When is a refuge not a refuge?
When it's in the United States and you're a wolf.
#Wolves #WolvesOfMastodon #wildlife #RelistWolves #StopTheSlaughter
Ingenious, Indigenous cartography: The Tunumiit (Eastern Greenlandic Inuit) practice of carving portable maps out of driftwood to be used while navigating coastal waters. These pieces, which are small enough to be carried in a mitten, represent coastlines in a continuous line, up one side of the wood and down the other. The maps are compact, buoyant, and can be read in the dark.
Can we please stop making cow food from our public lands now? #GreaterSageGrouse can't take any more of this nonsense.
>Vegetation treatments expected on 208,000 acres. The Bureau is planning to masticate, mow, chain, spray herbicides and reseed across 15 “conifer removal” units in occupied sage-grouse habitat, and create 413 miles of linear fuel breaks.<
If ethics aren't a priority for consumer applications, imagine the sh*tshows that will be the inevitable military and law enforcement applications.
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-ai-ethical-ai-bing-chatgpt-layoffs-1850223358
"It's a truly unfortunate outcome for the land, wildlife, and cultural resources of this area," WWP staff attorney Talasi Brooks said in a statement. "This massive open-pit mine has been fast-tracked from start to finish in defiance of environmental laws, all in the name of 'green energy,' but its environmental impacts will be permanent and severe."
#ThackerPass #PeeheeMuhuh #NotGreen
https://www.commondreams.org/news/thacker-pass-lithium-mine-2659487512
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