#extinctioncrisis — Public Fediverse posts

#SouthAmerica’s First Continental #WildlifeCorridor

By: Tompkins Conservation, October 9, 2025

"The #JaguarRiversInitiative is the first multi-country effort to create a massive wildlife corridor in the heart of South America. Uniting successful grassroots nonprofits in #Argentina, #Bolivia, #Brazil, and #Paraguay, the initiative will restore #ecosystems, bring back #KeySpecies, and develop #NatureBasedEconomies in a new cross-border model that addresses the mass #ExtinctionCrisis and climate instability on a global scale.

"In a groundbreaking announcement during #ClimateWeek in September [2025], an alliance of grassroots South American nonprofits launched South America’s largest continental-scale rewilding endeavor. The Jaguar Rivers Initiative plans to reconnect #FragmentedEcosystems across the vast #ParanáBasin using #RiverCorridors as the connective tissue. 'We all know the urgency of the #biodiversity and climate crises,' said Kristine Tompkins of Tompkins Conservation. 'This bold initiative underlines the need for coordinated, large-scale action before it’s too late. I’d call it a lifeline to our planet.'

"South America is in the midst of an unparalleled ecological crisis. #Wildlife populations across the region have declined by 94 percent since 1970—the steepest drop in the world. The drivers of this collapse—#deforestation, river degradation, #fragmentation, fire, and #overexploitation—are intensifying in the face of #ClimateChange.

"The Jaguar Rivers Initiative will restore, protect, and connect #ecosystems throughout the heart of South America, covering nearly one million square miles, an area almost twice the size of Alaska. According to Deli Saavedra, the director of the initiative, 'We’re undertaking a very strategic act to safeguard one of the largest river systems in the world. By restoring its ecological integrity, diverse species and communities currently under threat in four countries have the opportunity to thrive, using a model of nature restoration combined with regenerative economies that has been tested and proven successful in places like the #BrazilianPantanal and the #IberáWetlands of #Argentina.'

The initiative will be centered around four pillars:

• Arks: Large intact ecosystems with keystone species, restored and rewilded to become sources of wildlife dispersal.

• #BufferAreas: Surrounding zones where restorative economies promote coexistence and extend protection.

• Stepping Stones: Smaller wildlife refuges along corridors, often private reserves, that enable safe dispersal and reduce human-wildlife conflicts.

• #Rivers and #Floodplains: Vital corridors for connectivity, requiring healthy ecological flows; safeguarded through citizen guardianship, monitoring, and strong policies."

Learn more:
https://rewilding.org/south-americas-first-continental-wildlife-corridor/

#SolarPunkSunday #RewildingInstitute #LandIsLife #WaterIsLife #EndangeredSpecies #WildlifeConservation #HabitatConservation #PreserveNature

🌍🔥 Eine #Welt ohne #Artensterben - wie könnte das gehen? Diese Frage beleuchtet Gregor Hagedorn @wozukunft vom #Leibniz Institute for #Research on #Evolution and #Biodiversity am Donnerstag den 27.11.25 um 18 Uhr im ZHG im Rahmen der #PublicClimateSchool #Göttingen.

#Klimakrise #Klimawandel #climatecrisis #climatechange #Artenschutz #S4F #SFF #FFF #botany #taxonomy #Systematics #extinction #ExtinctionCrisis #Museum #UniGoettingen #MuseumfürNaturkundeBerlin #Berlin #species #artenvielfalt

With habitat destruction they made the thylacines extinct
Now suburban sprawl is pushing deeper and deeper into koala habitat.
Koalas are getting killed on the roads.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-13/appin-road-in-sydney-claims-life-rescued-koala-gage/105879322
#koalas #extinction #roads #cars #sprawl #MobilityDesign #wildlife #WildlifeCarer #HabitatDestruction #ExtinctionCrisis #biodiversity #NSW #suburbia #sacrifice #PoliticianPhotoOp

The unseen impact of the country's relentless urban sprawl on the native wildlife population. The displacement of biodiversity with wo/men and their dogs

“The wildlife is suffering ..., the kangaroos haven't got anywhere to go. They can’t go back to where they came from because it’s just houses now."

"While developments are financially lucrative for both construction companies and the local council, residents (wildlife carers) say they’ve been left to clean up the mess with little help."

https://au.news.yahoo.com/dangerous-problem-sparked-by-citys-continuous-urban-sprawl-043435218.html
#monoculture #sprawl #roads #cars #roadkill #WildlifeCarer #council #wildlife landlocked #HabitatFragmentation #biodiversity #ExtinctionCrisis

Logging in the Great Koala National Park without current threatened species surveys?

"Koalas, greater gliders and other threatened species have not been counted since 2017, well before the 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires and floods – but that has not stopped logging on an industrial scale in Clouds Creek State Forest and other native timber forests within the proposed Great Koala National Park in NSW."

"Forestry Corp’s ‘business as usual’ is not working for the koala or other threatened species, such as the greater glider. Logging procedures must change to include up-to-date wildlife surveys and events such as major floods and bushfires."

“It’s actually shocking that there is currently no requirement to conduct ecological surveys in our native forests prior to the commencement of logging." Greens MP and spokesperson for the Environment Sue Higginson

“The NSW Minister for the Environment and the Minister for Agriculture should immediately require pre-logging ecological surveys to be conducted to ensure that threatened species are being protected from industrial logging."
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https://1earthmedia.com/lack-of-threatened-species-surveys-hasnt-stopped-logging/
#GKNP #ThreatenedSpecies #koalas #gliders #IndustrialLogging #NSWLogging #WildlifeSurveys #MPG #MontrealProcessWorkingGroup #ExtinctionCrisis #biodiversity #habitat

Silicon Valley prepper: “Nobody wants to destroy the world.”
Naomi Klein: "Perhaps not. But as the ever-worsening #Climate and #ExtinctionCrisis show us every day, plenty of powerful people and institutions seem to be just fine knowing that they are helping to destroy the #stability of the world’s life-support systems, so long as they can keep making record #profits that they believe will protect them and their #families from the worst effects."

Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative #AI will benefit #humanity. They are kidding themselves.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein
AutomatedIntellectualAssetStripping #GenerativeAI #Instrumentality #Robinsonade #Destruction #Revealing