#endemic — Public Fediverse posts

African #frogs haven’t forgotten the ice ages. Scientists can tell by where they live https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/african-frogs-havent-forgotten-the-ice-ages-scientists-can-tell-by-where-they-live/ paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.73207

"the #CongoRainforest remained stable throughout the #Pleistocene ice ages. But as Earth’s #climate cooled and dried, the #Congo’s forest borders receded in some places, creating pockets of more or less stable forested areas called #refugia... they aligned with the modern diversity of frogs... & with the small distributions of #endemic species."

African #frogs haven’t forgotten the ice ages. Scientists can tell by where they live https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/african-frogs-havent-forgotten-the-ice-ages-scientists-can-tell-by-where-they-live/ paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.73207

"the #CongoRainforest remained stable throughout the #Pleistocene ice ages. But as Earth’s #climate cooled and dried, the #Congo’s forest borders receded in some places, creating pockets of more or less stable forested areas called #refugia... they aligned with the modern diversity of frogs... & with the small distributions of #endemic species."

African #frogs haven’t forgotten the ice ages. Scientists can tell by where they live https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/african-frogs-havent-forgotten-the-ice-ages-scientists-can-tell-by-where-they-live/ paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.73207

"the #CongoRainforest remained stable throughout the #Pleistocene ice ages. But as Earth’s #climate cooled and dried, the #Congo’s forest borders receded in some places, creating pockets of more or less stable forested areas called #refugia... they aligned with the modern diversity of frogs... & with the small distributions of #endemic species."

African #frogs haven’t forgotten the ice ages. Scientists can tell by where they live https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/african-frogs-havent-forgotten-the-ice-ages-scientists-can-tell-by-where-they-live/ paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.73207

"the #CongoRainforest remained stable throughout the #Pleistocene ice ages. But as Earth’s #climate cooled and dried, the #Congo’s forest borders receded in some places, creating pockets of more or less stable forested areas called #refugia... they aligned with the modern diversity of frogs... & with the small distributions of #endemic species."

Found only in #Hawaii ! Hawaiian Whitespotted Toby at an #Oahu #Hawaii #reef . Your #sealife #photooftheday

Prints available - DM me. #endemic #spots #wednesday #creature #ocean #pacificocean #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #outdoors #explore #environment #earth #photo #photography #scuba #discover #underwater #art #critter #KeepItReal #C2PA

Found only in #Hawaii ! Hawaiian Green Lionfish at an #Oahu #reef . Your #sealife #photooftheday

Prints available - DM me. #endemic #fish #saturday #creature #ocean #pacificocean #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #outdoors #explore #environment #earth #photo #photography #scuba #discover #underwater #art #critter #KeepItReal #C2PA

#SilentSunday #Birds #Birding #Parrot #Macaw #Rare #Endangered #EndangeredSpecies #Endemic #Love #Nature #Outdoors #Bolivia #KodakEasyShare #Mood #Photograph #Digiscope #CriticallyEndangered

i know i ask this a lot but what if u spotted THIS in your garden!

#Bird #Birding #Hummingbird #Biodiversity #BirdsOfMastodon #Rare #EndangeredSpecies #Peru #Endemic

RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/116260383338896477

#Endemic #species are always interesting from different perspectives, e.g. from an #evolutionary and #ecological point of view. This also applies to #skinks of the genus
#Madascincus, being with several known species endemic to #Madagascar.
A. Miralles et al. (2026) described based on #multilocus #phylogenetics and #morphology two #newspecies:
M. #irery and M.
#minotaurus, with restricted distributions to limited areas of Madagascar only.
© this text #StefanFWirth

plenty of shots of this birb & this species but the sky was giving me fits...

#Bird #Redstart #Endemic #Colombia #Birding #Photography #BIrdPhotography #CloudForest #BirdsOfMastodon

Found only in #Hawaii ! Hawaiian Sergeant at an #Oahu #reef . Your #sealife #photooftheday

Prints available - DM me. #endemic #fish #Thursday #creature #ocean #pacificocean #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #outdoors #explore #environment #earth #photo #photography #scuba #discover #underwater #art #critter #KeepItReal

RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/116103658450230777

An interesting scientific paper on #Gilliesieae (#Amaryllidaceae), which have a limited distribution in #Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru. The authors N. García and Miersia (2026) describe four #newspecies of genera #Gilliesia and #Miersia. All species are found only in specific regions of Chile and are therefore #endemic. The authors also amplified and sequenced #DNA sequences to reconstruct the #phylogenetic positions of the new species. #Biodiversityresearch
© this text #StefanFWirth 2026

Some beautiful photos from #Christchurch #photographer https://PaulFrancis.nz which the lads bought and had framed at #VanUfflens as a 30th anniversary present for wifey and I. They’ve come out really well!

