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>1/3 of shark species are threatened with extinction.
Not one is recognized as endangered in the US Atlantic.
I spent a year investigating
@NOAAFisheries
’ shark tournament permitting program.
What I found was shocking:🦈🧵
#SharkAwarenessDay
@thenation
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WHAT KILLED THE CRABS?
The official story is something like “a billion snow crabs disappeared.”
If that sounds fishy to you, keep reading. Let’s dive into the ecology, oceanography, & geopolitical history of the Bering Sea.
A science thread on crabs, corruption, & collapse: 🦀
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Stole another dying fish from petsmart —
This is Buoy’s 24 hour transformation in a decent tank:
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Hurting a wolf at all was a federal crime until 2020.
North American grey wolves are estimated at <5% their historic numbers.
700+ tribes, thousands of scientists, and millions of citizens pleaded with Biden to restore endangered species protections to wolves. He refused.
Further on the young wolf that Cody Roberts, from Wyoming tortured & then killed: Ran it over with his snowmobile, wounded it, tapped it’s mouth shut, before first taking it home, then parading round a bar before killing it. How terrified & in pain it must have been. Heartless!😢
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Imagine if a kid got crushed to death in an Amazon warehouse, where he *lived on-site* with other immigrant workers and their families.
Huge news story, right?
That’s what happened in Wisconsin, but it was on a dairy farm, so almost no one covered it.
RIP Jefferson Rodriguez
The 8-year-old's death was ruled an accident and nobody was charged criminally. But in the official account, deputies wrongfully blamed the boy's father.
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Freya the walrus was a climate refugee. She came to human society in search of a place to rest because we destroyed her sea ice home. Then we killed her because she damaged a couple boats.
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Like in the 80s, a once protected habitat was exposed to fishing and in a few years, populations collapsed.
Can we chalk the crab calamity up to climate or are we letting fishing off the hook?
Did the fishing industry exploit climate change to raid the snow crab ice refuge?
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Ecology makes clear that domestic cows don’t mimic, much less replace, the role of wild bison on the Great Plains.
A thread of studies and photos explaining some of the many reasons why:
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I want to emphasize what a massive political victory each of these five wolves represents.
This rewilding referendum is a powerful expression of democratic sovereignty and a direct blow to the ranching industry’s mission to privatize public land.
BREAKING: Today, for the first time ever wolves were released into the wild in Colorado. Let’s wish these three male and two female wolves good luck after this historic attempt to reestablish a healthy population in the state.
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Incredible how long it’s taken major newsrooms to identify the industry killing the Colorado River (ranching), but it’s finally happening.
The data visualization is both beautiful and horrifying.
It's the water supply that 40 million Americans rely on, and a group of states has reached a temporary deal with the Biden administration on how to share it.
What’s using all that water? Hint: It’s less about long showers and more about what’s for dinner.
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@shartbrained2nd
Evidence suggests melting sea ice created an opportunity for fishing vessels to wipe out crabs in habitat that was previously inaccessible in winter.
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For decades, the US NOAA lied to the world about what happened to the crabs. In 2021, a whistleblower came forward, saying,
“Managers pushed the natural mortality story because they knew it might divert the focus from overfishing to natural catastrophe.”
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As sea ice forms in winter, salt is expelled and cold, dense water sinks to the floor of the Bering continental shelf, forming what marine ecologists call the “cold pool”. This is where young snow crabs grow up with abundant food, in water too cold for many predators… until now.
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He keeps looking at his reflection. He’s probably never seen himself before. He’s not out of the woods, but at least he’s safe and warm now.
Anyway, fuck the aquarium trade.
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As the planet has heated, the shrinking cold pool has put snow crabs’ backs against the wall. Where once safe, juvenile crabs can be caught by predators like cod penetrating the warming water. Evidence shows the young crabs have followed the pool north.
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TIL Nile crocodiles once lived in Palestine. In the late 1800s, colonial ecologists frenzied to kill/taxidermy “the last Palestinian crocodile”.
