Only the living.
11.03.2026 21:43
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Only the living.
Routinely dosing pets with pesticide can't be for their benefit. UK vets even sell monthly flea/worm treatments for 100% indoor pets!
In the US, you're taught to look for signs, like if your pet scooches along the ground after toileting. The vet would test for type of worm, then dispense treatment.
There are 96,000 legacy mines in Australia!!
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True, but I dread to think what would be on that list. 😱
This is what a former US President (and former General), Eisenhower, said about war, showing some wisdom that is still sadly lacking in the current incumbent
(h/t @adamtooze.bsky.social ):
You couldn't make it up! All part of our absolute desperation to extract every source of fossil fuel by every means possible, when we've already burnt too much and need to stop.
Not only is the renewal of trapping licenses illegal under EU law, but many trapping sites are situated in areas set aside to protect biodiversity.
Bird numbers are already unsustainable. Further reductions will speed up habitat destruction and rob the public of the chance to view birds in the wild.
Beaver dams restrict the water flow in parts of a river, creating ponds and wetlands.
In drought-stricken areas, fish and other wildlife can take refuge in the ponds until it rains and the river flows again.
Beavers improve water quality and fish health. They even reduce incidents of wildfire.
From what I understand the UK is unusual in treating pet fleas/worms prophylactically. We now only treat them when there are symptoms. Also keep pets away from water following any treatment.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not a bad analogy of the problem with climate change. Until people can't watch their favourite media/sports it won't be important. Things will get dearer and weather weirder, but we'll be told (well, choose to believe) that there's no proven link or "it's not us".
Orange Tip butterfly on a Cuckooflower.
Swallow feeding its youngster, head right in its mouth whilst still on the wing!
Didn't notice the text asking for photos!🤦♂️
In which case perhaps one of these.
Orange Tip butterfly on Bluebelle flower.
I took one that's the mirror image of that!
(a previous year though)
Light relief: My daughter challenged me to how fast I could press start on stop on a stop watch. I can't consistently get quicker than 0.09s, though on my phone the touch screen mean I can do 0.06s. What's your quickest?
Turns out I couldn't resist it. After several 0.09s I got this!
(Now I definitely won't be trying again)
This was my first attempt. I'm quitting while I'm ahead and won't be trying again! 😉
Tricky indeed! Perhaps it even qualifies as a "wicked problem". I suspect that to get from where we are to where we need to be would take a number of incremental seismic changes. I can't see it happening fast enough to save us.
I had heard of their sad decline. I wondered if you had noticed any changes locally. We have lost a number of species in the 30 years I've been here. Some I can guess why, others it's less apparent in local terms.
I wish I knew. When you listen to them speak they do seem to have other concerns. From what I remember Greg Jackson has not been taking money from the company (so far) in the way many would.
Have you any theories about the cause?
Green issues just seem whacky to them. Hence climate protesters portrayed is "selfish" for inconveniencing people and pushing their minority obsession, when people have more important things to worry about.
I wish I knew how to shift the dial but many wealthy people benefit from the status quo.
As you say, it's complicated. It seems to me that people are preoccupied for most of their waking hours with thoughts about subjects that aren't "real" - entirely human constructs: fashion, "influencers", reality TV, fame, wealth, career, etc. For many on low income just getting by is all.
Huh, that's the first I've heard of that! Thanks. Does seem a bit WTF though.
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I think many people's lives, especially in cities, seem so detached from the natural world that our actual planet is just something they see on TV.
I'm guessing that the person who "likes it hot" doesn't know about the AMOC, or what would happen to the UK climate if it turns off.
Case in point, one time I was introduced to OH's friends, who'd obviously been warned about me, and a young woman opened up the convo with "They say we're going to get global warming. Well, I *like* it hot".
I don't think we've had a drop in numbers since this post, but I haven't done a recent survey. Yes, I used to love seeing the Tree Sparrows - they even nested in my "Swift box", which was supposedly designed to be accessible to Swifts only!
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Just think how much more of our oceans could be full of such amazing diversity and wonder, if only we stopped treating them as a limitless larder and rubbish dump.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sadly Nestle are the antichrist of companies, so nothing could tempt me into giving them a single penny of my money. Despite previously being unable to leave a sweet shop without trying anything I hadn't seen before.
Sorry to hear you've lost your resident sparrows. We still have our House Sparrows but have lost the Tree Sparrows we used to see every day.
We found this wonderful patch of SlimeMould, Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa I think, in the Ebbor Gorge, Somerset this time last week. #SlimeMouldSunday @nationaltrust.org.uk
I had no idea they were edible. The only wild food I've tried is roadside blackberries, plus sloes and field mushrooms from our own garden/orchard. I've created a large "wildlife area", but I'd feel like I was stealing from the wildlife I made it for if I took any food away!