Stingless bees (leva, #Meliponula) collecting resin from #NTFP Garcinia lucida (essok) in the rainforest of southern Cameroon.
The medicinal properties found in the bark--and in the rest of the tree--are important to humans and creatures alike.
@EssiYann@marcel_arnol
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This is beyond shameful, and a terrifying sign.
Albanese is as close to a political saint as we're likely to see, and watching her be persecuted for her very virtues reveals just how morally collapsed the West has become.
She literally personifies the highest ideals of public service: profound integrity, intelligence, graceful eloquence, and an almost sacred commitment to the voiceless and defenseless.
The fact that we're in an era where we persecute figures like her who advocate for murdered children and civilians in order to protect (and keep arming) their killers proves we've abandoned any pretense of civilization. We are not much more than a nihilistic death cult now.
C'est trรจs facile de fรชter les hรฉros et rรฉsistants d'hier ou d'avant-hier, surtout quand il leur est rendu un hommage officiel.
En revanche, reconnaรฎtre et dรฉfendre une rรฉsistante aujourd'hui ! Cela veut dire aller contre l'opinion dominante. Moins de monde se bouscule au portillon.
Dans 20 ou 30 ans Francesca Albanese sera au Panthรฉon d'un Occident dรฉsireux de se racheter moralement aprรจs avoir soutenu le gรฉnocide de Gaza. Et beaucoup verseront des larmes bien conformistes sur son courage - surtout si, par malheur, elle finissait assassinรฉe ou "suicidรฉe" dans les mois ร venir.
Mais c'est aujourd'hui qu'il faut soutenir Madame Albanese; qu'il faut la protรฉger contre la violence aveugle du Systรจme occidental.
La proposition qui se rรฉpand de la soutenir pour le prix Nobel de la paix me paraรฎt bienvenue. Plus nous enflammerons les rรฉseaux sociaux avec, mieux Madame Albanese sera protรฉgรฉe et pourra continuer son travail irremplaรงable pour la justice et la vรฉritรฉ.
Who is driving climate breakdown? Buckle up for some striking data... ๐งต
1. First, global North countries are responsible for 86% of cumulative emissions in excess of the safe planetary boundary.
China is responsible for 1%. The rest of the South and peripheral Europe is responsible for 13%.
These results arise from taking the safe carbon budget and dividing into national "fair shares" on a per-capita basis, and then assessing national emissions against national fair-shares.
Doctors in Gaza this week have warned of a โsilent catastropheโ as formula milk runs out and starving mothers canโt breastfeed due to Israelโs blockade, threatening the lives of thousands of Palestinian babies.
UN expert @FranceskAlbs appeals to States to โstop the clock on madnessโ after #Gaza aid distribution shootings, reiterating her call for sanctions and arms embargo to hold #Israel accountable.
โThe time to save life is shrinkingโ.
https://t.co/fqGQ4l97Mr
The Earth Journalism Network is offering biodiversity story grants to journalists from low or middle income countries.
Apply by April 29: https://t.co/sZQY4S7ETj
In honor of international women's day, let's take a moment to remember the most famous statistician in history.
You've definitely heard of her, but you probably have no idea she was a statistician.
It's Florence Nightingale.
"the number of novel operational taxonomic units delimited by #DNA barcode sequencing is likely to eclipse the number of species described by Linnean #taxonomy by as early as 2029"
https://t.co/0yhBGPArjw
Le silence et lโinaction de ceux qui nous gouvernent sont une trahison. Un peuple meurt dans la rue pour sa dignitรฉ, pendant que ses dirigeants dรฉtournent le regard. Mais sachez une chose : la dignitรฉ ne se rรฉclame pas รฉternellement en vain.
#Sosucam#Cameroun
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๐ฃ 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is open!
This grant programme calls for innovative tools that leverage biodiversity data from the GBIF network to advance open science, supporting research and policy. ๐ฉโ๐ฌ
โญ Submissions due 7 September 2025
๐ https://t.co/rfiPcaFQMX
The scholarships are only available for nationals and residents of Cameroon, DRC, Gabon and Rep. Congo, and cover climate, water, forest, biodiversity, land-use and social sciences. Closing date 28 Feb, courses start October 2025, in both French and English speaking universities.
Congo basin science Initiative @CBSI vient de publier un appel ร candidatures pour 12 bourses pour des formations de niveau master et 21 bourses pour des projets de doctorat axรฉs sur la recherche.
Date limite de candidatures : 28 fรฉvrier 2025
https://t.co/y8hZHxPJSq