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A reminder of why we need to #GetStarmerOUT
From #TurnLeftMedia a few days ago
#Labour (!) are Attacking milquetoast both-sides nonsensest #AndyBurnham Now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEMtpzO7EyU#FuckStarmer
#StarmerResign
#ToryStarmer
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A reminder of why we need to #GetStarmerOUT
From #TurnLeftMedia a few days ago
#Labour (!) are Attacking milquetoast both-sides nonsensest #AndyBurnham Now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEMtpzO7EyU#FuckStarmer
#StarmerResign
#ToryStarmer
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designbohemian.com Tarot Hoodie - The Sun Card Tarot Hoodie - Black Unisex Washed Slit Hem Turtleneck Hoodie https://designbohemian.com/products/tarot-hoodie-the-sun-card-tarot-hoodie-80267?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TarotHoodie #FashionStyle #UnisexFashion #CasualVibe #Streetwear
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🎤 Während ganz Europa auf Wien schaut und auf Punkte wartet — haben die Tyrol Turtles gestern schon abgeliefert.
Dritter Spieltag der Dodgeball Youth League Austria, Sportplatz Marswiese in Wien. Die U15 der Turtles trat auf wie ein Act, der genau weiß, was er kann. Und Elias, 12 Jahre, brachte es danach auf den Punkt: „Die Stimmung im Team war sehr gut."
Warum die 12 Punkte definitiv nach Tirol gehen und was euch beim Dodgeball Beach Cup 2026 in Innsbruck erwartet - lest den Artikel!
#TyrolTurtles #Dodgeball #DodgeballAustria #Innsbruck #Eurovision #jugendsport
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Police arrested two smugglers along with 38 turtles from Bijnor.
https://newswatchindia.com/police-arrested-two-smugglers.../
#Bijnor #news #Update #smugglers #UPPolice #UPPoliceInNews #Arrest #smugglers #Arrest #UPPolice #uttaroradeshnews #bijnor_up #Bijnor -
Police arrested two smugglers along with 38 turtles from Bijnor.
https://newswatchindia.com/police-arrested-two-smugglers.../
#Bijnor #news #Update #smugglers #UPPolice #UPPoliceInNews #Arrest #smugglers #Arrest #UPPolice #uttaroradeshnews #bijnor_up #Bijnor -
Police arrested two smugglers along with 38 turtles from Bijnor.
https://newswatchindia.com/police-arrested-two-smugglers.../
#Bijnor #news #Update #smugglers #UPPolice #UPPoliceInNews #Arrest #smugglers #Arrest #UPPolice #uttaroradeshnews #bijnor_up #Bijnor -
#Elder Mary was harassed by security at the #walmart at #ellice ave yesterday, in #winnipeg. They accused her of stealing, when it was clear that she was not.
She was racially profiled.
This is an Elder who survived a car accident and is now facing #cancer treatment. Please share and donate if you can.This is a disturbing pattern we are continually seeing here.
#racism #indigenous #discrimination #respectourElders #firstnations #winnipeg #manitoba #gofundme
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#Elder Mary was harassed by security at the #walmart at #ellice ave yesterday, in #winnipeg. They accused her of stealing, when it was clear that she was not.
She was racially profiled.
This is an Elder who survived a car accident and is now facing #cancer treatment. Please share and donate if you can.This is a disturbing pattern we are continually seeing here.
#racism #indigenous #discrimination #respectourElders #firstnations #winnipeg #manitoba #gofundme
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#Elder Mary was harassed by security at the #walmart at #ellice ave yesterday, in #winnipeg. They accused her of stealing, when it was clear that she was not.
She was racially profiled.
This is an Elder who survived a car accident and is now facing #cancer treatment. Please share and donate if you can.This is a disturbing pattern we are continually seeing here.
#racism #indigenous #discrimination #respectourElders #firstnations #winnipeg #manitoba #gofundme
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Turtle Beach Atlas Air i Skullcandy Crusher PLYR 720
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Moments before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist #Leonard #Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
Peltier was denied parole as recently as July and wasn’t eligible for parole again until 2026. He was serving life in prison for the deaths of the agents during a standoff on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
He will transition to home confinement, Biden said in a statement.
