#Caring for our forest

[kazifatagar]

'Caring for our Forest' Workshop Marks World Habitat Day 2024

A joint ‘green’ effort by BOH Plantations and Tropical Rainforest Conservation and Research Centre MALAYSIA, 10 OCTOBER 2024 – BOH Plantations Sdn Bhd (BOH) and theTropical Rainforest Conservation and Research Centre (TRCRC) hosted a workshop, ‘Caring for Our Forest’, in conjunction with World Habitat Day this year. Over 50 participants were hosted at the Elmina Rainforest Knowledge Centre for…

[kantush]

I fucking love Kelvin. My cute malewife

He's doing honest work.

[fatehbaz]

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[swingsetindecember]

it's only when the wildfire haze hit the us that people are talking about how bad it is. we've been living with haze and wildfires for a month in alberta and suddenly news is everywhere now talking about canadian wildfires. it's very frustrating when an issue you've been living through only gets attention when a larger population gets hit. like y'all didn't care a week ago until it was in your backyard. my heart goes out to everyone being affected, we need to have better environmental protections

[maranull]

I feel desensitised at this point, cause this is happening every fucking summer, but might as well make a post.

Attica is on fire again. This time houses were burned in less than a day. At least one stray shelter was burned before they could get the animals out. I don't even want to think how many other animals, wild or not, didn't (and won't) make it. At least, as far as I know, we don't have any human casualties (yet). Fires have been burning in neighbourhoods and houses since yesterday and given how we're going to have yet another heatwave from tomorrow, things are looking great.

But hey. At least in a couple years, when most folks would have forgotten this, look how many more villas will pop up in those places. There was a rich boy bitching how no firefighters were by his villa. Motherfucker, this is how you bought the land and build on it, taste your own medicine for once.

And we're still hiring more and more cops. Within NATO, Greece is #3 (#1 in 2022 (higher than the fucking USA)) in military spending per GDP (x), as if our main enemy isn't in the same fucking alliance.

Meanwhile, our firefighters are constantly understaffed. Meanwhile, we're having yearly fires basically inside the country's capital, with more and more houses being burned each time.

But that's no reason to buy more firefighting planes, helis and general firefighting equipment. That's no reason to focus on firefighter training and recruitment. No, no. See, we just need more cops and more army funding. Oh, oh, and don't forget the priests. We should never forget the fucking priests.

Gonna fight the fires with bullets, bombs and prayers.

[castielsprostate]

Did you know the name Holland came from Houtland (woodland)? Yeah, that shit used to be covered in forest back in the medievals

it's very interesting! i did learn this in history class :3 the netherlands used to have a LOT of nature, until it sort of became THEE place to be in europe in the golden age! the hatred for water, growing desire for agriculture, and the transition to industrialization unfortunately got rid of a lot of forests and nature :// as of 2021, there's 10% of forest covering Dutch grounds, around 3447m² or friesland in size!

in 2022 'sterrebos' in born was cut down to make room for an expansion of nedcar. this was done of the promise of a new client and a "desperate need". two years later, in 2024, nedcar has been shut down after their one and only client pulling the contract, and the second never having been secured. the gigantic building with modern machinery is now left to collect dust and rot away, and a beautiful forest was cut down for absolutely nothing. instead of opening the factory to at least produce ammunition or armoured vehicles for ukraine and to resupply our own country's stash, producing dozens of jobs in the process, it is left empty with only machinery maintenance once a month.

i wish we'd appreciate our own nature more, maybe we could still honour the title of holland.

[arvale-artist]

🍃🌱🌳Malzubed in his forest. 🌳🌱🍃

Arvale really likes to take a spin on existing clichés and tropes, and here's one of them!

Malzubed The Fire Dragon who doesn't like the heat and enjoys chilling in his forest. Which IS actually a forest you can visit in Arvale Short Tales!! Unfortunately only playable on pocket PC...

Dragons, particularly fire dragons, are not the type of creature one would associate with prosperity and green nature, but here we have one who has an entire forest named after him.

In the good ending you actually see him in (presumably) his forest when Duncan gives him a visit =] Which I find so neat...

Apologies for the crunchy quality, but I don't upload high resolution art anymore. ^^; This is an oil painting BTW.

