#stop animal hunting

[cybergirlfriend111]

hi girlies! just wanted to share my hyperfixation of the week: giraffes

the other day i remembered giraffes actually exist and i love them so much!! they’re so cute and look so calm i love to admire them with their big eyes with long lashes

i also found out that there exist a rare spotless giraffe in Tennessee and three rare white/albino giraffes only in Kenya and Tanzania, as you can see in the pictures. Sadly, the two kenyan white giraffes got killed by furtive hunters/poachers so there’s only one known white giraffe left in the world nowadays

[thestuffedalligator]

Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice (2021)

Dir. Zacharias Kunuk

A young shaman must face her first challenge: a journey underground to see Kannaaluk, The One Below, who holds the answers to why a community member fell ill.

[spitinsideme]

can and does ragatha hunt like a cat

does pomni wake up to a dead deer chilling on the bed and demon ragatha just standing there like " good morning dear I brought you breakfast!"

yes !!! she used to do this more when she first met pomni, and pomni was always fteaked the fuck out but now she kust knows (luckily ragatha does ir less, bur soemtimes the urge to hunt takes over)

[anghraine]

It's weird to describe any Tolkien thoughts as "coming out of nowhere" given who I am as a person, but I woke up thinking about Ghân-buri-ghân.

I wish the depiction of him were not deeply entrenched in noble savage tropes, because there's something kind of amazing in this idea of a people who have barely survived through the ages yet still persist; who saw the earliest warning signs and ditched Númenor before most people had the slightest idea of what was going to happen; who have gotten profoundly screwed over by basically everyone except (iirc) the Haladin; who have had their own powers since the First Age; who have always been implacable opponents of Morgoth's and Sauron's forces, even as these days they're hunted for sport by the Rohirrim; and at the same time who are facing down the threat of total obliteration by Sauron. And Ghân-buri-ghân manages to navigate all of this and get his people security and autonomy.

So like ... there's a seed of a really intriguing concept there, but I'm not sure Middle-earth has ever been in the right hands to actually do it right.

[sindar-princeling]

I've been anxious for so long and so brave about it this year and I'm really hoping it will allow me to not have to brave for a while because. jesus fucking christ

[anipgarden]

What Kind of Plants to Add

This is my sixth post in a series I’ll be making on how to increase biodiversity on a budget! I’m not an expert–just an enthusiast–but I hope something you find here helps! 

I’d love to be able to give a quick and easy list of things to add, but frankly I can’t do that. I can strongly encourage you, however, to look at these categories of plants and do further research to discover what’s native to your area, so you can plant things that’ll have the most impact in your particular area.

With that being said, I will mention a few plants as examples. This is in no way, shape, or form me telling you that you have to or even should buy these specific plants. Not every plant works well in every place in every garden, not to even mention across countries. Above all, if you’re wondering what plants you should be adding, I can wholeheartedly say plants that are native to your area--or at least nonnative non-invasive.

Flowers

Flowers are some of the most common ways people work to increase biodiversity in their gardens, and who can blame them? Seeing pops of color out your window, and directly seeing the impact via butterflies and bees visiting the garden? It’s a win-win for us and the wildlife!

Flowers--especially native wildflowers--are a quick, easy, and cheap way to increase wildlife traffic in your garden. Perennial gardens are more likely to get you the most bang for your buck, as they’ll come back year after year if you treat them well. But don’t dismiss annuals--if you get ones that easily reseed, they’ll eagerly return on their own! If you can, do your best to ensure that the flowers you plant all have different blooming periods--that way, your garden can support wildlife throughout the year instead of for just one brief season. 

Flowers are environmental super boosters. Their nectar and pollen can feed insects and birds, their stems and leaves can provide nesting materials for all sorts of creatures, and their seeds are a popular food source among birds at all times of the year.

Climbing Plants

Climbing plants can be fantastic options for maximizing your impact. If you have limited ground space, growing up can provide interest as well as additional habitat for all kinds of creatures.

Training plants up a trellis, fence, or bare wall offers food, shelter, and habitat. Trumpet vines, passionflowers, honeysuckles, and more will provide sweet nectar for pollinators as well as nesting and hiding spaces for other wildlife like birds, bugs, and lizards. Do note that in some cases, climbing plants can actually affect the structural integrity of walls and roofs if allowed to climb too much and too far along a house, so be careful. 

Bushes/Shrubs

Bushes provide shelter for creatures, which then provides hunting grounds for other animals. Their fallen leaves and petals can be food and shelter for detritivores, amphibians, reptiles, and small mammals--and they also provide good cover for moving around the garden, for creatures who like to stay hidden. They can be a bit more pricey to obtain--unless you get cuttings or seeds and are willing to wait--but they’ll definitely be worth it, and they’re typically low-maintenance once they’re established.

