#preventing extinction

[randomfandomisuppose]

If you live in Europe please take a moment to sign this petition. It’s a petition against the removal of certain protections for wolves. Even if you are not European please reblog this. As of today (15 August 2024) they already have 99,374 out of 100,000 signatures.

The following is translated from Dutch:

“To all environmental ministers of the European member states.

We are very concerned about the mass elimination of wolves in Europe. We urge you to keep the current protected status of the wolf and to make preventitive measures that protect cattle from attacks a priority.”

What follows next is the translated version of the context provided for this cause:

“Wolf hunting is back.

Het is een project dat met topprioriteit op het bureau van Ursula von der Leyen ligt. Als we niet snel zijn, zullen in heel Europa honderden wolven worden doodgeschoten.

It is a project that is on Ursula von der Leyen's desk with top priority. If we do not act quickly, hundreds of wolves will be shot across Europe.

Wolves have been hunted for centuries to the brink of extinction, but strict conservation policies have allowed the wolf population to recover -- with a positive impact on animal populations and biodiversity.

Now old fears and misconceptions are resurfacing and the European Commission wants to weaken their protection without reliable scientific evidence, despite effective alternatives for livestock protection.

But nothing has been decided yet!

The European member states will vote in a few weeks. According to insiders, it will be exciting and President von der Leyen is exerting great pressure to get the proposal through. That is why dozens of environmental organizations are now mobilizing people across Europe -- join them and share this with your friends: we must live in harmony with the wolves instead of killing them!”

[hope-for-the-planet]

I need you all to appreciate how crazy it is to have watched the scimitar horned oryx go from a poster child for "it only exists in zoos" to merely endangered (not even critically endangered!) over my lifetime.

So many heroic people contributed ridiculous amounts of time and effort to make this captive breeding and reintroduction effort a success.

[horizonslut]

made this to put on my phone for motivation

[lokiinmediasideblog]

Look, I am quite critical of TR myself, but I saw a post calling Loki's depiction there "cowardly" reblogged by some blogs I follow because he had self-preservation, and like, isn't the whole point of why we like Loki that he doesn't fit into Asgard's stringent ideals of honor and glory? Isn't that his tragedy? What are we, Asgardians? Lol.

[willczek-art]

Concepts for Illustration class!

Prompt: GET ANGRY focused on how the previous generation ruined our planet

[wachinyeya]

To Halt Ibis Extinction Austrian Man Shows Beloved Birds a New Migration Route With His UltraLight–And it’s Working https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/to-halt-ibis-extinction-austrian-man-shows-beloved-birds-a-new-migration-route-with-his-ultralight-and-its-working/

[rachel-sylvan-author]

"The Aye-aye and I: A Rescue Expedition in Madagascar" by Gerald Durrell Read Around the World: Madagascar

QOTD: What were/are your favorite animal shows? AOTD: I grew up with "Zoboomafoo" with Chris and Martin Kratt - and Marty Stouffer's "Wild America" and I still love them to this day! ❤️❤️❤️

[dogwoooooodspeaks]

young pretty cheetah

beautiful fast cool chetah

i love you cheetah

[eridan-ampora]

okay i am way too tired to pull up sources and shit to explain how wrong this is but "99% of artic foxes have rabies" is ABSOLUTELY not true, i promise you

[lucksea]

i really think “two literal spirits who are teenagers decide to hunt real life ghosts” was a hilarious idea from my 19 year old self that i should definitely do something with eventually

[chrimsone]

got angry at a story last night

[hope-for-the-planet]

Endangered Species Sightings from This Year

This is thought to be the first time in over 20 years that a blue whale was spotted off the Coast of Massachusetts.

I highly recommend watching the video and listening to the reaction of the people on the whale watching boat--the cheers and emotion in some of their voices, especially the woman saying "I'm trying not to" when someone jokingly tells her not to cry.

This is the first time ever that a mother clouded leopard with two cubs has been spotted on a game cam!

"After being considered regionally extinct for over a century, giant anteaters have been spotted roaming once again in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state. Scientists have concluded these returned natives ventured over from Argentina's Ibera Park, where conservationists have released around 110 rescued and captive-bred anteaters since 2007."

Over 100 years and the anteaters are finally coming home!

[softbuzzyman]

I love arguing with people on the internet so much like they get so mad and I'm just over here doing it for free entertainment

[karmaphone]

I know you wanna help rally people to fight against climate change but don't spread misinformation to do it. We're not trying to prevent a sixth mass extinction event, it's been ongoing for years. We're trying to help mitigate the damage

[solomons-poison]

You know that episode of Doctor Who where they visit a planet for vacation, only to be hunted down by this terrifying apex predator alien species, and THEN they find out that they are actually on Earth still but in the future, and that the alien species hunting them are actually mutated humans that survived the nuclear fallout of past wars that otherwise wiped out life on earth and made the air unbreathable?

Yeah i think thats where we're heading

[thelovebudllc]

Why having 2.1 kids isn't enough to prevent extinction.

New research finds that the fertility rate needed to sustain a population is much higher than once thought, especially when sex ratios or mortality rates shift. This raises important questions for human societies and endangered species. Study: Threshold fertility for the avoidance of extinction under critical conditions. Image Credit: sogane / Shutterstock In a recent article published in the…