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[Wildlife Matters @MKFotopoulos]

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[Wildlife Matters @MKFotopoulos]

@elonmusk What about the people?

[Wildlife Matters @MKFotopoulos]

@AMAZlNGNATURE Pretty bad when picking up trash is a crime!

#StandWithPaulPowlesland
#Nature #Wildlife #Environment
#KeepOurWorldClean

[Beagle Freedom Project @beaglefreedom]

Geezer Butler, founding bassist and primary lyricist of Black Sabbath, joined us last month for the Ridglan Release! 🐶❤️

A rock legend & dedicated animal advocate! We’re so grateful to have him with us in the fight to end animal testing. 🤘🏻

Learn more: https://t.co/AD5S9KzxHU

[Wildlife Matters @MKFotopoulos]

Love this!

[Nature 🦜and Music 🎶 @GuGi263]

This story is about Eugene Bostick, an 80-year-old retiree from Fort Worth, Texas. He began rescuing stray dogs abandoned near his farm by feeding them, providing veterinary care, and letting them live on his property. To give them joy, he built a custom "dog train" by welding plastic barrels onto wheels and pulling them with a tractor.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

What pure freedom looks like

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In Germany, select supermarkets have introduced a thoughtful innovation for dog owners: pet parking pads.

These are modern, temperature-controlled and ventilated kennels installed near store entrances, allowing dogs to rest safely and comfortably while their owners shop inside. Developed by companies like DogSpot, the pods are designed to be secure, hygienic, and low-stress for pets. Owners can lock and unlock them conveniently via a smartphone app or a store-issued code.

The system helps prevent common risks such as dogs being tied up outside in bad weather or left in hot cars. The kennels maintain a pleasant climate year-round and feature transparent panels so dogs can see their surroundings, helping to reduce anxiety.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

There is a weedkiller sprayed across the American corn belt that turns male frogs female. Not weakens them. Turns them. Europe banned it twenty years ago. America set a safe limit and poured another glass.

- Atrazine is sprayed on roughly half the US corn crop
- At 0.1 parts per billion, thirty times below the "safe" tap-water limit, male frogs grow eggs. At the doses near real farms, three-quarters are chemically castrated
- Some turn fully female, mate with other males, and lay viable eggs. A full recall on the entire sex
- It is an endocrine disruptor, the polite term for a chemical that reroutes your hormones, and the most common contaminant in American tap water
- Europe saw this in 2004, decided it could never be cleaned up, and stopped

America saw the same data, invented a number it could call safe, and kept spraying. The official line: everything is fine, provided you are not a frog. Yet.

[Wildlife Matters @MKFotopoulos]

@ColMoeDavis Uh, that may have been a poor choice!

[Janae Steville @StevilleJanae]

Trump admin overhauling management of 5 million acres in NE Oregon and SE Washington

Logging may triple in Umatilla, Malheur & Wallowa-Whitman national forests—the Blue Mountains region. Would eliminate protections of large trees and sensitive habitats. https://t.co/urvGfXk8C1

[Wildlife Matters @MKFotopoulos]

@Acyn The Trump library, per designs, is very Trumpian, so it's ugly in an entirely different way than the atrocity of the Obama library, a cross between Soviet Bloc architecture, Orwell and a nuclear reactor.

[Wildlife Matters @MKFotopoulos]

What a weirdo to engage in such s***.

What's his excuse? Uneducated? Low IQ?

Does the NFL need to give their players remedial education? Including on animal rights?

Ton of money in football, often to a bunch of lowlife players when you look at recent history.

#LeShonJohnson #NFL @NFL @nflco@NFL @nflcommish

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

A high-profile environmental showdown has erupted in south Texas as tribal networks and conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The legal action seeks to immediately halt a massive, controversial land swap that would hand over 715 acres of the protected Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Plaintiffs argue the transaction explicitly violates federal laws requiring a net conservation benefit, pointing out that the state is trading away pristine, biologically diverse refuge land in exchange for a smaller footprint of private acreage that has already been degraded by rocket launch debris.
#SpaceXLawsuit #WildlifeRefuge #SaveTheRioGrande #EnvironmentalJustice #TexasNews

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Land bordering Yosemite, Sequoia, and Pinnacles National Parks — now cleared for oil rigs and fracking. YES fracking!

Two hundred thousand people said NO. The federal government did it anyway.

Over 1 million acres of California public land just got opened up - land that touches ancient sequoia groves older than the country itself and sits right in Yosemite’s backyard.

Patagonia's CEO came out swinging, accusing the administration of putting oil profits over the planet's health and saying public land was never meant to be sold off to drilling companies.

And the man who'll make the final call? He was recently confirmed to run BLM after his own state party called him "an outright enemy of public lands."

Who's going to tell a tree older than the country that its time is up?

#DemsUnited

[Oklahoma Redux @OKRedux]

Wildcare Oklahoma | On the Front Lines of Critter Care
#WildlifeMatters @WildCareOK #Wildlife #KeepOklahomaWild #WildOklahoma

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[Wildlife Matters @MKFotopoulos]

Oregon goes after hunters; avid hunter Ted Nugent responds ...
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[Wildlife Matters @MKFotopoulos]

@HawkHawk665618 @ProjectCoyote Thanks for the recommendation ... I have it. 😊

Haven't read it yet ... many wildlife books in my bookcase in prep. for writing one.

Flores spoke at the OKC animal conference I went to two years ago. I missed getting to speak with him!

[Wildlife Matters @MKFotopoulos]

One is killed every minute in the U.S.

This must stop.

@ProjectCoyote

[Wildlife Matters @MKFotopoulos]

What's the secret to a thriving firefly haven?

Native plants! Fireflies are threatened by habitat loss, light pollution and pesticide use, but you can help by planting native. Native plants provide a reliable source of food and shelter at every stage of their life cycle.

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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Every cow adds carbon to the atmosphere."

Farmer: "Only if you keep building more cows."

Activist: "What?"

Farmer: "A stable herd is carbon neutral. The methane a cow breathes out breaks down in about twelve years, back into the same CO2 the grass pulled from the air last summer."

Activist: "But it's still an emission."

Farmer: "It's a loop. Air to grass to cow to methane to air. Then the grass takes it back and round we go."

Activist: "That's not how it works."

Farmer: "That's the biogenic carbon cycle working exactly as advertised."

Activist: "I've never heard of it."

Farmer: "Funny, that. There's no money in telling people the cow was fine all along."

Activist: "You're inventing this."

Farmer: "It's in the journals. 'Biogenic carbon cycle.' I'll be in the bottom field when you've read it."

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

I told you they were coming for the Roadless Rule.

Yesterday, Republicans made their move — and they hid it inside a wildfire bill.

Here's what makes this so enraging:

59 million acres of America's wildest national forests are now on the table.

The 2001 Roadless Rule has protected nearly 60 million acres across 39 states for 25 years. No logging. No road construction. No drilling. No mining.

Built after 1.6 million Americans showed up — at 430 public hearings nationwide — to demand it.

What lives here: bald eagles, elk, black bears, Cerulean warblers, marbled murrelets. Species that need large, intact, unfragmented habitat to survive. For many of them, roadless forests aren't just home — they're the last places left.

What the amendment does: guts the rule. Opens the backcountry to logging and road construction under the cover of "fire prevention."

The administration is pursuing repeal through the executive branch at the same time. And unlike the original rule — they aren't holding a single public hearing.

1.6 million people showed up to protect these forests.
The administration isn't asking anyone this time.

What do you call a wildfire bill that opens forests instead of protecting them?

#DemsUnited