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Hey just wanted to come on here and share that Osprey populations are rapidly declining on the eastern shore of Virginia. To the point there is only 18 birds left on the shoreline. There hasn't been an official study on the cause of the decline but the current suspect is that the fish they eat is likely not doing well.
If you're in Virginia please look further into this
And look into local resources to help
https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2025-06-osprey-population-collapse-virginia-eastern.amp
Ospreys are birds of prey that are of low conservation focus. They eat fish so they are found often nesting on tall man made structures near bodies of water. They have a success rate for fishing of somewhere between 25 up to 70% success rate for fishing. Yeah just generally pretty cool birds
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Osprey/overview
Sorry if this post is a little different it was more rushed than my normal posts and it was written entirely on my phone rather than typed up for better grammar.
#ecology#environment#education#climate crisis#conservation#birds#climate action#climate change#osprey
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Were back to poorly drawing endangered species and writing about them! Day 3 we have an amazing turtle species, that I am partial to due to their namesakes connection to birds of prey, called the Hawksbill Sea Turtle!
These turtles inhabit all of the worlds oceans and are listed under the endangered status. They do their nesting in small groups on beaches. When they go to nest they go to about the same place they were born to go start a new family. They are omnivores with a preference on eating sponges weirdly enough? But they are important to maintain balance within their ecosystems.
Threats to their life:
-Accidentally getting caught in fishing gear. Sometimes they can get caught in hooks and lines leading to injury and death
-Due to their beautiful shell some people will kill the turtle for chances to make crafts out of it. As well as that some places still will eat the meat, but due to the mostly sponge diet their meat can become toxic.
-Loss of habitat and foraging, they lose their habitat due to coastal developement and then coral bleaching causes a loss of food for many many species of animals
-Natural Predation
-Injuries due to human boating and water activity. When we increase the vessel traffic we threaten all animals near the surface.
-General Pollution degrades health and habitat
-Changing temperatures. With the temperatures changing it has the opportunity to alter the gender ratio due to in some animal hatchling it being a temperature factor.

What is the government doing?
-Working internationally to create policy around protection
-Developing changes in fishing gear to protect the animals
-Protecting habitats
-Conducting Research
How Can You Help:
-Reduce Trash
-Do not Disturb
-Protect Habitat
-Report Marine life In Distress
Info:
#ecology#environment#climate crisis#conservation#education#climate action#climate change#science communication#science#endangered animals#endangered species#turtle#hawksbill turtle#scicomm#climate activism#enviroment art#art#animal art#wildlife#wildlifeeducation#wildlife art#digital art#digital illustration#digital drawing#digital painting
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So feeling sick today so instead I would like to explain what science communication is and why it is growing importance in recent years.
So anyone in University may have seen that some schools are adopting a new major called something along the lines of science communication. This majors goal is to bridge the gap between academia science, policy, and people. Scientific topics on their own are a pain to deal with, people don't wanna read scientific articles and guess what, same man. Because of that science communicators will look at the papers and in a way summarize and make the data much simpler for people not in the academia lifestyle to want to read.
The idea of having this as a field of study started after the covid pandemic and the need of having someone who knows what's happening but not too pretentious sharing science findings. The other goal is to try and fight misinformation as it happens.
This has been a career that's been done for a long time but now we're putting a field of a study to it.
Some examples of science communicators;
-Crash course
-Steve Irwin
-National Geographic
This is a great way to integrate a love for stem with strengths in communication and english and yeah
Here's a photo of a baby goose for yalls troubles

Again sorry I'm like really sick right now so there's probably some spelling and grammar mistakes please go easy on this one
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Look, I’m really procrastinating my next drawing, so instead we are just gonna talk about a random bird cause I have some amazing photos that I need to share
TODAYS BIRD SHALL BE: drumroll pls
THE PURPLE MARTIN
This is a migratory bird that in breeding season is around the US’s Midwest and eastern side, and in its non-breeding season, they are in central southern America. They’re not of any kind of conservation concern. They live in nesting cavities near bodies of water and eat mostly an insect-based diet. This bird gathers all of its food and water mid-flight.
Anyway yeah enjoy the many many pictures I took at a nesting box for them.









