#human intervention

[ernestlacouche]

emma stibbon   lotto guns ammo   <2018>

[gemsofgreece]

Lake Karla, known in antiquity as Boibeis, after its draining in 1962. This enormous project, aiming at the expansion of farmland and the eradication of illnesses such as malaria (caused by the formation of swamps that was also the result of bad human intervention and not the lake itself), was soon proven a big mistake. The lake was restored to a 20% of its original size in 2018, after 15 years of work. The original surface area  of the ancient lake was 180 km2 . The new one was  37 km2. After the extreme rainfalls and floods of September 2023, the lake reached 172  km2 within two days, and thus it now has returned to its original size, surpassing Lake Trichonida as the previously largest lake of Greece.

Photo by Takis Tloupas.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

MAGA Logic: 2024

Humans can't impact the climate, but Democrats control the weather. :: FFS.

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“There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.” ― Bill McKibben, The End of Nature

[nintendocat64]

TSAMS self insert bestowed upon thee

[hleavesk]

Race to vaccinate rare wild monkeys gives hope for survival

SILVA JARDIM, Brazil (AP) — In a small lab nestled in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, researchers with gloved hands and masked faces cradle four tiny golden monkeys so a veterinarian can delicately slide a needle under the thin skin of each sedated animal’s belly.

this is a long feature. sharing here mainly for these reasons: 

1. the big discussion of human-nature intervention to “save” biodiversity and nature is complex and worth checking.

2. human’s impacts on wildlife and nature are tremendous and sinful

3. golden lion tamarins (watch the clips)

4. how damaged their habitat, the amazon forests, is (check the text and clip)

(source: associated press | 1 feb 2023)

These endangered wild monkeys, called golden lion tamarins, have now been vaccinated against yellow fever, part of a pathbreaking campaign to save a threatened species.

“Vaccinating wild animals for the sake of animals, not to protect humans, is novel,” said Luís Paulo Ferraz, president of the nonprofit Golden Lion Tamarin Association.

One of the traditional adages of conservation is “Leave it be.” But in an age when every corner of the globe is touched by human influence – from melting icebergs to fragmented forests to plastic-filled oceans – a new generation of scientists and environmentalists is increasingly calling for more interventionist approaches to save wild animals and ecosystems.

“We have to intervene when it’s a human-borne conservation risk, if you’re going to have an environment with wildlife,” said Carlos R. Ruiz-Miranda, a conservation biologist at State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro.

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Southeastern Brazil was once covered by the rainforest, but today the undulating landscape is an uneven checkerboard of dark green jungle and grassy cow pastures – only 12% of this rainforest remains.

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James Dietz, a biologist and president of the U.S.-based nonprofit Save the Golden Lion Tamarins, was initially wary of the vaccination campaign in Brazil. “When we choose to vaccinate wild animals against a disease, we may be giving them an advantage over non-vaccinated animals – and by doing that, we are acting potentially against natural selection that would, over time, be acting to improve the genetics of the species,” he said.

But in the end, he overcame those hesitations. “It was only when I realized the scope of mortality that I realized we had to do this,” he said. “And I’m very happy with the direction we took.”

[foulserpent]

look at this little bitch using submissions to go around anons being off just so they can go on this lecture about how controlling invasive feral cats is the same thing as farmers culling wolves in their native range

[tumbling-dyce]

Claudine Doury, Kazakhstan, June 2003. Former harbour in Aralsk (Aral Sea).

[ostdrossel]

This is the time when many people see these birds and wonder what the heck they are. I have been there too :)

Well, this is a Brownheaded Cowbird, either a female or a young adult. Many people dislike them for their nesting habits (they lay eggs in other birds’ nests so that they raise their babies) but this is how they evolved. They used to follow cattle and never settled anywhere to nest. Now that humans are destroying habitat, not as many herds wander around, and the Cowbirds come to our backyards (it is more complex than that, but that is the gist). It is their survival strategy, and other birds have found ways to survive nevertheless. Cardinals for example have several broods, and usually only the first one seems to be affected.