"It's not a lack of habitat or food keeping [mountain lions from recolonizing the eastern United States]. It's the highways." #roadecology in Mongabay. news.mongabay.com/short-article/…

‘It’s a warning’: UK nature chief sounds alarm over ecosystem collapse as butterfly numbers halve Excellent interview with ⁦Tony Juniper⁩ & great to see his calls for reform of National Parks to help restore nature: theguardian.com/environment/20…

‘World’s biggest deforestation project gets underway.’ Hundreds of thousands of acres of vital, pristine rainforest in Papua to be cleared to make way for sugar cane and palm. Humanity has a death wish. news.mongabay.com/2024/09/worlds…

Chair of Natural England warns that disappearance of butterflies is a sign of the collapse of our life support systems Seems like the sort of warning worth listening to theguardian.com/environment/20…

Devastating news. Will Indonesia’s partners, including UK in Indonesia which is making much of the new U.K. Govt’s approach to climate and nature exert their influence on this critical issue? news.mongabay.com/2024/09/worlds…

Why do people hate wolves so much? Few people have spent as much of their lives living with and studying the species as I have, and I don't get it.

Disappointing and short-sighted decision by the Gujarat government GujaratForestDept CMO Gujarat. In addition to continued short-sightedness by not enabling a second population of lions to be re-established elsewhere in India.

Himachal Pradesh Solar power project cloud over snow leopard habitat in Spiti telegraphindia.com/india/himachal…

shankarraman.in/2024/09/20/chr… "The Great Nicobar Betrayal, augurs a coming death. The portentous subtitle, ‘Pushing a Vulnerable Island Knowingly into Disaster,’ foreshadows the contents..." review by @mizoraman For more info or to order copies pls write to me: [email protected]

This is big. If elephant populations are estimated same way that tigers & leopards are (widely considered as a more scientific method), numbers drop by 20% in 5 years. "It’s a reality check that elephants have not been doing well for quite some time." indianexpress.com/article/expres…

Unreleased MoEF&CC report exposes a shocking decline in elephant populations due to rampant mining & infrastructure projects in some States. West Bengal saw 84% drop, Jharkhand 64%, Odisha 54%, Kerala 51% & Bihar 48% with some elephants fleeing to other States. Accountability

The above pic is of an Electrocuted Elephant near the Adiyogi Centre, and the below picture is of an electric fence erected by the Isha Foundation - #Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev's Headquarters in the foothills of the Velliangiri hills. Pic: 2021 Source newslaundry.com/2021/05/17/how… 🧵1/14

Here is #CarbonCapture explained ...

#India MoEF&CC celebrates #WildlifeWeek. such a Sham. Lets take #elephants - the horrendous decline in their population (see pic) has not shocked me. stry in The Indian Express by jay mazoomdaar India loses ~50 #elephants every year due to #electrecution. One recently (not the only

Courts in Uganda Continue to be against the people. Inadequate compensations, Forced Evictions & all other forms of Injustice continue to affect the PAPs. We shall continue to fight these injustices under the coalition StopEACOP Until justice is served. monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/na…

Good to see our new paper on the conservation impacts of commercial parrot farming getting picked up by the South African media. This is a complex issue and I'd urge anyone interested to read the paper. #Parrot #WildlifeTrade #CITES dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-1…

Thank you Supriya Sahu IAS for helping bring the #Nilgiris to life & for all the work you’ve done to help preserve this fragile landscape we so love! Hope this documentary inspires a new generation of caring and stewardship of this land.

Not only me but many concerned Indians- environmentalists,writers, former bureaucrats & local citizens are hugely worried about the massive Nicobar project that would devastate people & ecology there. Can't the Govt rethink before taking over the tribal land please? Bhupender Yadav

Most shocking part of George Monbiot article is why Labour adopted a Tory policy lock, stock &barrel👇 What pre-election deal was done on this? We will stop CCS scheme by scheme. Please support my legal case against the first UK gas CCS plant in Teesside👉crowdjustice.com/case/net-zero-…

These irreplaceable old growth forests continue to be logged across British Columbia. Over 1,200 people have been arrested trying to keep them standing. There is no time to waste. Protect the Irreplaceable. #ActOnClimate #climate #nature BC NDP #bcpoli #bcgov Pic TJ Watt