#naturalresources — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #naturalresources, aggregated by home.social.
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It seems #ElonMusk wants to make most of #TotalRecall reality. #JohnnyTaxi, #MindManipulation or #Mutants with 3 #tits fighting for #NaturalResources on #Mars.
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Industrial development is fragmenting Canada’s boreal forest. Governments should think carefully about future approvals
#Canada #BorealForest #Environment #Wildlife #Peatlands #Biodiversity #Mining #OilAndGas #Forests #Wetlands #Caribou #NaturalResources
https://the-14.com/industrial-development-is-fragmenting-canadas-boreal-forest-governments-should-think-carefully-about-future-approvals/ -
Menjaga Bumi untuk Generasi Mendatang: Tanggung Jawab Bersama dalam Konservasi Lingkungan
Di era modern yang ditandai dengan perkembangan teknologi dan pertumbuhan ekonomi yang pesat, isu lingkungan menjadi salah satu tantangan terbesar yang dihadapi umat manusia. Perubahan iklim, berkurangnya kawasan hutan, pencemaran udara dan air, serta menurunnya keanekaragaman hayati merupakan dampak nyata dari aktivitas manusia yang kurang memperhatikan keseimbangan alam. Di tengah kondisi tersebut, kesadaran akan pentingnya konservasi lingkungan menjadi semakin relevan. Foto ini […] -
Press Release: Rising #Emissions, Depleting #Water and Vanishing #Land—UN Scientists: #AI Is Threatening #NaturalResources for Billions
By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns
Date Published
3 Jun 2026Excerpt: "Inference, efficiency, and the rebound effect
"Public discussion has largely focused on the energy required to train massive models. Training GPT-3 was estimated to require 1.3 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity, while estimates suggest GPT-4 consumed between 50 and 70 GWh. However, the report reveals this framing is outdated. Once a model is deployed, inference—the continuous running of models to answer everyday user prompts—becomes the dominant cost, accounting for 80 to 90 per cent of total #AI energy use. ChatGPT alone is estimated to process around 2.5 billion prompts per day, translating to roughly 383 GWh of electricity per year for a single product. Offsetting associated carbon emissions would require 2.6 million tree seedlings grown for 10 years, enough trees to cover a land area the size of Manhattan. The water footprint is equivalent to the minimum annual domestic water needs of roughly 500,000 people in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the land footprint is equal to over 800 football fields."
Read more:
https://unu.edu/inweh/news/environmental-cost-of-AIs-Enrgy-use-carbon-water-and-land-footprints#AIBoom #Electricity #Hyperscale #BigTech #BigData #CarbonFootprint #EnvironmentalRacism #EnvironmentalDegradation #NoisePollution #LightPollution #WaterIsLife #AIAgents #BotTraffic #GreenSpaces #Farmland #Prairies #Woodland #TechGiants #ProtectNature #NoDatacenters #EnergyConsumption #USPol #WorldPol #Datacentres
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Un tableau périodique des éléments différent ...
Le tableau périodique des éléments suivant montre la finitude des réserves naturelles d'éléments importants.
#minetosh #geology #geologie #cartoon #umwelt #environment #humour #humor #klima #climate #ClimateChange #klimawandel #wissenschaft #géologie #environnement #climat #ChangementClimatique #science #klimaschutz #ClimateProtection #ProtectionClimat #chemie #chemistry #chimie #elemente #elements #éléments #nachhaltigkeit #sustainability #durabilité #RessourcesNaturelles #NaturalResources
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A somewhat different periodic table of the elements ...
The following periodic table of the elements shows the finiteness of the natural reserves of important elements.
#minetosh #geology #geologie #cartoon #umwelt #environment #humour #humor #klima #climate #ClimateChange #klimawandel #wissenschaft #géologie #environnement #climat #ChangementClimatique #science #klimaschutz #ClimateProtection #ProtectionClimat #chemie #chemistry #chimie #elemente #elements #éléments #nachhaltigkeit #sustainability #durabilité #RessourcesNaturelles #NaturalResources
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Ein etwas anderes Periodensystem der Elemente ...
Das folgende Periodensystem der Elemente zeigt die Endlichkeit der natürlichen Vorräte an wichtigen Elementen.