[i-wanna-linger]

gonna be back at camp on saturday and sunday :)))))

on saturday i’m running zip line with our favorite 70 year old man (/gen) and sunday i’m doing boating with one of my old camp besties who quit halfway through summer of ‘22 but she’s back!

looking at the schedule i’m pretty sure the troops are getting there before we do so reeeeeeally hope i don’t have to fight them for parking spots

tho thinking back to the other spring events i’ve worked like that the main parking lot wasn’t crowded at all so idk

[faerociousbeast]

homophobia sucks

[rxttenfish]

ngl one of those projects that id like to work on but would surely take up way too much of my time would be to make a little module/pamphlet for mothership on how to generate + run alien biospheres and how to Do fairly realistic ecologies

[thethingything]

at the start of the month we'd joined a Habitica challenge for planting a certain number of trees in Forest again and we're up to 285 and I want to try and get to 300 before the month resets (which for us will be at like, 5am because we have a delayed start to the day on there) and luckily for me I just started a drawing project that I'll be using the timer for. let's fucking go I guess

[1ore]

I'm grateful that I got the chance to hear some insider takes about chi'chil bildagoteel / oak flat from people who work on environmental impact statements (EIS's) for a living. I will try to relay it, but this is all off the dome and sort of hush-hush. take it with a grain of salt!

Anyway, what's especially rough about oak flat is that congress signed the land over to rio tinto before the EIS began-- that is, the forest service couldn't simply choose Not To Do The Horrible Thing, because the land no longer belonged to them, and the decision wasn't theirs to make. But you are required to do tribal consulting when doing an EIS, and this feedback is supposed to be taken into account when making the final decision. So (from my understanding) communication broke down because reps from the San Carlos Apache Nation were saying, in no uncertain terms, that this is unacceptable and should not be happening, but the forest service had their hands tied, and were stuck proceeding with the EIS as if the mine was an inevitability. So consulting ended up being terminated because... what the hell is the point in giving feedback if it's not going to be listened to by the people who are actually making the decision.

The delays on the EIS may be (in part) to buy time for congressional action (save oak flat act) or legal action (current and past litigation.) Kind of like a friendly lawsuit, it would be much more ideal if tribal nations and environmental advocacy groups won the suit and could thus inform the resolution process, than if the government was sued by rio tinto for going back on their word and rio tinto won.

A similar thing is happening right now with the Willow project, where the drilling leases were signed away by the Trump administration, and the current DOI has been stuck cleaning up their mess and trying to mitigate the consequences of a project that (to my understanding) they don't have the ability to terminate completely. As it stands, the lawsuits being filed against it mmmmmay kill the project, /or/ delay it long enough for it to no longer be appealing to the parent company, ConocoPhillips. This feels preferable to being sued by ConocoPhillips, but only if it... uh... works!

(looks at the current supreme court)

much to chew on.

[screamingay]

ik it's a joke but this map is making me homicidal what the fuck do you mean no one goes to west virginia. one of the most gorgeous vacation states in the country. did john denver teach you nothing

Vacationing in the US

by mattsurelee

[bitstitchbitch]

my family is lucky enough to own a 26 acre mountain property, log cabin and all. Most people would go up there and think that it is fairly pristine nature. There’s the cabin, and a few dirt roads for 4-wheelers, but the surrounding woods look untouched.

But we actually carefully maintain that nature. We cut down the deadfall. We pull invasive plants. We trim the elderberry bushes. We get more animals than almost anywhere else on the mountain because we put up salt licks and water troughs.

some of these same things are true of national parks. A lot of places that you think of as “untouched wilderness” are influenced heavily by human care and maintenance. And this isn’t a bad thing. We are animals too. In many ways, our ecosystems depend on us to keep them healthy. Many “wild” plants that are useful for food or building materials are actually semi-domesticated because indigenous groups cared for them and encouraged their growth so they do better with human care.

we have a place in nature. We just need to be conscious of our actions.

EDIT: since this post took off, I thought I should add some sources

Also a disclaimer that I am not indigenous or an ecologist. I am putting time and effort into learning, but I am not an expert.

[n3onwraith]

I'll kms if we move actually.

[i-wanna-linger]

just got word from my camp director that my camp's not gonna have sleepaway this summer, only day camp. considering i’m on the kitchen staff and don't plan on going back to unit staff for mental health reasons... it's not looking good for me