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NeoRenfield<p>Spotted <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Owls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Owls</span></a>, Marbled Murrelets, and other wildlife need help. Join me, and Center for Biological <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diversity</span></a>: tell the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Forest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Forest</span></a> Service to strengthen and expand the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Northwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwest</span></a> Forest Plan to preserve <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forests</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a>, and watersheds:<br><a href="https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/JsD7U0G41ESs6k2EuXsZtQ2?sourceid=1010382" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">act.biologicaldiversity.org/Js</span><span class="invisible">D7U0G41ESs6k2EuXsZtQ2?sourceid=1010382</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/endangered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endangered</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/endangeredspecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endangeredspecies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/threatenedspecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>threatenedspecies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/natural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>natural</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wilderness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wilderness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pacificnorthwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pacificnorthwest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a></p>
Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈<p>The Conservation Biology Institute is looking for volunteers with GIS and spatial data experience to help secure and preserve federally funded environmental datasets on their Data Basin platform</p><p><a href="https://mailchi.mp/1757b2a216df/data-basin-quarterly-update?e=b2b5817153" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mailchi.mp/1757b2a216df/data-b</span><span class="invisible">asin-quarterly-update?e=b2b5817153</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/gis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gis</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/SpatialData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpatialData</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EnvironmentalData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalData</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a></p>
Flipboard Science Desk<p>Ducks were once a conservation bright spot. Now they’re declining in the U.S., new report shows.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AssociatedPress</span></a></span> reports: <a href="https://flip.it/1YqDfg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/1YqDfg</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Ducks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ducks</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservation</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Animals</span></a></p>
Joe Wynne 🌻 🚗 ⛰️<p>🐦 🦆 New report shows US bird populations continue to decline rapidly. </p><p>"The report, produced by a coalition of leading science and conservation organizations, reveals continued widespread declines in American bird populations across all mainland and marine habitats, with 229 species requiring urgent conservation action." </p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WildlifeConservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WildlifeConservation</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservation</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-bird-populations-alarming-decline.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-03-bird-pop</span><span class="invisible">ulations-alarming-decline.html</span></a></p>
Christophe Bousquet<p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Sad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sad</span></a> but <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/true" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>true</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Survival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Survival</span></a> of Eurasian <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/lynx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lynx</span></a> in the human-dominated landscape of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ConservationBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConservationBiology</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/IllegalKilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IllegalKilling</span></a> was the main cause of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/mortality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mortality</span></a> (33.8%), and mortality rates were similar in protected and hunted populations (8.6% and 7.0% per year, respectively). Due to the low natural mortality rates in protected and hunted populations, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/anthropogenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropogenic</span></a> causes of mortality are likely close to additive, such that maintaining or increasing refuge <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/habitat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>habitat</span></a> with little human <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/disturbance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disturbance</span></a> is critical to lynx <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.14439" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com</span><span class="invisible">/doi/10.1111/cobi.14439</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Rare <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/frog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>frog</span></a> rediscovered after 130 years <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-rare-frog-rediscovered-years.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-03-rare-fro</span><span class="invisible">g-rediscovered-years.html</span></a></p><p>Lost for more than a century: the rediscovery of Alsodes vittatus (Anura, Alsodidae), one of the rarest and most elusive <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/amphibians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amphibians</span></a> from <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Chile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chile</span></a> <a href="https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/135523/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zookeys.pensoft.net/article/13</span><span class="invisible">5523/</span></a></p><p>"This is an important milestone for South American <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/herpetology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>herpetology</span></a>... Most of the other Alsodes species are either threatened with <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extinction</span></a> or we don't know enough about them to assess their status"</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Frogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frogs</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Animals</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservation</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> moves to relax rules against killing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MigratoryBirds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MigratoryBirds</span></a> <br>
The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Interior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Interior</span></a> Dept suspended a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> opinion holding companies liable for accidentally killing ducks, cranes, pelicans, owls &amp; other bird species.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a>@<br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/03/10/migratory-bird-protections-suspended/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/climate-env</span><span class="invisible">ironment/2025/03/10/migratory-bird-protections-suspended/</span></a></p>
mk30<p>"Sixty years later: More than 100,000 tires from failed reef plan are coming out of Puget Sound" <a href="https://www.king5.com/article/tech/science/environment/thousands-tires-failed-reef-plan-puget-sound/281-dae51aef-0db7-4ca0-9af4-7bd90f1afdf8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">king5.com/article/tech/science</span><span class="invisible">/environment/thousands-tires-failed-reef-plan-puget-sound/281-dae51aef-0db7-4ca0-9af4-7bd90f1afdf8</span></a></p><p>Kind of sounds like back in the day, they were like "hey we have all these old tires. Why don't we dump them in the ocean and call it an artificial reef?"</p><p><a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/PugetSound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PugetSound</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/reef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reef</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ocean</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Can’t help myself. If I had the patience, I’d overlay the baby eaglets in farcical dramatic Vaseline lens Sarah MacLaughlin humane society commercial fashion.</p><p>(P.S. — Damn Babs! 🔥 I forgot your ridiculous vocal range!)<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TLcleanse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TLcleanse</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JackieAndShadow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JackieAndShadow</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Eaglets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eaglets</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BaldEagle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BaldEagle</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BigBearValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigBearValley</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BarbaraStreisand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BarbaraStreisand</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Yentl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yentl</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PapaCanYouHearMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PapaCanYouHearMe</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ShadowFeeding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShadowFeeding</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Great look at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JackieAndShadow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JackieAndShadow</span></a>’s 3 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/eaglets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eaglets</span></a>.</p><p>They so resemble funny little muppets / miniature Ostriches with Slinky toy necks.</p><p>Adorable.</p><p>Also, every time Shadow does a feeding, “Papa can you hear me?” from Yentl plays in my head.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TLcleanse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TLcleanse</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BaldEagle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BaldEagle</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BigBearValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigBearValley</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a></p>
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It is Friday, after another geopolitical week of #fear, #turmoil & #chaos driven by #Trump’s #RevengePolitics. As such, I may be guilty of endeavoring to cleanse both my heart/mind/timeline.

And because I am not involved in any primary beauty, here is another #JackieAndShadow video.

[Last year at this time I posted hourly #BabySquirrel (click) updates. Thankfully–for them–none have need rescuing yet]