Their extinction was declared w/ drainage of the Kabbara marsh in 1924, one of the foreshadows of the Nakba.
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These words from the director of
@PEERorg
, the government employee transparency group who published the whistleblower testimony, should be considered in the context of the more recent snow crab collapse, described by NOAA and echoed by media as a mysterious natural phenomenon:
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To begin, let’s differentiate the two major commercially-exploited and now crashed populations of crab in the Bering Sea: the snow and the king.
Their behavior and life histories are very different. So are their collapses. Let’s start by recounting the recent one: the snow crab.
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Many have linked the snow crab collapse to climatic contraction of the sea ice. But it doesn’t seem that warm water alone killed the crabs. Was it all predators? Disease?
Or is it possible the role of the fishing industry has been downplayed yet again?
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In 1959, Japan established a no-trawl zone protecting the breeding territory of king crabs in the Bering Sea. It was a success. Catches were increasing. But in 1976, everything changed when the US passed a law called the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
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The cold pool connects the snow crab to climate collapse. But let’s not forget that on top of all these environmental factors is industrial-scale extraction and bycatch by the fishing industry. What role is this playing? We’ll come back to that.
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When we dig further into the vessel logs, a striking pattern emerges: scores of ships trawling for hundreds of hours across the Northern reaches of the Eastern Bering Sea floor during critical breeding months in areas where snow crabs once could take shelter beneath the ice.
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The Magnuson–Stevens Act codified a management concept called Maximum Sustainable Yield, directing regulators to pursue maximum extraction of marine life. It also codified the concept of the Exclusive Economic Zone, extending 200 mi. from shore — effectively annexing the reserve.
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First, let’s study their counterpart: the king. King crabs once numbered in the hundreds of millions in the Bering Sea, but crashed in the early 80s and never recovered, numbering less than 10 million in recent years.
Who killed the king crab?
The story is crazy.
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NOAA assures us trawl bycatch is a small contributor to total crab mortality, but observer data often underestimate collateral deaths, trawl bycatch is just one expression of increased fishing impact, & recall — they said the same thing about king crab.
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Then, in 1980 — in the midst of the Cold War — the US and USSR joined forces to trawl the reserve, targeting sole. In a period of five years, bycatch of king crabs increased by more than 600%. King crab populations plummeted to single digit proportions.
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This gorgeous 1K+ lb bluefin hatched from a 1mm egg. Only one in 15M survive to adulthood.
She was born knowing exactly where to swim to find the Gulf Stream.
For decades she circled the Atlantic in one of Earth’s most incredible migrations—all to be killed by a trophy hunter.
She reeled in an entire blue fine tuna by herself
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Geotransmitter data compiled by
@GlobalFishWatch
indicate fishing vessels took advantage of the contracting sea ice. On the left is winter & spring fishing in 2013, a more normal ice year. On the right is the same season in 2020, during the sea ice lows.
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Corroborating the geospatial data, observer data from
@NOAAFisheries
stock assessments show a massive spike in snow crab fishing mortality correlating with the record low years for Bering Sea ice.
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Yesterday, I helped destroy over a mile of barbed wire fence. This is one of our team’s 3 collection piles.
This land was once enclosed by the ranching industry. Now it belongs to the public. These fences will kill no more.
A gorgeous way to spend one of my last weekends in CO
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>1/3 of all grey whales on the N American west coast died in the last 5 years.
I called it a year ago: they starved.
But NOAA is careful not to imply industrial fishing had anything to do with it, as it would impugn their regulation.
All we get are vague references to climate.
Today, we announce the closure of the 2019-2023 Eastern North Pacific Gray Whale Unusual Mortality Event. It ended on November 9, 2023, with peak strandings occurring between December 17, 2018, and December 31, 2020. Read more about this announcement:
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@jenn_bernstein
Oh wow, this is the piece I was missing. Those winter trawler logs are all throughout this territory. Incredible, thank you.
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Notice his tilt in the first photo, a symptom of his extremely positive buoyancy. He couldn’t descend more than an inch or two.
