#wildlife ambassador

[photo-critter]

Elektra Lites with a wolf

Mystics and Marvels

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[foxloft]

I heard it's #SuperbOwl day! Did you know that barn owls have the largest range of any owl and can be found on every continent except Antarctica? That is pretty superb!

We will be celebrating here with Luna, our barn owl, but every day is a good day to celebrate owls!

[trendynewsnow]

The Legacy of Grizzly Bear 399: A Beloved Icon's Tragic End

The Legacy of Grizzly Bear 399 Grizzly bear 399, renowned as one of the most beloved bears in the world, tragically passed away after being struck by a car on Tuesday, just south of Jackson, Wyoming. At the age of 28, she held the title of the oldest recorded reproducing female grizzly in the greater Yellowstone area. Affectionately known as “399,” this majestic bear captured the hearts of…

[fowlblue]

In excellent news, I have now been signed off on the animal ambassadors I’ve been working with this semester- this means I am now a trainer (albeit not a mentor) as opposed to being trained in how to work with them.

Behold.

[theomenmedia]

Richa Mehta Becomes The Goodwill Ambassador For ALT EFF 2024!

Dive into the environmental spotlight with Emmy-winning director Richie Mehta as he joins the All Living Things Environmental Film Festival (ALT EFF) 2024 as a Goodwill Ambassador! From poaching tales to promoting sustainability, his journey amplifies the call for a greener planet.

Read the full story here: https://www.theomenmedia.com/post/emmy-award-winning-director-richie-mehta-to-bat-for-the-environment-as-the-goodwill-ambassador-for-a

[thrivingartistcooperative]

Wildlife rehabilitator Robin "D Possum" and her professional ambassador for all possumkind, Trooper, appearing for a community workshop at the Thriving Artist Co-op in Newport, TN.

Robin helps injured and orphaned possums get back on their feet and out into the wild, where they serve a vital ecological role in controlling tick populations.

Most of her charges' care and feeding comes out of pocket for Robin. You can help her support these charming, timid, and important animals here.

[decodingbiosphere]

What Is an Ambassador Animal?

Ambassador animals are special creatures that help people learn about wildlife. They visit schools, libraries, and events to show folks the wonders of the natural world up close. These animals aren’t just any critters; they’re chosen because they’re friendly, calm, and comfortable around people. Imagine meeting a furry rabbit or a scaly snake right in your classroom! These amazing creatures make…

[ambassadoralexa77]

We’re thrilled to launch the latest addition to our bamboo sock collection – the Animal Print Series! 🦓🐾 @barekind

Step into the wild this winter with uniquely crafted socks that showcase the essence of your favorite panthers and zebras in a stylish, modern design! 

🤫 (They make perfect Secret Santa gifts too!) 🎅🎁

“Zebra Print”

Partnered with African Parks

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10% of profits are donated to African Parks to save the zebras.

“Panther Print”

Partnered with Rainforest Trust UK

Make a statement as you save the black panthers (or black jaguars and black leopards) with Panther Print Bamboo Socks!

10% of profits are donated to RTUK to save habitat land for the panthers and many other jungle animals.

Click link to get shopping: https://tidd.ly/3SHU00I

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[lightofcapricorn]

Ambassador cheetah at Wildlife Safari in Winston, Oregon.

[rebeccathenaturalist]

If you've ever shared "cute" pictures or videos from owl cafes, read this sobering reality check.

92 cafes across Japan hold over 1900 owls captive, simply for entertainment. This includes two species considered Near Threatened (Barred Eagle-owl Bubo sumatranus and Chaco Owl Strix chacoensis) and one Vulnerable species (Snowy Owl Bubo scandiacus). Moreover, there is a lack of transparency as to the origins of many of these owls, which may not all have been captive-bred. Species may have been mislabeled during import, and not all have paperwork showing they were legally imported, meaning there is a very good chance owl cafes feed into the illicit, non-sustainable wildlife trade.

