Vanessa

❤️ art• animals• nature• reading• travel•yoga. Strong supporter of animal welfare & conservation. Curious about pretty much everything.

[Vanessa @NoNumbersNess]

I know there are big issues going on right now but this is one reality of the #PalmOil industry 😢 Please do what you can to avoid it (which is very difficult, it’s in almost everything) and contact companies demanding they refrain from using it in their products 🙏

[Orangutan Foundation International @OFIOrangutan]

Male #orangutan Ahad was found in a #palmoil field with 26 pellets on his body, as well as cuts & lacerations. Ahad received medical care by OFI vets & is on his road to recovery at the care center. Support our mission at https://t.co/CqDl4XvTMp #PreventionOfCrueltyToAnimalsMonth

[Tony Lane 🇺🇸 @TonyLaneNV]

A woman hiking in Canada nearly became a grizzly’s next meal and the video circulating right now is genuinely one of the most intense wildlife encounters you will ever watch - her dog is with her, a massive grizzly is right there, and somehow she kept her head together long enough for both of them to walk away breathing.

That is not a small thing. Most people talk tough until nature is standing ten feet in front of them and every instinct in your body is screaming to run, and running is exactly the worst thing you can do.

Grizzlies are built to chase, they top out over 700 pounds and can cover ground faster than any human alive. The people who survive these moments are the ones who override pure fear with pure discipline and this woman did exactly that.

If you hike, camp, or spend any real time in the wilderness - bear spray is not optional, it is the difference between a story you tell and one somebody else tells about you.

Could you have kept your cool?

Hats off to her.

[Vanessa @NoNumbersNess]

This shouldn’t be too hard I say as i start to assemble my new coffee table….

[Vanessa @NoNumbersNess]

I like hearing all the kids on my street get together to play. I remember the days.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Interaction between orphaned gorillas and their caregivers, Senkwekwe Center in Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This is the only facility in the world that cares for mountain gorillas that have been victims of traps and poachers.

[Vanessa @NoNumbersNess]

@CarlaCo92330391 Excellent!

[Vanessa @NoNumbersNess]

@domdyer70 @MonicaCollantin Awwww 😢

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Vulture populations in India collapsed. 500,000 people died as a result.

In the 1990s, Indian farmers started using a cheap painkiller called diclofenac on their cattle. When vultures ate the carcasses, the drug destroyed their kidneys.

Without vultures, cattle carcasses rotted in fields instead of being stripped clean in 45 minutes. Feral dog populations exploded by five million. Rabies cases surged. Pathogens spread through water supplies.

University of Chicago economists compared death rates in districts that used to have vultures to districts that never did. Human mortality rose more than 4% after the collapse. Over 100,000 extra deaths a year. Half a million in five years.

India banned the drug in 2006. The vultures still haven't recovered.

This is what a keystone species is to us. This is why we protect the animals nobody finds cute.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In Scotland, new rules are being introduced to require “swift bricks” in new buildings, a small change that creates nesting spaces and helps birds coexist with urban life.

[Lotta 🌿 Ⓥ 🌿 @MissanMissen]

Time to share this again!
Please keep on sharing!
Even if you have signed already, please share!

Please help Lucy so she can retire to a Sanctuary!

#FreeLucy #Sanctuary4Lucy

#care2 https://t.co/fQML0ilK8T 84,475

[LEAP 💜 ❤️🐘🇨🇦 @LEAPyeg]

Call to action for #Lucy contact Edmonton councilman and woman be polite #Lucy must be given her rights to move.
No more tax $ on captivity.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Canada built bridges for bears, and it worked better than anyone expected.

The Trans-Canada Highway cuts through Banff National Park for 82 kilometers. For decades it was a killing field.

Animals on one side couldn't reach animals on the other, which fragmented populations and cut off migration routes.

Starting in 1996, Parks Canada built 44 wildlife crossing structures, along with fencing to guide animals toward them. Critics called it a waste of money. Editorials said animals would never use them.

They were wrong.

Since monitoring began, animals have used the crossings more than 250,000 documented times.

Wolves, grizzly bears, elk, moose, cougars, wolverines, lynx, bighorn sheep. Wildlife-vehicle collisions dropped 80% overall.

It took grizzlies about five years to trust the structures. Elk tested them while they were still under construction.

Every species had its own preference. Grizzlies and elk liked the wide open overpasses. Cougars and black bears preferred the narrow tunnels.

