#it’s good for the ecosystem

[imitationgirl]

I think more bands should be all girls and a token boy for diversity

[i-have-the-juice]

unlike boring people i’m always gonna prefer my favorite characters when they’re in their villain arc. i want them to be problematic and angry and unhinged fuck that stable bs

[wachinyeya]

https://english.radio.cz/beavers-build-planned-dams-protected-landscape-area-while-local-officials-still-8841536

A beaver colony in the Brdy region has gained overnight fame by building several dams in the Brdy protected landscape area, creating a natural wetland exactly where it was needed. It saved the local authorities 30 million crowns, and has the public cracking jokes about public administration and red tape.

The administration of the Brdy protected landscape area, which had gained approval for the 30 million crown project, was dealing with red tape and seeking the respective building permits from the Vltava River Basin authorities when the dam project was completed almost overnight by a local colony of beavers.

They could not have chosen their location better –erecting the dams on a bypass gully that was built by soldiers in the former military base years ago, so as to drain the area. The revitalization project drafted by environmentalists was supposed to remedy this. Bohumil Fišer, head of the Brdy Protected Landscape Area Administration says Nature took its course and the beavers created the necessary biotope conditions practically overnight.

[regionalpancake]

I love this so much! You can feel the easy silence 💕The night version reminds me of Porch Lights by @procrastinatorproject

How lucky we are to have fan creators that let us spend time on Raffi’s porch ✨

(+ Alternate version under the cut)

[skyderman]

slowly introducing non-sonic art back into my art blog like an endangered species

[reasonsforhope]

"A tribal-led nonprofit is creating a network of native bison ranchers that are restoring ecosystems on the Great Plains, restoring native ranchers’ connections with their ancestral land, and restoring the native diet that their ancestors relied on.

Called the Tanka Fund, they coordinate donors and partners to help ranchers secure grazing land access, funds needed to install and repair fencing, increase their herd sizes, and access markets for bison meat across the country.

That’s the human part of the story. But as Dawn Sherman, executive director of the Tanka Fund, told Native Sun News, they’re “buffalo people” and these four-legged, 2,000 lbs. “cousins” are equal-part-protagonists.

The return of the bison means the return of the prairie, one of the three great grassland ecosystems on the planet, of which just 1% remains as it was when the Mayflower arrived.

“Bringing buffalo back to their ancestral homelands is essential to restoring the ecosystem. We know that the buffalo is a keystone species,” said Dawn Sherman, a member of the Lakota, Delaware, Shawnee, and Cree.

“Bringing the buffalo back to the land and to our people, helps restore the ecosystem and everything it supports from the animals to the plants to the people. It’s come full circle. That’s how we see it.”

As Sherman and the Tanka Fund help native ranchers grow their operations, everyone is well aware of the power of the bison to transform the environment: just as nations across Europe are, who are reintroducing wood bison to various ecosystems, for all the same reasons.

Sherman points out the variety of ways in which buffalo anchor the prairie ecosystem. The almost-extinct black-footed ferret, she points out, lived symbiotically with the bison, and with the latter gone, the former followed—nearly.

The long-billed curlew uses bison dung as a disguise to hide nests from predators. Deer, pronghorn antelope, and elk all rely on bison to plow through deep snows and uncover the grasses that these smaller animals can’t reach.

Everywhere the bison hurls its massive body, life springs in the beast’s wake. When bison roll about on the plains, it creates depressions known as wallows. These fill with rainwater and create enormous puddles where amphibians and insects thrive and reproduce. Certain plants evolved to grow in the wet conditions of the wallows which Native Americans harvested for food and medicine.

Native plants evolved under the trampling hooves of millions of bison, and that constant tamping down of the Earth is a key necessity in the spreading of native wildflower seed.

Indeed, Sherman says some of these native ranchers are bringing bison onto lands still visibly affected by the Dust Bowl, and already the animals are acting like a giant wooly cure-all for the land’s ills.

Since 2020, the Tanka Fund, in partnership with the Inter-Tribal Buffalo Council and the Nature Conservancy, has overseen the transfer of 2,300 bison from Nature Conservancy reserves to lands managed by ranchers within the Tanka Fund network.

“[T]he more animals that we can get the more of that prairie we can restore,” said Sherman. “We can help restore the land that has been plowed and has been leased out to cattle ranchers.”"