Bonus points if you get a flowering and fruiting bush, like bottlebrush, serviceberry, lilac, or others. This’ll make your bushes not only a place of shelter, but a food source as well--and depending on the kind you pick, may be food for you too! Making a garden border with a series of bushes can be a great option to providing lots of habitat, if you can manage it.

Shrubs with pithy or hollow stems are excellent options for supporting solitary bees. Some examples you could look into are elderberry, raspberry, blackberry, or sumac.

Trees

Trees have a high up-front cost and take awhile to grow, but once they’re settled in place they provide crucial habitat to all kinds of creatures! Insects will be attracted to flowers they may provide, or to nest in the wood. Others may eat the leaves as food, or use them as nesting materials. Birds will perch and nest in trees, and feed off the fruits and seeds and insects that also use the tree. Squirrels also use trees as nesting places, piling up dead leaves into huge clusters to raise their young in, and will absolutely feast on any nuts the tree may provide. Mice, badgers, and more will feast on fallen fruits or seeds, and bats roost in the trunks when given the chance. Detritivores eat fallen leaves and decomposing fruits, providing further food for hunting creatures. Trees can also be good for us--they help block out noise and air pollution, and are the poster child for taking CO2 and making it breathable oxygen. Not to mention they can provide plenty of food for us, too. Nesting grounds, hunting grounds, shelter from weather, and more--trees are, in my opinion, likely to be the best way to boost biodiversity long-term. If you can get your hands on a sapling for cheap and can care for it for awhile, I’d definitely give it a shot! Make sure the tree won’t get too big for where you’re growing it, though--you’ve definitely gotta plan for the long-term before you plant any. 

Some trees can be grown in containers. Though they won’t become gigantic branching behemoths, they’ll still do their part to support all the life that depends on them. Growing a tree from seed may take awhile, but could be an easy option to getting one if you have the patience--the trees are more than happy to help you, as they drop tons of seeds and fruit in fall for you to gather. 

Groundcover

Bare soil is the enemy of microbial life in the soil, and while small pockets of bare soil can be great nesting places for bees and other insects, having swaths of empty soil should be avoided. Groundcover plants grow low to the ground in a sprawling habit, and will often spread quite easily on their own. This is a great way to provide shelter, keep soil temperatures cool, block out weeds, and give your soil life a chance to thrive.

Sometimes, ground covers don’t even have to be planted in the ground. Shallow-rooted plants like succulents, ferns, and alyssum can be planted into cracks in stone walls, and moss can be planted by making moss graffiti and painting it onto a surface. As with climbing plants, do make sure that you don’t cause extra damage to important walls and housing foundations.

Host Plants

Host plants get their own section, because plants of all kinds can be host plants for different creatures! It’s common to think only flowers can be host plants in the beginning, but in reality, many bushes and trees are host plants to dozens of species of butterflies and moths. Honestly, I feel that factor's not talked about enough. Look up what insects live in your area and what kind of host plants they need, and plant some if you can! Bonus points if you can plant a variety of them--I know that there’s hundreds of kinds of milkweed, each one flowering and leafing up around different times of the year. Planting several varieties of milkweed, then, would provide monarchs with food through several seasons, allowing many more of them to grow up in your garden!

Nectar Plants

Plants that provide nectar to insects is a great foundation to increasing biodiversity! This is, of course, many native wildflowers (and even nonnative wildflowers, though be sure they aren’t invasives who’ll do more harm than good), but many native bushes, vines, and trees will also provide nectar to hungry pollinators! 

Keystone Species

To be frank, some plants can have a bigger impact than others in a landscape. By all means, every bit helps, but if you want to boost biodiversity quickly there are a few plants that can essentially serve as the backbone of local ecosystems that you can grow in anything from a balcony pot to a small patch of your backyard. These plants can be different depending on where you are, so do your research to find out what would be best to grow in your area. If you can’t get them all? That’s alright! But even hitting just a few of these target species really can do a lot.

That’s the end of this post! My next post is gonna be about things to keep in mind/continue to do once you get plants in the ground! Until then, I hope this advice was helpful! Feel free to reply with any questions, your success stories, or anything you think I may have forgotten to add in!

[letempsestephemere]

All WILD ANIMAL ARE IN DANGER. BECAUSE POACHERS KILLERS FOR ME THE SAMA THAY TERRORISTS

[aromancy]

Posting this here for future reference.

