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treesunlimitedllc · 4 months ago
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ikemoths · 2 years ago
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I LOVE THESE GUYS!!!!!
The green silver lines moth, oh my god, they have SUCH a good colour palette! i encourange anyone to use these guys as an inspiration for art cause they're sooo unique and pretty!!
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these guys are tiiiiny at 3.5cm, so you gotta make sure to look out for them if you wanna spot them, especially if you're looking for them while out :P
They live in europe and northern asia, so you goddamn know next season when they fly (june-july) i'll be trying to spot them
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and to make it even better, they're not even a pest of anything! just an all around beautiful moth :3 i love them so much!!
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aflockofseacows · 11 months ago
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Plums!! Last year we got one whole edible plum off of this tree. This year I've pruned it heavily. It hadn't been pruned for a decade and a couple root suckers had grown to become bigger than the actual plum tree. I've also fertilised around it and spread garden lime.
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glitterarygetsit · 1 year ago
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Comments are nutrients in the soil of fandom. Like many plants, fic writers are stubborn bastards and will manage to flower even without those nutrients, but the overall landscape will be sparse and scrubby. But if commenters come along with water and fertiliser and seed bombs of their own—that's how you get a forest, my friend.
If you ever feel like you don't contribute to fandom because you "only" comment—
A regular serial commenter just joined a fandom Discord server I'm on and people are coming out of the woodwork to thank her for her service to the fandom, expressing how much joy her comments on their works bring them.
Remember—they're never only comments.
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swift-grow · 4 months ago
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Nurture Plants with Planet-Friendly Fertiliser - Swift Grow
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Nourish your plants with Swift Grow Organic Fertiliser. Eco-friendly and sustainable, it revitalises soil and promotes vibrant growth. Visit Swift Grow to explore our range! https://swiftgrow.com.au
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thrapstongardeners · 8 months ago
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tenpolegardener · 11 months ago
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June in the garden
I put a layer of soil improver (manure) then multi purpose compost with John innes.
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Add in seaweed fertiliser in then mixed well.
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Planting my olive tree.
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Just need to add a layer of mulch and water it in.
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brainzappper · 1 year ago
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At work sometimes I make small talk and mention I have cats. Some ppl say to me how they like dogs more bc cats will probably eat their owner when they’re dead. Idk about them but I don’t care what happens after I’m dead?? Like what am I gonna do? Feel bad?? I’m already dead it literally does not matter
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haemey · 8 months ago
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I can see him standing on the lawn, either impeccably dressed and arms crossed, or dirty and in even dirtier dungarees with a wide-brimmed strawhat, casually leaning against a spade, glaring at a completely inconspicuous spot for a long time. Then, that spot moves, a little mound of dirt is thrown up, a tiny, pointy, black, furry face appears, sniffing around. It suddenly freezes, then raises itself upwards, usually invisble, beady black eyes grow unnaturally wide, as Crowley lifts one single eyebrow. The little mole retreats backwards under the earth (I don't care that they probably can't do that, if you're faced with an angry demon, you find a way), very slowly, you can practically hear the "hey man, I'm not looking for any trouble, right, I'll just..."
Crowley stares for a few moments longer, then waves a hand. The little mound of dirt curls back in on itself until it disappears and the lawn looks perfectly untouched. With one last glare, Crowley turns and leaves, with a smirk and that little satisfied head wiggle he does.
South Downs retirement Crowley but instead of tending his garden like a well-adjusted cottagecore gnome he prowls the vegetable patch revving a weed whacker and threatening to pave over the yard if the pears and dill don't grow well.
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ikemoths · 2 years ago
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Brimstone Moths :3
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These cute pastel yellow moths are pretty unmistakeable, they're small but vibrant in colour :) there is one species of butterfly somewhat simmilar to them, but: - theyre butterflies - they fly during the day while brimestone moths fly at night
they pose no agricultural threat so they're just sweet lil guys for us to admire!
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reasonsforhope · 4 months ago
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"Thousands of trees have been planted by volunteers as part of a new temperate rainforest in south Devon.
More than 2,500 native trees have been planted so far this winter at Devon Wildlife Trust's Bowden Pillars site near Totnes.
The charity said as well as storing carbon, temperate rainforests supported "a super-abundance" of wildlife.
The trust is transforming 30 hectares (75 acres) of sheep-grazed fields into a landscape with 70% tree cover and open glades and wildflower-rich meadows.
