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Category: Wildlife

Posted on March 3, 2022

World Wildlife Day – How You Can Help Species

This year's theme for the UN World Wildlife Day is "Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration." Here's why that matters and how you can help.

Posted on May 4, 2021

Climate Story Series: Cambodia

Follow Maggie's short stories of climate change and conservation. In northeast Cambodia, the two are inextricably intwined.

Posted on March 30, 2021April 1, 2021

A Conservationist’s Reaction to ‘Seaspiracy’

A conservationist with connections to groups referenced in the Netflix documentary "Seaspiracy" responds to the film.

Posted on March 29, 2021June 28, 2021

How Our Clothes Impact the Environment

A brief explanation of the different materials your clothes are made from and how each impact the planet.

Posted on October 26, 2020

Why It Matters – Pollinators

Protecting pollinators is critical to maintaining healthy ecosystems and human food supply. Bees, for example, pollinate 70 out of the top 100 crops globally. And roughly 1 in 3 bites of food we eat is derived from plants pollinated by bees. Unfortunately, modern pesticides are killing bees. In 1947 there were 6 million honeybee hives …

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Trending vacations for 2023: 🌱 Trips with lower consumer impact It’s been a year since I was back in Kenya and it’s International Zebra Day, so here’s a fun look at these stripey, unpredictable, and sometimes promiscuous equines. 🦓 Today TheMonastery.Org wished me a happy anniversary of being ordained. A good reminder to update my email signature to The Rev. Magdalena Dewane. 😆 I made it three years without getting Covid, but last Friday when I tested positive, it knocked me out hard. From a sledgehammer on my chest to ants crawling in my skin to the acheyness and fatigue I couldn’t shake—I don’t wish that on anyone. I imagine Native American elders across tribes must find much of North America unrecognizable today. So much wildlife has been lost due to development and human encroachment. Add climate change to the mix, with warmer rivers and oceans, devastating wildfires, and the earth will become inhospitable, not only for wild creatures, but humans as well.
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” How often in the summer do you opt to stay INSIDE because it’s just too gross out? Perhaps that’s a good call. A lot of the Midwest is expected to get wetter and muggier, which is prime condition for insects like mosquitoes. Insect-borne diseases will increase and move further north with these conditions.
In 2020, Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam signed a landmark climate package into law (Clean Economy Act) and joined ten other states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to jointly address climate change. 
🔊 Sound up for some for BTS audio while filming cheetahs for @serendipitywildlifefoundation at @olpejeta last February.

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