Bureau of Prisons spokesperson Emery Nelson said after Biden’s commutation that Peltier remained incarcerated Monday at USP Coleman, a high-security prison in Florida.
The fight for Peltier’s freedom is entangled with the Indigenous rights movements.
Nearly half a century later, his name remains a rallying cry.
An enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota, Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement,
which began in the 1960s as a local organization in Minneapolis that grappled with issues of police brutality and discrimination against Native Americans. It quickly became a national force.
The movement grabbed headlines in 1973 when it took over the village of Wounded Knee on Pine Ridge
— the Oglala Lakota Nation’s reservation
— leading to a 71-day standoff with federal agents.
Tensions between the movement and the government remained high for years.
On June 26, 1975, agents went to Pine Ridge to serve arrest warrants amid battles over Native treaty rights and self-determination.
After being injured in a shootout, agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams were shot in the head at close range, the FBI said.
American Indian Movement member Joseph Stuntz was also killed in the shootout.
Two other movement members and Peltier’s co-defendants, Robert Robideau and Dino Butler, were acquitted of killing Coler and Williams.
After fleeing to Canada and being extradited to the United States, Peltier was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced in 1977 to life in prison, despite defense claims that evidence against him had been falsified.
Biden’s action Monday followed decades of lobbying and protests on Peltier’s behalf by Native American leaders, human rights activists, liberal lawmakers and celebrities who maintain he was wrongfully convicted.
Amnesty International has long considered Peltier a political prisoner.
Advocates for his release have included Archbishop Desmond Tutu, civil rights icon Coretta Scott King, actor and director Robert Redford and musicians Pete Seeger, Harry Belafonte and Jackson Browne.https://apnews.com/article/leonard-peltier-biden-pardons-eba525b713f2ec739b84aa4426366775
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Shoebill Balaeniceps rex
Shoebill Balaeniceps rex
Vulnerable
Extant (resident)
Central African Republic; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Rwanda; South Sudan; Sudan; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia
Known for their unnerving and intense stare and imposing, prehistoric appearance – shoebills are magnificent birds. There are less than 8000 individual birds left alive. They are vulnerable from #palmoil, #cocoa and #meat #deforestation, agricultural run-off, #pollution, #mining, #hunting and human persecution. Help them every time you shop and be #vegan, #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife
The #Shoebill is a magnificent and gentle big bird 🕊️🦤 with an unnerving stare 👀 There are only 8000 left alive in #DRC, #Uganda #Africa. Vulnerable from #palmoil #deforestation, #hunting and more. Fight for them! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/09/10/shoebill-balaeniceps-rex/
Share to BlueSky Share to TwitterKnown for their menacing stare 👀😸 gentle #shoebills are iconic in #Uganda 🇺🇬 #Congo 🇨🇩 #Tanzania 🇹🇿 They are vulnerable from #hunting, #palmoil #deforestation. Help them and be #vegan 🥕🍆 and #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔☠️🔥⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/09/10/shoebill-balaeniceps-rex/
Share to BlueSky Share to TwitterThere are less than 8,000 birds left alive and they are increasingly threatened by agricultural run-off from palm oil and cocoa deforestation across their range.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V7t28Fim34
The shoebill Balaeniceps rex is also known by the common names: the whale-headed stork, shoebill stork and whalehead. Their eponymous feature is their enormous bill They have the third largest bills after pelicans and large storks.
Fast Facts
- When shoebills soar they make around 150 flaps per minute which makes them one of the slowest of any bird, with the exception of the larger stork species.
- They stand stock-still and waiting, all alone giving them an eerie and unnerving appearance. Once they notice fish appearing on the surface of swamps they quickly snap them up into their large bills.
- The shoebill’s chattering large bill makes a sound akin to machine gun fire. This combined with their silent creeping gait can make them seem rather menacing!
- Shoebills are attracted to poorly oxygenated waters, as this means fish must come to the surface to breathe – where they are efficiently captured.
