greenaspen, to Scotland

Chris Packham: “Glen Coe is broken and needs fixing”

The naturalist and broadcaster said should not be a "barren moorland", but feature patches of native .

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-67204307

For Glencoe, read ‘the vast bulk of upland

RussCheshire, to climate
@RussCheshire@mastodon.scot avatar

Imposed Prime Minister @RishiSunak has been wrong on this, & much, much, more; it's now almost too late for him to make amends.

But there is still a little time to make the necessary changes to reduce the damage being caused by the & ; time for Sunak to show he cares, if not for us, then for his family. Because if those changes aren't made, we - & they - have no future.

Then again, Sunak's a Tory; & cares only for money.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/world-facing-hellish-3c-of-climate-heating-un-warns-before-cop28?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

rose_alibi, to random
@rose_alibi@post.lurk.org avatar

oh hey it's april, tis the month when greenwashing kicks into full gear. i'm always in the mood to point out greenwashing so i'm just gonna thread it all here.

ivy,
@ivy@veganism.social avatar

@rose_alibi i came across this recently and thought you may be interested.

cow leather actually seems to be far worse environmentally than “vegan” (plastic) leather. some excerpts from the link below:

> Every day, an estimated 40 million litres of untreated waste-water [from tanneries] flows through major tanning country India and into the Ganges River, which people drink from and bathe in.
> More tanneries than any other business type appear on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund list.
> 95% of US tanneries now operate overseas to avoid environmental oversight penalties. The land under ex-tannery sites cannot be used for farming, be built on, or often even be sold.
> To make 1 typical cow skin leather tote, almost 17,128L of water is used.
> The farming of cattle for beef and leather products is responsible for 80% of the Amazon’s deforestation.

it doesn’t biodegrade:

> Leather does not effectively biodegrade. Not even according to the tanning industry itself, not even vegetable tanned leather.

furthermore, it produces more CO2 than the polyurethane alternatives:

> Even polyurethane synthetic leather boots and the impact of their supposed incineration at their ‘end of life’ (if they aren’t able to be recycled) emit almost seven times less emissions [than the cow leather alternative].

more information and actual green alternatives: https://www.collectivefashionjustice.org/leather

all this is not to say that plastic is a solution. it’s not. but i see a lot of greenwashing around animal products, especially as a way to invalidate vegan alternatives that aim to reduce harm. i’m sure that wasn’t your intention :)

#greenwashing #climatecrisis #biodiversitycrisis #vegan

Hellybootwader, to climate
@Hellybootwader@mastodon.scot avatar

It feels like we should be in a superhero film, only :
-the villains own ALL the companies & governments, not just the odd one.

-The police are busy being told to enforce the villain leading status quo.

  • the Newspapers are either pretending there are no villains, or that we should suck it up.

-And there is no superhero.

#ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis

Philsturgeon, to random
@Philsturgeon@mastodon.green avatar

My charity is attempting to buy a piece of woodland in east Bristol and I need you all to come out in support. We all see stories of 200 acres or 2000 acres of community buyout, but this 5 acres is in the middle of a major city, and it’s just as important as something far bigger out in the countryside. Please read this description, and help me save a tiny important fragment of amazing woodland. #BiodiversityCrisis #WoodlandProtection #Rewilding #TreeProtection https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-blackswarth-road-wood-crews-hole

qkslvrwolf, to random
@qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social avatar

Putting invasive bugs on your plants to control aphids is pretty much not ok. Stop it.

#Gardens #NativePlants #BiodiversityCrisis

T_recks, to random German
@T_recks@norden.social avatar

Leute, wollen wir mal sammeln wie wir 'den Karren aus der Schei**' bekommen?

Kleine wie große Maßnahmen zusammenbringen;
individuelle, kollektive und politische Herangehensweisen sammeln;
teure und günstige Ideen teilen.
Von Veggieday, Bürgerenergie, Balkonkraftwerk und Kiezblock bis zur Fensterdichtung und Sparduschkopf.

Was hilft im Kleinen und im Großen?
#klimakrise #wasserkrise #BiodiversityCrisis

Laplantgenetics, to Hydrogen
@Laplantgenetics@spore.social avatar

I don't know if these are ants (they were reddish) or something else, but I am pretty sure colonies of insects don't normally send drones & future queens out to mate in October in the northern hemisphere. #ClimateDiary #BiodiversityCrisis #AntsOfTheFediverse #ants #PolyCrisis #ClimateChange

matze74, to Germany German

#ClimateDiary

What really makes me angry and desperate in this time of multiple crises is the fact that even the "moderate" parties here in #Germany prefer to badmouth each other or blow up niche issues to the maximum instead of working together on solutions to the real problems.