What the article doesn't cover is how stressful these settings are for owls. They're bright, noisy, and confined, and the owls are exploited by the owners who allow untrained strangers to hold and pet them without consideration of the owl's well-being. The "break areas" where the owls can get away from direct contact are still within sight of patrons, meaning they are still subject to human contact.

Owls are not chickens. They are not domesticated birds that have spent thousands of years and thousands of generations in human company, being selectively bred for human-friendly, docile traits. Even a tame owl is still a wild animal with intact instincts that tell it it should be living a largely solitary life in a wide, open field or forest, not stuck in a small space with many other owls of assorted species and a bunch of people.

This also isn't a situation like falconry, where captive birds are given plenty of private space, and flown daily for physical and mental fitness. And a single cage may have dozens of owls, more than what limited staff can handle. Even if some of the birds are supposedly "rescues" (as at least one cafe's website claims), any reputable wildlife rescue is going to limit the contact between the animals and humans, and absolutely is not going to allow visitors to regularly take pictures with and handle the wildlife--even socialized, trained ambassador animals have very stringent limitations on direct contact.

So it's not at all unsurprising that an already highly unethical industry is likely contributing to the problem of questionable or illegal wildlife trade. This study is just one more piece of evidence suggesting that these cafes are anything but harmless, cute fun.

[stickyfrogs]

Today some more LongFroglets and RoundFroglets have left to start their new lives with a Wildlife Demonstrator! They will help educate children and the public and be ambassadors for their species! 🐸

[normal-newt]

Wildlife rescue organisations here have very intense politics. Like, if you criticize any organisations’ practices you can end up being “locked out” of even unpaid positions in all of them. Which is why this is going safely under a username and not anywhere near my actual one. But it’s so frustrating watching everyone making the same mistakes over and over again.

So some baby animal can’t be released, and it’s decided that they will be used as an education/ ambassador animal. Because of this, they don’t need to be raised to avoid humans. But some people think that this means they should be treated like human children. One organisation literally started splitting up captive-born joeys from wild but un-release-able kangaroos specifically to raise so that when they grew up they would “think they were human”. And for the first year or two it goes great. They want to snuggle with everyone who will look at them, they play with people, and they are just unbearably cute. And people aww about it and say that they really do think they’re human. 

When they start to reach sexual maturity, they start “acting up”. People get kicked and scratched and they start to realise that their “child” isn’t acting so snuggly anymore, and they get angry. And the kangaroos have no fucking idea why, because they can’t know that they’re play wrestling is strong enough to hurt us. Because it turns out they don’t think they’re human, but they certainly seem to think we’re kangaroos.

And by the time they’re old enough to start fighting for real, it’s already too late to do anything about it. You can’t let visitors anywhere near them for safety reasons. 90% of the staff and volunteers won’t go in to clean the enclosures, and a lot of them still blame the animals. Some animals are so risky to work with that feeding them takes two people in the enclosure and one person acting as a “spotter”. There is no PPE for this, so people end up using plastic buckets as shields.

Anyway I’m mostly just yelling at the void, but if anyone reading this was wondering why a lot of zoos and wildlife rescues don’t cuddle the baby animals. it’s because of this sort of thing. There are a lot of really good ways to make sure baby animals feel comfortable and safe, but handling them too much usually either scares them, or means that they could seriously injure someone down the track.

It’s also why so many people who’ve worked with animals are so strongly against people owning certain types of exotic pets. If someone is telling you not to get a pet serval or kangaroo or whatever else people are keeping in their living rooms, there’s a good chance they’re trying to stop you getting mauled.

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

I don't need a rating since this is an ambassador animal at my local wildlife rehab, but I had to share this poor sad unenriched beast that has nothing better to do than try to scale the smooth wall apparently (with bonus aftermath of the tumble) 😂 gotta wonder what goes through their silly little heads when they do something like this when there's clearly a perfectly climbable wall right there. I feel like this is the snake equivalent of getting your cat a lovely toy fit for all their preferences and they'd much rather bat around the tag that came attached to it.