The charity said more than a 100 local people planted species including oak, rowan, alder, hazel, birch, willow and holly.
Nick Biggs, an 83-year-old volunteer, said he got involved with the project after being inspired by his apprenticeship with the Forestry Commission in 1958.
"That introduced me to the environment," he said.
"I was really keen to carry on with it and it's good for your fitness just to get out and do something."
The trust said in decades to come the new trees would form a temperate rainforest with high rainfall and humidity.
Helen Aldis from Moor Trees, which supplied some of the saplings, said many had been gathered locally.
She said: "The oak that's going in today is from acorns that we've gathered on Dartmoor that have come back to our tree nursery.
"Our volunteers process those, pop them into the root trainers and then they come out a year or two later to become the woodlands of the future."
'Incredibly rare habitat'
The trust said the damp woodlands used to cover large parts of Britain, but today amount to just 1% of its land area.
Project leader Claire Inglis said: "It's an incredibly rare habitat and we've lost a great deal of it over the years.
"Across the UK there is around 13% woodland cover but in Devon it's actually 11%, so it's lower than the national average."
The trust said the forests supported a variety of birds such as pied flycatchers, woodcock and redstarts, while the damp conditions meant mosses, liverworts, lichens, ferns and fungi thrived on the trees and forest floor.
Ms Inglis added: "The mix of young trees in amongst grass pastures and hedges, along with our commitment not to use pesticides and artificial fertilisers, will be better for local moths, butterflies and bees, along with farmland birds such as yellowhammers and barn owls."
The trust said 7,000 trees would be planted in the first winter with more planned in the future."
-via BBC, January 30, 2025
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kafkasapartment · 18 days ago
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“Ernst Götsch, a Swiss farmer, wanted to swap farming with pesticides and fertilisers for a more natural solution instead.
So in the 1980s, he moved to Brazil and found 480 hectares of barren, unproductive land.
Using a method called Syntropic Farming, he planted in layers, just like a wild forest, so the plants could support and nourish each other.
He covered the dry soil with organic matter and planted fast-growing trees that help keep moisture in the ground, making the soil healthier.
As the plants grew, they released moisture into the air, triggering rainfall, this process is called "flying rivers"' and it's how rainforests create their own rain!
His approach eliminated the need for pesticides and fertilizers by letting plants, microbes, and natural cycles do the work instead!”
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writingforatwistedworld · 1 year ago
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Hi!! I really love your writting🥰 i would like to request for the self-aware au, Reader hiding behind them after being chased by some particularly pushy NPCs with Rook, Trey, and Jack please❤️
Self-aware au
I do not take any responsibility for you reading this no matter which age group you are from!
WARNINGS: Yandere themes, murder, description of violence, blood, obsession, stalking
Trey Clover/Jack Howl/Rook Hunt-Hiding behind them
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Ah, what a nice day. In fact, it is perfect for trying out that recipe with that dough that needed to rest for a while
Or rather, that was his plan for the day until he suddenly heard two pairs of footsteps rushing into the dorm kitchen
And no, it was not the kind of footsteps that spoke of joy like the ones of his siblings did. from time to time, it sounded panicked
Just a second later you entered the kitchen with an octavinelle student, the latter one trying to catch up to you
Before the baker could figure out what was going on, you were suddenly behind him, using his body as a shield
Oh… oh!
Was this guy harassing you?
How dare he? How dare-
Deep breaths. Very deep breaths - would be something he would have said to himself if he wasn't this angry
By some miracle, he was able to hold himself together
He was this close to loose his reputation as "that nice hat wearing baker"
A strict look towards the student and you were finally alone with him
For you the whole thing was over but for that student?
Suddenly the poor lad fell ill, claiming that he had stomach problems
Heck, he couldn't even keep his food down
Such a shame... Trey surely hoped he would survive
Who else could he secretly gift those cakes? You? Oh no... It's just that he experiments with some new recipes...