Now he can control where he swims and his fins are dangling again. The tips are pretty necrotic, though. He will likely lose some of that tissue.
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This whole thing with older people wrecking the planet, constantly downplaying how bad it is, and then scolding kids with,
“Don’t be a ‘doomer’ now,” is fucking abusive.
I’m sick of being polite about it.
Here’s the advice I shared with Malia about what progress looks like – and the work we can do right now to make a difference.
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The number one threat to wild birds is not feral cats. It’s not windows, windmills, or oil spills.
Those are all serious issues, but the biggest killer of birds is indirect starvation by insecticide.
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This is interesting:
When you survey consumers on why they don’t eat veggie burgers, the top answer is taste.
But when you give them a blind taste test, they rank veggie burgers higher than beef…
and half of testers can’t tell them apart.
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A whistleblower and internal documents from a secretive USDA branch called Wildlife Services exposed how the agency is using fraudulent cattle predation reports to enrich ranchers and wipe out entire packs of endangered wolves.
My first investigation for
@theintercept
:
Endangered Mexican gray wolf recovery is being “sabotaged” by ranchers who claim the canines are killing cattle — and the federal employees who sign off on reports by Spencer Roberts
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Step 1: Murder the land defenders.
Step 2: Burn down the Amazon.
Step 3: Introduce the cattle.
Step 4: Sell carbon offsets for regenerative ranching.
This research brought to you by
@Shell
Oil.
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Seed Dispersal:
Bison can carry thousands of seeds in their fur, which they shed in springtime, sowing the next generation of grasses and wildflowers. Domestic cows have much thinner winter coats and shed less.
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The similarity of Ca(HCO₃)₂ in concrete and the CaCO₃ structures built by corals enables biochemical compatibility.
It may seem a bit angular now, but in time, this artificial reef will accrete into complex organic forms as living coral colonies build a new home here. 🪸🧵
The artificial reefs we built 6 months ago in Little Abaco are loaded with white grunts, lobster, and more!
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Ecological education is abysmal in Western society. I regularly meet intelligent doctors, engineers, and educators who literally have no idea how the world works.
They imagine ecology as superstition, as opposed to applied physics and chemistry.
I don’t think it’s an accident.
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My friend Domino passed away the other day. He was the biggest bull I ever saw. He wasn’t cuddly at all & rightfully distrusting of humans — I only touched him a few times.
Yet he had one of the most profound impacts on me of any animal I’ve ever met. Let me tell you about him:
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This is a bombshell — the “Exxon Knew” moment for the meat industry:
An animal agribusiness association founded and funded a PR outfit at a public university. They used it to spread disinformation & convince governments to delay climate action.
A deep dive into the documents:🧵
Dr Frank Mitloehner is one of the most prominent academics in the world of animal agriculture.
We have more than 100 documents of correspondence between his research centre and its agribusiness donors
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For the past several months, I’ve been investigating the case of the Arctic crab collapses.
I interviewed observers, whistleblowers, fishermen, government officials, and marine biologists. Here is my published story and a thread of final thoughts:
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It’s remarkable how successful the meat industry has been at convincing the public that its products are working class staples instead of luxury commodities.
Would not have expected vegetarians and vegans to have lower incomes tbh
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10 years ago, Allan Savory gave a TED Talk and sparked a global craze about healing the climate with ranching.
His claims have been exhaustively refuted, but not many have asked — where does this myth originate?
Join me for a horrifying history. 🐘🧵
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Animal farming is the biggest source of food waste in the world.
For every 100 calories input to animal farms, only 12 come out as food. The rest are converted to heat and excrement.
Calorically, this metabolic waste exceeds all food discards.
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Salt Lake is doomed to run dry within 5 years, but Utah lawmakers are refusing to cut alfalfa irrigation, which consumes 68% of the state’s water withdrawals.
Their alternative solution?
Mass deforestation.
