La desgarradora historia de Tahlequah (J35), la madre orca que cargó a su cría fallecida por 17 días y más de 1.600 km en el Pacífico Norte. Cuando se agotaba, su manada la ayudaba a empujar el cuerpo.
Los biólogos lo tienen claro: no fue instinto, fue duelo.
More than a hundred thousand Bornean orangutans vanished between 1999 and 2015. Half the island's population, gone in sixteen years, and the largest single driver is the oil in your biscuit.
Orangutans exist in exactly two places on earth now, Borneo and Sumatra, and both are being cleared at some of the fastest rates on the planet to plant oil palm. Around 350,000 hectares of Bornean forest have gone every year this century. The way it is cleared is the ugly part. The forest is not felled and milled, it is drained and burned. Developers cut channels into the peat to dry it out, then set the land alight, and peat does not burn like wood. It smoulders underground for weeks, sometimes months, throwing up a toxic haze that drifts across whole countries.
In 2015 that haze became one of the worst environmental disasters in modern memory. About 2.6 million hectares burned. On many days that autumn the fires in Indonesia released more carbon dioxide than the entire economy of the United States. A study by Harvard and Columbia estimated the smoke caused around a hundred thousand premature deaths across Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, alongside half a million respiratory infections. The World Bank put the bill at sixteen billion dollars. All of it to clear ground for palm and pulp.
The animals in that forest do not walk away. The orangutan is slow, and it starves among the stumps or wanders into the new plantation looking for food and is killed as a pest. In 2018 one was found on Indonesian Borneo shot a hundred and thirty times with an air gun, then stabbed and clubbed. Mothers are killed and their babies sold into the illegal pet trade. The Sumatran tiger, the rhino and the elephant are being pushed off the same burning map at the same time, each down to a few thousand animals or a few hundred, each running out of the one forest it has.
The culprits are not hard to find. About 85% of the world's palm oil comes from Indonesia and Malaysia, and investigators have traced palm grown on illegally cleared land straight into the supply chains of the largest names in the aisle: Nestlé, PepsiCo, Unilever, Procter and Gamble, Mondelez. From there it goes everywhere. Palm oil sits in something like half the packaged products in the shop, the spread, the chocolate, the biscuit, the instant noodle, the tub of dairy-free ice cream, the very things sold as the lighter, greener, kinder choice.
Almost all of it now carries a small stamp promising it was sustainably sourced. In one recent year the stretch of Sumatra known as the orangutan capital of the world lost more forest than in the previous four years combined. Stamp and all.
Seeing one of gods most majestic and divine creatures, fight so valiantly against the destruction and rampaging of his home should do untold psychic damage to your psyche. We should be radicalized by this.
A desperate and panicked baby duck in NYC chased pedestrians at Prospect Park. Some ran to shake the little duck off, not realizing he was just a baby looking for help.
Unfortunately, the duck was imprinted and dumped by a human who decided a duck wasn’t a good pet. He can’t fly or fend for himself in the wild.
Rescuers have named him Rudy. He is doing much better now. Abandoning animals in the city comes with a $1,000 fine.
fun fact: bfs dad spent years studying how to save these guys by reducing bycatch. the cartel threatened to blow up his hotel because it would cut their profit so much
we're experiencing 40°+ on the daily since may. the earth is burning. what does it take for all of us to become more environmentally aware? why cant we just take care of our planet?
A reminder that Indigenous People are often the only - and at this stage of the game THE LAST - stand between capitalism and the survival of all life on Earth.
UPDATE kabar terakhir dari badak kalimantan yg tinggal 2 ekor 🦏🦏
buat kakak-kakak yg belum kenal, mereka diberi nama PAHU dan PARI, dan keduanya betina.
saat ini mereka hidup terpisah. kondisi PAHU cukup aman, tapi PARI sedang butuh perhatian..
tidak seperti PAHU yg sudah dipindahkan ke area suaka badak kelian (kutai barat), PARI masih hidup sendirian di alam liar hutan mahakam ulu dan sedang menghadapi ancaman deforestasi.
menurut kabar terakhir, PARI sedang diupayakan untuk menyusul PAHU, namun BKSDA kaltim masih perlu waktu mempersiapkan kebutuhan teknis utk proses evakuasinya.
BAYI TABUNG SEBAGAI HARAPAN TERAKHIR.
nah, nanti setelah PARI dipindahkan, rencananya akan dilakukan program bayi tabung.
menurut hasil evaluasi BKSDA, PARI punya peluang lebih besar untuk menjalani program bayi tabung dibanding PAHU, karena usianya lebih muda dan fisiknya lebih kuat.
jadi, rencana pemindahan PARI ke suaka badak kelian dianggap sangat penting, agar program bayi tabung bisa segera diupayakan sbg harapan terakhir badak kalimantan...
This week 20,000 pigs burned to death in a factory farm fire in Ontario.
They haven't let photographers inside. But here's what another pig factory farm looked like after it burned.
It's hard to imagine the suffering of these intelligent, sensitive animals — trapped, without any means of escape or hope of help, as the flames engulfed them.
It's harder to imagine the greed of an industry too cheap to even install sprinkler systems.