#Aotearoa #NZ #Birds #Native #Endemic #Wildlife #Photography #Nature #Tūī #Rifleman #Titipounamu

Found only in #Hawaii ! Hawaiian Dascyllus at an #Oahu #reef . Your #sealife #photooftheday

Prints available - DM me. #endemic #fish #Thursday #creature #ocean #pacificocean #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #outdoors #explore #environment #earth #photo #photography #scuba #discover #underwater #art #critter #KeepItReal

"not huffy, not puffy, BUFFY helmetcrest, i realize i'm posed next to one of those skinny sticks who make everybody look bad, but i'm not puffy or huffy or even a little bit full of rage" -- huffy puffy buffy helmetcrest

#Floof #Borb #Hummingbird #Bird #Birding #BirdPhotography #CloseUp #Photograph #Soft #Rare #Endemic #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Nature #Colombia

"hey, kids, it's #TongueOutTuesday" -- multi-colored tanager (yes a real bird, we had to wait a while but eventually we saw a number of them, both males like this one and females)

#TongueOutTuesday #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdsOfFediverse #Tanager #Bird #Birding #Rare #Endemic #Colombia #BirdPhotograph #BIrdPhotography #Forest #Nature #Biodiversity

"hey, kids, it's #TongueOutTuesday" -- multi-colored tanager (yes a real bird, we had to wait a while but eventually we saw a number of them, both males like this one and females)

#TongueOutTuesday #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdsOfFediverse #Tanager #Bird #Birding #Rare #Endemic #Colombia #BirdPhotograph #BIrdPhotography #Forest #Nature #Biodiversity

"hey, kids, it's #TongueOutTuesday" -- multi-colored tanager (yes a real bird, we had to wait a while but eventually we saw a number of them, both males like this one and females)

#TongueOutTuesday #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdsOfFediverse #Tanager #Bird #Birding #Rare #Endemic #Colombia #BirdPhotograph #BIrdPhotography #Forest #Nature #Biodiversity

"hey, kids, it's #TongueOutTuesday" -- multi-colored tanager (yes a real bird, we had to wait a while but eventually we saw a number of them, both males like this one and females)

#TongueOutTuesday #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdsOfFediverse #Tanager #Bird #Birding #Rare #Endemic #Colombia #BirdPhotograph #BIrdPhotography #Forest #Nature #Biodiversity

"hey, kids, it's #TongueOutTuesday" -- multi-colored tanager (yes a real bird, we had to wait a while but eventually we saw a number of them, both males like this one and females)

#TongueOutTuesday #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdsOfFediverse #Tanager #Bird #Birding #Rare #Endemic #Colombia #BirdPhotograph #BIrdPhotography #Forest #Nature #Biodiversity

I was today years old when I discovered that "Lumbricus badensis", europe's longest earthworm, endemic to the black forest in Germany, exists. There is even an discovery trek about the species located on Belchen mountain about the species! Nature never ceases to amaze me 🙂 🪱

#nature #germany #invertebrates #worm #endemic #deutschland

#heath #nsw #endemic #bloomscrolling

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. #Endemic #vagrancy, #disorderly $behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe. The number of individuals living on the streets in the United States on a single night during the last year of the previous administration -- 274,224 -- was the highest ever recorded. The overwhelming majority of these individuals are addicted to drugs, have a mental health condition, or both. Nearly two-thirds of homeless individuals report having regularly used hard drugs like methamphetamines, cocaine, or opioids in their lifetimes. An equally large share of homeless individuals reported suffering from mental health conditions. The Federal Government and the States have spent tens of billions of dollars on failed programs that address homelessness but not its root causes, leaving other citizens vulnerable to public safety threats.

Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order. Surrendering our cities and citizens to disorder and fear is neither compassionate to the homeless nor other citizens. My Administration will take a new approach focused on protecting public safety.

