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hello i am iris polaris, one (1) bear of the ice streamer, eclectic Witch, environmentalist, and artist! use any Pronouns for me, as i am nonbinary. i am also disabled, so BEAR with me, ho ho ho

on twitch, i generally stream RPGs, simulators, VNs, survival games, Art, and nature-related content, with a little bit of the Occult on the side. (my Manager Bunny generally joins in, too!) here i will reblog & Post more or less the same content.

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binturong-of-the-day

The binturongs of superiority

aplpaca

big fan of when animals creche. Love to see so many fucking babies in one place

aplpaca

So a creche in ecology is a group of animals that take care of their offspring as a group. Grouping together like this can help with protection against predators, finding food, enduring the weather, and gives the parents time to "rest", as sometimes the parents will alternate who's being the primary watchers while others get to hunt by themselves for a bit, like a baby animal daycare.

But ye lions do this once cubs each a certain age. A decent amount of birds do it (for example: flamingos and a lot of penguin, duck, and goose species). Gharials (a type of South Asian crocodilian) form creches with hundreds of babies from multiple nests (they lay under 100 eggs each and sometimes as few as 20). Feral hogs tend to form groups of mothers and young like this, and I saw 3 sows and like 15+ tiny babies the other day and they were so cute

But ye that's how you get pictures like these

tumorhead

Rattlesnakes will creche!! In some species mature adult females will hang out together (they're friends!) in shared dens and even birth their clutches together. Then one will babysit while the others go get food. Adult females have been seeing caring for their young like shooing young back into the den when a predator approaches. You can watch LIVE rattlesnake den mothers and all their babies on Project Rattlecam!!!!

mamapostingdailysblog

Attack mama !!!!

fuck-yeah-hyenas

This is not an AI image. Spotted hyena cubs begin to get a lighter coat and gain their spots as young as 3 months old.

This video has a spotty cub that's very similar to the one in the photo and it is nursing. Spotted hyenas especially are quite developed when they're born - spotty babies already have their teeth! - so the coat going light early on isn't abnormal. And then there are variations among individuals -

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Anyways the pic is from this post from thesun.co.uk (from 2018 - pre-ai) and was taken by Lisl Moolman at Kruger National park, who also took one of my favorite hyena pictures ever!

morganathewitch

Moss and clover, Skottvång Sweden.

bovineblogger

Do you know about the tradition of Winterage, over in the Burren area of Ireland?

They don’t house the herds indoor during the winter - The cows all head up into the hills, instead! All the heat built up by the limestone helps keep them warm, and the frost kills off enough of the plant life to keep the herd well-fed until spring.

But it isn’t just good for the cattle - Winterage suppresses the growth of things like hazel bush, which would outcompete all the other plants if left be. The Burren is the most biodiverse place in Ireland, and it’s all thanks to the heroic bovines!

P.S: If you think it looks too rocky to make for good grazing, the trick is that the landscape is covered with cracks. There’s tons of plant life, it’s just growing where it’s hard to see from a distance.

ogghhh that is SO COOL thank u for showing me this!! wowie..

inatcats

Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris ssp. tigris)

Observed by udayagashe, CC BY-NC

snototter

A female African lion (Panthera leo) in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

by Steve Jurvetson

maureen2musings

Along the California coast

elliothawkey

tigerleopardlion

South American Cougar | KAR Photography

robinboardman

A majestic Bengal tiger relaxes on an old step well Jaipur, India Photograph: Andy Rouse

throathole

I really love when cats use their front legs to hold something in place while they use their back legs to kick the absolute shit out of it

throathole

Destruction. Annihilation, even

elbiotipo

why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

elbiotipo

If you read ecology books printed in the 70s and 80s, they were absolutely convinced that whales and tigers would not survive the century. There's a whole plot in Star Trek about how whales are extinct actually. Here in Argentina, we were sure that yaguaretés would have gone extinct. It was thought that rainforests would be forever lost, because there was no way that such complex ecosystems would be restored.

Now, you can go to Península Valdés and find that the whale population there is growing year after year, people can see them from their windows. In Iberá, where yaguaretés were extinct for over 70 years, there's now a population of 35 and growing, after being reintroduced just five years ago. As for rainforests?