All info was from Cornell Labs
#bird photography#ecology#birds#environment#education#conservation#environmetalists#environmental photography#bored#educate yourself#birding#photooftheday#photography#animals#wildlife#wildlife education
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Now I’m not here to ruin the fun, I love parades and think they are a great way to boost community spirit and bring a community together. That being said I don’t think parades should exist to celebrate a singular living person.
Parades can bring some pretty severe pollution with the amount of vehicles things being thrown out of cars and left on the ground. With this note Trumps military parade is an absolute nightmare for the environment. It will create so much pollution that its equivalent to the necessity of powering 300 homes for an entire year.
The vehicles featured in this parade are not fuel efficient in the slightest and burn hundreds of gallons of fuel per hour
This isn’t even accounting for any of the travel involved to put this special together! It doesn’t account for getting the equipment there, none of the spectators getting there, none of the military service members there, none of it.
I must also how are we doing a good job of cutting our unnecessary spending. This was an unnecessary investment, I am sure there is other celebration options that would require much less equipment and people.
This info is from The Guardian in case you have interest in further exploring
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Happy birthday to our big beautiful president, dear old Donny, and for my celebration today I’d like to take a moment and celebrate the bestest presidents environmental policies. I unfortunately will not have the space to get through all of them as the environmental community has been overwhelmed with the shear amount of news and cutbacks.
-5/23/2025 Executive Order: reimplementing his scientific integrity policies
-suppresses science that “disagrees” with his administration this often affects climate research
-4/24/2025 Executive Order: to speed up process of approving offshore mining projects
-4/17/2025 Executive Order: Seeking to deregulate the fishing industry
-remember when I was talking about the Bluefin tuna being overfished and all that jazz. Removing regulations can lead to overfishing causing more endangered species and potentially fishing to extinction.
-4/9/2025 Executive Order: Just ending a lot a lot of energy regulations
-4/8/2025 Executive Order: Preventing Enforcement of Local Climate Laws
-Energy becomes controlled at the federal level
-4/8/25 Executive Order: Clean Coal
-removes coal mining barriers
-3/1/2025 Executive Order: Expansion of Timber Production
-1/20/2025 Executive Order: Declared National Energy Emergency
-This allows him to enact all he wants
-1/20/2025 Executive Order: Backs out of Paris Agreement
Please keep in mind this is only me so far covering SOME of the executive orders. In total he’s so far signed 161 in 2025 not all about environmental work. This is the most any president before him has ever done in their first year and this is simply an abuse of power. As well as that he’s done things outside of executive orders against the climate movement. There is too much that I will cover as I can sort through them but we are not in a good place politically.
As many of you know for his birthday he is doing a giant military parade and across America people are counter protesting and being met with police force. I’m not in a position where I am able to go out and protest so I do what I can to do my best to stay informed and educate people on what is happening right now. Please remember there are still things of protest you can do within your own home and please please stay safe right now.
FEDERAL REGISTER
ABC
CLIMATE BACKTRACKER
#ecology#climate crisis#education#us politics#usa#trump administration#government policy#protest#climate action#conservation#environment#environmetalists
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Happy Day 2 of posting a poorly drawn endangered species, now I’m not following these in any kind of order just as I feel like it
Folks today we have an amazing species Who’s status is endangered. These animals can weigh up to 1500lbs and can be up to ten feet in length! Do we have any guesses yet? Here’s another hint they are found within the ocean.
The answer: The Atlantic BlueFin Tuna!!!!!!
These fish live in all oceans but most are caught from the Mediterranean sea. They are predators who feed on large colonies of smaller fish keeping balance of the environment in a top down control method.
These fish have had declining populations due to humans over fishing them. You see, they are a delicacy, and sell for high prices. This is leading to illegal fishing on them without much enforcement.

How are people protecting them:
-The first most common way is by tagging. Tagging allows them to track the behaviors to know how to best create more policy for their protection.
Source:
Worldwildlife.org
Also please let me know if the noise is distracting I am trying to experiment anti ai filters but also don't wanna disrupt from the viewing experience too much
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So I know environmental coverage is looking pretty grim right now and I know its been difficult to keep an open mind, especially in some key parts of the world right now
So for that reason I want to try and make an uplifting post. So I spent some time trying to find some good news for our environmental goals. This organization called the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) put together a May 2025 roundup of Environmental wins for America.
Here are the highlights
A bill was introduced to reinstate environmental employees who were terminated at the beginning of this administration
Another bill was reintroduced to stop the collection of oil and gas to restore the Arctic
6 States signed bills for climate protections (OH, CT, ME, PA, NC, and MI)
As always here’s a link to the article should you want to get more details
https://www.lcv.org/blog/good-climate-news-roundup-may-2025/
And thank you for reading and sticking it through, I don’t quite have a related picture for this so please accept my humble Downey Woodpecker photo

And thank you @knickknacktumb13 for explaining how to link things, I fear I may be an old man when it comes to social media
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Day 1 of me poorly drawing endangered animals and writing about it
SO FOLKS
What we have here is an African Forest Elephant, they are a critically endangered species who live in dense tropical forests in west and central Africa. They have a slower reproductive rate than most of their relatives causing a slower bounce back from catastrophes. These animals can live up to 70 years old and are herbivores. Their biggest risk to life is the effects humans have had on them. Humans poach them for ivory and destroy their native habitat.