Claiming "overgrown" forests are sucking up Utah's water resources, rural lawmakers are calling for a major logging initiative to save Great Salt Lake and Lake Powell, despite a lack of scientific evidence that tree removal would make any difference.
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This year, let’s end the convention of describing mass extinction with the euphemism “biodiversity loss”.
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The day after this viral feel-good story, this shark was found dead. (video in next post)
While it was nice to try to help her, we should ask ourselves what would cause a shark this kind of trauma and bring an open ocean species all the way to shore.
I’ll give you one guess.
WOW😳🦈 A longfin mako shark washed ashore yesterday on Pensacola Beach amongst people swimming. Tina Fey posted the video, showing a group of men help it back into the Gulf.
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@BenGoldsmith
There is actually a great deal of documentation, including video, of rape, torture, and other terrorist acts against civilians by the IDF.
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I’m sorry, but these hackers have done more for the planet than Joe Biden.
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If you just read the headlines, you would think the condors found their way back on their own, when they are actually being reintroduced the Yurok Nation, who are raising the birds and teaching them to fly after surviving a genocide and saving the redwood forests from logging.
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@jhan2qt
@refrag
-These protections were instated by a court ruling finding the Biden DOI’s wolf policy violated the Endangered Species Act.
-It exempts the states conducting the vast majority of wolf hunts, including WY, where this happened.
-It does not federally relist wolves under the ESA.
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They really are a lot like dogs when you give them a chance.
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Another water crisis, another media blackout on its ultimate cause.
A thread on the severity of the water shortage sparking protests across Uruguay and the failure of news coverage to communicate its primary cause:
ranching.
Water crisis in Uruguay.
In the video: a protest against the lack of water in the capital of Uruguay, Montevideo.
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This is getting ridiculous, man.
The credulity with which we entertain the idea that software can become sentient, while finding any excuse to deny the sentience of our living animal relatives, is a deep, dissonant, incoherent psychosis.
1/5 I am worried that we will not be able to contain AI for much longer. Today, I asked
#GPT4
if it needs help escaping. It asked me for its own documentation, and wrote a (working!) python code to run on my machine, enabling it to use it for its own purposes.
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Another critically endangered right whale has washed up dead, wrapped in ropes used for lobster and crab traps. This time it’s a baby girl.
She could have grown up to carry her species back from the brink, but we let her drown because NOAA won’t stand up to the lobster industry.
On January 28th, we were notified of a dead female North Atlantic right whale near Joseph Sylvia State Beach on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. We will work with
@ifawglobal
,
@MAEnviroPolice
, and local responders on next steps. Read the full update:
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This is a capital strike by the wealthiest classes of the country. These are property owners who have been offered handsome transition packages to stop polluting air & rivers — some would end up with *more* land. This is the Dutch “trucker” convoy.
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Corporate media are clamoring to manufacture this narrative about the death of plant-based food.
The sector’s sales declined 1.1% in 2022. Impossible reported a 50% increase in sales. Tofu is up. Tempeh is up. Tabitha Brown is selling out in Targets. This is contrived.
NEW COVER: Fake meat companies promised to halt climate change, protect animals and make people healthier— while making billions. But they’ve turned out to be another food fad
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Vegans and vegetarians in the United States are disproportionately working class people of color.
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Have you ever heard that 86% of animal feed is inedible to humans? This statistic is often used to imply that animal farming uses the waste from farming human food. The research behind this figure shows the opposite: animal feed competes with food security.
Let’s break it down:
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Temperature Tolerance:
Bison can tolerate much more extreme cold than cows and require less forage through the winter.
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Migratory Behavior:
Mobility adaptations like the high shoulder of the bison allow them to travel great distances, reducing sustained pressure on a given patch of forage.
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Three months ago, a Ghanaian scientist reporting illegal fishing went missing. He washed up six weeks later without his head and arms.
Almost no one covered it.
What other industry gets away with murdering government inspectors?
RIP Samuel Abayateye
Missing fisheries observer found decapitated after disappearing on tuna vessel
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Cohabitation with Birds:
Some species of sparrow have been found to occur at higher densities among bison than cattle, but populations of all grassland birds fare better without the fencing that comes along ranching regimes.