We've becoming very, very good on restoring them. Natural environments, when given space and time to heal, can return to that they were. And after all, all natural enviroments are managed by human societies. It is up to us to implement a good management, un buen gobierno.

I firmly believe our children and grandchildren will see a restoration of Earth like never before.

Millions of people are working on this. You can learn about it, perhaps even become one of them. Or be a pointless doomer in my ask box. Your choice.

crabussy

if there are people who care, it's never a lost cause. at one point, kākāpō, a nocturnal flightless parrot species from aotearoa, were thought to be entirely extinct for decades. until 1977, where booming calls from males were heard on the small island of whenua hou. now, thanks to people who care so much they dedicated their lives to caring, kākāpō numbers are close to 300. despite the setbacks. despite the small gene pool causing infertility and health problems. people cared so fucking much that they survived. this is one of COUNTLESS, countless similar stories. I'm studying ecology so that I can go into conservation and all around me, every day, I see people who care enough to put years of their lives into learning about and solving environmental problems. I don't know man. hope isn't just some nebulous thing. it's tangible if you do something with it.

kedreeva

Tim Wong saw the decline of the pipeline swallowtail butterfly, and dedicated himself to providing habitat and raising babies, and it worked.

Spix's Macaws were extinct in the wild for 70 years, and now captive breeding and conservation groups have reintroduced a small population (with more on the way) and there are babies being successfully raised in the wild again.

And what else is there, but hope? We exist for the grace of hope. Those who have lost all hope don't stay here. If you are here to send an ask like this, it is not because you have given up, it's that you are hoping someone will show you that that hope is worth having.

It is!! It always is!!

There will be good things and if you cannot find them, make them! The time will pass anyway, you can choose what to do with it, and so many, many people are choosing to try to help.

coinin

The Lord Howe Island rodent eradication project never fails to make me cry, it’s so beautiful.

The population of an entire island working together to eradicate every last rat and mouse to save the native bird populations. They had to trap a bunch of the birds and keep them in captivity so they wouldn’t be hurt by the rodenticides, and released them after the rodents were gone. Normal residents helped by phoning in tips whenever they saw rodents. And they did it. Lord Howe Island, last I read, remains rodent free, and the native bird populations are rebounding!

Acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer, both of which were terrifying specters of my childhood, have been largely dealt with. Ecosystems devastated by acid rain are also recovering.

We are making a difference!

aetherograph

In 1979, an audacious, expensive conservation project was begun to try and breed california condors in captivity toward being released into the wild again. This was considered useless and hopeless by many people, but many more people said we had to at least TRY.

In 1991, the first captive-raised condors were re-introduced to Big Sur, Pinnacles, and Bitter Creek.

In 2006, three months before I turned eighteen, the first wild pair of condors was seen nesting in Big Sur in over a hundred years. A hundred years.

We did that. We fixed it.

How about another example.

When my mom was small, in the 1960s, there were many, many days of the year she was not allowed outside. Days and days they had recess indoors, because the air was so poisonous to breathe. Here's an article about it, with some good pictures.

My mom was 13 in the picture on the left. She was 50 in the picture on the right.

In 1987, there were 27 California Condors in the world, all captive.

In 2024, there were 566.

369 of them fly free.

That happened within my lifetime, and I'm not even 40 yet.

When you lose hope, think of our stories we're telling you. Recount them to yourself like a prayer. That's what I do.

There are 369 California Condors flying free in the sky right now.

There is no more acid rain.

There is an ozone.

There are wild tigers.

There are still birds on Lord Howe Island.

There are 369 California Condors flying free.

dragonfly-wings1

Black footed ferrets were considered completely extinct in 1979. Then we found a single den in Wyoming in 1981. In 1996 it was classified as extinct in the wild.

By 2013, there were approximately 1,200 living wild, across 18 dens. Their numbers increase regularly, and while the face challenges due to habitat loss, climate change, and their limited genetic diversity, they're in a much better place than they were.

Because people cared, and they worked, and they fought to make things better.