Sec. 2. Restoring Civil Commitment. (a) The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall take appropriate action to:

(i) seek, in appropriate cases, the reversal of Federal or State judicial precedents and the termination of consent decrees that impede the United States' policy of encouraging civil commitment of individuals with mental illness who pose risks to themselves or the public or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves in appropriate facilities for appropriate periods of time; and

(ii) provide assistance to State and local governments, through technical guidance, grants, or other legally available means, for the identification, adoption, and implementation of maximally flexible civil commitment, institutional treatment, and "step-down" treatment standards that allow for the appropriate commitment and treatment of individuals with mental illness who pose a danger to others or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves.

Sec. 3. Fighting Vagrancy on America's Streets. (a) The Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and the Secretary of Transportation shall take immediate steps to assess their discretionary grant programs and determine whether priority for those grants may be given to grantees in States and municipalities that actively meet the below criteria, to the maximum extent permitted by law:

(i) enforce prohibitions on open illicit drug use;

(ii) enforce prohibitions on urban camping and loitering;

(iii) enforce prohibitions on urban squatting;

(iv) enforce, and where necessary, adopt, standards that address individuals who are a danger to themselves or others and suffer from serious mental illness or substance use disorder, or who are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves, through assisted outpatient treatment or by moving them into treatment centers or other appropriate facilities via civil commitment or other available means, to the maximum extent permitted by law; or

(v) substantially implement and comply with, to the extent required, the registration and notification obligations of the Sex Offender Registry and Notification Act, particularly in the case of registered sex offenders with no fixed address, including by adequately mapping and checking the location of homeless sex offenders.

(b) The Attorney General shall:

(i) ensure that homeless individuals arrested for Federal crimes are evaluated, consistent with 18 U.S.C. 4248, to determine whether they are sexually dangerous persons and certified accordingly for civil commitment;

(ii) take all necessary steps to ensure the availability of funds under the Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance program to support, as consistent with 34 U.S.C. 50101 et seq., encampment removal efforts in areas for which public safety is at risk and State and local resources are inadequate;

(iii) assess Federal resources to determine whether they may be directed toward ensuring, to the extent permitted by law, that detainees with serious mental illness are not released into the public because of a lack of forensic bed capacity at appropriate local, State, and Federal jails or hospitals; and

(iv) enhance requirements that prisons and residential reentry centers that are under the authority of the Attorney General or receive funding from the Attorney General require in-custody housing release plans and, to the maximum extent practicable, require individuals to comply.

Sec. 4. Redirecting Federal Resources Toward Effective Methods of Addressing Homelessness. (a) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall take appropriate action to:

(i) ensure that discretionary grants issued by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery fund evidence-based programs and do not fund programs that fail to achieve adequate outcomes, including so-called "harm reduction" or "safe consumption" efforts that only facilitate illegal drug use and its attendant harm;

(ii) provide technical assistance to assisted outpatient treatment programs for individuals with serious mental illness or addiction during and after the civil commitment process focused on shifting such individuals off of the streets and public programs and into private housing and support networks; and

(iii) ensure that Federal funds for Federally Qualified Health Centers and Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics reduce rather than promote homelessness by supporting, to the maximum extent permitted by law, comprehensive services for individuals with serious mental illness and substance use disorder, including crisis intervention services.

(b) The Attorney General shall prioritize available funding to support the expansion of drug courts and mental health courts for individuals for which such diversion serves public safety.

Sec. 5. Increasing Accountability and Safety in America's Homelessness Programs. (a) The Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall take appropriate actions to increase accountability in their provision of, and grants awarded for, homelessness assistance and transitional living programs. These actions shall include, to the extent permitted by law, ending support for "housing first" policies that deprioritize accountability and fail to promote treatment, recovery, and self-sufficiency; increasing competition among grantees through broadening the applicant pool; and holding grantees to higher standards of effectiveness in reducing homelessness and increasing public safety.

(b) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall, as appropriate, take steps to require recipients of Federal housing and homelessness assistance to increase requirements that persons participating in the recipients' programs who suffer from substance use disorder or serious mental illness use substance abuse treatment or mental health services as a condition of participation.

(c) With respect to recipients of Federal housing and homelessness assistance that operate drug injection sites or "safe consumption sites," knowingly distribute drug paraphernalia, or permit the use or distribution of illicit drugs on property under their control:

(i) the Attorney General shall review whether such recipients are in violation of Federal law, including 21 U.S.C. 856, and bring civil or criminal actions in appropriate cases; and

(ii) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in coordination with the Attorney General, shall review whether such recipients are in violation of the terms of the programs pursuant to which they receive Federal housing and homelessness assistance and freeze their assistance as appropriate.

