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Reikiluce @reikiluce

about 11 hours ago

@Rainmaker1973 Horrendous!!!!! So bad!!! x

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Massimo

@Rainmaker1973

about 11 hours ago

A catastrophic 73 percent decline in global wildlife populations over the past 50 years signals that Earth ecosystems are approaching dangerous tipping points. According to the World Wildlife Fund Living Planet Report monitored wildlife populations worldwide have decreased by an average of 73 percent since 1970. Freshwater species have suffered the most severe losses with an 85 percent decline. Conservation experts warn that this biological collapse threatens not only nature but also human survival. The primary drivers include habitat destruction from intensive agriculture climate change and overexploitation of resources. Scientists stress that the next five years represent a critical window for action. Preventing irreversible damage will require fundamental transformations in global food production energy systems and financial practices. Stronger conservation efforts and a shift toward sustainable agriculture could still reverse these trends. Failure to act risks undermining the natural systems that supply clean air fresh water and stable food production. Protecting wildlife is therefore essential for securing humanity own future.

Rainmaker1973's tweet photo. A catastrophic 73 percent decline in global wildlife populations over the past 50 years signals that Earth ecosystems are approaching dangerous tipping points.

According to the World Wildlife Fund Living Planet Report monitored wildlife populations worldwide have decreased by an average of 73 percent since 1970. Freshwater species have suffered the most severe losses with an 85 percent decline.

Conservation experts warn that this biological collapse threatens not only nature but also human survival. The primary drivers include habitat destruction from intensive agriculture climate change and overexploitation of resources.

Scientists stress that the next five years represent a critical window for action. Preventing irreversible damage will require fundamental transformations in global food production energy systems and financial practices. Stronger conservation efforts and a shift toward sustainable agriculture could still reverse these trends. Failure to act risks undermining the natural systems that supply clean air fresh water and stable food production. Protecting wildlife is therefore essential for securing humanity own future.

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Zebra @Zebra19133613

9 days ago

@Rodiphoto @Rainmaker1973 Some of the most beautiful of God creations.very calming and peaceful to watch and listen to.

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Massimo

@Rainmaker1973

10 days ago

A recent research demonstrates that birdwatching can literally rewire the human brain through neuroplasticity, producing measurable structural and functional changes that enhance perception, attention, and cognitive performance—potentially even helping to buffer against age-related decline. While birdwatching has long been celebrated for its calming, restorative qualities, emerging neuroscientific findings reveal it delivers far deeper benefits. A 2026 study used diffusion-weighted and functional MRI to compare the brains of 29 expert birdwatchers (ages 24–75) with 29 matched novices (ages 22–79). Experts showed greater tissue density—indicating more compact, efficient neural organization—in regions tied to attention, perception, working memory, spatial awareness, and object recognition. These structural adaptations enabled experts to identify birds, including unfamiliar or non-local species, with significantly higher speed and accuracy. During identification tasks, experts displayed increased activity in key areas such as the bilateral prefrontal cortex, bilateral intraparietal sulcus, and right occipitotemporal cortex—regions critical for visuospatial attention, object categorization, and memory. This mirrors brain remodeling observed in other expertise domains, like multilingualism or professional musicianship, where prolonged practice fine-tunes visual and auditory processing. By repeatedly attending to subtle cues in plumage, songs, flight patterns, and behavior, birdwatchers drive cortical reorganization. Notably, these expertise-linked changes persisted across the adult lifespan, with older experts exhibiting brain features in relevant regions more akin to those of younger individuals—suggesting the development of cognitive reserve that may protect against aging effects. [Wing, E. A., et al. (2026). The tuned cortex: Convergent expertise-related structural and functional remodeling across the adult lifespan. Journal of Neuroscience. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1307-25.2026]