#planet wild

[elvencantation]

have some of my recent favorite hopeful nature restoration videos 🍃🥰

i highly recommend the whole mossy earth channel actually. and i’ve got a membership with them donating i think something like three dollars a month to help with their wonderful projects. don’t know as much about planet wild but ive seen some of their videos

[bumblebeeappletree]

The Mediterranean Sea is in crisis. Once a thriving spot for biodiversity, it is now the most overfished sea in the world and, according to the WWF, is "on the verge of burnout."

Why? Bottom trawling—a destructive fishing method where nets are dragged along the seabed, catching or destroying everything in their path.

For our 21st Planet Wild mission, we're supporting a beautiful and effective method to stop bottom trawling and protect marine life: an underwater sculpture museum.

Many thanks to the five selected artists who donated their work to the museum: Nikolas Maniatakos, Maria Grazia Collini, Abdulkadir Hocaoglu, Stefano Corti, and Giacomo Bernardi.

A special thanks to Greenpeace, Camilla Salghetti, Barbara Farnetani and Santiago Burin Des Roziers for providing us with additional footage.

0:00 Art that saves the Mediterranean

1:10 The ecosystem of the Talamone sea

2:33 Meet Paolo, the ocean protector

3:18 What’s destroying the seabed?

4:31 Paolo’s fight for the ocean

5:31 How we’re using art to protect the sea

8:09 The underwater museum

10:11 Our support

[ilikeyoshi]

a zoologist i like a lot just posted a super interesting video that talks about chytrid fungus, which is infecting around 700 amphibian species all over the world and decimating their populations. the mortality rate for chytrid fungus infections is as high as 100% for some species; an example of how dangerous it is is it infests and spreads throughout frog skin until they're unable to breathe and suffocate to death. it spreads through bodies of water and contact.

i really like frogs, salamanders, axolotls and pretty much any amphibian—the video explains both that they are 1) extremely cute, and 2) VERY important to science and ecosystems of all kinds. lindsay talks about both the fungus itself as well as progress towards curing and cleaning up infected amphibians and environs, and she links to an organization, planet wild, you can donate to, whose projects include reintroducing frog species that have been impacted by chytrid fungus (among other things) into ecuador. they're partnered with a frog rescue called ark of the frogs for this endeavor. you can read about it on their mission page.

i wish i could afford $6/month, like desperately, but i figured sharing the video and the link to planet wild's website is the next best thing. please check it out, donate if you can, and share the link for others to get involved!

planet wild's website lindsay nikole's channel

[gingerfan24]

Finally going to sign up for a Planet Wild membership. Fuck Trump.

[mimefish]

nevermind everyone winner's symbolism cancelled. we cannot have another scar earth/mercury/comet situation again. I vote we all lay down our weapons and join hands in peace and accept that the one true symbol for Joel is the Car. wherever he goes whatever flavour of symbols you particularly enjoy. Car. Just Car. Because it would be really funny

[breoasis]

Y era un domingo en la tarde, fui a los coches de choque tiririririririririri 🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺

[fish-cakez]

i can't wait for all the life series planet and space symbolism to include that fuckass car now

[hyunpic]

2000.03.20: happy birthday hyunjin 🎂💘 — watch hyunjin grow up: you bloomed into the most beautiful and special flower

[malk-with-tea]

started outer wilds recently

[bumblebeeappletree]

Meet the pangolin: This adorable creature plays a crucial role in maintaining healthy forest ecosystems, yet it’s the most trafficked mammal on this planet. They’re hunted at an alarming rate, with over 100,000 poached every year.

For our 22nd mission, we traveled deep into Vietnam’s jungle to help rescue, rehabilitate, and release pangolins back into their natural habitat.

With Trishala Naidu on the ground and Markus Gilles in the studio, we’re reporting on the struggles of pangolins and how we’re helping to save them.

Chapters

0:00 Meet the pangolin

1:51 The most trafficked mammal in the world

3:29 Preparing the release

5:10 The journey begins

6:50 Why are pangolins important?

7:20 Our support

8:26 The journey continues

10:12 The first steps into the wild

[ofhoovesandheart]

he must think he is sooooo cool (he is)

source - D. Robert Franz Photography

[junabuggy]

[chrismcshell]

have a body, feel the groove

[emo-batboy]

A Wild Battinson (Social Media AU)

Part 51 (Masterlist)

(Part 52)

@bruciemilf it’s SNL week

There is so much exposition in this part. Just gimme a sec. (Also? That shirt? Took way too long to edit. But please trust the process.)

If you’re not already aware, I wrote a summary of the Battinson SNL episode forever ago. However, I will only be linking that on Saturday’s update. If you want to spoil yourself, you can find it somewhere on my blog, but I’m not handing it over just yet.

That’s it for now. See you tomorrow <3

[elexuscal]

Imagine, if in two thousand years, everyone was obsessed with Omelas.

Alright, not everyone obviously. But you'd be hard pressed to find someone who didn't at least know its name. You were absolutely told the story as a child, might even have watched a movie or played a game about plucky kids rescuing the child of Omelas from their cell and taking down the city's corrupt priesthood. You definitely have vague memories of browsing the holo-channels as a kid on a sick day and watching a documentary about how the city fell, analyzing the texts of the historian Le Guin, and attempting to track down its "true" location.

There are whole societies dedicated to that question. Not just people on the Feed Boards, but like, actual archeologists and historians (that's how they describe themselves, at least) who literally head out to various moons and dwarf planets, doing all sort of complicated scans and digging up rock formations and old habitat ruins that they claim, based on ancient texts, to be a prime candidate for where Omelas was located.

It goes deeper than that, you realise later, if you dig deeper. There are entire belief systems based on Omelas. Many claim that Omelians were not humans at all, but actually advanced aliens or even gods, who granted humanity the first technology for space flight. There are political parties, some quite popular-- and powerful-- who claim descent from the Omelians, and who argue that descent makes them rightfully superior to all other races. These people rarely, if ever, bring up how the moral question at the story's heart about the Omelian's corruption. Omelians were wise and just and powerful, obviously, and that's why they should be in charge now.

This is what happened to Plato's story of Atlantis.