#Conservation Partnerships

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How does one convince a Tapanuli Orangutan to be the face of a conservation campaign?

The Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) is one of the rarest and most endangered great ape species on the planet. With fewer than 800 individuals remaining in the wild, urgent action is needed to protect this critically endangered species from extinction. Convincing a Tapanuli orangutan to be the face of a conservation campaign requires a deep understanding of their behavior, needs, and the…

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Reviving the Spirit of the Wild: A Tribute to World Rewilding Day

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Madeline Peltz and John Knefel at MMFA:

Media Matters found significant ties between authors, contributors, and partner organizations involved in Project 2025 — an extreme right-wing initiative organized by The Heritage Foundation to provide policy and personnel to the next Republican presidential administration — and the ongoing right-wing efforts to disenfranchise voters and sow confusion about the 2024 election. The Heritage Foundation itself is at the center of many of these efforts; The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer identified the conservative think tank as one of the election denial movement’s “leaders” following the 2020 election. Heritage has extensive connections to election denial groups through both direct collaboration on voter suppression policies and the Project 2025 advisory board, which includes more than 110 conservative groups.  According to the Brennan Center for Justice, “Project 2025 threatens to reverse progress made over the last four years by stripping crucial federal resources from election officials and weaponizing the Department of Justice against officials who make decisions the administration disagrees with.” The Project 2025 policy book, Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, recommends dismantling the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which plays a key role in protecting American elections. Mandate’s chapter on the Federal Election Commission was written by Hans von Spakovsky, a Heritage legal fellow with a decades-long career spreading voter fraud myths. The Heritage Foundation’s political arm, Heritage Action, is a member of the Only Citizens Vote Coalition — a collection of election denial activists and right-wing groups that voting rights experts say are spreading misinformation about noncitizen voting. Only Citizens Vote was organized by prominent election denier Cleta Mitchell, a Project 2025 contributor, and many of the Heritage plan’s advisory board members are also Only Citizen Vote Coalition partners. In collaboration with The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025, the groups and individuals listed here are at the forefront of efforts to sow chaos and confusion in the 2024 election.

Project 2025 partner groups are seeking a redux of their unsuccessful 2020 election-stealing efforts to sow chaos about a potential Kamala Harris win with their bogus crusade against the essentially nonexistent bogeyman of noncitizen voting.

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[everydayzefron]

Kodiak® Keep It Wild x Zac Efron x Vital Ground Part II

[aiizaph]

Gfdi I was so damn sleepy and then my sibling locked the dog outta their room so the dog started whining so now I’m awake with like 2 hours of sleep and just thinking about how doomed I am.

[translezwitch]

Sure, that’s the intent behind “partner”, but I understand the disappointment in the original tweet. Like, I’m always on the lookout for the feeling of solidarity from encountering queer people in the world, and there’s a trade-off where you can be anonymous and lonely, or vulnerable and open.

Inclusive language is for everyone!!

[idcgiliislands]

The Gili Islands, known for their crystal-clear waters, vibrant coral reefs, and diverse marine life, are not only a paradise for divers but also an important ecological zone that requires continuous research and conservation efforts. Recognizing the importance of marine conservation, Oceans 5 Gili Air has partnered with the University of Mataram for the second consecutive year to support their ongoing research program around the Gili Islands. This collaboration provides local marine scientists with essential resources, such as a boat, dive equipment, and professional guides, to facilitate their research and increase awareness of the marine environment’s status within the Gili Matra Marine Park.

[easybima]

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[reasonsforhope]

"A tribal-led nonprofit is creating a network of native bison ranchers that are restoring ecosystems on the Great Plains, restoring native ranchers’ connections with their ancestral land, and restoring the native diet that their ancestors relied on.

Called the Tanka Fund, they coordinate donors and partners to help ranchers secure grazing land access, funds needed to install and repair fencing, increase their herd sizes, and access markets for bison meat across the country.

That’s the human part of the story. But as Dawn Sherman, executive director of the Tanka Fund, told Native Sun News, they’re “buffalo people” and these four-legged, 2,000 lbs. “cousins” are equal-part-protagonists.

The return of the bison means the return of the prairie, one of the three great grassland ecosystems on the planet, of which just 1% remains as it was when the Mayflower arrived.

“Bringing buffalo back to their ancestral homelands is essential to restoring the ecosystem. We know that the buffalo is a keystone species,” said Dawn Sherman, a member of the Lakota, Delaware, Shawnee, and Cree.

“Bringing the buffalo back to the land and to our people, helps restore the ecosystem and everything it supports from the animals to the plants to the people. It’s come full circle. That’s how we see it.”

As Sherman and the Tanka Fund help native ranchers grow their operations, everyone is well aware of the power of the bison to transform the environment: just as nations across Europe are, who are reintroducing wood bison to various ecosystems, for all the same reasons.

Sherman points out the variety of ways in which buffalo anchor the prairie ecosystem. The almost-extinct black-footed ferret, she points out, lived symbiotically with the bison, and with the latter gone, the former followed—nearly.

The long-billed curlew uses bison dung as a disguise to hide nests from predators. Deer, pronghorn antelope, and elk all rely on bison to plow through deep snows and uncover the grasses that these smaller animals can’t reach.

Everywhere the bison hurls its massive body, life springs in the beast’s wake. When bison roll about on the plains, it creates depressions known as wallows. These fill with rainwater and create enormous puddles where amphibians and insects thrive and reproduce. Certain plants evolved to grow in the wet conditions of the wallows which Native Americans harvested for food and medicine.

Native plants evolved under the trampling hooves of millions of bison, and that constant tamping down of the Earth is a key necessity in the spreading of native wildflower seed.

