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#extinction

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NSW.Biodiversity

The road that will eat the grassland earless dragon's habitat

"The fight for the lizard has recently been drawn into the public's focus as environmentalists express concerns the construction of a new road at Canberra Airport cuts straight through the dragon's habitat."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-05-08/can
#biodiversity #reptiles #EndangeredSpecies #extinction #roads #MobilityDesign

ABC News · The grassland earless dragon is fighting for survival amid construction of a new airport road in CanberraBy Monte Bovill
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Mongabay

[PODCAST] A biotech company in the United States made headlines last month by revealing photos of genetically modified gray wolves, calling them “dire wolves,” a species that hasn’t existed for more than 10,000 years.

Some observers assert to the public that “de-extinction” is real. But it’s not, says podcast guest Dieter Hochuli, a professor at the Integrative Ecology Lab at the University of Sydney.

news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025

Mongabay Environmental News · ‘De-extinction’ isn’t just misleading — it’s dangerous, ecologist saysA biotech company in the United States made headlines last month by revealing photos of genetically modified gray wolves, calling them “dire wolves,” a species that hasn’t existed for more than 10,000 years. Colossal Biosciences edited 14 genes among billions of base pairs in gray wolf DNA to arrive at the pups that were shown, […]
#News#Conservation#Environment
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Syulang

PSA: The #Crisafulli #LNP government of #Queensland wants to expand native forest logging as part of it's anti #conservation pro #logging "Primary Industries Prosper 2050" blueprint.

*Not* protect or continue native logging. No. The plan is to *EXPAND* it.

It's been carefully shuffled out of sight, being slid out under cover of all the noise from the federal parties during the election.

There is a consultation period now open. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE submit your thoughts on this proposal, and encourage others to do so. Our survival depends on our native forests. Without them there is no future for our land, and by extension no future for us - just eroding soils, dead rivers, dessicated land and mass extinction.

Defend life. Defend the land we belong to. Defend the forests that sustain us.

dpi.engagementhub.com.au/prima

#PSA#Deforestation#NativeForestLogging
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Why We Went Extinct

"... it is estimated that the Netherlands lost 75% of its flying insects in the past 25 years. 'That's quite shocking since not only birds and other animals need these insects. Also we really need them for our crops', warns van der Geest".

A call for Dutch citizens to use their gardens to increase #biodiversity since the government is planning to do the opposite.

(Dutch)
eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/item/bi

Biodiversiteit minder belangrijk voor kabinet, maar als burger kun je ook iets doen: 'Verruil die hortensia voor een inheemse plant'
EenVandaag · Biodiversiteit minder belangrijk voor kabinet, maar als burger kun je ook iets doen: 'Verruil die hortensia voor een inheemse plant'Het ministerie van Landbouw publiceerde onlangs het Actieplan Biodiversiteit. Eerdere doelen worden in dat plan afgezwakt, ondanks dat het slecht gaat met de biodiversiteit in Nederland. Maar ondertussen kunnen burgers wel zelf aan de slag.
#nl#breadcrumb#biodiversitycrisis
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Morpheus Being

#australia #Environment #Extinction #NativeFlora #NativeFauna #PES

It's time for the introduction of Payment for Environmenatal Services to landowners for preserving and maintaining and regenerating native forests to provide oxygen, water, shelter and preservation of native flora and fauna.

Much research backs the benefits.

www2.cifor.org/project-website

Center for International Forestry ResearchPayment for Environmental Services - Center for International Forestry ResearchThe concept of payment for ecosystem services (PES) has garnered substantial international interest as a cost-effective means to improve environmental<a href="https://www2.cifor.org/project-websites/payment-environmental-services/" title="Read more"
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Even the worst #massextinction had its oases
Scientists have debated whether this event caused nearly as much terrestrial destruction. Now, researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology (NIGPAS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences suggest that #terrestrial #ecosystems did not suffer nearly as much as the #oceans.
Plants thrived in present-day #China throughout the End-#Permian #extinction.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Image of two large reptiles in a swampy environment with lots of trees. The animals and trees are nothing like today's suggesting a scene from the distant past.
Ars Technica · Even the worst mass extinction had its oasesBy Elizabeth Rayne
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John :au: :hb:

#SouthernRightWhale #population growth has stalled, scientists say, with a possible 'onset of a decline'.

Australia's southern right whale population growth has #stalled, raising questions about the recovery of a species that was nearly driven to #extinction by historical #whaling, according to a new study.

abc.net.au/news/2025-05-01/ima

ABC News · Something is happening with the southern right whale population, scientists sayBy Ellen Coulter
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Ami

I was sitting in VR in a 360° video.

The recording was made from a 360° camera in the middle of a pride of lions.

It was surreal to be sitting there, seeing something from a rare, if not impossible point of view.

Then I had the thought, "They will be extinct soon".

How many more experiences will be relegated to video or #VR only?

#conservation#environment#extinction
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Palm Oil Detectives

#News: While 1000's of extant wild #animals face #extinction, millions are being spent reviving dire wolves in labs. End the major causes of animal extinction now: hunting, illegal wildlife trade, climate change and deforestation.
#Boycott4Wildlife theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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