#Flooding #Heatwave #Drought
#War #BiodiversityCrisis

I thought I was experiencing #ClimateGrief, but maybe it's more like #PoliticsGrief or #LobbyistAnger ? 🤔

Bellingen, to sydney
@Bellingen@mastodon.au avatar

Australia's roads are "killing corridors" for biodiversity
Mobility design for extinction records

"Appin Road is known as Australia's 'killing corridor' because of the large number of endangered koalas killed on the stretch. Increased traffic on south-west Sydney's Appin Road has resulted in 32 of the endangered marsupials being killed on the notorious stretch since July 2022 – roughly half of all deaths in the district over the same period. Wildlife advocates have long referred to it as Australia's "killing corridor".
>>
https://au.news.yahoo.com/developer-responds-as-aussie-road-upgrade-near-killing-corridor-labelled-pretty-horrific-030233495.html

Koala in the gutter
In Bellingen, we reported about the widening of Gleniffer road to aid tourism and the timber extraction industry. Once a quiet thoroughfare, Tuckers Nob SF is now logged and clear-felled in large parts. Vehicles are enticed to speed though the once remnant forests where koalas had their home. Recently one disoriented koala was viewed in the gutter. It seems a matter of time before the speeding vehicles will knock down the last homeless marsupials.
>>
Monopolising and overusing residential roads for the purpose of industrial extraction.
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/111005620715386309

makers

Bellingen, to climate
@Bellingen@mastodon.au avatar

The Forestry industry and the communities it supports cannot afford another fire.
Forestry industry still feeling effects of Black Summer looks at how to best protect plantations. >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-12-30/forestry-communities-cant-afford-another-fire-after-black-summer/103272090

Bellingen, to BadInternetBills
@Bellingen@mastodon.au avatar

Reasons to support environmental defenders and citizens’ assemblies
Democracies depend on citizen engagement

“States must address the root causes of mobilisation” not the mobilisation itself. Indeed, tackling protesters and not oil producers is the democratic equivalent of rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic."
>>
https://theconversation.com/three-reasons-to-support-environmental-defenders-227742

The repression and criminalisation of environmental protests
State repression of environmental protest and civil disobedience: a major threat to human rights and democracy. Position Paper by Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the Aarhus Convention, 2024
>>
https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/UNSR_EnvDefenders_Aarhus_Position_Paper_Civil_Disobedience_EN.pdf

Public Participation
The Aarhus Convention and its Protocol on PRTRs empower people with the rights to access information, participate in decision-making in environmental matters and to seek justice. They are the only legally binding global instruments on environmental democracy.
>>
https://unece.org/environmental-policy-1/public-participation

Re-imagining the Making of Climate Law and Policy in Citizens’ Assemblies
>>
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/transnational-environmental-law/article/reimagining-the-making-of-climate-law-and-policy-in-citizens-assemblies/A591CF2EBFF3E60CF2BC4FE3655503E3

Bellingen, to climate
@Bellingen@mastodon.au avatar

Surge in extreme forest fires fuels global emissions

"Climate change and human activities have led to more frequent and intense forest blazes over the past two decades."

"The increased numbers of forest fires was partially driven by the frequent heatwaves and droughts caused by climate change...In turn, the CO2 emitted by forest fires contributes to global warming, creating a feedback loop between the two.”

"Humans also played a part. “Many forest fires were actually caused by humans when they were, for example, building fires to get warm at night, lighting fireworks or discarding cigarette butts."

"Given the scale of emissions that they generate, forest fires have become a source of CO2 emissions that “cannot be ignored."
>>
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04033-y
#ExtremeForestFireEvents #bushfires #pollution #GHG #NativeForests #climatechange #BiodiversityCrisis

Bellingen, to climate
@Bellingen@mastodon.au avatar

Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines
Yet the koala’s feed trees keep falling...

"Since time immemorial, the Gumbaynggirr Nation has cared for country and we know that the Dunggirr is sacred to the First Nations peoples of Bellingen Shire."

"Koalas cannot read signs or distinguish boundaries between native forests, state forest plantations or your backyard."

"Over decades locals and tourists have come to know about the Gleniffer koalas, through registered sightings and expert evidence. Yet the koala’s feed trees keep falling, even though Forestry Corporation of NSW (FC NSW) has no social licence."

"After operating within our Shire for over three decades, FC NSW have deliberately withdrawn any connection with the community and take no responsibility for the cumulative damage that the corporation has inflicted on our community’s waterways, roads and bridges".

"...We need to rethink the age-old argument between plantations versus habitat.This requires courage because we all need to have these conversations regarding the remnants in plantations and the wildlife therein."

Bellingen Environment Centre
Take me to the article>>
https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/letter-to-the-editor-bellingen-environment-centre-calls-for-unity
#Savetuckersnob #SavePineCreek #GKNP #NSWLogging #koala #BiodiversityCrisis #climate #BellingenLogging #GumbaynggirrCountry #Gleniffer #RemnantVegetation #FCNSW #legitimacy

Philsturgeon, to random
@Philsturgeon@mastodon.green avatar

You lot are amazing. There was such a positive reaction to the tree sponsorship that I’ve rolled out hedgerow sponsorship too.

The farmers we work with are extremely excited to replace old nasty barbed wire fencing with wildlife corridors, and grants are hard to come by, but you can sponsor them by the meter.

