These animals can cause big trouble. Why are states unleashing them by the millions? Introduced species can wreak havoc on native ecosystems. Many states are flooding their waterways with them.

The nonnative fish released by states that depend on fishing licences for all outdoor conservation efforts are considered 'naturalized.' Translation: Whether or not we see certain species as invasive "often comes down to what we value." www.vox.com/climate/4831... #AnimalMatters #Interdependence

Most animals on this island nation are found nowhere else on Earth. And now they’re vanishing. The only way to save them is to put people first.

And in another example of the inextricable relationship between animals and humans, I give you the incredible island of Madagascar. #AnimalMatters

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#ClimateSky

Ghosts of Plastics Past The Climate-Smart Guide to a Secondhand Spooky Season

October has me thinking about legacies—of visionaries like Jane Goodall, and of the stubborn spirits of petrochemicals past that linger long after we’ve left this planet. New on #AnimalMatters, your home for hope in the age of crisis: giamora.substack.com/p/ghosts-of-...

#HappyHalloween

Animal Matters | Gia Mora | Substack A guide for joyful heroes building a sustainable, equitable, and compassionate future together. Click to read Animal Matters, by Gia Mora, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

If that sounds like your kind of story, follow me here on Bluesky, and subscribe to #AnimalMatters for deeper dives:

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Back-to-School Style: Climate Hero Edition How to “shop” your friends’ closets and host a swap everyone will love.

Wanna get in on this sustainable style action? Why not throw a mini clothing swap with your pals! Learn how + what to do with your textile scraps in the latest #AnimalMatters ⬇️

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Back-to-School Style: Climate Hero Edition How to “shop” your friends’ closets and host a swap everyone will love.

As summer winds down and you’re feeling a need to give your closet a refresh, let me show you how to find a new 'fit in your friends’ castoffs, then mail your true end-of-life textiles off for recycling. #AnimalMatters #ClimateSky #CircularEconomy

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Back-to-School Style: Climate Hero Edition How to “shop” your friends’ closets and host a swap everyone will love.

Back-to-School: Climate-Hero Edition ✨ I found a new 'fit in my friend's castoffs, then mailed my end-of-life textiles for recycling. How to host a no-stress #ClothingSwap & what really happens to those mail-in bags.
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#ClimateSky #CircularFashion #AnimalMatters

A calico tabby cat looks up above the lens of the camera. She sits on an orange pad on a patterned office chair.

“Steal the new-to-you Backjoy SI support? Who? Me?!”
-Mamma’s Little Mountain Lion Wamba, seated upon a #secondhand Herman Miller Sayl chair, er… throne.
#AdoptDontShop #CatSky #ZebracornTales #AnimalMatters

A plan to shoot 450,000 owls — to save a different owl — could be in jeopardy Federal wildlife officials approved a plan to cull barred owls in order to protect northern spotted owls, but it could be upended by funding cuts and congressional opposition.

Call me nuts, but shooting 450k barred owls that can breed with spotted owls sounds like environmental disaster in waiting. There has to be a more humane approach to invasive species that humanity has brought into an ecosystem. #EnrapturedByRaptors #AnimalMatters

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This is What We Do Instead of Despair Or, why virtuous hope in a time of climate catastrophe isn’t a pipe dream — it’s a daily practice.

That positive outlook became the topic of this Earth Month edition of #AnimalMatters, my Substack newsletter for the climate-curious.

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A landscape of the LA coast lined with palm trees as a fire consumes the cliffside. It's Meat That Brought the Heat. Fight climate change. Go vegan. PETA

-Or catching @peta.org's billboard directly connecting eating our fellow living creatures with the climate change responsible for the wildfires that now regularly tear through those canyons.

#MyDayinLA #AnimalsMatter #AnimalMatters #ClimateSky

California Residents: Support a Ban on Declawing Cats

Last week #California AB867 was introduced to expand a ban on declawing from exotic cats to ALL #cats. Breaking the law is, unfortunately, just a misdemeanor, but at least it's a paw in the right direction for #AnimalWelfare.

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#AnimalsMatter #AnimalMatters

Bridges and Tunnels in Colorado Are Helping Animals Commute The state has emerged as a leader in building wildlife crossings, which can save animals, money and human lives.

Huge props to my home state!

"Wildlife crossings are growing in popularity across the country, and in recent years, #Colorado has emerged as a leader. Since 2015, it has built 28 new large game crossing structures."

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#Biodiversity #AnimalMatters #AnimalsMatter

A family of #raccoons lives and plays (very loudly, I might add) in the LA River behind my apartment. But as pets? I'm not quite sold...

#AnimalMatters