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  1. Man Faces Federal Charges Over Turtle Trafficking Scheme

    Donald Do faces federal charges for trafficking 1,700 protected turtles. Learn how this illegal scheme impacts wildlife protection laws in the United States.

    #wildlifecrime, #turtleprotection, #federalcharges, #californianews, #endangeredspecies

    newsletter.tf/california-man-a

  2. Federal agents found that 1,700 protected loggerhead musk turtles were part of an illegal trade scheme. This is a major increase compared to previous wildlife cases in California.

    #wildlifecrime, #turtleprotection, #federalcharges, #californianews, #endangeredspecies
    newsletter.tf/california-man-a

  3. INDIA'S CONSERVATIONISTS EARN GLOBAL RECOGNITION AMIDST ECOLOGICAL THREATS

    Barkha Subba and Parveen Shaikh from India received Whitley Awards for their work on the Himalayan salamander and Indian Skimmer. Learn how they protect wildlife.

    #WhitleyAwards, #IndianConservation, #EndangeredSpecies, #BarkhaSubba, #ParveenShaikh

    newsletter.tf/indian-women-win

  4. Herpetologists are calling for greater inclusion of amphibians in African conservation planning, in a recent letter published in the journal Science. The researchers note that amphibians — frogs, salamanders and caecilians — are especially important as early-warning detectors of ecological disruption, given their sensitivity to pathogens, thermal stress, pollution and hydrological changes in their wetland habitats. 
    #biodiversity #endangeredspecies #amphibians #ecosystem

    news.mongabay.com/short-articl

  5. New research shows terrain complexity is an important factor when brush-tailed rock-wallabies choose habitat, and therefore important for successful reintroductions, as part of conservation efforts. The research provides crucial insight to help bring the critically endangered species back from the brink.
    #biodiversity #conservation #endangeredspecies #rockwallaby #extinction

    newswise.com/articles/complex-

  6. RT by @EU_Partnerships: Last Friday, Virunga's monitoring teams and trackers, with Dr Fabrice of Gorilla Doctors, conducted a routine health check of the Wilungula troop. Thirty-six family members were observed and appeared to be in good health.⁠

    Named after silverback Wilungula, the only named member of the family, the group is one of 11 gorilla families in the Park and, alongside the Baraka family, one of two groups still in the process of being habituated.⁠

    Mountain gorilla conservation in the Park is supported by the European Union and UNESCO.⁠

    ⁠⁠📸 Gorilla Doctors

    #MountainGorillas #GorillaConservation #EndangeredSpecies #DRCongo

    @GorillaDoctors @UEenRDC @EU_Partnerships @EU_Commission @UNESCO
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    nitter.net/gorillacd/status/20

  7. More than cuddly critters. Climate change puts unusual plants at risk

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming extinctions usually have people picturing the last polar bears or other furry critters…
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #Animals #Australia #CA #California #Canada #Climate #Climateandenvironment #climatechange #Endangeredspecies #FedericoLuebert #FelixForest #Generalnews #plants #RosaScherson #Science #U.S.news #Weather
    newsbeep.com/ca/655376/

  8. More than cuddly critters. Climate change puts unusual plants at risk

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming extinctions usually have people picturing the last polar bears or other furry critters…
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #Animals #AU #Australia #California #Climate #Climateandenvironment #Climatechange #Endangeredspecies #FedericoLuebert #FelixForest #Generalnews #Plants #RosaScherson #Science #U.S.news #weather
    newsbeep.com/au/656888/

  9. Book Review: Endling by Maria Reva

    Maria Reva’s debut novel, Endling is immensely ambitious and credit where credit is due this is a vast, sweeping novel that rocked me to my core in its first few chapters.

    Rating: 🌟🌟

    Genre: War fiction, Ukraine, Metafiction, Literary Fiction.

    Publisher: Virago (Hachette UK)

    Review in one word: Confounding

    Goddamnit I really wanted to love this book so much…I really did.

    All of the ingredients were there! A lone female protagonist who cares deeply for endangered mollusc species. Driving through Ukraine and looking to mate molluscs together to prevent them being “Endlings” in other words the final individuals of their species.

    Maria Reva’s debut novel, Endling is immensely ambitious and credit where credit is due this is a vast, sweeping novel that rocked me to my core in its first few chapters.

    It’s set against the harrowing backdrop of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yeva lives in a mobile laboratory, dedicating her solitary existence to collecting and sheltering endangered snails. Her most prized possession is Lefty, the last known individual of his species—an “endling”.

    To fund her strange mission, Yeva works for a Canadian firm specialising in “romance tours” to Ukraine, a euphemism for the mail-order bride business. Through this work that Yeva crosses paths with two other women entangled in the romance industry: the stunning Nastia and her brilliant sister Sol, daughters of a famous feminist activist who has mysteriously vanished. Disheartened by her inability to save the snails and desperate for a way out, Yeva is drawn into Nastia’s audacious plan to abduct a dozen of the foreign men who have come to Kyiv in search of wives.

    Endling tackles profoundly difficult themes of our time – war, extinction, the trafficking and exploitation of women and does this in a confronting and emotionally raw way.

    There are self-conscious moments in this that I thought were totally unnecessary and cringey. The novel shifts back and forth in time in a jarring way and in some parts Reva herself narrates in the first person. This distracts from the story itself and slows it down massively. There’s also the not inconsequential thing of having 12 grown men jammed into a tiny van being driven around Ukraine for days to weeks at a time. Apparently none of the guys were aware of there being a war happening outside the van. Nobody mentions needing to go to the loo in the novel but this seemed like too much of an obvious omission. How on earth would this situation occur in reality?

    I wanted so badly to love this novel but it seems to get bogged down in its own meta-narrative style. Hugely ambitious and filled with glorious moments of genius writing, I just wish Reva had made it simpler to follow and it would have been far more enjoyable.

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