Ignore that bottle in the cupboard
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Jack is someone who keeps his friends very close and is not afraid to stand up for them
Only that he saw you as someone more precious than a friend
So when he saw you running away from a student and slipping behind him he saw the world just a tiny bit tinted red
The young wolf beastman isn't someone who uses violence just because he can do or feel like using it
(Honestly, at this point he is more like your little dog than some fearsome wolf)
Just because he didn't turn the student into very biological and mushy fertiliser for the flowers then and there doesn't mean he was calm though
Grabbing the not so nice company of yours, he told you to not worry and leave your little problem to him
Ah yes, Jack Howl, that kind acquaintance of yours
How nice of him
But you know, there are also tales about wolves acting as if they are kind just to devour you
Of course Jack didn't do that
Does not mean that things went as peaceful as you thought they did after you left
Jack usually keeps his instincts under control but on that evening he had to cut his nails very short and scrub his hands
Anyone would be horrified after the sensation of calcium breaking under their hand, splintering like old, dried out wood under a saw
He should feel guilty but... it was hard to do so
Which brings us back to a sink being used by a certain beastman
Geez, some things are so hard to get off of skin once it dries, wouldn't you agree?
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First of all, it's a wonder the hunter wasn't watching you from a tree (or something like that... who knew bushes could walk in this world)
If he had he would have immediately revealed himself by slithering in between you and that oh so foolish first year
But alas, apparently a miracle happened and this time it was you seeking out him
When Rook heart the certain sound of your shoes hitting the ground he was swivelling around, a poem about his devotion towards you already on his tongue...
And them you hid behind his arm curtains (you know, their dorm uniforms sleves)
Did hiw beloved Overseer, perfection and liberatir in person finally choose him as their most favorite- no? Ok that's cool too
If this was any other situation he would have started a speech in his wannabe French, stating how short he was by your rejection
But right now he had to deal with your little stalker (don't try to act all innocent, Rook, you did the same many more times than they ever could without being noticed)
Trying to calm you down the hunter brought you to Pomfiore
And nothing weir happened
No I am not joking, Rook was his usual normal self (if we want to call at best flirtatious remarks and at worst frantic devoted ramblings normal)
From then on you were much closer to the hunter
Especially after a body was found
And oh, how grateful Rook was for not having the time to get rid of the body on that day
Of course, he had noticed how ce fou followed you two to the dorm
How trusting you were when he told you that he wanted to get you two something to drink...
And there the parasite still was, lingering around the entrance of his dorm
The only regret Rook had was finishing his job so quickly
It was always such a bore whenever his prey wouldn't squirm
Well, at least you were now close to him
Just be careful, the hunter was also back then the one bringing her highness a false heart. Who knows how much he would lie to get you all to himself?
Uh and… maybe don't open that box he has in his room in a cooler. He told you he keeps some sort of trophy in there and I think that is all we need to know
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the-blue-countess · 3 months ago
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Primo headcanons that aren’t ‘old man doing old man things’
(I love those, but we as a fandom - bandom, I might say - need to remember how batshit he was)
- starting off simple, Primo unironically loves the Beatles (it started out as a way to piss off Nihil in the sixties, but now it’s a genuine appreciation)
- refuses to use electricity most of the time, would rather smack into walls by candlelight than embrace the clinical and frankly ugly modern lighting.
- hates humanity, especially after basically raising Secondo and Terzo while Nihil did whatever he wanted. He loves his brothers, who are a bit of a soft spot for him
- adding to this, I believe that canon cryptid Primo and loving older brother Primo can both exist - He was the best older brother, careful and loving, often acting in a manner perhaps a bit more subdued than normal. Primo embraced his more caring traits when with his brothers, ensuring their happiness as best he could regardless of his reputation. He tried to be, what he considered to be, a better version of himself for them.
- as such, when he went on tour and said all those crazy things in interviews, his brothers had to do a double take.
- this isn’t to say that, when not with his brothers, he wasn’t doing weird and creepy things. Primo often enjoyed being off putting, and occasionally does strange things to keep people on their toes.
- once they were all grown up, Primo allowed some of his more bizarre thoughts to be said out loud. Every so often, Secondo will burst into laughter at something he has said, especially at the conversational tone
- often says things and people can’t tell whether he’s joking or not. Occasionally he’ll say something outlandish, which mustn’t be true, surely, only to be proven right at a later date, so Terzo takes him at his word on principle, no matter how stupid the claim may be.
- He once claimed to be Jack the Ripper, and some children of the clergy managed to get word of it and believed him.
- makes terrible jokes, and enjoys wordplay that makes his brother sigh
- was definitely a goth during the 80s
- in addition to his marigolds and daisies, he probably grows poisonous plants too, such as belladonna and foxglove, along with Venus flytraps. As such, he has to make sure that Copia’s rats stay out of the garden
- refuses to watch Nosferatu (1922), because he feels insulted by the portrayal of the vampire, which he claims was based on him.