[Image description:

An XKCD comic depicting a generic social media site with a post that says, “Everyone on here needs to stop laughing about how ‘adopting pets from a shelter is for losers’ and ‘those animals should all be hunted for sport instead.’ It's reprehensible on so many levels! First of all...” The comic caption reads, “Sometimes, one of my friends posts an angry response to some terrible opinion I've never heard before, and it’s a weird indirect way to learn how awful their other friends must be.”

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[batcastlesociety]

so i found a scorpion island 💀💀

[throughpatchesofviolet]

I'm still getting used to the new clash animations--I have my gripes with them, but I shan't get into that here--and I do like that some of the IDs have new sprites (or possibly previously unused sprites) when they get into clashes!! I used Seven!Heathcliff, yesterday, and I adore his "evade" sprite.

He's so cute ...!

[respect-the-locals]

The human population is the cause of so much of the destruction that has been done and is still being done to our planet.

Ours oceans are polluted and marine life is dying DAILY!! Worse than pollution though? Overfishing. Not only are certain species of fish being taken from the seas in outrageous numbers, but also many species of sharks are being overfished simply because of their FINS!!

The very first thing someone will see when they click on my profile is a pinned post talking about how important sharks are to the environment. I won't go on a rant, because I've done it plenty, but if we LOSE SHARKS, out entire way of life will collapse under that loss.

Sharks have been around for MILLIONS of years, survived major Earth events, and yet here we humans are, destroying them in greater numbers than they can repopulate!! They will not survive US if we don't do something to stop this travesty!!!

[spidergangforever]

OK I've got one for Huntsman.

You're able to track through scent and a keen eye for tracks in various terrains. Have you ever tracked big game, like say...a moose? And if you did, have you kept anything as souvenir like the horns?

~ Princess Anon (👸)

I always say "Morning" because if it was a good morning I would be Hunting

[trans-duckling]

To Become a Pack: Bull

“You should eat” the Hatake said, because he hadn’t given up his food for nothing.

The dog didn’t move, so he sighed and stepped back to the tree line. He supposed he couldn’t blame him. That animal had probably not known any other life that one in which he had to fight for his life every day and then go back to his cave. He was most likely waiting for his owners to appear and take him again, hidden in his self-imposed prison and unable to leave it even for eating. It was sad, and for a moment Kakashi even contemplated if it would be better to kill him and end his suffering.

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First of all, please keep in mind that this chapter has mentions of animal abuse (though not descriptions of it), so if you're sensitive about it be careful!

I love all Kakashi's ninken, but to write Bull's story was rather easy for me, as his breed and aspect gave me the perfect opportunity to represent animal abuse through fighting. Also, the fact that he doesn't speak was great to introduce the possibility of mixes between ninken and common dogs :)

I think it is established in the fandom that Kakashi is passionate about his ninken and would do anything for them. Thus, by giving them different backgrounds I was able to (hopefully) explain a little bit better how that bond got to be so deep.

Now, on a more personal note, I would like to present you: Yumi, my last adoption and who was part of my inspiration for Bull's story.

Thankfully, Yumi doesn't come from a fighting ring, but due to his looks and mixed breed (part American Standford), he's considered a "Potentially dangerous dog" here in Spain. That means I need a special permission to have him, and he has to wear a muzzle when he's out of my house.

His story isn't very nice, either, as he was found roaming around a village when he was 1 year old. After that, he spent almost 6 more years in a shelter, being completely ignored due to his breed and the fact that he's black (yes, people are racist with animals too, this is a fact).

Now, he lives in a warm house and receives all the love he deserves every day. My sister and I are extremely thankful to have him, as he's a wonderful companion and makes us laugh a lot. Next month he'll have been in our family for 6 months!

So, if you want to say hello or send your love to him, I'm sure Yumi will appreciate it!

That's all, thank you for reading and have a wonderful weekend! ❤️

[devoted1989]

Image found on Pinterest.

[monster-noises]

You know sometimes you spend an afternoon re-filing your old art by Year and it makes you think about an old silly project you did a bit ago that you Know you messed up the timeline on and also missed So many pieces and now that you've got everything organized... Gosh, wouldn't it be interesting to try that again and get the chronology right? That happens to you guys right? anyway here's a chronology of the way I've drawn myself since, well, basically since I started drawing. I have doubts anyone will find this as interesting as I do but that isn't going to stop me from throwing it at the lot of you (/v-v)/

[weirdo-from-bonesborough]

Luffy always eating a comically large amount of food is funny but do you ever think about how hungry he must be all the time if that’s how much food he needs on a regular basis. Especially before meeting Sanji.