#preventing extinction

[randomfandomisuppose]

🔴 Stop de wolvenjacht in Europa!

Europa wil de bescherming van wolven beperken. Dat mogen we niet laten gebeuren! Laten we Europese leiders deze duidelijke boodschap sturen:

If you live in Europe please take a moment to sign this petition. It’s a petition against the removal of certain protections for wolves. Even if you are not European please reblog this. As of today (15 August 2024) they already have 99,374 out of 100,000 signatures.

The following is translated from Dutch:

“To all environmental ministers of the European member states.

We are very concerned about the mass elimination of wolves in Europe. We urge you to keep the current protected status of the wolf and to make preventitive measures that protect cattle from attacks a priority.”

What follows next is the translated version of the context provided for this cause:

“Wolf hunting is back.

Het is een project dat met topprioriteit op het bureau van Ursula von der Leyen ligt. Als we niet snel zijn, zullen in heel Europa honderden wolven worden doodgeschoten.

It is a project that is on Ursula von der Leyen's desk with top priority. If we do not act quickly, hundreds of wolves will be shot across Europe.

Wolves have been hunted for centuries to the brink of extinction, but strict conservation policies have allowed the wolf population to recover -- with a positive impact on animal populations and biodiversity.

Now old fears and misconceptions are resurfacing and the European Commission wants to weaken their protection without reliable scientific evidence, despite effective alternatives for livestock protection.

But nothing has been decided yet!

The European member states will vote in a few weeks. According to insiders, it will be exciting and President von der Leyen is exerting great pressure to get the proposal through. That is why dozens of environmental organizations are now mobilizing people across Europe -- join them and share this with your friends: we must live in harmony with the wolves instead of killing them!”

[fleshforsaken]

preventing extinction

@thedanceofblades

There was a time when Viktor found anniversaries pleasant. There must have been. But here, now, sitting at his parents’ graves, the only anniversaries he can remember are ones that have brought him suffering. The day he lost Orianna, the day he lost Blitzcrank, and today: the day he lost his parents.

Thank gods he has company this year, and thank gods further that she brought alcohol.

Viktor doesn’t often choose to imbibe--or, for that matter, indulge in anything that drastically alters his state of mind--but he can make an exception for nights like these. Besides, the liquor that Katarina brought is practically classy, by Zaun standards. She tells him it’s a Noxian tradition to drink at funerals, and to pour a portion of the alcohol over the grave to “share” with the deceased.

It isn’t the worst tradition he’s heard of.

He pours a shot first over his father’s plot, and then another over his mother and murmurs a slightly slurred eulogy in Old Zaunite. That done, he raises the empty glass to Katarina in a parody of a toast.

“You would have liked them, I think,” Viktor tells her, his voice quiet. 

[speakerforthetrees]

SEATTLE — It has been two decades since the fate of a bashful bird that most people had never seen came to symbolize the bitter divide over whether to save or saw down the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest. Yet it was not until Thursday that the federal government offered its final plan to prevent the bird, the northern spotted owl, from going extinct.