#minetosh #geology #geologie #cartoon #umwelt #environment #humour #humor #klima #climate #ClimateChange #klimawandel #wissenschaft #géologie #environnement #climat #ChangementClimatique #science #klimaschutz #ClimateProtection #ProtectionClimat #chemie #chemistry #chimie #elemente #elements #éléments #nachhaltigkeit #sustainability #durabilité #RessourcesNaturelles #NaturalResources
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Tame The Water Or Let It Flow? - New Zealand Grapples With How To Protect Its Braided Rivers
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/may/07/tame-the-water-or-let-it-flow-new-zealand-grapples-with-how-to-protect-its-braided-rivers <-- shared technical media article
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#water #hydrology #river #braidedrivers #NewZealand #watermanagement #waterresources #waterquality #planning #policy #Maori #tribal #CanterburyPlains #hydrogeomorphology #Waimakariri #Rakaia #management #regulations #naturalresources #freshwater #waterways #watersecurity #foodsecurity #engineering #control #levees #freeflowing #flood #flooding
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A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt
The idea that our natural resources were inexhaustible still obtained, and there was as yet no real knowledge of their extent and condition. The relation of the conservation of natural resources to the problems of National welfare and National efficiency had not yet dawned on the public mind. The reclamation of arid public lands in the West was still a matter for private enterprise alone; and our magnificent river system, with its superb possibilities for public usefulness, was dealt with by the National Government not as a unit, but as a disconnected series of pork-barrel problems, whose only real interest was in their effect on the reëlection or defeat of a Congressman here and there — a theory which, I regret to say, still obtains.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 11 “The Natural Resources of the Nation” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/5…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #theodoreroosevelt #teddyroosevelt #America #conservation #federalgovernment #landmanagement #naturalresources #porkbarrel #reclamation
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No more #brazen #imperialistic #wars for #naturalresources https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/us/politics/trump-oil-venezuela.html My take here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2026/01/04/venezuela-end-game-dissecting-different-interest-groups-and-agendas-within-the-maga-coalition/ #climate #climatechange #venezuela #imperialism #maduro #trump
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Why Greenland’s vast natural resources won’t necessarily translate into huge profits
#Greenland #Environment #Economy #NaturalResources #CriticalMinerals #Mining #EnergyPolitics #Geopolitics #ResourceEconomics #ClimateConstraints #FossilFuels #Trump #USA
https://the-14.com/why-greenlands-vast-natural-resources-wont-necessarily-translate-into-huge-profits/ -
[USGS] Corridor Mapping Team - Ungulate Migrations of the West
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https://www.usgs.gov/programs/cooperative-research-units/science/corridor-mapping-team-ungulate-migrations-west <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20245006 <-- shared USGS 2024 publication ‘Ungulate Migrations of the Western United States, Volume 4’
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https://doi.org/10.5066/P9SS9GD9 <-- shared USGS ungulate migration data release
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https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13806 <-- shared paper ‘Barrier Behaviour Analysis (Baba) [‘fences’] Reveals Extensive Effects Of Fencing On Wide-Ranging Ungulates’
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #USWest #USA #ungulate #migration #route #deer #elk #moose #antelope #bison #buffalo #infrastructure #manmade #obstacles #ecosystems #wildlife #publicland #privateland #CorridorMappingTeam #opendata #fedopendata #fedscience #naturalresources #Wyoming #FirstNation #tracking #GPS #seasonal #habitat #protection #fences #barriers #herds #herbivore #management #healthy #herdhealth #vegetation #prey #carnivore #economy #benefits #income #food #spatiotemporal #spatialanalysis #snow #weather
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[USGS] Corridor Mapping Team - Ungulate Migrations of the West
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https://www.usgs.gov/programs/cooperative-research-units/science/corridor-mapping-team-ungulate-migrations-west <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20245006 <-- shared USGS 2024 publication ‘Ungulate Migrations of the Western United States, Volume 4’
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https://doi.org/10.5066/P9SS9GD9 <-- shared USGS ungulate migration data release
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https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13806 <-- shared paper ‘Barrier Behaviour Analysis (Baba) [‘fences’] Reveals Extensive Effects Of Fencing On Wide-Ranging Ungulates’
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #USWest #USA #ungulate #migration #route #deer #elk #moose #antelope #bison #buffalo #infrastructure #manmade #obstacles #ecosystems #wildlife #publicland #privateland #CorridorMappingTeam #opendata #fedopendata #fedscience #naturalresources #Wyoming #FirstNation #tracking #GPS #seasonal #habitat #protection #fences #barriers #herds #herbivore #management #healthy #herdhealth #vegetation #prey #carnivore #economy #benefits #income #food #spatiotemporal #spatialanalysis #snow #weather
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NASA Flights Map Critical Minerals From Skies Above Western US - Technology Used To Chart Other Worlds Is Revealing Minerals In The American West That Are Critical To The Country’s Renewable Energy Future.