(d) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall take appropriate measures and revise regulations as necessary to allow, where permissible under applicable law, federally funded programs to exclusively house women and children and to stop sex offenders who receive homelessness assistance through such programs from being housed with unrelated children.

(e) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall, as appropriate and to the extent permitted by law:

(i) allow or require the recipients of Federal funding for homelessness assistance to collect health-related information that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development identifies as necessary to the effective and efficient operation of the funding program from all persons to whom such assistance is provided; and

(ii) require those funding recipients to share such data with law enforcement authorities in circumstances permitted by law and to use the collected health data to provide appropriate medical care to individuals with mental health diagnoses or to connect individuals to public health resources.

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Make this viral!!!

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. #Endemic #vagrancy, #disorderly #behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe. The number of individuals living on the streets in the United States on a single night during the last year of the previous administration -- 274,224-- was the highest ever recorded. The overwhelming majority of these individuals are addicted to drugs, have a mental health condition, or both. Nearly two-thirds of homeless individuals report having regularly used hard drugs like methamphetamines, cocaine, or opioids in their lifetimes. An equally large share of homeless individuals reported suffering from mental health conditions. The Federal Government and the States have spent tens of billions of dollars on failed programs that address homelessness but not its root causes, leaving other citizens vulnerable to public safety threats.

Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order. Surrendering our cities and citizens to disorder and fear is neither compassionate to the homeless nor other citizens. My Administration will take a new approach focused on protecting public safety.

Sec. 2. Restoring Civil Commitment. (a) The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall take appropriate action to:

(i) seek, in appropriate cases, the reversal of Federal or State judicial precedents and the termination of consent decrees that impede the United States' policy of encouraging civil commitment of individuals with mental illness who pose risks to themselves or the public or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves in appropriate facilities for appropriate periods of time; and

(ii) provide assistance to State and local governments, through technical guidance, grants, or other legally available means, for the identification, adoption, and implementation of maximally flexible civil commitment, institutional treatment, and "step-down" treatment standards that allow for the appropriate commitment and treatment of individuals with mental illness who pose a danger to others or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves.

Sec. 3. Fighting Vagrancy on America's Streets. (a) The Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and the Secretary of Transportation shall take immediate steps to assess their discretionary grant programs and determine whether priority for those grants may be given to grantees in States and municipalities that actively meet the below criteria, to the maximum extent permitted by law:

(i) enforce prohibitions on open illicit drug use;

(ii) enforce prohibitions on urban camping and loitering;

(iii) enforce prohibitions on urban squatting;

(iv) enforce, and where necessary, adopt, standards that address individuals who are a danger to themselves or others and suffer from serious mental illness or substance use disorder, or who are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves, through assisted outpatient treatment or by moving them into treatment centers or other appropriate facilities via civil commitment or other available means, to the maximum extent permitted by law; or

(v) substantially implement and comply with, to the extent required, the registration and notification obligations of the Sex Offender Registry and Notification Act, particularly in the case of registered sex offenders with no fixed address, including by adequately mapping and checking the location of homeless sex offenders.

(b) The Attorney General shall:

(i) ensure that homeless individuals arrested for Federal crimes are evaluated, consistent with 18 U.S.C. 4248, to determine whether they are sexually dangerous persons and certified accordingly for civil commitment;

(ii) take all necessary steps to ensure the availability of funds under the Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance program to support, as consistent with 34 U.S.C. 50101 et seq., encampment removal efforts in areas for which public safety is at risk and State and local resources are inadequate;

(iii) assess Federal resources to determine whether they may be directed toward ensuring, to the extent permitted by law, that detainees with serious mental illness are not released into the public because of a lack of forensic bed capacity at appropriate local, State, and Federal jails or hospitals; and

(iv) enhance requirements that prisons and residential reentry centers that are under the authority of the Attorney General or receive funding from the Attorney General require in-custody housing release plans and, to the maximum extent practicable, require individuals to comply.