- no one really knows how old he is, not even Nihil, who was a teensy bit stoned the year Primo was born
- fairly eldritch, and likes to do the Michael Myers disappearing act, but only when people look away from a distance - never during conversation (unless it’s Seestor, who he allows himself to be rude to)
- has a tendency to lurk; around corners, in the shadows, in the backs of rooms
- pierced his tongue during the 70s
- like to have bitchy conversations with Chain ghoul, who he gossips with, often about macabre things. Likes to spend gloomy evenings strolling through cemeteries and judging the headstones, often mocking the inscriptions.
- on the subject of ghouls, has grown fonder of them over time, ceasing his previous disturbing behaviour, although despises Phil, who keeps popping up where he’s not wanted. They definitely help out in the garden
- there are rumours that bodies are buried in his garden beds, and that’s why his flowers are so huge. He never confirms nor denies these accusations, only commenting that he has a good fertiliser.
- after his run of Papa, he relaxed a little. He spends most of his time doing whatever he wants, mostly on a whim.
- every so often he’ll disappear, sometimes for days at a time, only to reappear later, hair full of twigs and knotted something awful, with new light in his eyes.
- nobody knows where he goes, and it’s anybody’s guess. Secondo has bet money that he’s visiting a lover, whereas Terzo thinks he likes to hang out away from people and live in the trees for a bit. Copia thinks that he has his ghouls bury him alive for some much needed rest from the world. They have no idea if they’re right or not, because Primo refuses to tell them.
- Copia once walked into the kitchen of the Ministry in the middle of the night to find Primo, after being gone for a week, sitting calmly by an open window with a chalice in his hand, jumping at the sight and almost dropping his rats,
“Holy fuck, where the shit have you been?”
“I have no idea what you speak of. I never left.”
- refuses to go out on sunny days without an umbrella. Would rather takes his walks at night and bathe in the moonlight.
- despite his paternal instincts, he cannot bake for shit, his biscuits always ending up burnt to a crisp, no matter what he tries. Eventually he gives up, and Secondo does the baking from now on
- probably sleeps in a coffin, just for laughs
- always wins at Uno, but cannot play cards to save his life. Purposely avoided playing any type of card game with his brothers because they can beat him without fail, even without knowing the rules
- claims to only watch silent films, but has a secret love of torture slasher films, as they allow him to revel in the cruelty of the human race, stoking his hatred of humanity.
- fucking adores Elizabeth Bathory, and will defend her to his dying day. Gets into arguments online about whether she was innocent or not.
- spent a week in an opium den, for no reason other than he could.
- always knew that Nihil would choose Seestor over them, and likes to haunt them both before they die.
- likes to give pep talks to the other papas before touring, especially Copia and Perpetua although his advice can vary in its usefulness, and is often oddly specific and irrelevant.
- he, Secondo and Terzo hang around the Ministry more often now that Copia is Frater, doing their best to make sure he isn’t lonely or sad.
- refuses to buy into the capitalistic machine, and makes all his own clothes, with the exception of the crimson sweaters that Secondo knitted for him.
- likes to take a lawn chair to busy intersections to watch the carnage
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fatehbaz · 2 years ago
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Despite its green image, Ireland has surprisingly little forest. [...] [M]ore than 80% of the island of Ireland was [once] covered in trees. [...] [O]f that 11% of the Republic of Ireland that is [now] forested, the vast majority (9% of the country) is planted with [non-native] spruces like the Sitka spruce [in commercial plantations], a fast growing conifer originally from Alaska which can be harvested after just 15 years. Just 2% of Ireland is covered with native broadleaf trees.
Text by: Martha O’Hagan Luff. “Ireland has lost almost all of its native forests - here’s how to bring them back.” The Conversation. 24 February 2023. [Emphasis added.]
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[I]ndustrial [...] oil palm plantations [...] have proliferated in tropical regions in many parts of the world, often built at the expense of mangrove and humid forest lands, with the aim to transform them from 'worthless swamp' to agro-industrial complexes [...]. Another clear case [...] comes from the southernmost area in the Colombian Pacific [...]. Here, since the early 1980s, the forest has been destroyed and communities displaced to give way to oil palm plantations. Inexistent in the 1970s, by the mid-1990s they had expanded to over 30,000 hectares. The monotony of the plantation - row after row of palm as far as you can see, a green desert of sorts - replaced the diverse, heterogenous and entangled world of forest and communities.