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https://science.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-flights-map-critical-minerals-from-skies-above-western-us/ <-- shared technical article
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https://popo.jpl.nasa.gov/mmgis-aviris/?mission=GEMx <-- shared GEMx data collection portal
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #mineral #mineralogy #mining #criticalminerals #USWest #renewableenergy #lithium #GEMx #fedscience #cost #economics #USGS #NASA #GeologicalEarthMappingExperiment #lithium #aluminum #rareearthelements #neodymium #cerium #nationalsecurity #cleanenergy #batteries #smartphones #cellphones #naturalresources #steel #steelmill #dependency #localsources #importing #survey #geology #geologicmapping #exploration #spectrometers #hyperspectral #EMIT #mine #extraction #EarthMRI #opendata
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Introduction - Geoethics For The Future
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https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15654-0.00034-7 <-- shared link to volume
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[disclaimer: sharing of this link should not be seen as an endorsement]
#anthropocene #geoethics #global #anthropogenic #change #socialgeosciences #societal #relevance #geosciences #GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #ethics #geology #resources #naturalresources #ecosystems #ecology #water #earthscience #humanimpacts #Interdisciplinary #sustainability #risk #hazard #responsibilities #interaction -
Identification Of Geothermal Anomalies From Landsat Derived Land Surface Temperature, Mount Meager Volcanic Complex, British Columbia, Canada
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.114649 <-- shared paper
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“Highlights:
• A novel method for detecting geothermal components from solar energy dominated LST.
• Using LST time series to eliminate temporal variant solar energy input.
• Uncertainty in anomaly identification quantified by probability measure.
• Capable of revealing LST anomalies caused by geothermal, anthropogenic and surface processes..."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #britishcolumbia #BC #solar #geothermal #remotesensing #earthobservation #LST #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #naturalresources #volcanic #geology #geostatistics #landsurfacetemperature #satellite #geothermalheatflux #GHF #energybalance #calculation #model #MountMeager #Landsat #landsat8 #hotspring #landslide #massmovement #engineeringgeology #spring #seep #anthropogenic #HEP #hydropower #monitoring #risk #hazard -
Multispectral Remote Sensing Expression of Lineaments and Alteration Minerals in Part of Crystalline Rock Units of Southwestern Nigeria - Implication on Gold Prospecting
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oreoa.2025.100091 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #ASTER #Gold #Hydrothermal #HydrothermalAlteration #Lineament #Landsat #ETM #EnhancedThematicMapper #phyllic #Ilesha #schist #belt #geology #mining #Nigeria #naturalresources #mineral #mineralresources #golddeposits #aerogeophysical #remotesensing #geophysical #spatialanalysis #geomorphology #geomorphometry #alteration #propylitic #argillic #mineralogy #XRD #structuralgeology #lithology #PrincipalComponentAnalysis #PCA #prospecting #fracture #joints #faulting #Multispectral #Lineaments #Crystalline -
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petizione per il riconoscimento dello stato di palestina
_4 febbraio, webinar di amnesty international sull’ultimo rapporto dedicato al genocidio a gaza
_call for artists: “viva palestina!” @ leoncavallo, milano, febbraio 2025
e link dal 20 gennaio a oggi (i più recenti in fondo):
facts about apartheid and racism against the palestinians, and izrahell genocidal strategy
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prof. rashid khalidi about plo, izrhell, and a palestinian state
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violenza e viltà del sionismo e delle sue sturmtruppen di criminali
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shooting children in the head is wrong but israel seems not to understand that
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an updated report on the key statistics of the genocide perpetrated by the zionist criminal entity
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il cumulo di prove delle atrocità israeliane
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[r] _ documentare il genocidio ai danni del popolo palestinese, conservarne la memoria
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12 images to remember hind rajab’s story
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(e comunque:) tutti i materiali relativi a #gaza #palestina #genocidio #cisgiordania inseriti nel tempo su slowforward sono rintracciabili a questi link:
