Notices by anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖 (anna_lillith@mas.to), page 3

#Amazon

SAVE HORSESHOE CRABS FROM MASS DEATH

Dating back to before the dinosaurs, #HorseshoeCrabs are among the Earth's most ancient animals. They've survived for almost half a billion years, but now, in North America, they're at great risk: Each year the #BiomedicalIndustry "harvests" nearly a million crabs to drain their blood. That blood is used in #pharmaceuticals that save human lives — but at a terrible cost to the crabs and the species that depend on them, like #endangered #RedKnots.

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#ProtectOurWildlife

#DavidSuzuki

Beyond the impact to local wildlife, seismic activity has consequences for the larger environment. It can undermine water resources, carve through cultural areas, and damage the underlying tundra. Each of these individual impacts prove that seismic activity is a dangerous proposal.

The Department of the Interior is accepting public input on whether to allow seismic activity, but only until Dec. 8.

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but it can injure or even kill polar bears. It creates loud noises that can scare polar bear mothers away from their dens and cubs. Thumper trucks can run over undetected dens.

Caribou herds would also be put at risk. The herd migrates through the area where ConocoPhillips has proposed seismic activity, and surveys could separate caribou from their historic breeding grounds.

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NO SEISMIC BLASTING IN THE ARCTIC

#ConocoPhillips, an oil and gas giant, is seeking approval to conduct #SeismicBlasting in search of #oil and #gas in the #Arctic.

ConocoPhillips' seismic application, which was submitted to the #Biden administration, requests testing across more than 270,000 acres of the Arctic. It would involve months of dragging heavy thumper trucks and other machinery across a fragile #ecosystem.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27102023/is-conocophillips-looking-to-expand-its-controversial-arctic-oil-project/

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If approved, seismic blasting would threaten #PolarBears, #caribou herds, and other #wildlife that call the Arctic home. That's why we're calling on the #DepartmentOfTheInterior to reject any and all seismic activity on Arctic lands.

The #Willow Project is already a bad idea for our #environment. Proposed seismic blasting will make it even worse.

Seismic blasting helps #FossilFuel companies look for more oil and gas --

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https://environmentamerica.org/articles/in-the-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-polar-bears-and-oil-drilling-do-not-mix/?tag=email_blast:127264&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email

AfD: 34 Prozent. Klingt absurd, könnte 2024 aber Realität werden. In Thüringen liegt die AfD unter Björn Höckes Führung in den Umfragen weit vorne. Doch ein Passus im Grundgesetz könnte alles verändern. Artikel 18 besagt: Wer Grundrechte zum Kampf gegen die freiheitlich demokratische Grundordnung missbraucht, darf sich nicht mehr auf sie berufen. Im Fall von Höcke hieße das: Er würde sein Recht auf politische Aktivität verlieren – und dürfte sich nicht mehr zur Wahl stellen.

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Let our actions echo the serenity we seek, as every gesture of kindness, compassion, and understanding ripples into a world yearning for peace. 🙏🏻

Nestle makes enormous profits each year and faces no legal accountability for stealing water. Now coffee empire Starbucks has struck a multibillion dollar deal with Nestle. We ask you to join the movement to #BoycottStarbucks, #BoycottNestle, and boycott all of their products. Nestle profits from water theft, habitat destruction, child slavery, & plastic pollution – don't support them!

Take and share the pledge.

#LakotaLaw
#Starbucks
#Nestle

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/nestlepledge

#SaveTheBees #ProtectOurWildlife #Rewilding

AMAZON DESTROYS UNSOLD PRODUCTS BY THE MILLIONS

TVs, laptops, household items, books and even face masks still sealed in their original #packaging -- all like-new products that #Amazon directs its #warehouses to destroy rather than #reuse or #redistribute. One ex-employee says they were told their "target" was to destroy over 100,000 items every week.

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds

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NORTH DAKOTA'S ONLY WILD HORSE HERD IS IN DANGER

The wild horses who call #NorthDakota 's Theodore Roosevelt National Park (#TRNP) home are in serious danger.

The National Park Service (#NPS) is currently seeking public input on the Draft Environmental Assessment for a proposed plan that could lead to the complete elimination of this historic #herd, the ONLY wild horse herd in the state.

Currently, the park is home to approximately 195 #WildHorses.

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SMALL BUT MIGHTY: WHY ANTARCTIC KRILL ARE WORTH FIGHTING FOR

Experts call for action to protect vast areas of the #SouthernOcean and help safeguard the shrimp-like crustaceans at the base of the food web.

July 24, 2023 - by Tara Lohan

If you love #penguins, #whales and a livable #climate, then it might be time to stand up for Antarctic #krill.

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They form the base of the food web in the #SouthernOcean, which circles #Antarctica and makes up about 10% of the global ocean.

Most animals living in and around Antarctica dine on #krill. That includes #SeaBirds, #whales, #penguins, #seals, #squid, and numerous species of #fish that live in the open ocean.

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These #shrimp -like #crustaceans occur around #Antarctica but are most highly concentrated in the #AntarcticPeninsula, which also happens to be one of the fast-warming places on the planet. That’s bad news for krill — and everything that depends on them — which is a lot.

Only a few inches long, Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) may be small, but their contributions to the #ecosystem are massive — much like the swarms themselves.

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#Krill help support a #diversity of #MarineLife, but they also play a major role in #BiogeochemicalCycling by trapping #carbon in the #DeepSea — something that benefits even those of us that live far from its frigid waters.

While krill have been spotted thousands of feet deep on the #seafloor, they also come up to the surface of the water to feed on #algae that absorb #CarbonDioxide.

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“Krill play such a fundamental role in the ecosystem, not just for the top #predators, but also for smaller predators,” says Kim Bernard, an associate professor at Oregon State University who’s currently in Antarctica studying the crustaceans. “Almost everything down here feeds on them. And if they don’t feed directly on Antarctic krill, they’ll feed on something that does.”

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“The changing distribution is already perturbing the krill-centered food web and may affect biogeochemical cycling,” the researchers found.

Climate change isn’t the only threat. Krill are also a target for #IndustrialFishing vessels. (Yes, humans eat krill, too, as do our pets.) This #fishing puts a lot of other species at risk.

“Most of the fishing happens in these really small nearshore areas

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https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0191011#sec011