourite peice of Transformers media #(along with providing so much interesting lore on pre-war Cybertron!) #and I checked out a really good book on how to help bugs there last summer #from books to computers to giant chess sets #libraries are great spaces to be #reblog

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Hi! I’m really sick of whitewashing and the various excuses that artists come up with, so I wrote a guide! How To Not Whitewash, at least with regards to skin tone. Please make use of it, and encourage other artists to do so as well. Here’s a link to this guide on a Google Doc - this document has image descriptions. Feel free to contact me if the link stops working, or if you have questions (in good faith).

#drawing resource #drawing tips #I never thought about the effects of saturating vs desaturating colour before #reblog

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Speaking up and educating people on why the most hated life forms on the planet are important and meaningful is a thankless task.

How do we reach out and get people to care about insects and spiders when the average reaction is either "EEWW KILL IT WITH FIRE" or blind panic?

Arthropods are crucial to the survival of life as we know it. Yes, even commonly vilified bugs like wasps and mosquitoes have ecological niches that the world CANNOT do without.

I cannot overstate their importance.

#the type of animal that got me interested in entomology is wasps #the more I learned about them the more I realized how unfair the hatred for these brilliant little bugs is #I'll always be a fan of wasps - they need someone in their corner #and I will take up that task with joy #reblog