Sponsor: https://protect.earth/donate

#BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateAction #FloodMitigation #HabitatRestoration

lycophidion, to environment
markhburton, to Collapse
@markhburton@mstdn.social avatar

"Welcome to the #Sunak and #Starmer show and welcome to the next four, five, six or seven months of your life."
BBC

I can reveal that neither of them will be presenting the policy choices that are needed on the face of multiple symptoms of systems #collapse.
Instead do take a look at and promote the #GettingReal policy portfolio.
https://gettingreal.org.uk

#ClimageCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis
#Livelihoods
#Equality
#Tax
#UKPolitics

AudreyBras, to random
@AudreyBras@ecoevo.social avatar

Yesterday I joined @ScientistRebellion and other climate movements in Helsinki to remind our leaders that climate action and protection of nature must be the centre of EU policies.

May has been the warmest month recorded in Finland, extreme climate events are happening worldwide, sea is rising forcing people to leave their homes...

No one is safe from the climate crisis. Now more than ever, we need radical changes to secure our future.
#ClimateAction #BiodiversityCrisis #EU2024

OWGF, to climate
@OWGF@pixelfed.social avatar

Time for Our Land. Our Future

Poster set for Where they tank older generations for their contributions and push for us to do more to protect our planet
Poster set for Where they tank older generations for their contributions and push for us to do more to protect our planet
Poster set for Where they tank older generations for their contributions and push for us to do more to protect our planet

Philsturgeon, to cymru
@Philsturgeon@mastodon.green avatar

🌳 Who wants to plant some trees in Welshpool, Powys Jan 27th? We're really low on volunteers, so if you'd like to come and join us from further afield get in touch. There's a train and we can pick you up from the station, or figure out car pooling. #Wales #reforestation #rewilding #ClimateAction #biodiversity #biodiversitycrisis https://www.protect.earth/events/volunteers-needed-planting-trees-near-welshpool-powys

Bellingen, to Ethics
@Bellingen@mastodon.au avatar

Extraction and violence go hand in hand

How a fight to save the bush became a battlefield

"In Coffs Harbour Local Court the forestry contractors Michael Luigi Vitali and Rodney James Hearfield were found guilty of assaulting Graham and his companion Andre Johnston that afternoon on the road on the Dorrigo Plateaux three and a half years ago. No conviction was recorded."

"What she (Higginson) still believes to have been collusion between police, loggers and the FCNSW reflected a dangerous culture in which protesters are perceived by the government to be suspect automatically, while those who profit from resource extraction were above suspicion."
>>
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/how-a-fight-to-save-the-bush-became-a-battlefield-20240117-p5exxc.html
#FCNSW #violence #loggers #ForestryCorporation #ethics #NativeForests #NSWLogging #CoffsHarbour #GreatKoalaNationalPark #WildCattleCreek #RiotSquad #environmentalists #protests #climate #BiodiversityCrisis

Bellingen, to wildlife
@Bellingen@mastodon.au avatar

Logging operations to continue between NSW and Queensland after judge rejects environmentalists' court bid

"Environmentalists have lost a legal challenge to a forestry agreement between the NSW and Commonwealth governments, meaning logging operations can continue within a vast coastal area between Sydney and the Queensland border."

"On behalf of the alliance (The North East Forest Alliance), the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) argued the Commonwealth was required to assess environmental values and principles of ecologically sustainable management when it was renewed, but failed to do so".

"These included impacts on endangered species, climate change and old growth forests."
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-10/nsw-forestry-court-decision-logging-nefa/103300986
#NativeForests #NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #EDO #wildlife #koalas #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency #law #NEFA #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark

DavidSD, to random Catalan

Destabilising :

Trends in 923 terrestrial assemblages monitored in 106 studies show declines in abundance and species richness, mostly driven by widespread declines of formerly abundant species.
The underlying causes might be associated with recent anthropogenic changes.

"their general declines are likely to have broad repercussions for food webs and ecosystem functioning"

🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06861-4

Philsturgeon, to random
@Philsturgeon@mastodon.green avatar

I am incredibly proud of the whole @ProtectEarthUK team and all of our supporters for planting over 100,000 trees in three short years, especially because the first year was only about 4,000!

We do so much more than plant trees (wildflowers, hedgerows, invasive removal, net regen/colonizarion, etc), but as that was our first metric it’s lovey to see the number go up so quickly.

#Reforestation #Rewilding #ClimateAction #BiodiversityCrisis

https://www.protect.earth/blog/a-forest-of-accomplishments-reflecting-on-100000-trees-planted

Bellingen, to wildlife
@Bellingen@mastodon.au avatar

Logging Tarkeeth habitat

"Tarkeeth State Forest 'plantation' excluded from protection, and high quality habitat, but outside the 'provisional assessment area' for the park - to be clear-felled with no consultation"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgO-waiAgSY
#NSWLogging #FCNSW #NativeForests #Tarkeeth #BellingenLogging #koalas #wildlife #BiodiversityCrisis

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