This is now the longest-running wildlife crossing research program in the world. Delegations have come from China, Mongolia, Costa Rica, and Argentina to copy the model.

Is your state building these?

[All About Aquarium Fishes @aqauariumfishes]

@earthcurated But, in the reality more sadness. Their habitat turn into oil palm plantation or Food Estate Mega Corruption Project. Ivory poachers still active due Chinese demand, the business set bad trap for them.

I'm from Sumatra so don't debate with me.

[Palm Oil Detectives #BoycottPalmOil @PalmOilDetect]

Two #extinct #marsupials in #WestPapua found alive! The #marsupials highlight the need to protect #Papuan forests or they are gone for good! Resist for them and #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife when you shop 🌴🙊🔥☠️🚫 @palmoildetect #Boycott4Wildlife https://t.co/qC7vMFfPMt

[Smartacus @fivestarmichael]

I'm not a commie or some hippie environmentalist, but there is something wrong with an economic system that encourages the destruction of over 50,000 sq. miles of Indonesian rainforest to produce palm oil.

That's an area the size of Pennsylvania, the only habitat for endangered orangutans, being destroyed so we can produce billions of Oreo cookies and millions of jars of Nutella.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

I am devastated to share the news that one of my heroes — and a woman who has had an enormous impact on wildlife conservation — Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas has died.

She was 79.

I feel so grateful that I had the honor of spending time with her.

Over the years, I have connected with so many of you over my love of orangutans (and elephants and mountain gorillas, of course); Dr. Biruté gets all the credit.

Orangutans would likely be extinct were it not for Dr. Biruté’s pioneering and exhaustive work over the last six decades.

Dr. Biruté was one of three women handpicked and mentored by legendary paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey to transform our understanding of the great apes.

Jane Goodall studied chimpanzees, Dian Fossey studied gorillas, and Dr. Biruté dedicated her life to orangutans, and together they revolutionized primatology and the case for great ape intelligence, emotional depth, and conservation.

While Jane Goodall proved that chimpanzees use tools, form complex social bonds, and possess a capacity for empathy once thought uniquely human, Dr. Biruté proved that orangutans are slow-breeding, highly intelligent, and extremely vulnerable.

Dr. Biruté built the conservation model to try to save orangutans and dedicated her life to protecting them.

Dr. Biruté is credited with conducting the longest-running longitudinal study by one principal investigator of any wild mammal in the world.

She was the first to document the long orangutan birth interval, which averaged 7.7 years, and recorded over 400 types of food consumed by orangutans.

Dr. Biruté’s research that fundamentally reshaped how scientists understood orangutans.

Before her field studies, the orangutan was the least understood of the great apes.

The orangutan population as it exists today, as fragile as it is, would not exist without her.

Many conservationists go as far as saying the orangutan, our cousin, would likely be extinct or close to extinct were it not for Dr. Biruté’s discoveries and her sacrifice.

Dr. Biruté took on palm oil conglomerates, illegal loggers, poachers, and gold miners.

She did so often at great personal risk, including death threats and kidnapping,

She remained in Borneo for over 40 years as an outspoken advocate for orangutans and the preservation of their rainforest habitat.

In 1986, she founded Orangutan Foundation International, with sister organizations established in Australia, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom.

We owe so much to Dr. Biruté and her incredible legacy.

[Vanessa @NoNumbersNess]

@yashar @ECOWARRIORSS Oh what a loss 😢🦧

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

Cadburys Easter eggs are being boycotted in all shops! People do not want palm oil they want the proper eggs we used to have! Get it off the shelves! Boycott Cadbury!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Denmark, particularly in Copenhagen, has installed floating platforms/islands planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in its harbors and canals. These create safe urban habitats and sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life.

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

Hidden on page 744 of the farm bill the House Agriculture Committee passed Thursday is a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates.

Rebranded the 'Save Our Bacon Act,' it's a pork-industry play to wipe out every state law banning the sale of pork from crated pigs — laws the conservative Supreme Court upheld in 2023.

Over 85% of Democrats and Republicans oppose these crates. Voters have backed ballot measures to ban them in state after state.

The pork industry knows it can't win a straight vote on this. So it's burying the provision in an 800-page bill and hoping no one notices.

Contact your senators and representative today and tell them: oppose the farm bill unless the Save Our Bacon Act is stripped out. You can reach them at https://t.co/MQvByA4atR and https://t.co/v6ghw99u1K — it takes two minutes and it matters.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Fireflies are disappearing so fast that scientists think we are the last generation to see them.

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