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What a goofy baby! You can plan out the best enrichment in the world and your ratsnake is STILL gonna try to climb the bare wall right next to it.

[fowlblue]

jailed for bitey bird crimes

[coolbeansnico]

I've caved. Here's my Avatar The Last Airbender uni au and modern/non bender au headcanons.

Here's what I think the main kids uni majors/minors would be:

Aang: wildlife conservation with a minor in political sciences

Katara: medicine, education minor

Sokka: engineering, polisci minor

Toph: geology with a martial arts minor (changed my mind, education minor)

Zuko: forced to do law & politics by his family but switches to history/anthropology, keeping politics as a minor

Azula: law w a psychology minor

Mai: forced to do politics by family but wants to do art, history minor

Ty Lee: training in acrobatics and performance at a performing arts school and works at the circus

Suki: human relations and activism, martial arts minor

Yue: Dance major (same school as Ty Lee, polisci minor

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Living situations:

Katara and Sokka flat together and eventually Aang becomes a permanent resident

Toph lives right across from them, she likes her own space and independence but she'd never want to be too far from her friends

Zuko lives with Iroh above his teashop and works there part time

Suki has a sharehouse with the kyoshi warriors (her hockey team)

Ty Lee and Yue get assigned room-mates first year and became pretty quick friends, they continue to live together afterwards

Azula has her own apartment (of course). So does Mai, but she spends so much time at Azulas she basically lives there. Neither of them would admit it but they much prefer it to having whole houses to themselves.

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General modern au/non bender au hcs:

(Pretty obvious) Ethnicity n nationality hcs:

Sokka and Katara r Inuit and from Alaska

Azula, Zuko and Mai are all Japanese American

Ty Lee is Japanese and Mongolian

Toph is Chinese and Singaporean (born in Singapore)

Aang is Bhutanese (so is Gyatso), but he grew up in Singapore. Him and Toph were childhood friends

Yue is Inuit and Sámi and her family lives in north-east Canada

Suki is mixed Chinese, Filipino and French-Canadian and live in an island off of Quebec

Have not decided where the uni would be but probably BSSU (Ba Sing Se uni) cause I know a lot of ppl use that as the uni name

I don't know a ton about US and Canadian geography so if y'all have ideas for what states or provinces the characters would hail from (especially what state/city Zuko, Azula, Mai and Ty Lee grew up in) I would def appreciate the suggestions

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Aang has a Tibetan Mastiff called Appa and Sokka has a Siamese cat called Momo (he found him behind a dumpster looking for food scraps and Sokka knew he'd found a kindred spirit,,, much to Kataras initial dismay)

Aang grew up in a sort of hippie/alternative living foster home that taughtbuddist beliefs, he never knew his real parents but he was okay with that.

I'm a fan of bigcorp ceo Ozai but also political tyrant Ozai works as well so I'm srsly torn on that. Politician Ozai would either have to be a nation ruler or American ambassador because I like to think Zuko and Azula moved around a lot as kids so he couldn't have a job that keeps him in ine place. That's why I like the idea of ceo Ozai. He would still have a lot of political power and it would still mean moving around a lot plus him being super corrupt and exploiting his workers is fun for angst.

Oh and!! Zuko and Azula lived in Singapore for part of highschool and their family visited a lot for holidays. Since Tophs parents and Ozai worked together, Zuko and Azula were around at The Beifongs a lot and entertained themselves by making fun of Toph for hanging out with a "poor tree hugging commoner" like Aang

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I may add more to this so look out for a part 2

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I'm currently working on drawing them (and maybe chara profiles with sexualities, pronouns, character aesthetics/how I think they'd dress, interests ect) :] I've done the boys and the (non fire nation) gals are next!!

[accio-victuuri]

yibo-official weibo update

Hardness and softness coexist harmoniously, burning in the heart. Wildlife Rescue Charity Ambassador @UNIQ-王一博meets the forest armored guards again!