About two weeks ago a Florida pelican walked a quarter mile to a NOAA lab wrapped in fishing line and carrying a barbed hook in its wing, politely tapped on the door until it was discovered by scientists, patiently stood still while they operated on it, and then flew away.
A happy ending for today’s wayward mountain lion saga! @CaliforniaDFW has returned the 2-3 year old male cat back into the wild with the help of the Santa Cruz Puma Project.
Great research & a prime example of why I don’t accept the defeatist notion that we can’t eradicate invasive species. The reality is that we put very little effort & money into it, even though invasives pose an existential threat to biodiversity. The solutions are out there
sometimes when u do something feminine you were shamed for a child as a full grown woman of tslur experience it doesn’t feel empowering anymore it’s just running a finger over a scar and hoping it doesn’t twinge
something to smile about 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💗 90 new chicks from this year's breeding season, taking the population of the kākāpō from 235 to 325 😭😭😭😭😭😭 31 years ago there were only 51 kākāpō!!!
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
The riveting first hand account of Colorado Parks and Wildlife and U.S. Forest Service employees risking the Gold Mountain Fire to hike into Nate Creek and catch native, endemic Uncompahgre cutthroat and hike them out to safety away from the fire.
Uncompahgre cutthroat are incredible, genetically distinct, native fish to the headwaters of the Colorado and Gunnison Basins. If these fish had disappeared in this fire, there would be no way to replace them. This type of fish, in conservation, is known as the Nate Creek “halotype” which means they have a unique genetic fingerprint found only in the Uncompahgre cutthroat.
Electrofishing is nonlethal fish stunning device that CPW hiked into the burn zone in heavy backpacks, escorted by forest service firefighters. Trout float to the top, recover in seconds, but are easily removed brought back down to the safety of the hatchery. All in all they netted around 100 Uncompahgre cutthroats, carrying them down in 5 gallon buckets (down a steep incline in the middle of a burn zone). When conditions improve, they’ll be hiked back in. Huge thanks to CPW and the Forest Service for protecting the Uncompahgre cutthroat.