- They are mostly silent except for elaborate bill-clattering communication that happens during their breeding. Chicks make a human-like hiccup sound when signalling hunger.
- Although they have a similar appearance to storks, shoebills are more closely related to pelicans and herons in the order Pelecaniformes.
Appearance & Behaviour
They possess extraordinarily large feet with their middle toe extending up to 18.5 cm in length. This helps them with balance while standing on uneven swamps and on aquatic vegetation while they hunt.
Adults have feathers that range from blue-grey to slate-grey. Juveniles possess similar plumage but in a tawny blue-brown hue.
Shoebills have a modestly sized bill at birth, which grows much larger once chicks reach between 23-43 days old.
Their unusual beauty makes them a must-see for birdwatchers in Africa. Despite their slightly unnerving appearance, these birds are placid and will allow birdwatchers to snap their photo at a range of two metres.
Shoebills are known for staying statue-still and silent in the muddy waters while hunting. These birds stalk their prey in a solitary way, patiently lurking and hunting entirely with their vision. Once prey is spotted they launch a rapid strike. They will sometimes use their big beaks to pry deep into the pond mud and extirpate lung fish with a violent strike.
They are normally silent but will get noisy during nesting season with elaborate bill clattering displays. Adults birds will make a ‘moo’ sound and high pitched whine while clattering their bills in order to communicate with each other. Chicks call out to their mothers with a ‘hiccup’ sound.
Shoebills typically hunt for lungfish and other fish in poorly oxygenated marshlands, bogs, peatland and swamps. Fish frequently break to the surface to breathe – it is then that shoebills rapidly strike. Their large feet enable them to balance on floating vegetation. The movement of hippos can aid the hunting of shoebills, as they rustle up fish from bottom of swamps, pushing them to surface for the shoebills’ easy capture.
Threats
There is estimated to be below 8,000 individual shoebills left and they are classified as vulnerable. Shoebills face a range of anthropogenic threats:
- Palm oil and cocoa deforestation: The mass removal of virgin rainforest for palm oil and cocoa results in mass deaths of shoebills.
- Infrastructure building: roads, dams and powerlines pose a risk to shoebills.
- Meat deforestation: cattle and other animals are known to trample shoebill nests.
- Pollution run-off: from palm oil agrochemicals and mining effluent.
- Hunting: In some cultures shoebills are thought of as a bad omen, in others they are hunted for food.
- Capture for the pet trade: Shoebill eggs and chicks are captured for consumption or sold to zoos.
- Armed human conflict: Armed groups moving through the rainforest has facilitated hunting of shoebills.
- Climate change: Increased extreme weather events like fires and droughts brought on by climate change lowers their numbers.
Habitat
Shoebills are found in central tropical Africa. Including South Sudan, eastern Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, western Tanzania, and northern Zambia. They are non-migratory birds who make limited seasonal movements.
They live in dense freshwater swamps and marshes including undisturbed papyrus and reed beds. They are attracted to areas of mixed vegetation and have been seen on occasion in rice fields and flooded plantations.
Diet
Shoebills mainly consume fish but will also eat a range of wetland vertebrates. Their preferred food is marbled lungfish, tilapia and catfish. When this is not available they are known to consume frogs, nile monitors, baby crocodiles, water snakes, turtles, snails, rodents and other small waterfowl.
Mating and breeding
Shoebills form monogamous pair bonds for the breeding season. They fiercely defend their nests from other birds during their nesting period, which begins either during the monsoon season or after this ends.
Both parents build the nest on a floating and flat platform made up of swamp vegetation and around three metres wide and three metres deep.
Typically the female will lay between one to three eggs, with only one being reared and cared for until maturity. The other eggs are back-ups in case the eldest chick is weak or dies.
In the hot weather, shoebill parents will fill their bills with water to shower their nests to cool their eggs.
Chicks take about 105 days to fledge and juveniles typically fly well by 112 days. Juvenile birds will continue to feed with their mother for another month after this and reach sexual maturity at about three years old.
