#dead animals

[vegandude74]

[strangebiology]

My book, Carcass: On the Afterlives of Animal Bodies is available for pre-order!

Imagine my surprise when my Google alert set to my name showed this page on Penguin Random House, including links to places you can pre-order — my publisher hasn't even told me yet! Some pre-order links are not live, but some are, with deals!

I was going to wait until I had some more things done, like the confirmed cover art, but one of the deals expires tomorrow, so I wanted to let you all know!

📕Hudson Booksellers (BEST DEAL)

$21 hardcover with code “CANTWAIT”

📕📱Barnes & Noble,

$22.46 hardcover with code “PREORDER25” if ordered before tomorrow, June 26!

$18 ebook

OR get hardcover (about $30) and ebooks ($18) here:

📕Target, 📕📱Amazon, 📕📱Bookshop.org,📱Kobo,📱Apple Books,📱Google Play

🍁Canadian?

The Canadian Penguin Random-House page has country-specific links.

Thank you so much for your support, everyone! I have much more to post about this, so stay tuned!

[gwydionmisha]

At least 5 people arrested in alleged tampering with Reflecting Pool, official says

Trump repeated his claims that the Reflecting Pool is under attack ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday and said offenders may get 10-year p

It looks like conspiracy theory based nonsense.

Olympian arrested after touching Reflecting Pool speaks out

“Before I knew it, I was being handcuffed,” says former U.S. Olympian David Hearn, who was arrested after touching the Reflecting Pool water

Reflecting pool saga turns grim with viral photo; Trump claims sabotage

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Bycatch has ‘shocking’ toll on British marine life, first-ever analysis reveals

Conservationists say cherished creatures such as whales, dolphins and seabirds are being killed in large numbers by fishing tackle

Thousands of Britain’s most charismatic and protected marine wildlife, including whales, porpoises, dolphins, seals and seabirds are being killed as “collateral damage” by fishing vessels every year, according to the first-ever analysis of bycatch data.

The analysis, by the Wildlife and Countryside Link, a coalition of voluntary conservation groups, reveals the devastating toll bycatch, the accidental capture and killing of non-target species by fishing vessels, is having on marine species.

The “shocking” scale of annual deaths in the report, Hidden in the haul: The true scale of bycatch is likely to be “the tip of the iceberg”, it said, as only a fraction of the UK fishing fleet monitor bycatch. Only 0.05% of dredging vessels monitor this. They, like the bottom trawlers exposed in the recent David Attenborough film Oceans, drag heavy gear across the sea floor and are known for doing damage to marine life on the sea bed. Non-UK vessels operating in UK waters were not included in the data.

The deaths estimated in the report, which were extrapolated from datasets on bycatch and discard numbers, were more than 1,000 harbour porpoises and common dolphins killed annually, 10,000 seabirds and 500 seals. Six humpback whales and 30 minke whales were also found dead in Scottish creel ropes. Over 1,000 endangered Atlantic salmon and 120 tonnes of protected sharks, skates and rays are also caught and killed as bycatch by commercial fishing vessel every year.

In English waters, the use of gillnets, a type of static net that hangs like a curtain in the water, is the highest risk for seabird bycatch. Birds including puffins, gannets and razorbills get caught and drown when they dive for food. Gillnets cause 400,000 seabird deaths globally, according to research by BirdLife International.

[Richard Benwell, the chief executive of Wildlife and Countryside Link] said: “The government mustn’t let these terrible losses continue. To protect marine wildlife, Ministers must finally deliver strong bycatch action plans, backed by strict mandatory monitoring and enforcement, before more wildlife is pushed closer to extinction.”

Cetaceans dying as bycatch is a key reason the UK is failing to meet its legal obligations to achieve good environmental status in some British seas, the report found.

Successive governments have failed to address this “silent and largely unseen” crisis, [Ruth Williams, head of marine conservation at the Wildlife Trusts] said.

The coalition is also calling on the government to require remote electronic monitoring on all fishing vessels operating in English waters, inclupding small vessels under 10 metres that it said are responsible for a large proportion of bycatch.

[lost-at-thecrossroads]

I got the feeling yesterday that Hecate was telling me to take my litter picker to the dog walk with the willow trees like I had to find something there.

Now I know why :(

When I got there I was actually pleasantly surprised that there was a lot less litter than the last time I went.

But I did find a dead hedgehog in a shoe box. Due to the stuff inside, I'd assume it was someone's pet so I really hope they go back for it to move it or bury it soon. I'll probably go check and see if the box has been moved whenever I'm there over the next few weeks. I don't really want to interfere with someone's dead companion but that's... not really what you're supposed to do with them. I'm not entirely sure what the right course of action is but it's definitely not left in a cardboard box on the edge of a nature reserve where people walk their dogs???

The worst part though was when I moved on to the area where we buried the millipedes last year. It was an absolute mess. Looked like someone had been having a party there. There were cans of energy drink, a melted traffic cone, plastic wrappers...

It looked like some sort of stuffed toy or something had been set on fire.

And the spot we actually buried them looked like it had been dug up :(

This was 7 months ago but it seemed like the soil on top was fresh, so I doubt it was an animal after them particularly. They should have broken down a while ago.

But it still just felt weird and awful to see that. Even if it was a coincidence.

I hope the girls moved on and didn't have to see all that happen around them but I might take some stuff to do a cleansing there too. It's a pretty hidden area. It's gonna keep happening, unfortunately. I regret choosing that spot for them now but it seemed right at the time...

I felt angry before but now I just feel sad.

[spuds-n-soup]

Bone and taxidermy shelf

[lost-at-thecrossroads]

Duck skull that my dad found whilst litter picking on the beach.

I sometimes grieve my vulture hobby because I had barely even begun and now I'm not really in the position to be walking often or bringing home roadkill....

But I wanted to start sharing my small collection of pretty little dead things 💀🖤