The box turtle crossing your yard this morning may have been crossing that same ground before you were born.
Eastern box turtles can live over a century. Individuals have been documented at 120 years. And unlike most animals, they don't use that time to go anywhere. A box turtle may spend its entire life within 250 yards of the nest it hatched from.
It knows every log, every seep, every patch of shade in that radius the way you know your own kitchen.
This is why relocating one is such a serious problem. Move a box turtle a mile down the road and it will spend the rest of its life trying to walk home, crossing roads it doesn't know, exposed in territory it's never mapped. The shell protects it from predators. Nothing protects it from not knowing where it is.
The turtle in your yard isn't passing through. It lives there, in the same specific place it has always lived, doing the slow, methodical work of being a box turtle: eating mushrooms and berries and earthworms, dispersing seeds, getting through another season.
If it's large and worn-looking, with a shell that's gone dark and scratched with years, it may have been working that same patch of ground since before your neighborhood had a name.
Leave it where it is, chances are, it was there first.
Don't harm opossums! They’re harmless and actually really useful. They keep pests in check (eating ticks, roaches, rats, and scorpions), clean up dead animals, and help spread seeds. Basically, they’re nature’s cleanup crew
Human's are causing the Earth's sixth mass extinction. 83% of wild mammals have already been pushed past the brink.
If nature goes, its taking us with it. No time to wait.
#ActOnClimate#biodiversity#natureneedshalf#biodiversity
The world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates: https://t.co/3clxDDZCym
Read that again.
Time for the people that are fueling this crisis to pay for the damage they're causing.
#ActOnClimate
We're saying it loud and clear: There isn't a single community that can't do Trap-Neuter-Return (#TNR) and protect community cats. 🐈
In communities big or small, urban or rural, TNR is the only humane and effective approach. And most likely, there are already dedicated advocates and/or organizations hard at work helping cats and kittens.
Plus, TNR doesn't just save cats’ lives; it benefits the entire community! If you're ready to champion a TNR program where you live, we have a guide at https://t.co/VilX7PFWCa.
"We are losing biodiversity at a rate unparalleled in human history." Global wildlife populations have sunk over 60% since 1970.
We are destroying ourselves and taking nature with us.
Time to protect people and the planet.
#ActOnClimate#climate#biodiversity#nature
"We are losing biodiversity at a rate unparalleled in human history." Global wildlife populations have sunk over 60% since 1970.
We are destroying ourselves and taking nature with us.
Time to protect people and the planet.
#ActOnClimate#climate#biodiversity#nature
Costa Rica, once home to rampant logging, has now almost doubled the size of its rainforest. They turned it all around within a generation. It can be done.
Protect people and the planet.
#ActOnClimate#biodiversity#deforestation#rewilding#solutions
“If the bees disappear off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
Protect #nature in all its forms #ActOnClimate#SaveTheBees#Climate#energy#GreenNewDeal
There are 26,000 polar bears left on the planet. By the end of the century, climate change could bring them to extinction as the melting of the Arctic increases: https://t.co/GKpwRlUVhP
There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate#climate#energy#biodiversity#rewilding#SDGs
Every minute, Earth loses 36 football fields of forest—enough to fill Central Park in under 2 hours. Deforestation’s hidden cost? It releases more CO2 than all cars and trucks combined.
Since 1900, humans have cleared 1.1 billion hectares of forest. Forests clean our air, purify our water, and are vital in the fight to address the growing climate crisis.
Keep forests standing. #ActOnClimate#climate#deforestation#climateaction#Nature
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Brazil’s chopping down the AMAZON RAINFOREST to build a highway for COP30—the climate summit meant to SAVE the planet. Yes, you read that right. They’re bulldozing the world’s lungs to roll out the red carpet for 50,000 climate delegates. The irony is so thick you could choke on it.
The Amazon isn’t just some random forest—it’s a global MVP. It sucks up BILLIONS of tons of CO2, pumps out 20% of the planet’s oxygen, and houses 400 billion trees that keep our climate from spiraling into chaos. Oh, and it’s home to 3 million species and 1 million Indigenous people who’ve been protecting it for centuries. Scientists say if we lose too much, it’ll hit a tipping point—turning into a dry savannah and unleashing a carbon bomb we can’t undo.
But Brazil? They’re like, “Nah, let’s pave it.” For COP30 in Belém, they’re slashing tens of thousands of acres for a 4-lane highway, plus expanding airports, building hotels, and docking cruise ships—all while preaching “sustainability.” They’ve already torched local açaí farms, leaving families broke, and brushed it off with “wildlife crossings” and “bike lanes.” Bike lanes? In the AMAZON? Are you kidding me?
This isn’t new—Brazil’s been gutting the Amazon for decades. Cattle ranching (70% of the damage), soy farms, illegal logging, mining—it’s a free-for-all. Under Bolsonaro, deforestation hit a 15-year high. Lula promised to fix it, but here we are, watching diggers rip through protected land for a climate photo-op.
RT if this hypocrisy makes your blood boil. The Amazon’s too precious for this nonsense—tell Brazil to STOP. #SaveTheAmazon #COP30Fail