For the first time in over 400 years, there is a beaver dam in #GlenAffric! 🦫 The ultimate example of their ecosystem engineering, #beaver dams create deeper pools, slow the flow of water, improve water quality, and provide rich habitats for #wildlife such as fish, frogs, otters and birds.
A turtle came into Wild At Heart Rescue in Mississippi last week painted from head to toe in silver and red. People keep doing this and it has to stop.
A turtle's shell is living tissue full of blood vessels that absorbs sunlight to produce vitamin D, helps the turtle regulate body temperature, and in many aquatic species participates in the animal's breathing system.
When a turtle is painted, all of that gets blocked. The turtle is no longer able to synthesize vitamin D where it's been painted and can develop metabolic bone disease as a result. (soft bones, deformed shell, slow death).
The painted shell loses its camouflage too, making the turtle visible to every hawk and raccoon in the area.
Removing the paint isn't a quick wash with a sponge. It involves multiple veterinary sessions, often with sedation, and many turtles arrive too damaged to ever recover.
If you see a turtle with paint on its shell, do not try to clean it yourself. Call a licensed wildlife rehabilitator right away.
@PeterEgan6 Thank you very much for sharing our appeal for our friends at Second Chances Animal Sanctuary. They have set up a GoFundMe (GFM). The total goal is 5K but GFM has set the first goal at £600 🙏
https://t.co/gBYOm4due5
@broadwaybabyto This is chilling.
A court order shouldn’t be optional deporting a US citizen despite legal protection is a blatant abuse of power. It underscores how the system can target not just immigrants, but anyone caught in its machinery.
Accountability isn’t optional here it’s urgent.
They’ve deported a US citizen.
She’s not just detained, she was deported in spite of a court order stating she wasn’t to be removed.
The family of Dulce Diaz Morales are stating they can’t locate her.
This is terrifying.
They were never going to stop with immigrants.
Good morning! Here's a *general* look at the state of things:
-US 2 is CLOSED btwn Skykomish and Tumwater Canyon (MP 50-99)
- US 12 is CLOSED at Naches (MP 190) and Chilcoat Ave. (MP 115)
- 20+ highways are closed across 11 counties. More details: https://t.co/KeCjX7JuVV
Before the hating and ranting starts:
The Trafalgar Square Christmas tree is always decorated in a traditional Norwegian style with vertical strings of lights and no other ornaments
The tree represents the Norwegian style of celebration rather than a typical commercial one
Each year since 1947 a gift of a Christmas tree has been given to the people of London from the people of Oslo. Thank you to our Norwegian friends - I promise not to climb her!
🇳🇴 🎄
Only two days until my Christmas Light ceremony ✨🎄
I cross oceans, light up London, and bring all the festive magic… because Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a little spruce-approved sparkle 💅🌟
More about this tree-dition ❤️
https://t.co/xdAFdetC0l
What could possibly connect the author of James Bond, an exiled King, an aquavit bottle, and WW2 saboteurs? The answer - a tree 🎄
Read the fascinating history of the Trafalgar Square #Christmas tree on @historicuk 👇 https://t.co/oTF2z2bmsw @trafalgartree@LM_Westminster
@RachelBitecofer I read a few replies to the OP before I just couldn’t take it anymore.
The people talking about never locking doors or cars didn’t live in cities, not even places as relatively safe as Salt Lake. They must’ve also been too young to watch the evening news or read the newspapers.