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After the creative industry, AI is coming for the food system.
New AI tools pushed by tech giants risk locking farmers into a globalized food system that has already shown its weaknesses in the face of wars or climate shocks.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
“In my 26 years of being focused on climate, I’ve never seen anything like this. Trump is gutting everything they ever stood for,” Marc Morano, a long-time climate denier.
“Billionaires are silent. Democrats in Congress have been silent. Climate activists. There has been no push-back on this,” 🌏
Yes that's another one too. And in some places you *have* to fly to simply get to the nearest country without spending two days on the road...
You couldn't have summed it up better! And in some cases local politics as well 😶
This is such a good article for anyone working in conservation.
One thing overlooked imo is how the size of organizations play a role, with people in small NGOs working twice as much for twice as less with little protections. First hand experience here 😉
news.mongabay.com/2026/03/an-e... 🌏
"The culture or tradition of keeping birds in captivity ... contributes to the extinction of the birds. Such cultures need to change." - Johan Iskandar, ethnobiologist
The songbird tradition is emptying many forests not only in Indonesia, but also in Malaysia & Vietnam, of their #birds 🌏
“These sites revealed the existence of ancient societies that were much more complex and densely populated than previously imagined”
New collaborations between archaeologists and indigenous communities on a more equal footing than in the past: pulitzercenter.org/stories/foun...
Cambodia is set to build the $1.2B Funan Techo Canal linking the Mekong to the sea.
Residents along the route say they’ve received little information and fear land loss and disruption to floodplain farms and fisheries.
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“Just three countries [Japan, Norway & Iceland] remain outliers to the consensus that the world is significantly better off with #whales in the world’s oceans instead of in pet food and in supermarkets.”
Global petition from @eia-news.bsky.social & partners, sign here endcommercialwhaling.org 🌏
This reminds me the non-fiction book The Lizard King, where NatGeo head of investigation Brian Christy tells the story of US wildlife smugglers and law enforcement investigations over the past 50 years #wildlifetrade
The wild life of an egg smuggler
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QYM...
Congrats to @mongabay.com for bringing wildlife crime stories into new formats! #birds
Give this amazing guy a boost to do more for streets kids & urban wildlife in Nairobi: vote at vote.eaya.africa (wildlife conservation award)
#birds #kenya
I see your point but in many cases, the decisions are taken by a small group of humans in power, and the benefits are 'not equally shared' with the rest of humanity, to say the least.
A wildlife sanctuary home to some of Cambodia's rarest and most threatened birds sees community forests handed over to mining companies and the prospect of a dam flooding 1/3 of its area. #birds 🌏
Il est complètement absurde de tuer des centaines de millieurs de renards en France www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Signez la pétition sur le site de l'Assemblée Nationale pour retirer le classement "espèce nuisible" petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...
#renard #faunesauvage
But it raises the question: isn't too much expected from conservation NGOs? From monitoring & protecting wildlife to developing alternative livelihoods, education & healthcare in areas disregarded by the State, and yet also speaking up against powerful interests, at the risk of getting expelled?
Interesting and well written piece on the shrinking space for international conservation NGOs, whose presence in authoritarian countries is often conditioned to self-censorship.
www.newmandala.org/complicity-i... 🌏
A study found that 20% of animals at wildlife trade sites were carrying zoonotic pathogens : “There may be lots of zoonosis going undetected – we don’t necessarily know what causes every infection that someone gets”
Solid read by @sneweyy.bsky.social on the risks posed by Laos' wildlife trade 🌏
*How* we electrify the planet has massive implications for birds: "Globally, 18% of species facing threat of extinction are negatively affected by utilities and service lines (mainly electrocution), while 11% are negatively affected by wind facilities" 🌏 #birds
Psychological trauma and moral injury in journalists covering conflicting situations - interesting piece by @theviifoundation.bsky.social
dispatchesviifoundation.substack.com/p/moral-inju... #photojournalism
Beautiful and incredible scenes from the centre of the Netherlands, a country with 1.5 times the density of people in the UK. A pack of 11 wolves roaming through the snow!
"When there's more carbon available, plants ... grow bigger and faster." Spoiler: that make things worse.
How industrial agriculture and carbon emissions are depleting plants farmed and wild from their nutrients: www.lukasguides.com/empty-calori...
China's anti-poaching activist protecting migratory birds
www.bbc.com/news/article... #birds 🌏
😱 The EU plans to remove renewal deadlines for most pesticides. That means companies wouldn’t have to test for new risks & toxic pesticides could stay on the market indefinitely.
📢 Speak up now and tell the Commission: people, farmers, and nature come first - not industry profits!
#ProtectMyPlate
"The endlings are creatures upon whose shrugging shoulders we have thrust a kind of nobility. In naming them ... we have made them ambassadors of not only their own species but of all species whose numbers we deplete to the edge of existence and beyond."
Meanwhile at the EU level some neonicotinoids are still in use and lobbies are pushing for even more deregulation in the new Omnibus law : www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
Following a 2018 ban on neonicotinoids ('bee-killers'), bird populations now start to recover in France.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This comes just 2 years after a study confirmed that pesticides and fertilizer are the biggest driver behind the spectacular decline of #birds in Europe.
"it seems curious to bemoan the loss of so many bird species ... when the number of chickens slaughtered each year outnumbers all of the wild birds on this planet."