#Forests

Many scientists believe that the rise of novel viruses like SARS-CoV-2 is being driven by rising resource extraction. If that's the case, we will likely see many more pandemics in
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It's now been over a year since I moved from Madrid to Brussels, left journalism, and started working as a civil servant for the European Commission. Here are some things
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Daily reminder Moses didn't receive Ten Commandments from God but stole them from some Germanic tribe when he sneaked into their settlement. Daily reminder Christians burned down all Evropa forests.
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Some thoughts on how connecting people to nature can help save the planet.1. Protecting and restoring our old-growth forests and natural ecosystems is essential for human health.Fact: No pathway limits
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Nova Scotia announced 20 new protected areas today. Let me take a moment to show you some of these places. #NSpoli Cherry Hill Beach Nature Reserve: Coastal ecosystems, piping plover
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It was 1897, a Brahmin lawyer from Kudumul, a village near Mangalore established #Depressed_Classes_Mission in Mangalore for providing education, better housing, drinking water and empowering the backward classes socially by
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For @FolkloreThurs and their day of #villains in #myth and #folklore , here’s a thread on everyone’s favourite Norse trickster.Ratatoskr the squirrel!#FolkloreThursday #squirrel #norse #myth #LokiWho Ratatoskr, or drill-tooth, lives
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Looking at everything, it’s not all together a bad thing for the North to secede from Nigeria.The North is the only region in Nigeria that practically have everything, yet its
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In 1893, Edvard Munch recalled that he had been out for a walk at sunset when suddenly the setting sunlight turned the clouds "a blood red". He sensed an "infinite
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#Fridayfact Dipterocarpaceae are an important plant family in SE Asia, ecological and commercially, and lowland forests in West Malesia are known as ‘MDF’ – mixed dipterocarp forest. #Fridayfact The family
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Some anthropological mini-reflections on BE, a thread “Life goes on / Like an echo in the forest” brings to mind the 'if a tree falls in a forest and no
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This is my favorite article of 2021 so far (thank you to @willie_macdade for sending it my way). It’s about how the Catholic Church has the largest land holdings (outside
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Two very important habitat types are missing from our ecosystem and their absence means that the "nature" we're trying to protect and increase is in fact severely dysfunctional to begin
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"The western coal industry's twilight years are upon us."You had me from hello with the hard but true take, @worcaction. If you care at all about the environment AND about
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What bad luck for this thirsty ocelot! In this Natural History Field Note published in @Biotropica, we provide photographic evidence of a rare intraguild killing event by a jaguar on
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Ik this trend died but I've been seeing a lot of homophobia against mlm so here we goFor every like I'm gonna make another mlm flag. Retweets appreciated! Ooh a
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