Indeed, Sherman says some of these native ranchers are bringing bison onto lands still visibly affected by the Dust Bowl, and already the animals are acting like a giant wooly cure-all for the land’s ills.

Since 2020, the Tanka Fund, in partnership with the Inter-Tribal Buffalo Council and the Nature Conservancy, has overseen the transfer of 2,300 bison from Nature Conservancy reserves to lands managed by ranchers within the Tanka Fund network.

“[T]he more animals that we can get the more of that prairie we can restore,” said Sherman. “We can help restore the land that has been plowed and has been leased out to cattle ranchers.”"

-Article via Good News Network, February 13, 2025. Video via Tanka Fund, July 17, 2024.

[wild-wow-facts]

The Plover Bird's Surprising Alliances

Discover the fascinating world of plover birds and their unique bond with crocodiles. Nature's harmony at its finest!

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Celebrating World Rewilding Day: Restoring Nature's Balance

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Andrew Perez and Adam Rawnsley at Rolling Stone:

THE CONSULTING FIRM led by Leonard Leo, the architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, has worked for billionaire Charles Koch’s political advocacy network and a dark-money group that is currently arguing a Supreme Court case designed to preempt a wealth tax, according to documents obtained by Rolling Stone. The firm even worked to promote a book by Donald Trump cronies Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie. Leo has played a central role in shifting the high court and its decisions far to the right. As former President Donald Trump’s judicial adviser, Leo helped select three of the Supreme Court’s six conservative justices. He also leads a dark-money network that boosted their confirmations and helps determine what cases the justices hear and shape their rulings. The Supreme Court connection has paid off for Leo — big time. In 2021, he was gifted control of a $1.6 billion political advocacy slush fund. Over the past decade, Leo’s dark money network has plowed more than $100 million into his for-profit consulting firm, CRC Advisors. 

Leo co-chairs the Federalist Society, the conservative lawyers network. He is also the chairman of CRC. Like many consulting firms, CRC does not publicly disclose its clients. However, several of the firm’s clients were named in resumes that applicants submitted to an online jobs bank hosted by the Conservative Partnership Institute, which accidentally left the files exposed online. One CRC employee’s 2024 resume says his clients include the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a dark-money group arguing a case before the Supreme Court this term that is designed to slam the door shut on a federal wealth tax. Experts say the case could upend the nation’s tax code.  “In the last Congress, legislation to establish a wealth tax was introduced in both the House and the Senate,” CEI wrote in its petition to the Supreme Court, adding that justices should act now to “head off a major constitutional clash down the line.” During oral arguments in December, Justice Samuel Alito presented a hypothetical where “somebody graduates from school and starts up a little business in his garage, and 20 years later, 30 years later, the person is a billionaire,” and asked whether the government “can Congress tax all of that.” According to the CRC employee’s 2024 resume, Leo’s firm has also worked for the Koch network’s political advocacy arm, Americans for Prosperity. AFP’s super PAC spent more than $40 million supporting former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s failed Republican primary campaign against Trump this election cycle. AFP’s charitable arm has supported a case at the Supreme Court this term pushing justices to block the government from influencing content moderation by social media platforms.

Rolling Stone exposes radical right-wing SCOTUS puppetmaster Leonard Leo's consulting firm CRC Advisors, whose clients were leaked online.

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Become a Guardian of the Reef - Expedia X Tourism Tropical North Queensland 

Tourism Tropical North Queensland (TTNQ) has partnered with Expedia in the United States and the United Kingdom to launch a world-first platform promoting reef-positive travel choices. Tourism and Events Queensland has extended the campaign into Australia with Expedia.  The Guardian of the Reef platform links travellers to operators certified through Ecotourism Australia, Earthcheck and the Zoo and Aquarium Association while helping them to understand that they contribute financially to the Reef's future. The work by Dr Yolanda Waters from UQ's School of the Environment was conducted on reef boats and shows there is an opportunity for tourism operators to enhance visitor experiences advancing climate action. For those who have yet to visit the Reef, the Guardian of the Reef platform has a series of short educational videos and fast facts discussing the issues facing the Great Barrier Reef and how to treat this World Heritage area with respect. Travellers work through these for coupon rewards to use with Expedia bookings on the Great Barrier Reef.“They could win a trip to the Great Barrier Reef and unlock exclusive experiences such as a private Master Reef Guide tour at Australia's first underwater accommodation, Reefstay with Cruise Whitsundays. Tourism Tropical North Queensland has undertaken this project with the grant funding received from the Australian Government under the International Tourism Recovery Program administered by Austrade. 

Becoming a Guardian of the Reef means you're not just a traveller, but a champion for our oceans who:

Supports local sustainable business

Appreciates cultural significance

Treats the Reef with respect

Understands the issues.

More information: https://www.expedia.com.au/see/guardian-of-the-reef

https://tourism.tropicalnorthqueensland.org.au/articles/world-first-guardian-of-the-great-barrier-reef/#:~:text=On%20behalf%20of%20the%20Great,for%20learning%20about%20the%20Great

https://www.travelpulse.com/news/features/expedia-and-tourism-tropical-north-queensland-partner-to-help-protect-great-barrier-reef

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Fidelity Bank Partners Lagos State to Plant 20,000 Trees

As part of initiatives under its Environment Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) pillar, leading financial institution, Fidelity Bank Plc, has partnered with the Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency (LASPARK) to launch a tree planting drive. Through the collaboration, Fidelity Bank will support LASPARK to plant 20,000 trees in the state by July 2025 as part of its strategy to combat climate…

[farmerstrend]

Nairobi hosts high-level China-Africa forum to fast-track agricultural transformation

Experts from China and Africa convened for a meeting in Nairobi on Tuesday for a high-level forum on agricultural science and technology in an effort to harness the potential of technology to revolutionize agriculture. The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China jointly…