https://slowforward.net/?s=Palestina
https://slowforward.net/?s=Gaza
https://slowforward.net/?s=genocidio
https://slowforward.net/?s=cisgiordania*
link esterni a slowforward (i più recenti in fondo):
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Unlocking Arkansas’s Hidden Treasures – USGS Uses Machine Learning To Show Large Lithium Potential In The Smackover Formation
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https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/unlocking-arkansas-hidden-treasure-usgs-uses-machine-learning-show-large <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp8149 <-- shared paper
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https://www.usgs.gov/tools/us-geological-survey-national-produced-waters-geochemical-database-viewer <-- link to the USGS Produced Waters Database
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #sampling #water #naturalresources #economicvalue #lithium #watertesting #waterquality #machinelearning #AI #predictive #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #Arkansas #commercial #study #resource #research #batteries #technology #brines #SmackoverFormation #oilandgas #commodity #extraction #mining #salt #mineral #hydrocarbon #geology #geologic #estimation
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Evaluating The Uncertainties In Forest Canopy Height Measurements Using ICESat-2 Data
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https://doi.org/10.34133/remotesensing.0160 <-- shared paper
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https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4936 <-- shared technical article, NASA – “Studying vegetation canopy with ICESAT-2”
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #ICESat #ICESat2 #forest #ecosystems #canopy #naturalresources #LiDAR #ALS #satellite #metrics #evaluation #tree #trees #vegetation #physiography #forestcanopy #canopycover #spatialanalysis #model #modeling #regional #global #scale -
New Report Ranks USGS Assets High Among Earth Observations Systems Surveyed
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https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/new-report-ranks-usgs-assets-high-among-earth-observations-systems-surveyed <-- link to article
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https://usgeo.gov/working-groups.html <-- USGEO Working Group reports and summaries
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https://usgeo.gov/uploads/EOA%20Agriculture-Forestry%20Report%20(July%202024).pdf <-- 2023 Earth Observations Assessment Report - Agriculture and Forestry
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #landsat #summary #overview #agriculture #forestry #global #farming #ranching #hydrology #water #watersheds #waterresources #watersecurity #naturalresources #landmanagers #landcover #landuse #USGEO #NLIP #society #satellite #metrics #landsat8 #landsat9 #economic #economicbenefits #production #sustainability #resourcemanagement
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#Kayapó #ForestDefenders Urge #UnitedNations to Help Halt Illegal #GoldMining in #Brazil
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
July 23, 2024GENEVA -- "#Indigenous from Brazil urged the United Nations to join them and demand Brazil halt illegal gold mining, and its #mercury #contamination, now destroying the ancestral homelands of #Kayapó, #Yanomami and #Munduruku Peoples, during the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
"Doto Takak Ire, Mebêngôkre, said, 'The Kayapó are still warriors and we will always be defenders of the forests.'
"'We do not want any kind of #exploitation of #NaturalResources in our territories. We want the #Amazon protected, so that our children and all the children of the world can grow up healthy.'"
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/07/kayapo-forest-defenders-urge-united.html#NoGoldMining #NoMining #NoMiningWithoutConsent #ProtectTheForest #ProtectTheAmazon #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousRights #CulturalGenocide #WaterIsLife #Pollution
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BJP govt policies helped plundering of natural resources like never before, says report
The report shows how the Union government diluted environment legislations and clamped down on environmental activists, thereby repressing protests and representations against unsustainable development.
#environment #BJP #NaturalResources #EnvironmentalImpact #ForestConservation #ForestRights #TribalRights #PUCL #FFF #BahutvaKarnataka #CronyCapitalism #india
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#IndigenousActivists are risking their lives for #butterflies
In #CentralMexico’s forests, armed community members defend an iconic butterfly from cartel-backed logging.
