@ALemon4i@nettermike@POTUS@SummerForPA Japanese did get reparations for being wrongly interred by the US government during WWII. The difference being it was given only to those who were actually interred - not subsequent generations. Civil Liberties Act of 1988.
@CarlBovisNature Don't let them get to you. You are a wonderful photographer and a nature lover. Know you would never do anything to harm wildlife. Unfollowed Hedgehog Cabin so the responses to them don't come on my timeline. The nastiness gets so tiresome.
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Did it wipe out "light skinned" people?
"..evidence shows a rise in the use of deep caves for shelter, the application of ochre-based pigments on skin, and possibly more protective clothing in parts of Europe where the effects would have been strongest."
Y'all. We made it on the front page of the Arizona Republic today -- ABOVE the fold -- fighting for the lower San Pedro River, Galiuro Mountains, and Sky Islands! So proud of our little nonprofit and our partners.
For 330 years, everyone thought the bird was gone. Then, in 1951, a 15-year-old boy watched scientists pull one alive from a crack in the rocks. He decided, right there, that saving it would be his life's work.
Seven decades later, the species still exists largely because he kept that promise.
The Bermuda petrel, known locally as the cahow, had been presumed extinct since the early 1600s, wiped out by introduced rats, hogs, and relentless hunting soon after Bermuda was settled.
For more than three centuries there was nothing. Then several fresh specimens turned up in the 1930s and 1940s, hinting that a few birds might still survive.
In January 1951, a team searching the rocky islets of Castle Harbour invited 15-year-old David Wingate along because he was already known around Bermuda for his knowledge of birds. During the expedition, a living cahow was drawn from a nesting crevice and someone exclaimed, "By gad, a Cahow!" Wingate later said that moment determined what he would do with his life.
After studying zoology at Cornell, he returned home and devoted decades to saving the species. He designed artificial burrows, restored Nonsuch Island with native plants, and devised ways to keep competing tropicbirds out of cahow nests, all at a time when conservation biology barely existed as a discipline.
When the recovery program began there were only about 18 breeding pairs. Today there are more than 150. The cahow remains endangered, but one of the world's most famous "extinct" birds is no longer disappearing.
Wingate turned 90 in October 2025. The species he saw rediscovered as a teenager now nests in burrows he designed and on an island he spent decades bringing back to life.
First it was the Utah Legislature banning mugshots in 2024, then SLCo Sheriff Rosie Rivera helped cover up foreign crime by deleting all race and country origin / citizenship off the jail roster.
This is UK level criminal protection.
Nothing was done about it. In fact, after my report went viral, they doubled down and got the HACK mainstream media to perpetuate their coverup to be โcomplying with State lawโ (that no other Sheriff dept abides by).
The legislature did nothing. The coverup still ongoing. Utah is a joke.
@CarlBovisNature I have both books. I have read them both but they are always a delight to look at over and over. Carl captures the true essence of birds. If you love birds, get the books. If you don't, get the books and you just might gain a love for them.
Our nonprofit took stakeholders - lawyers, reporters, hydrologists, water specialists - to the east side of #AravaipaCanyon to understand what we're fighting for. We cannot allow #mining to threaten this #Sonoran slice of heaven (8 fish species, 2 endangered).
Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.
More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nationโs capital? Iโd also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. ๐บ๐ธ