How are they working to conserve this beautiful species:
-studying behaviors, ranges, and patterns in order to come up with a more comprehensive plan
-Using Canines to stop poaching
Sources
https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/african-forest-elephant
https://www.awf.org/wildlife-conservation/forest-elephant
#ecology#environment#enviroment art#endangered species#endangered animals#climate crisis#critically endangered#africa#conservation#art#artwork#sketch#elephant#education
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LISTEN UP FOLKS, I know this page is advertised as bird content but in all seriousness its all ecology. SO WHATS HAPPENING
Our favorite little creatures, amphibians, are at a terrible risk. This includes Frogs, Salamanders, and many others. In Europe, Madagascar, and the Amazon droughts and heatwaves are causing a rapid decline in the health of amphibian animals. Researchers at Goethe University of Frankfurt looked at data from forty years of the species appearing on the threat list and the geological spot for their breeding grounds. The breeding grounds of amphibians is wetlands which in states of droughts and heatwaves are more likely to dry up and disrupt its natural ecosystems.
WHAT CAN YOU DO:
Advocate for wetlands conservation
Spread the word
Educate yourself further on the effects of climate change
And lastly if its in your budget potentially look at projects near you and help donate to conservation groups
I know the environment is looking very grim right now, but our most powerful tool is education and doing what we can to contribute and help. Hold in there and enjoy nature as much as you can.
Thanks for sticking through to the end of the post. As a reward here is a picture of I think a Northern Leopard Frog which is a North American frog. I took this picture at a local marsh near me and idk I think it's pretty neat.

(My picture idk how this citation works)
Also please give me feedback I'm trying something new and working to improve my skills in social media based on audiences for my schooling so please all advice is welcome
Source for info from this post
Goethe University Frankfurt. (2025, June 6). Extreme weather is wiping out amphibians—Here’s where it’s worst. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 9, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250606231257.htm
#ecology#environment#psa#amphibians#endangered species#conservation#climate change#climate crisis#climate action#education#wildlife#practice#communication#science
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There is a more popular post going around discussing individual or small-scale things you can do to help with mitigating climate change, in response to the notion that it's large companies that are responsible for climate change and there's little we as individuals can do.
I agree with it and have reblogged, but I also want to introduce 4 points that I think need acknowledgment at well in the "individuals versus large companies" debate.
1. While of course your single individual choices won't make or break large companies, a lot of the big companies that are responsible for climate change are still producing stuff for individual consumers. With the exception of stuff like crypto, companies are contributing to climate change when they make and sell stuff to people. Reducing consumption can reduce the profit of those companies. Example: ExxonMobil is obviously a big example of a company contributing to climate change. Reducing energy and gas consumption (car pool, advocate for and use public transport, etc.) knocks into their bottom line.
2. I just want to explicitly acknowledge that some of the common suggestions, though not all, require up-front money (like more efficient appliances), time, or energy that not everyone has. Some may not be available based on your exact location (eg. using public transport) or living situation (eg. growing native plants in a home garden). If you are going "but I can't do/ it would be very difficult me to do X": this is me saying that those specific suggestions are aimed at someone else in a different situation. The things listed as ways to help are just wide variety of suggestions to consider if you can apply, not moral rules that you, individually, need to live by. (I am adding this point for anyone who gets anxiety spirals around this sort of thing, not because I think folks were usually implying this).
(Last 2 points under the cut)
3. You may see some suggestions like "planting native plants for pollinators" or "decals on windows to prevent bird collisions" and wonder what the hell that has to do with climate change. One of the answers is that the stressors on ecosystems and people are additive. You may not be directly helping climate change, but by reducing a cause of ecosystem decline you help make the ecosystem more resilient to the impacts overall.
4. Point 3 is also applicable to people and communities. Stuff like extreme weather will effect the most vulnerable around us most drastically. For example, people experiencing homelessness are in danger during heat waves. This sucks, but it also means that by advocating for their rights and fair treatment and for housing, you are also reducing an impact of climate change. In a similar vein, volunteering and advocacy for a more equitable world, even for non-environmental causes, builds community and helps makes us more resilient to change and disasters. Heck, something as simple as getting to know your neighbors means that if a natural disaster hits you can rely on each other for help. Climate change has wide reaching impacts but the ways to help are just as wide.
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True love needs to be how God intended it; Between a girl and her river
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new favorite YouTube comment just dropped

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Lowkey my biggest op this season is this little guy
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The names just my e-bird of the day
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