By Anjan Sundaram Dec 20, 2023
"Every winter, northwest of Mexico City, the branches of the Oyamel fir trees ignite in orange, colored by the wings of #MonarchButterflies that have made the epic journey south from Canada and the United States.
"The forest is home to the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, created by presidential decree in 1986 and designated as a Unesco World Heritage site in 2008. The reserve shelters nearly 90 percent of the region’s over-wintering monarch butterfly population.
"Despite the fact that the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve is internationally protected, decades of degradation of the forest have posed an existential threat to this fragile ecosystem. Over the past four decades, the number of winter roosting sites for the butterflies in the reserve has fallen by over 50 percent, driven in part by illegal logging.
"After researchers found that 10 percent of total canopy cover had been lost between 2001 and 2012, the Mexican government ramped up enforcement of laws prohibiting logging. Government raids on illegal sawmills in the reserve sharply reduced logging. Yet according to an analysis by the World Wildlife Fund, the rate of forest degradation in the reserve tripled in 2022.
"To protect these forests — one of the few remaining wintering refuges for migrating monarchs — the local #Mazahua Indigenous community in Crescencio Morales has established its own security force.
"As these self-described forest defenders from Crescensio Morales fight to protect the monarch butterfly’s refuge, Indigenous leaders took the global stage at the United Nations annual climate change summit in Dubai to wage this battle on a second front: to convince world leaders to recognize the dangers environmental land defenders, particularly in Latin America, face and to build stronger mechanisms to support them.
"Around the world, environmental activists face increasing violence
"As their weapons indicate, the world’s environmental defenders need defending. Every day, the councils of Crescencio Morales’ guardia comunales work in shifts, patrolling their community as well as the boundary of the Monarch Biosphere Reserve. They say they are threatened by #sicarios, cartel #hitmen, who also benefit from the #IllegalTrade, and are allied with clandestine loggers who camp in the surrounding forests. The guardia comunales run well-armed patrols through their territories to prevent the sicarios from expanding their territories and cutting down the precious Oyamel fir trees.
"These conflicts put environmental #activists at great risk. Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promised to stop such violence, but the country remains among the world’s deadliest for those defending its pristine ecosystems. In January 2020, the body of the anti-logging activist and monarch butterfly defender #HomeroGómezGonzalez was found in a community near Crescencio. Activists suspect his death was connected to illegal logging disputes, the Guardian reported.
"The pressures that Mexico’s Indigenous activists face are emblematic of similar conflicts arising globally. Communities like Crescencio Morales are on the front lines of a battle to protect their local environment from a mounting scramble for natural resources, amplified by corruption.
"Members of Crescencio Morales’s community told me that in addition to fighting the illegal loggers, they also protect their forested mountains from #mining companies seeking to extract #gold, #silver, and #copper — #minerals now in high demand as the world transitions to clean energy technologies.
Land defenders around the world — in countries including Mexico, #Brazil, The Democratic Republic of the #Congo, and the #Philippines — face increasing violence as they defend their territories, according to #GlobalWitness, an accountability nonprofit that studies the link between #NaturalResources, #conflict, and #corruption. A 2023 investigation by the organization found that nearly 2,000 #activists have been killed over the last decade for their efforts to protect the planet, many of them from Indigenous communities trying to preserve their ecological heritage."The majority of recorded killings of #LandDefenders in 2022 took place in #LatinAmerica, making the continent perhaps the most dangerous place for #EnvironmentalDefense.
"#IndigenousLands include some of the planet’s most threatened landscapes
"The Mexican constitution protects the right of Indigenous communities’ self-determination — which, among other forms of #sovereignty, allows them to govern their land communally. In 2023, more than 50 percent of Mexico’s land fell under these legal regimes, termed #TierraComunal or #TierraEjidal — which roughly translates to communal land. This, according to a study by the Rights and Resources Initiative, is the highest percentage of land collectively owned by Indigenous and local communities of any country in the #Americas.
"This unique aspect of #MexicanIndigenous heritage means that broad swaths of land in Mexico remain protected. Yet mounting effects from climate change as well as political and economic pressures mean that some of Mexico’s Indigenous communities have been forced to block highways in protest and appeal for help to protect themselves, their communities, their ecosystems, and their way of life.