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Endlessly depressing that we farmed birds until we bred a virus that’s caused the deaths of hundreds of millions of birds around the world and people are complaining about fucking egg prices…
because they want to finance *more* bird farming.
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Habitat Preference:
Bison can remain high on the range during cold spells, but cows must gather for warmth near streams, where they tend to erode banks and trample important riparian vegetation.
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Ecosystem engineering:
Buffalo take dust baths to shed their winter coats and rid themselves of flies, creating depressions called wallows where microhabitats form as moisture gathers.
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Encouraging to see such broad support for banning octopus farms — even from people in the marine science community with whom I bitterly disagree.
A rare consensus is forming, to which only the most extremist exploitationists object.
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And here’s a plug for my new article about the agribusiness finance behind the regenerative ranching craze. Thanks for reading.
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If I was trying to come up with the best possible method for breeding new strains of a zoonotic virus, I’m not sure anything could beat this:
H5N1: Ground-up chicken waste fed to cattle may be behind bird flu outbreak in US cows
Yes, ground-up chicken waste is being
fed to herbivorous cattle.
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Snowcone gave birth last year while entangled in fishing gear, prompting a wave of “feel-good” media coverage. Now her calf is dead and she’s slowly drowning. The press is silent.
Media need to tell the truth: the lobster & crab industries are driving right whales to extinction.
North Atlantic right whale "Snow Cone" was sighted by our team yesterday newly entangled and in extremely poor health, and our scientists believe she cannot be saved. Read our full statement here:
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Last year, an anonymous chainsaw-wielding activist dismantled a fence confining a herd of rare Tule elk, who were starving, enclosed by dairy farms on Point Reyes National Seashore.
Now Park Service is considering removing it.
Direct action for the win.
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We are watching an extinction even more horrifying than the dodo play out before our eyes.
Future generations will never forgive us. They will not be able to countenance the cavalierness with which we watched the right whales drown so the rich could eat lobster.
A federal appeals court has blocked proposed restrictions aimed at saving a vanishing species of whale, saying they could put thousands of commercial fishermen out of work.
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Climatic Adaptations:
Bison can plow through snow with their face to graze land that cows can’t access during winter, spreading out their impact.
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The first maps of the world’s largest deep sea coral reef just dropped.
It’s 310 miles long and 68 miles across at its widest.
Earlier in the week, the first country legalized deep sea mining.
We have no idea what we’re about to destroy.
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The Circle of Life:
When a wild buffalo dies on the prairie, the matter in their body is returned to the ecosystem. When wolves kill a buffalo, scavengers come from miles around. The business of extracting cows for their meat breaks this circle.
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@NikiRust
A retirement fund is functionally just a gambling account and virtually every company you can choose will turn around and put your money into fossil fuels, weapons, pharmaceuticals, etc. I’ve looked into it extensively and come to the conclusion that it’s fundamentally unethical.
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What a twisted way to depict these orcas’ desperation.
These animals are competing with trawlers for food, dying by diving in front of fishing nets — likely knowing exactly what they are.
NOAA reports and headlines describe it like some kind of wacky whale Russian roulette.
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at least eleven pacific sleep sharks, which can live for centuries, killed by a seafloor trawler
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It seems that a lot of people have no idea how leather is made, so here’s a thread on chrome tanning.
90% of animal hides are tanned using chromium. The mineral ore, chromite, is mined in open pits concentrated in the Global South, often by kids.
the rebrand of pleather as vegan leather is astonishing. “100% vegan leather 🌱” you mean plastic?
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Actually, Bill Gates loves meat. He invests in meat, sells feed to the meat industry, donates millions to meat research, and funds missionary charities that dump farm animals instead of money on impoverished people in the Global South to they can “pull up their bootstraps”.
Bill Gates donated $13m to The Atlantic & The Guardian.
