#The Nature Conservancy

[fatchance]

Mama hummingbird.

Rivoli’s hummingbird / colibrí magnífico (Eugenes fulgens), nesting at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, Cochise County, Arizona.

As with most hummingbirds, the males' parental contributions to the circle of life are (ahem) scant. They contribute nothing to nest building, brooding, or care and feeding nestlings. You can see a picture of a male Rivoli's here.

[vandaliatraveler]

Good news for nature enthusiasts in the Mid-Atlantic region. We now have even more of this already special place to celebrate.

[humongouscasheaglebagel]

[jwood719]

Kankakee Sands: not bison. Random shots from along a country road through the preserve.

R. Jake Wood, 2024.

The Nature Conservancy: Kankakee Sands.

Roadside trash--every-damn-where y'go!

[brightgnosis]

Oklahoma Native Plant Guide: Plant THIS not THAT from The Nature Conservancy

[bumblebeeappletree]

‘It's almost like you're putting a stake in the ground’ — Here’s what The Nature Conservancy’s chief scientist, Katharine Hayhoe had to say when asked about having children and fighting for climate action

This video was created in collaboration with Nature's Newsroom.

#Earth #Environment #ClimateCrisis #NowThis

[protoslacker]

 For a long time, forming partnerships with polluters was how the green groups proved they were serious. But the young people demanding divestment—as well as the grassroots groups fighting fossil fuels wherever they are mined, drilled, fracked, burned, piped or shipped—have a different definition of seriousness. They are serious about winning. And the message to Big Green is clear: cut your ties with the fossils, or become one yourself.

Naomi Klein in The Nation (May 2013) archived. Time for Big Green to Go Fossil Free

Some mainstream environmental organizations are trying to wean themselves from fossil fuel investments—but some aren’t.

[crowley1990]

Learning about how some major environmental groups literally take money from big oil. Evil.

[lajicarita]

Forest and Watershed Jobs Fair

[fatchance]

Bigtooth maple (Acer grandidentatum) at Ramsey Canyon Preserve.

[vandaliatraveler]

Bear Rocks Preserve, located adjacent to the Dolly Sods Wilderness, encompasses a dramatic sandstone promontory overlooking the Valley and Ridge Province of the Central Appalachians and the Potomac River drainage. The preserve is characterized by its sprawling heath plains, which turn vivid red and purple in the fall, red spruce flagged by near constant, buffeting winds, and massive slabs of Connoquenessing sandstone that break the spine of the Allegheny Front and form the most amazing features and patterns - faces, animals, etc. Wind, rain, and ice are the primary forces of change here, but that change comes slowly to human eyes; the landscape looks much the way it did when I first visited it forty-plus years ago.

Last year, Bear Rocks Preserve and adjoining lands were incorporated into the nation’s 600th National Natural Landmark, the Bear Rocks and Allegheny Front Preserve NNL.

[aurosoulart]

THE FINAL RESULTS ARE IN!!! 🎉

Cover The World With Flowers, an AR art campaign where I used a Magic Leap headset to create one virtual flower for every $ donated, raised OVER THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS for The Nature Conservancy!! 🥳

this is the most I’ve ever been able to raise before, and I am beyond grateful to everyone who helped by donating, making flower requests, and boosting the posts 💖💖💖

I’m excited to keep using AR for stuff like this!! my company is built on a very eco-friendly mission statement, so you’ll definitely be seeing more in the future 😁🌍💚

[photography-obsession]

Lei Bo

Third place, Insects and Arachnids, The Nature Conservancy Photo Contest 2023

[jwood719]

Bison on the restored prairie, with a Contemporary America shot included: Buried Fiber Optic Cable and (presumbed) Bull.

Kankakee Sands Bison: an unseasonably warm Sunday prompts a drive to see if the buffalo could be seen--and they could!

Strung out in a raggedy, quarter-mile long line, the bison were cropping the grass at the south end of the pasture.

No-where near the official viewing area.

R. Jake Wood, 2024.

The Nature Conservancy: Kankakee Sands.

Fuel for your plains dugout!

[onenicebugperday]

I’ve seen a few ~aesthetic~ photos of rock stacks in rivers recently and this is just a reminder that you are destroying habitat when you move rocks around in rivers and streams.

In addition to dragonfly nymphs, rocky river beds are home to lots of other larval invertebrates like damselflies, mayflies, water beetles, caddisflies, stoneflies, and a bunch of dipterans. Not to mention lots of fish and amphibians!

Plus large scale rock stacking can change the flow of a stream and lead to increased erosion.

Anyway dragonfly for admiration:

Calico pennant by nbdragonflyguy