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Found only in #Hawaii ! Saddle Wrasse at an #Oahu #Hawaii #reef . Your #sealife #photooftheday

Find me at @hawaiianeye797.bsky.social

Prints available - DM me. #endemic #fish #Sunday #creature #ocean #pacificocean #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #outdoors #explore #environment #earth #photo #photography #scuba #discover #underwater #followme

“Endemic” Ransomware Prompts NHS to Demand Supplier Action on Cybersecurity – Source: www.infosecurity-magazine.com https://ciso2ciso.com/endemic-ransomware-prompts-nhs-to-demand-supplier-action-on-cybersecurity-source-www-infosecurity-magazine-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #InfoSecurityMagazine #InfosecurityMagazine #CyberSecurityNews #Endemic

#News #Endemic #SystemicRacism

#USA

Chris Van Hollen, a senator for Maryland, told an audience at the Center for American Progress thinktank in Washington: “To watch the Trump administration apply what I call their global apartheid policy by providing asylum or refugee status to some Afrikaners – white South Africans – while they shut everybody else out is just an outrageous insult to the whole idea of our country, and the whole idea of Dr King that at the end of the day it’s character that counts.”

“We have to call it out for what it is: it’s an application of the global apartheid policy by the Trump administration.”

Jeanne Shaheen, the top Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, said in a statement: “It is baffling as to why the Trump administration is admitting Afrikaners for resettlement while continuing an indefinite suspension for thousands of legitimate asylum seekers who have fled persecution, often because their lives were at risk.”

Last year, the UN found no South Africans were eligible for refugee status. The decision by this administration to put one group at the front of the line is clearly politically motivated and an effort to rewrite history.”

@maggiejk @eniko
My sister was among those who went on vacation to #Florida repeatedly *during* the #pandemic when it was the worst #Covid hotspot in the nation.

Florida is the "Plato's Republic" of drunk driving (expanding a lesser problem to the size of a city to make it's flaws more apparent.)

The alcoholic behind the wheel always seems to emerge from a crash unscathed. It's the innocent people they run into who pay the price with their lives. 😞 #Leprosy #endemic

This sounds like a really interesting book.
"A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIX PLAGUES: HOW CONTAGION, CLASS, AND CAPTIVITY SHAPED US,
FROM CHOLERA TO COVID-19."

It focuses on six disease crises from the 19th century to the present—cholera, HIV/AIDS, the Spanish flu, sleeping sickness, Ebola, and #COVID-19.

#history #medicine #medmastodon @medmastodon #IDmastodon #infectious #pandemic #endemic #lockdown #quarantine
https://www.nasw.org/member_article/edna-bonhomme-history-world-six-plagues-how-contagion-class-and-captivity-shaped-us

Dairy and/ or biodiversity?
Shadeless ungulates cook at extreme temperatures

"Even for the “greenest” dairy farmer, however, strong convictions about the morality of using land for food production will limit how much native biodiversity is acceptable on farm." >>
https://theconversation.com/most-nz-dairy-farmers-put-profitability-first-but-some-are-planting-native-trees-anyway-242189

"Globally, agriculture is a dominant land use, with approximately 40% of the Earth's ice-free land managed by farmers and herders...When natural habitats are cleared for agriculture, most native biodiversity is lost...Habitat loss and fragmentation are compounded by the impacts of chemical inputs, invasive species and climate change on what little native biodiversity remains in agricultural landscapes... There are increasing calls to incorporate native biodiversity into farming systems." >>
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016724002158
#food #dairy #cattle #husbandry #agriculture #LandUse #NativeTrees #trees #shade #endemic #wildlife #biodiversity #extinction #ExtremeHeat #FossilFuels

Munidopsis sedna: Integrative Taxonomy reveals A #NewSpecies of #DeepSea Squat Lobster https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2024/09/munidopsis.html

Integrative taxonomy reveals a new species of deep-sea #SquatLobsters from #ColdSeeps in the Gulf of Mexico https://zse.pensoft.net/article/127169/

"Munidopsis #sedna is the 1st species of squat lobster considered to be #endemic to #ColdSeep habitats in the Gulf of Mexico & the Atlantic... The new squat lobster can be extremely abundant, occurring at densities on the order of tens per sq meter."

Determining a disease #outbreak as a "#PublicHealth emergency of international concern" or #PHEIC - the WHO's highest level of #alert — can accelerate #research, #funding & #international public health measures & co-operation to contain a #disease.

The outbreak in #Congo began w/the spread of an #endemic strain, known as #cladeI. But a new variant, #cladeIb, appears to spread more easily through routine close contact, including sexual contact.

#GlobalHealth #health #vaccinate

A Treasure Trove of Endemics: Two #NewSpecies of Snake-eyed #Skinks of the Genus Panaspis from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, southwestern Angola https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2024/07/panaspis.html paper: https://evolsyst.pensoft.net/article/121103/

#SerraDaNeve is an isolated mountain of subvolcanic origin with a basal area of approximately 630 km2 and is the second highest peak of #Angola at 2489 m. Recent fieldwork at Serra da Neve revealed an impressive number of strictly #endemic species.