"#Mexico’s unique legal regime is especially important for Crescencio Morales because it offers communities in the area, with deep historical and cultural ties to the monarch butterflies, the legal authority to protect the reserve. But the law can only do so much to protect the refuge and its migrating butterflies from illegal logging pressure.
"To prevent destruction of the Monarch Biosphere Reserve, Indigenous activists have taken their security and that of the butterflies’ precious trees into their own hands. When I visited Crescencio Morales earlier this year, I walked with a community policeman named Aurelio during an armed patrol along his community’s border. (We are withholding his identity and using a pseudonym to protect him from being targeted by local violence.) At the summit of one of the hills surrounding the community, Aurelio told me Crescencio Morales had been forced to arm itself to protect its people, butterflies, and #Forests.
"The security situation in towns such as #CrescencioMorales is complex. According to other community leaders I spoke with this year, who wished to remain anonymous due to security risks, the locals did not trust the army or the state police, which they often suspected of cutting business deals with the cartels. Armed security volunteers who protected the community from #taladores, the illegal loggers, patrolled their town in pickup trucks.
"These hyperlocal battles — on highways and in open warfare by the #GuardiasComunales — have larger stakes: Mexican Indigenous environmental activists are defending landscapes that have implications for global #biodiversity. Without their efforts, environmentalists fear systemic #deforestation from illegal logging, which would not only destroy habitat for vulnerable species but also increase the #GreenhouseGas emissions that further drive #ClimateChange. And without the preservation of the Crescencio Morales Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, an important chain in a migration that connects ecosystems from Canada to Mexico would be severed."
Full article:
https://www.vox.com/climate/24006471/cop28-rising-danger-environmental-activism#ForestDefenders #JusticeForHomero #DirectAction #CriminalizingDissent #DefendTheForest #IndigenousRights #Extinction #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #Fascism #DirectAction #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists
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#Arizona Gov #KatieHobbs said Mon that her admin would effectively kick a #Saudi-owned alfalfa farm off a critical stretch of state land, a forceful step that speaks to the firestorm of controversy over foreign extraction of #NaturalResources as well as deepening dilemmas over #WaterScarcity as #ClimateChange dries out the West.
#groundwater #water #KSA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/10/02/saudi-arizona-water-contracts-canceled/ -
GEO.CA - The Definitive Source For Canada’s Open Geospatial Information 🇨🇦
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https://geo.ca/home/ <-- home page and data portal
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“[NRCAN has] worked with all levels of [Canadian] government to bring you a digital platform where Canadians can discover, access, analyze and map Canada’s vast geospatial data resources. 🌎🗺️
If you’re interested in urban planning, policy development or tracking outbreaks and monitoring climate change, [their] new site can help you access the data you need to make evidence-based, educated decision-making…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #Canada #spatialdata #spatialanalysis #Canadian #opendata #dataportal #datadownload #gischat #provinces #dataresources #urbanplanning #naturalresources #policymaking #publichealth #climatechange #water #hydrology #DEM #elevation #HRDEM #LiDAR #maps #visualisation #spatiotemporal #historicdata #NRCAN -
#Introduction Looking forward to conversation & community. I mostly post about #AgLaw (#law) #AgEconomics (#economics) #farming #ranching (#agriculture) #foodpolicy #foodbusiness #foodsystems #foodjustice #environmentaljustice #naturalresources #water #WaterLaw #AgWater. I'm a #FarmBill #USDA #tax #credit #policy nerd - which requires a functioning #democracy so also interested in #VotingRights #AdministrativeLaw #Constitutional law. Plus #music #arts #nature & stuff I've never heard of.
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#Introduction (work): I'm a #scientist. Exactly what kind of scientist isn't that important, but if we go down that road, I've been trained in #palaeobiology, #ecology and #paleontology, but nowadays I am working on #SocioEcologicalSystems and how human #society are using #NaturalResources. I am drawn towards #ComplexSystemTheory and networks, and I'm interested about the #DeepRoots of the #SystemicConnections between #nature, #climate, #HumanSocieties and #ResourceUse.