Text by: Arturo Escobar. "Thinking-Feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South." Revista de Antropologia Iberoamericana Volume 11 Issue 1. 2016. [Emphasis added.]
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But efforts to increase global tree cover to limit climate change have skewed towards erecting plantations of fast-growing trees [...] [because] planting trees can demonstrate results a lot quicker than natural forest restoration. [...] [But] ill-advised tree planting can unleash invasive species [...]. [In India] [t]o maximize how much timber these forests yielded, British foresters planted pines from Europe and North America in extensive plantations in the Himalayan region [...] and introduced acacia trees from Australia [...]. One of these species, wattle (Acacia mearnsii) [...] was planted in [...] the Western Ghats. This area is what scientists all a biodiversity hotspot – a globally rare ecosystem replete with species. Wattle has since become invasive and taken over much of the region’s mountainous grasslands. Similarly, pine has spread over much of the Himalayas and displaced native oak trees while teak has replaced sal, a native hardwood, in central India. Both oak and sal are valued for [...] fertiliser, medicine and oil. Their loss [...] impoverished many [local and Indigenous people]. [...]
India’s national forest policy [...] aims for trees on 33% of the country’s area. Schemes under this policy include plantations consisting of a single species such as eucalyptus or bamboo which grow fast and can increase tree cover quickly, demonstrating success according to this dubious measure. Sometimes these trees are planted in grasslands and other ecosystems where tree cover is naturally low. [...] The success of forest restoration efforts cannot be measured by tree cover alone. The Indian government’s definition of “forest” still encompasses plantations of a single tree species, orchards and even bamboo, which actually belongs to the grass family. This means that biennial forest surveys cannot quantify how much natural forest has been restored, or convey the consequences of displacing native trees with competitive plantation species or identify if these exotic trees have invaded natural grasslands which have then been falsely recorded as restored forests. [...] Planting trees does not necessarily mean a forest is being restored. And reviving ecosystems in which trees are scarce is important too.
Text by: Dhanapal Govindarajulu. "India was a tree planting laboratory for 200 years - here are the results." The Conversation. 10 August 2023. [Emphasis added.]
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Nations and companies are competing to appropriate the last piece of available “untapped” forest that can provide the most amount of “environmental services.” [...] When British Empire forestry was first established as a disciplinary practice in India, [...] it proscribed private interests and initiated a new system of forest management based on a logic of utilitarian [extraction] [...]. Rather than the actual survival of plants or animals, the goal of this forestry was focused on preventing the exhaustion of resource extraction. [...]
Text by: Daniel Fernandez and Alon Schwabe. "The Offsetted." e-flux Architecture (Positions). November 2013. [Emphasis added.]
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At first glance, the statistics tell a hopeful story: Chile’s forests are expanding. […] On the ground, however, a different scene plays out: monocultures have replaced diverse natural forests [...]. At the crux of these [...] narratives is the definition of a single word: “forest.” [...] Pinochet’s wave of [...] [laws] included Forest Ordinance 701, passed in 1974, which subsidized the expansion of tree plantations [...] and gave the National Forestry Corporation control of Mapuche lands. This law set in motion an enormous expansion in fiber-farms, which are vast expanses of monoculture plantations Pinus radiata and Eucalyptus species grown for paper manufacturing and timber. [T]hese new plantations replaced native forests […]. According to a recent study in Landscape and Urban Planning, timber plantations expanded by a factor of ten from 1975 to 2007, and now occupy 43 percent of the South-central Chilean landscape. [...] While the confusion surrounding the definition of “forest” may appear to be an issue of semantics, Dr. Francis Putz [...] warns otherwise in a recent review published in Biotropica. […] Monoculture plantations are optimized for a single product, whereas native forests offer [...] water regulation, hosting biodiversity, and building soil fertility. [...][A]ccording to Putz, the distinction between plantations and native forests needs to be made clear. “[...] [A]nd the point that plantations are NOT forests needs to be made repeatedly [...]."
Text by: Julian Moll-Rocek. “When forests aren’t really forests: the high cost of Chile’s tree plantations.” Mongabay. 18 August 2014. [Emphasis added.]
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fishposting-pishfosting · 4 months ago
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a year ago i bought you from a shitty chain store and two days ago i watched you twitch your tail for the last time and i just want to thank you for the 363 days you gave me. thats the longest any chainstore betta has lasted in my decade plus of betta care and i loved every day of it. i love how curious you were and i'll miss you and think about you forever
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package secured. cant wait to get him settled in :)
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