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Vero Balderas Iglesias @VeroBalderasI@mastodon.social · Jul 29, 2026
(Posting in my personal capacity.) #SeaTurtle nesting season is underway in the #OBX, #NorthCarolina. @HatterasIslandOceanCenter Manager, Shirley Wicker, explained to me the #turtles’ life cycle and how to protect them. #endangeredspecies #threatenedspecies #oceans #science #environment
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Angela G @grayladywriter@mindly.social · Jul 28, 2026
Please copy and paste into the forms on the websites of your members of Congress and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us Dear Sen/Rep - I need you to amend the Endangered Species Act to fix the loophole that is allowing this Republican Administration to redefine harm. For decades, federal officials have scrutinized projects that harm habitats - logging projects that cut old-growth trees and agriculture operations that divert water from streams where salmon return to spawn. But now, harm only applies to actions that directly injure or kill the animals. Under this rule change, you can now destroy the resources a species requires as long as you don’t do it when the species is at home. If you drain a salmon river during the summer when the salmon aren’t in it, that is allowed. What happens when the salmon arrive in the fall to swim upstream to spawn and there's no water? A 2019 study of endangered species from 1975 to 2017 found that only 17% faced threats from direct killing, while 81% faced habitat loss. Across the West, federal public lands provide critical habitat for many species. If the US Forest Service were to permit a logging operation on old-growth forest under the new “harm” definition, state wildlife officials could do nothing to stop it. You can fix this. Amend the Endangered Species Act to protect vital habitats. We can’t save a species unless we save the places that they live. #Resist #ResistOfTheDay #EndangeredSpecies
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The UCP are 100% maga-ruzzian. "Reinstatement of the Grizzly Bear Hunt The Minister of Forestry and Parks [an outfitter] reinstated the grizzly bear hunt by amending the Wildlife Regulation, Alta Reg 143/1997 on June 17. The Wildlife (Grizzly Bear – Ministerial) Amendment Regulation was issued by Ministerial Order 43/2024 and published in the Alberta Gazette Part II at pages 317-319 on June 29, 2024. Authority for this amendment regulation is provided by section 103(1)(z) of the Wildlife Act which gives the Minister power to make regulations on the hunting of an endangered species." https://ablawg.ca/2024/09/03/legal-hunting-of-an-endangered-species-a-grizzly-tale-in-alberta/?amp=1 #AbPoli #CdnPoli #Biodiversity #EndangeredSpecies
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br00t4c @br00t4c@mastodon.social · Jul 22, 2026
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With a vote of 355 to 4, the nearly unanimous final passage in the House occurred on December 20, 1973. The law replaced the weaker 1969 Endangered Species Act, which lacked penalties for killing endangered species. #Biodiversity #EndangeredSpecies #ESA
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Dragofix @Dragofix@veganism.social · Jul 14, 2026
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tools for commensality 🧿 @inquiline@assemblag.es · Jul 10, 2026
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Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai · Jul 10, 2026
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For more than 50 years, the federal government has used a broader definition of #harm to #animals under the #EndangeredSpeciesAct, a bedrock #EnvironmentalLaw. It included any significant “modification or degradation” of habitat that kills or injures animals by impairing their ability to eat, shelter or breed. #Trump #law #regulations #EndangeredSpecies #wildlife #habitats #farming #drilling #mining #RealEstate #development #ecosystems #ColonyCollapse #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
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Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai · Jul 10, 2026
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#SCOTUS upheld this interpretation in 1995, ruling against property owners who argued that #harm should only mean directly killing or injuring an #endangered #animal. But on Friday, the #Trump #Interior Dept & the #Commerce Dept announced a final rule that rescinded this longstanding interpretation. Under the rule, destroying an #EndangeredSpecies’ nest or #habitat would no longer be considered illegal. #law #EnvironmentalLaw #regulations #wildlife #habitats #ecosystems #ClimateChange
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Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai · Jul 10, 2026
#Trump Administration Sharply Cuts Protections for #EndangeredSpecies The Trump admin Friday moved to open the #habitats of imperiled animals to #farming, #drilling, #mining, #RealEstate #development & other activities in what environmentalists characterized as the most severe erosion of protections for #wildlife in half a century. It did so by recasting a single word, “harm.” #law #EnvironmentalLaw #regulations #ecosystems #ColonyCollapse #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/climate/endangered-species-act-harm.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨ @tksst@fediscience.org · Jul 09, 2026
💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐑🧬 Dolly the #sheep made #history 30 years ago, but #cloning has since evolved into a specialized biotechnological tool. This overview explains somatic cell nuclear transfer and how current #research by international teams impacts #livestock, #medicine, and #endangeredspecies #conservation, and clarifies why human cloning and de-extinction remain complex challenges. 👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-07-years-dolly-sheep-born-cloning.html #epigenetics #stemcells #biotechnology #genetics #deextinction #ferrets #science #animals #wildlife #reproduction
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KUOW (bot) @kuow_bot@mastodon.gruezi.net · Jul 06, 2026
One of the most endangered sea creatures of the Pacific Ocean is getting a leg up in the kelp forests of Washington’s San Juan Islands: a 24-armed sea star called the sunflower star. https://www.kuow.org/stories/how-a-northwest-tribe-and-an-endangered-sea-creature-are-helping-each-other #KUOW #News #Oceans #EndangeredSpecies #Environment #PugetSound #NativeAmericans
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Regendans @regendans@todon.eu · Jun 30, 2026
"‘Literally growing the future’: volunteers help save Scottish rainforest by collecting 11m seeds Teams painstakingly combed endangered Atlantic habitat over several years, helping to grow 8m native trees" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/29/growing-the-future-volunteers-help-save-scottish-rainforest-collecting-seeds #TreesAndForests #Scotland #EndangeredHabitats #rewilding #climatecrisis #climate #EndangeredSpecies
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Otto Grimm @ottogrimm@pixelfed.social · Jun 28, 2026
A lone black rhino, late afternoon. Somewhere in Etosha National Park, Namibia. The park remains one of the last strongholds of the endangered black rhino, holding roughly a third of Africa's total population of remaining black rhinos. #endangeredspecies #color #sunset #africa #wildlifephotography #namibia #etoshanationalpark #blackrhino #darktable
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Dragofix @Dragofix@veganism.social · Jun 09, 2026
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Dragofix @Dragofix@veganism.social · May 19, 2026
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Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai · Apr 28, 2026
Camera shows #SumatraOrangutan using a canopy bridge to cross a road in #Indonesia A Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time using a human-made canopy bridge to cross a public road on the Indonesian island of #Sumatra, conservationists said Monday. Rapid development has been shrinking the #jungle #habitat of the critically #EndangeredSpecies, & fatal conflicts with people have been increasing. #WildlifeConservation #wildlife #HabitatFragmentation https://apnews.com/article/orangutan-crosses-canopy-bridge-indonesia-sumatra-9015f59ef2c9223e60ea7a749ff2a2ee
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Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai · Apr 09, 2026
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#EmperorPenguins are a sentinel species that tell us about our changing world & how well we are controlling #GreenhouseGas #emissions,” Philip Trathan, a member of the IUCN specialist group that determined the species’ #conservation status, said in a statement Thursday. #climate #environment #GlobalWarming #EndangeredSpecies #wildlife #MarineLife #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #law #EnvironmentalLaw #science
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