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arctic-hands · 5 months ago

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I'm seeing a lot of environmentalism pushback on collecting seashells, something I have done many times since living near the oceans (however, I have long since stopped buying commercially harvested seashells because it usually results in the deaths of the animals using the shells), because we're allegedly taking too many shells off the beaches en masse for animals like hermit crabs to use.

I'm just wondering, is that solely a cause for concern for intact spiral shells? Most of my shells are clam/oyster shells, some intact (as in, the shell is intact, not that it was a whole matching clam specimen), some broken, and I only have broken spiral shells. Is it okay to take those, or do abandoned (most of them sunbleached if they ever had color) bivalve shells and broken shells still have a use for native wildlife?

#seashells #sea shells #oceans #environment #environmentalism #she sells sea shells by the sea shore #hermit crab #i have mixed feelings on #take nothing but photos leave nothing but footprints #because its often used to exclude Indigenous Americans from traditional harvesting/hunting grounds and practices #and the whole attitude that we're Above Nature and have a solemn duty to protect the environment because it is less than us #instead of us being a PART of nature and can and should interact with it instead of considering it Pristine and Untouchable I think is bad #like don't get me wrong I'm not saying tear down the forests or that we have a right to destroy the environment we're a part of #but as an american I feel like we have this massive disconnect to nature bc we see it as pristine and feel that we're innately toxic #but I feel that we can work with and within nature for the betterment of all life on earth rather than secluding ourselves from it #some circle of life shit i don't know I have a headache and a stomachache I'm not coherent right now #and I digress

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