Terrible Invasive Story 🙁

I had a real treat the other day when a Green Tree Frog visited me in the hot tub. I used to see these almost every day, but no more. Spring used to bring a cacophony of frogs chirping, but no more.

The reason is "The Beast" aka the #Invasive #CubanTreeFrog which EATS OTHER TREE FROGS! They are huge and toad-like. I kill them when I find them, but the battle is already lost where I live in north #Florida.

As you can see from the #Map, these invaders are moving north and are now #Endemic in my area (red circle). 👎

#TreeFrogs #GreenTreeFrog #Ecology #Disaster #NaturePhotography

Scientists discover #microbe unique to New Zealand.

#endemic #geothermal #thermophilic #Venenivibrio #Aquificota #biodiversity

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-scientists-microbe-unique-zealand.html

Reminder that #polio hasn't been globally #eradicated yet. I'm a #PolioSurvivor dealing with PPS - #PostPolioSyndrome now.

#Pakistan and #Afghanistan are the only countries in the world where #polio remains #endemic

https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-gunmen-kill-soldier-attack-polio-workers/32437116.html

#MedicalWorkers #DoctorsWithoutBorders #PolioAidWorkers #HealthWorkers #HumanRights #MedicalAid #RotaryInternational #PolioAwareness

Forgot to post my pic for endangered species day, I also have a story about it if you still read on Medium:

https://amethystqu.medium.com/30-million-years-later-1fbd68ba78d

(didn't do a friend link because i have been educated on how hard it is to use, ugh but i'll add it as a reply for anyone who wants to give it a try)

#birds #birding #EndangeredSpecies #CriticallyEndangeredSpecies #parrots #macaws #rare #wild #photography #Bolivia #endemic

_Anopheles stephensi_, a #malaria-#vectoring #mosquito usually found in urban environments in #India, the #Arabian #Peninsula, and other parts of #Asia, has now been detected for the first time south of the #equator in #Africa.

The authors suggest that this #vector may actually be quite prevalent and requires more sampling and testing in malaria-#endemic areas.

🔗 (Note: this is a #preprint and so has not passed peer review):

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.02.23289394v1.full

via 🐦: https://twitter.com/Fredros_Inc/status/1656404390167695362?s=20

The #GalápagosNationalPark Directorate, in collaboration with the organization #GalápagosConservancy, released the 86 #hatchlings, aged between 5 & 6 years, of the #Chelonoidis #hoodensis #species that is #endemic to #EspañolaIsland in the #Galápagos .
The #animals come from the #CaptiveBreeding center of #SantaCruzIsland - located in the center of the #archipelago

https://www.laprensalatina.com/86-captive-bred-galapagos-tortoises-released-into-native-habitat/amp/

#GoodNews #nature #wildlife #tortoises #SeaCreatures #MarineBiology #ecology #biodiversity #ProtectTheWild

Cases of yet another #tick-borne #disease are rising in the Northeast, #CDC says
#Babesiosis cases are rising in eight states, and the disease is newly #endemic in three more, according to a CDC report.

Symptoms of babesiosis include fever, chills, sweats, headaches, body aches, nausea, fatigue or muscle and joint pain. The disease has an overall fatality rate of around 1% to 2% https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/tick-borne-babesiosis-disease-cases-rising-cdc-rcna75276

#Endemic #Pathogens are Making You Crazy and Then Killing You | RETURN

"Do you suffer from #anxiety? Maybe it comes from a previous exposure to #cytomegalovirus. Mostly #asymptomatic, cytomegalovirus is a beta-herpes virus which once it has infected you, again stays for life. ... Individuals with higher #CMV-specific #antibody loads were more likely to be #depressed, #anxious, and suffer more overall #psychological #morbidity."

https://return.life/2022/05/endemic-pathogens/

Known as #CanalVillage , it had been a #strategic #military position decades ago in northern #Jonglei state, with the city of #Malakal further along the #Nile . But its new residents discovered, to their dismay, that within its confines lay an old #minefield .
Their #predicament #encapsulates the #impact of a #ClimateCrisis on a country which is yet to recover from a brutal five-year #CivilWar . A #peace #deal signed in 2018 has done little to stop #endemic #violence .

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64032266