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Further Information
BirdLife International. 2018. Balaeniceps rex. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T22697583A133840708. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22697583A133840708.en. Accessed on 16 February 2023.
Shoebill on Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoebill
Shoebill on Animalia.bio – https://animalia.bio/shoebill
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Now published in Peer Community Journal, #ecotoxicology and #environmentalchemistry section: Exposure to a mixture of organic pollutants in a threatened freshwater turtle Emys orbicularis: effects of age, sex, and temporal variation
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Every time Matt does a interview, our hope he will Make The Righ Thing shrink by half.
He is the Achiles pursuing a turtle of our time.
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#ScarboroughLandTrust acquires 130 acres to expand #conservation area
The 130-acre addition to #SilverBrookPreserve expands contiguous conserved lands.
Dana Richie, July 30, 2025
"The Scarborough Land Trust is expanding its green footprint in Western Scarborough with the addition of a 130-acre parcel to the Silver Brook Preserve at 65 Hanson Road.
"This is a sizable boost to the preserve that was previously made up of a 19-acre parcel purchased in 2001 and an 18-acre parcel purchased in 2024. And it expands the contiguous block of conserved land in the area to 943 acres, 600 of which are within the SLT’s stewardship.
" 'It really rounds out 25 years of conservation efforts,' said Christine Labaree, president of the land trust’s board of directors.
"The Silver Brook Preserve is home to a variety of wildlife including wild brook trout, spotted turtles, deer, bobcats, bats and maybe even a black bear or two.
And the land directly abuts #BroadturnFarm, a 434-acre parcel under the SLT’s stewardship complete with a working farm and wooded trails — the spot where Andrew Mackie, executive director of the land trust, and Labaree met on a hot and sticky afternoon."While walking along the #MapleSugarTrail by the edge of an open field full of tall grasses speckled with trees, Mackie said that the Silver Brook Preserve is across the tree line in the distance. Plunging deeper in the woods, past a still brook surrounded by a canopy of green, he pointed to a tree that bore a sign for the Stonewall Loop, a 1-mile trail in the Western corner of the property.
"Mackie explained that the land trust plans to extend that loop into the Silver Lake Preserve property, adding about 2 miles of trails and parking onto the new parcel within the next two years.
"Right now, the Silver Brook Preserve is open to the public for activities like hiking, skiing, snowshoeing, wildlife observation, hunting and fishing, and Mackie said that the land trust is still figuring out a lot of the policies for the preserve, like whether dogs will be required to be leashed.
"Western Scarborough isn’t the only area in town where the land trust is working to 'seed and grow' its conserved areas. There are 500 acres of contiguous conserved land in Pleasant Hill, made up of the 187-acre #PleasantHillPreserve and 300-acre #RachelCarsonNationalWildlifeRefuge. And #WarrenWoods, which was originally 162 acres in 2012, is now 313 acres, with plans in the works to connect trails to The Downs.
" 'The goal is that every neighborhood in Scarborough has opportunities to have access to open land,' Labaree said. The land trust is working with the town to achieve its goal of '30 by 30' — to preserve 30% of its land by 2030. According to Labaree, the town is currently at 23%.
"And Mackie said that these larger land parcels are more attractive in the long term because they are more ecologically sustainable, provide varying habitats for #wildlife and are easier to maintain."
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"Command Touch"-skärmen kan bland annat styra makron och appar.#Mice #Gaming #ComputerAccessories
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I think this is the 15th completed Pokemon skull? Anyway it's SQUIRTLE💧💀 What Pokemon do you want to see next?
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#squirtle #squirtlesquad #pokemon #nintendo #nintendofanart #pokemonfanart #squirtleart #squirtlefanart #squirtlesquadart #turtleart #blastoise #wartortle #watertype #drippyart #skullart #spookyart #spookyszn #nintendoart #procreateart #videogames #videogameart #procreateartists #drawingreveal #sketchtofinal #procreateillustration #illustrationartists
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Green turtle is swimmiing
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Hawksbill turtle at the surface
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Green turtle in a beautiful coral reef
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #singapore #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #sgd #ocean #sealife #marinelife #turtle #greenturtle #turtles