-Article via Good News Network, February 13, 2025. Video via Tanka Fund, July 17, 2024.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

so important for every character to be an idiot, but each in their own unique beautiful way

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Endangered Species Highlight: The Water Cone Wizard

(inspired by this post)

[hope-for-the-planet]

From the article:

The new law aims to restore at least 20% of the EU's land and seas, with specific targets including reversing the decline of pollinators and restoring 25,000 kilometres of rivers to free-flowing conditions. This target is instrumental to align EU policy with global commitments made by almost 200 countries to restore and protect at least 30% of our planet’s degraded ecosystems by 2030. The legislation solidifies Europe's leadership in global biodiversity restoration and protection efforts, setting a powerful example for the rest of the world.

This law is in many ways the first of its kind and creates legally binding restoration targets for various ecosystems throughout the EU.

[geemotorways]

gerard way as spaghetti junction (junction 6) on the m6

[fishmikey]

“vampire” halfmoon betta

[naaddiie]

I've seen a bunch of people treat their tmagp character designs as placeholders until the fandom comes up with a "fanon" design and like?????? Stop. Free yourself from the idea that you have to picture a podcast character the Most Popular and Correct way. I want to see some motherfucker on my screen and have to do batman-level detective work to figure out it is, in fact, my most beloved blorbo. Release yourself ftom this prison.

[paramoreparaless]

one thing I love abt seeing Klance art is that you can generally guess when it’s from based on how scraggly they look. If they’re beautifully soft it’s probably 2016/17 if they look like rabid rats it’s probably from last week

[wachinyeya]

European bison released in England’s ancient woodland have doubled in number since 2022, and the woodland has gotten healthier since, reviving previously extinct beetle species and increasing sightings of dormice and reptiles. And England isn’t the only European nation getting bison back in business: In the 1920s, there were just 54 European bison after intense hunting over millennia, but thanks to re-wilding efforts there are now around 10,000, mostly in Russia and Belarus. RTBC

[lurukifennecfox]

Amity was... Odd

It always was even before the Fenton Portal, just more subtle, cold spots, newer electronics not working properly, older picking up things that weren't always there, things at the periphery that you can't see when you turn, shadows too dark, lights too dim.

Lake Eerie was named that for a reason. they knew to never swim alone, or at night without lights.

Then the portal happened and those who didn't adapt left. then the invasion and they thought they are going to just go back to new normal and...

The town refused to leave. Not the people the town itself, turned out Amity had a city spirit and she liked it in the Zone so they adapted, 'parkers always adapted if they didn't they left, this side of the veil or the other.

They managed to coax Amity to return and continued living, a little to the left, teeth a little too sharp, eyes a little too intense, hearing a little too good, but they adapted. They found out more ghost culture in the zone, some learned to fight, some decided not to. They weren't bothered by property damage anymore, the buildings would pull themselves back together and they would help.

Amity was always Odd it just wasn't subtle anymore.

[aroaceleovaldez]

one of the things i wish HoO and onwards did more with is the fact that. like. the main Argo II characters have very overt flaws and negative traits! Jason and Piper are actually pretty possessive! Frank and Percy get jealous really easily! Percy has a lot of strong insecurities (his appearance, his height, his intelligence, etc) and is very self-conscious! Annabeth is nosy and blunt! Both her and Nico can be kind of assholes! Leo and Nico being bad with living people isn't as much flaws in the same vein (though Leo can also be a bit of an asshole, but he usually is aware of when he's doing that versus Nico and Annabeth) and similarly Hazel and Reyna are both kind of lacking in the particularly notable flaws of that kind of department but like. the most we ever really get out of any of those is that Piper and Drew butt heads in major part because Piper is possessive over Jason, and Frank feels threatened by Leo hanging out with Hazel so much. We got a little bit out of Annabeth being a jerk to Rachel in PJatO, but besides that? It's like. zip. Zero.

But there's a lot of potential in those! Both for spinning it positive or negative depending on the thing! Jason and Piper being extremely protective over something they consider theirs and fighting to defend it! Annabeth being actually pretty up to speed about what issues different people are having cause she's sticking her nose in everybody's business because she has to know everything about everything. Or Annabeth getting in serious trouble because she got too nosy, or Percy or Frank getting into a situation because they got jealous over something (like Frank butting heads with Leo except it's less for dumb love triangle reasons), or Piper or Jason being unable to stand down from something or give something up because they got too defensive of it. etc etc. Let them be messier!