"And often the spotlight lands on a few people while the many others who made the work possible remain out of frame. Quietly, almost invisibly, the people who carried the effort across the finish line stand off to the side." #conservation
Beautiful short film about bird-friendly coffee farms in Colombia
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wP_Z... #birds
Even more astonishing is this 2020 investigation by @oxpeckersnews.bsky.social into how conflicts of interest between IUCN members and lobbies for trophy hunting and the fashion industry influences the IUCN position (and thus CITES votes) on species conservation 🌏
oxpeckers.org/2020/02/insi...
Part of the investigation was picked up by @thetimes.com in this article by @rhysblakely.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
High level conflicts of interests between IUCN Specialist Groups and the fashion industry, this is a wild read by @totalethicsfashion.bsky.social
www.collectivefashionjustice.org/articles/iuc... 🌏
Pretty cool visual story about butterflies crossing the Atlantic and moths navigating migrations by the stars - in a nifty phone-oriented format 🌏
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'There are “hundreds, if not thousands, more species that should be listed,” says @chrisrshepherd.bsky.social an expert in the trade of little-known species with the Center for Biological Diversity.'
How CITES fails to protect species lacking attention and funding, and how it could be reformed 🌏
Same trend could happen elsewhere. Indigenous Kuy in Cambodia also use pitcher plants to cook traditional dishes.
Overharvesting to meet tourism-driven demand for traditional dish put pitcher plants at risk in Sumatra 🌏
'“In the past, this dish could only be enjoyed during certain events, such as traditional ceremonies or Eid al-Fitr,” said Daswarsya.'
www.ekuatorial.com/en/2026/03/t...
‼️100 trees are lost every minute due to EU consumption.
If policymakers finally enforce the EU deforestation law, we could save up to 50 million trees annually and keep our air clean.
Right now, destructive industries are pushing to dismantle the law.
We can’t let them win.
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"If lawmakers are truly worried about consumer misunderstanding and transparency, they might start by addressing the wildly misleading imagery used in meat marketing."
Nothing more misleading than happy animals in fields and barns to hide the horrors of modern animal farming 🌏
A white bird with a black crown and short, sharp bill is perched on a wooden stake looking back and upwards with an alert, sharp look.
A little Burmese shrike on an indigenous farm in Eastern Cambodia. It was keeping a close watch on a newly planted field at the forest's edge.
Shrikes must be doing well in that mixed landscape of forest, small fields and grassland where Bunong communities practice rotational agriculture. #birds
"Many ecosystems began changing long before systematic monitoring began. In much of the world, the longest continuous records of environmental change reside not in databases but in memory, language and daily practice."
New study in 10 Indigenous & local communities found #birds are now much smaller
We cut biodiversity-rich forests to produce meat which generates a lot of carbon, then try to fix the problem by growing carbon-sucking 'forests' over the remaining biodiversity hotspots.
It's a bit more complex than this but overall we're still missing the point.
After the creative industry, AI is coming for the food system.
New AI tools pushed by tech giants risk locking farmers into a globalized food system that has already shown its weaknesses in the face of wars or climate shocks.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
“In my 26 years of being focused on climate, I’ve never seen anything like this. Trump is gutting everything they ever stood for,” Marc Morano, a long-time climate denier.
“Billionaires are silent. Democrats in Congress have been silent. Climate activists. There has been no push-back on this,” 🌏
Yes that's another one too. And in some places you *have* to fly to simply get to the nearest country without spending two days on the road...
You couldn't have summed it up better! And in some cases local politics as well 😶
This is such a good article for anyone working in conservation.
One thing overlooked imo is how the size of organizations play a role, with people in small NGOs working twice as much for twice as less with little protections. First hand experience here 😉
news.mongabay.com/2026/03/an-e... 🌏
"The culture or tradition of keeping birds in captivity ... contributes to the extinction of the birds. Such cultures need to change." - Johan Iskandar, ethnobiologist
The songbird tradition is emptying many forests not only in Indonesia, but also in Malaysia & Vietnam, of their #birds 🌏
“These sites revealed the existence of ancient societies that were much more complex and densely populated than previously imagined”
New collaborations between archaeologists and indigenous communities on a more equal footing than in the past: pulitzercenter.org/stories/foun...
Cambodia is set to build the $1.2B Funan Techo Canal linking the Mekong to the sea.
Residents along the route say they’ve received little information and fear land loss and disruption to floodplain farms and fisheries.
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“Just three countries [Japan, Norway & Iceland] remain outliers to the consensus that the world is significantly better off with #whales in the world’s oceans instead of in pet food and in supermarkets.”
Global petition from @eia-news.bsky.social & partners, sign here endcommercialwhaling.org 🌏
This reminds me the non-fiction book The Lizard King, where NatGeo head of investigation Brian Christy tells the story of US wildlife smugglers and law enforcement investigations over the past 50 years #wildlifetrade
The wild life of an egg smuggler
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QYM...
Congrats to @mongabay.com for bringing wildlife crime stories into new formats! #birds
Give this amazing guy a boost to do more for streets kids & urban wildlife in Nairobi: vote at vote.eaya.africa (wildlife conservation award)
#birds #kenya
I see your point but in many cases, the decisions are taken by a small group of humans in power, and the benefits are 'not equally shared' with the rest of humanity, to say the least.
A wildlife sanctuary home to some of Cambodia's rarest and most threatened birds sees community forests handed over to mining companies and the prospect of a dam flooding 1/3 of its area. #birds 🌏
Il est complètement absurde de tuer des centaines de millieurs de renards en France www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Signez la pétition sur le site de l'Assemblée Nationale pour retirer le classement "espèce nuisible" petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...
#renard #faunesauvage