Bees lives less than 40 days, visit at least 1000 flowers and produces less than a teaspoon of honey. For us it is only a teaspoon of honey, but for the bee it is a lifetime of work.
Thank You Bees!
🥹❤️ A new beginning. A new chance at life.
The Bond Between Shelter welcomed 30 beagles rescued from Ridglan Farms. 🐶🏡
These 30 beautiful souls are finally safe and spending their first night in warm, loving foster homes where they can begin to heal and experience the care they have always deserved. ❤️
Their veterinary team will carefully evaluate each dog before they are made available for adoption, ensuring they are ready for the next chapter of their lives. 🩺✨
Thank you to everyone who has supported this rescue through your shares, comments, donations, and endless love.
Your kindness is changing lives. 🐾 🙏 ❤️🩹
Podczas gdy bezpłodna sowa była poza swoim gniazdem, opiekunowie zamienili jej martwe jaja na osierocone pisklęta...
sówka niemal oszalała ze szczęścia… ❤️
In 1980, an entire species had one mother. Her name was Old Blue.
The Chatham Island black robin had been reduced to just 5 individuals, and Old Blue, identified by the blue band on her leg, was the only breeding female left alive. Introduced rats and cats had wiped the species from most of its range on the remote Chatham Islands, 500 miles east of New Zealand, and habitat loss had finished much of the damage.
By the time Don Merton and his New Zealand Wildlife Service team began intensive management, there was almost nothing left to save.
Merton realized that if Old Blue's eggs were removed and placed in the nests of Chatham Island tomtits, she would lay replacement clutches. The foster parents raised the first broods while Old Blue produced more eggs.
Against all odds, the population began to grow. Old Blue was last seen in December 1983. By then, she had produced enough descendants to give the species a future. Every Chatham Island black robin alive today traces its ancestry back to her.
Don Merton went on to apply similar techniques to endangered birds around the world before his death in 2011. The black robin remains one of conservation's most extraordinary success stories.
Old Blue never knew how close her species came to disappearing forever. But she lived long enough to ensure that it didn't.