Liesbeth🍉❤️🕊️🐺🌳🐓🐂🦚🌍🇧🇪

Female. Loves animals & nature. Hates injustice.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"The hardest decision we had to make in completing this report was.. not to name the Palestinian children, whose deaths, injuries & suffering we describe.. we didn't name them because we feared the consequences for their families"

He means Israel would go after them too.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

We talk about habitat loss in terms of acres, but we almost never talk about the habitat we've lost above our heads.

For the first time in billions of years of life on Earth, a significant portion of the planet's surface no longer gets fully dark at night.

99% of Americans and Europeans live under light-polluted skies. A third of humanity can't see the Milky Way from where they live. An entire generation has grown up under skyglow so persistent that true darkness feels foreign, even threatening.

But darkness isn't empty space. It's habitat. Moths navigate by the moon and stars. Artificial light pulls them off course, draws them into orbit around bulbs until they exhaust themselves and die, and disrupts the pollination they were doing while the rest of us slept.

Fireflies use bioluminescent signals to find mates; even a brief flash of headlights or a porch light left on can interrupt or extinguish those signals entirely.

Migrating birds navigate by celestial cues and get pulled off course by lit buildings, sometimes fatally. Bats that evolved to hunt in darkness find lit areas so disorienting that artificial light functions as a physical barrier, fragmenting their habitat the way a highway fragments a forest.

Researchers reviewing more than 150 studies concluded that light pollution is, in their words, "another important but often overlooked bringer of the insect apocalypse."

The difference between this habitat loss and others is that we made it gradually, one porch light and one streetlamp and one office building left blazing at 2am at a time, until the absence of darkness became normal and nobody thought to mourn it.

The good news is that it's the most reversible form of habitat destruction that exists. Turn the light off and the darkness returns immediately.

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

IDF "soldiers shot a 16-year-old boy and then ran over his body with a tank, mutilating it.

"a 15-year-old boy holding a white flag — and his brother who came to his rescue, as well as their mother — were shot by .338-caliber Israeli sniper rounds from 200 meters away"

[Earth @earthcurated]

🦋 At first glance, this looks like someone carefully painted numbers onto a butterfly's wings for a research study. It's actually the entirely natural wing pattern of the Diaethria clymena, affectionately known as the '88 butterfly'.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

It’s a life saver

[Liesbeth🍉❤️🕊️🐺🌳🐓🐂🦚🌍🇧🇪 @LiesbethMiranda]

@caitoz They're just a bunch of *real* racists projecting their racism onto people who don't like their racism. It's nothing more than gaslighting and moral inversion. It's time to start ignoring this shit. Enough.

[Earth @earthcurated]

A breathtaking glimpse of Australia's endemic Gouldian finches a vibrant, living rainbow hidden in the northern savannas. 🌈✨

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

A new UN report says Israel is committing genocide by DELIBERATELY TARGETING PALESTINIAN CHILDREN and I can’t find anything about it from @nytimes @AP @washingtonpost @CNN @SkyNews…

How is this not the top headline at every major news outlet?

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Thank you to the kind animal lovers of Greece leaving out water for street dogs in terrible heat wave

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

For any normal person, this should sound insane. For Palestinians, this is everyday life under Israeli occupation.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Delivered by C‑section from her dead mother's body. 23 years old. 'israel' bombed and killed her. Buried them under rubble. The baby girl was named after her. Doctors gave her a 50/50 chance of survival. She died 5 days later and was buried next to her mum.

Check the date.

[Earth @earthcurated]

Habitat loss is now the leading cause of wildlife extinction worldwide. As forests are cleared, cities expand, and natural landscapes are transformed, animals lose the food, shelter, and breeding grounds they need to survive.

Unlike hunting, habitat destruction impacts entire ecosystems, pushing countless species closer to extinction.

[Earth @earthcurated]

🇳🇴 norway has officially banned deforestation, making it the first country in the world to commit to a zero-deforestation supply chain.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Studies show that watching a beaver eat cabbage lowers stress by 17%

[Earth @earthcurated]

194 YEARS OLD. 🤯 Jonathan the tortoise was born around 1832. He has literally lived through the invention of the lightbulb, both World Wars, and the entire internet era. An absolute legend. 🐢👑

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

#Trees

The world-famous Major Oak tree has died.

The human footprint has finally killed this treasured tree.

Soil compaction from excessive tourism and increasing heat and drought proved too much for this ancient, mighty oak.

Below: 2026: no leaves appeared for the first time in over a thousand years.
(Report in thread).

[Liesbeth🍉❤️🕊️🐺🌳🐓🐂🦚🌍🇧🇪 @LiesbethMiranda]

@rutilande @kajakallas So? This still does NOT change the fact that there are DOZENS of discriminatory laws (incl. Nation-State law), systematic inequality (eg barely any bomb shelters compared to Jewish "Israeli" areas), dispossession of Bedouin, deep-rooted racism, etc. It is apartheid.

[Liesbeth🍉❤️🕊️🐺🌳🐓🐂🦚🌍🇧🇪 @LiesbethMiranda]

@jiyeonghye87258 @amirtibon @OferIdels The colonizers with European roots should definitely go back to Europe. As for the Mizrahim, there's no evidence SWANA countries won't take them back. Many of them actually tried to *block* Jewish emigration - not facilitate it. Their departure was due to ZIONISM & ZIONISTS.

[Liesbeth🍉❤️🕊️🐺🌳🐓🐂🦚🌍🇧🇪 @LiesbethMiranda]

@AusJewZionist @bartov_omer It has been maligned since its creation because it's a settler-colony built on terrorism and stolen land. Palestinians don't need to take "responsibility" for being mass murdered, terrorized, brutalized, and abused by their colonizers and occupiers. You should, as the oppressor.