This week, the California Legislature adopted two resolutions by state Sen. John Laird. One opposes any new offshore drilling, and one celebrates 50 years of the California Coastal Act.
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bird friend, mom~smitten w/cetacea•seabirds•coastlines•canines•collective nouns•co.kerry•poetry• libraries•🌎 currently living on Wiyot land
Lazuli Bunting 14cm W North America Southern Canada, down to Mexico, Arizona, and California In winter migrate to Arizona and western Mexico Diet: caterpillars, spiders, grasshoppers, seeds, waste grain, and berries the female lay 3-4 eggs and incubate some solely Both parents feed the chicks
This #BirdOfTheDay caper throws up some unusual themes. Today, @robcrank68.bsky.social has suggested #OneTwoThreeFour, so here are some White Terns (from Lord Howe Island in 2024). #seabirds #birds #WildOz
White Terns in front of an incoming storm at Lord Howe Island in 2024. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz
I wonder if they know they are beautiful Sepioteuthis lessoniana in the sunset. Music: The Waiting by Solar Fields
Perhaps no animal belongs in a basket with a lemon wedge.
California becomes the second state to pass a ban on octopus farming and first state to prohibit farmed octopus sales
California Governor Signs Octopus Farming Ban into Law
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Canada's Boreal Forest isn't a neighborhood park—it’s one of the largest intact ecosystems on Earth. 🌲 It covers roughly 1.3 billion acres (526 million hectares). That is an area comparable to the entire United States.
LOON : highly associated with Canadian lakes, breed across Alaska, the northern US , Greenland, and Iceland. They are strong migrators that abandon northern freshwater lakes in the fall to spend winters on the saltwater of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf coasts, as well as northern Mexico and Europe
A good story coming out of Florida, and yes, the Gulf of Mexico. www.upworthy.com/florida-dump...
Florida dumped half a million oyster shells into the Gulf of Mexico. No one expected the results to be this good.
Dumping trash into the ocean seems like a bad idea, right? Wrong.
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Tystie at the New pier this morning. The gold standard amongst Auks. #Tystie #Papay #Orkney #blackguillemot
The young crows. Very jittery right now but they are learning quickly. 🥰✨
Follow these Indigenous-led river restoration projects if you want to maintain your will to continue living
High Country News@highcountrynews.org · last mo.For more than 100 years, salmon had been absent from the Klamath Tribe’s lands — a fact that cut them off from funding sources to fix that.
A tree is like a human being. It breathes, it lives, it takes in water. It protects us from all sorts of things
"A Tale of Two Tysties" two Black Guillemots (Cepphus grylle) at Orphir, #Orkney. #OrkneyBirding #BirdingScotland #UKBirds #UKBirding #Birds #UKWildlife #Nature #Photography #birdsoftheworld #ornithology #Guillemot #Tystie 🪶
In an instant’s compass, great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men’s whole lives.
These reports of this herbicide use are deeply troubling. Our public forests aren’t chemical dumping grounds. We should be protecting our natural treasures in California and across the U.S., not subjecting them to heavy-handed practices that threaten their wildlife and habitat.
Lawmakers demand answers after we revealed Forest Service spraying Roundup all over public lands
“We are deeply concerned.”
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AMAZING—a condor flew into Oregon for the first time in 120 years! The critical conservation efforts I’ve supported are working to protect these amazing, endangered birds. I can’t wait to see more condors soar.
Condor flies into Oregon for first time in over 120 years
A 2-year-old female condor named B9 traveled 80 miles through southern Oregon during a four-day journey in May, marking a historic milestone for the critically endangered species managed by the Yurok ...
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Centuries-old logbooks reveal how bowhead whales are recovering from near-extinction
Centuries-old logbooks reveal how bowhead whales are recovering from near-extinction
New research used whaling logbooks to explain why only two of the four bowhead whale populations are bouncing back from whaling, which was abandoned a century ago.
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Over 900 pounds of ghost net removed from the bay, protecting marine life and restoring our oceans. Every effort counts in the fight against marine pollution.
All the way from Antarctica. All wing. Pickie at the New Pier.
#whales #humpbackwhale Two humpback whales set records swimming between Australia and Brazil share.google/Gz1tOClwQHWU...
Two humpback whales set records swimming between Australia and Brazil
Two humpback whales have made record-breaking crossings between Australia and Brazil
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Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area
Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve...
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In case anyone needed to remember that “He Whakaputanga Moana is the first Declaration recognizing whales as sentient beings (persons) with inherent rights. “Grounded in Te Ao Māori teachings and Polynesian values, the Declaration recognizes whales as both ancestors and sentient beings.”
He Whakaputanga Moana | Whale rights and legal personhood declaration
He Whakaputanga Moana is the first Indigenous-led Declaration recognizing whales as sentient beings with inherent rights. Grounded in Te Ao Māori and Polynesian values, it establishes legal protection...
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