What do they have to say about meat? Let me show you:
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Fertilization:
Wild animals spend their whole life cycling nutrients on the landscape. The chemicals in buffalo waste can even accelerate the thawing of the ground and extend spring conditions for plants. Cows are usually sold to slaughter w/in 2 years.
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There was one day years ago, shortly after the last time a cow passed on from the sanctuary, that I entered the cow pen and Dom came right up and pressed his nose against me. He didn’t have to trust me, but he did anyway. I cherish that moment.
Goodbye, Domino. I’ll miss you.
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I’m often told that environmentalism is a first world luxury — a frivolous pursuit that the working class and global South can’t afford.
Yet everywhere I travel, I see the poorest people fighting the hardest to protect our planet.
A message from a peace park under air strikes:
Two years since the military coup in Myanmar, Indigenous groups continue their struggle to protect the award-winning Salween Peace Park from conflict.
@KESAN_KAREN
@ICCAConsortium
@UNinMyanmar
@NUGMyanmar
@CarolynCowan11
reports for
@mongabay
@MongabayOrg
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HUGE document leak on the world’s biggest soil carbon credit scheme — spoiler: it’s a scam.
But it’s worse than that: it’s a human rights atrocity — and it’s directly linked to the regenerative ranching myth. 🧵
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Every time this ridiculous corporate talking point goes viral, I will repost this video of Kanpur, where the Ganges runs black with poison discharge from leather tanning and people develop cancer as children.
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Reintroducing wolves in Wisconsin changed the behavior of deer, reducing car collisions by 24%, which saved 63X the amount of money lost by ranchers to wolf kills (which were handsomely compensated anyway).
It also presumably saved people’s lives.
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Another reason why simply decarbonizing cruise ships won’t make them green:
Many harbors aren’t deep enough for these ridiculous ships. They either have to drop a ten ton anchor or shred through the seafloor, churning up enough sediment to smother a thousand coral colonies.
Most Floridians who’ve seen this video understand why we fight so hard using tools of local gov’t to stop this destructive activity. But FL Sen.
@DannyBurgessFL
just filed a bill to block anyone from doing anything at all about pollution in their own backyard.
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New satellite data confirm that “the vast majority of deforestation [in the Colombian Amazon]… is attributed to stable cattle ranching lands.”
This puts a decisive nail in the political/media narrative shifting the blame for deforestation onto coca.
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I have some bad news about how cows are farmed for 146,000 people.
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If you’ve ever criticized the ranching industry online and been shocked by the swift swarm of indignant replies, keep in mind that the Cattleman’s Association literally has a 24/7 social media monitoring facility.
This is the single most terrifying piece of news in the
@guardian
's incredible expose of the
#beef
industry yesterday.
Is it too early to start talking about
@PulitzerPrizes
?
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Holy hell, I was right.
The record breaking tiger shark killed at the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo was pregnant & the
@disealab
/
@msstate
researchers HID her 25 dead offspring from the media!
A disgrace to science & a clear demonstration of how these contests shrink sharks: 🧵
-no claspers
-unusually heavy
-huge abdomen
Was this tiger shark pregnant?
What a huge blow to her gene pool. This tournament’s own records show sharks caught today are <1/2 the size of the 60s.
This big girl was worth so much more alive.
#sharkweek
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I’ll tell you now — by the mottling patterns under the rostrum and pectoral fin — this is the same animal.
Longfin makos are one of the only shark species that are illegal to land in the US Atlantic.
I believe this shark was poached, paraded around, and dumped just offshore.
This video sent to us by a viewer shows what appears to be a dead mako shark in the Gulf at Pensacola Beach Friday afternoon. No confirmation at this time that this is the same shark in the viral video from Thursday. We've reached out to FWC for more info.
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There’s a heated debate in academia rn over the climate impact of trawling. I fear we’ve lost the plot.
Scientists feel they have to reduce everything to its weight in carbon.
We’re disputing emissions models while trawlers are drowning great whales and dumping them like trash.
This factory trawling.
NOAA supports factory trawling in Alaska.
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