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Perfect walking weather yesterday in the #NewForest: sunny but not too hot, ~20 C & cool under the trees. Cotton grass & marsh orchids growing in the boggy areas, deer running through the woods, cuckoos calling in the distance, many dragonflies hawking over Eyeworth Pond. Streams & bogs looking dry already
I feel like yellow-headed blackbirds have only three modes: Cranky Neighbor, Birdsplainer, and I Shall Avenge Thee. (They actually have a fourth mode--Gorgeous High Desert Bird of Paradise--but that picture is harder to capture. 😅)
But it's never not fantastic to watch them getting their #angrybird on all around the #wetlands trail.
The US Supreme Court Clean Water Act decision could be disastrous for wetland protection - and therefore for our nation's flood risks and water quality. The continuous surface test ignores the physical / hydrologic realities of wetlands.
📢 Five members of the Supreme Court dealt a crushing blow to the Clean Water Act, rewriting the word "adjacent" in the law to mean "adjoining," thus leaving unprotected from pollution, and EPA oversight, vast swaths of wetlands. 🚨🚨
The decision is so extreme that they even lost Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote separately to note that "long-regulated adjacent wetlands" are now at the mercy of polluters, "with significant repercussions for water quality and flood control throughout the United States."
The SCOTUS is serving the republican Deep State cabal of wealthy men that put their paid-for agents on the court. #corrupt#SCOTUS#corruption
The owner's of America want more land, cheaply, and they want to #pollute#wetlands, to reduce costs.
Researchers pored over satellite imagery to create one of the most comprehensive data sets on the global mining footprint ever generated.
The data set maps out in fine detail the boundaries of a combined 65,585 km2 (25,323 mi2) of mining sites across the world.
Nearly 10% of the total mining areas mapped in the study fell inside protected areas like national parks, Ramsar wetlands and UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
"...In contrast, nearly 👉55%👈 of the polygons captured in the study represented much smaller mining sites, at 👉less than 0.15 km2 (0.06 mi2)👈...
In one standout finding, 👉nearly 10% of the total mining polygons fell inside of protected areas👈 such as national parks, Ramsar #wetlands and #UNESCO#WorldHeritageSites. While previous studies have confirmed the..."
It's Wren Time! Dozens of migrating wrens are flitting around in our wetland. I'm glad I decided to pay more attention to LBBs* - these little guys have a big attitude (the tiny Eurasian Wren is even called "Zaunkönig" in German - "King of the Fence"). It also turned out that they belonged to three different species.
This was 12 hours ago, on my way to work. The dirt road is so full of potholes you have drive slowly and are forced to enjoy the scenery of the Polesie National Park.
I'm drawn to places I don’t know much about and on which there isn't too much online. #Sabah has #Malaysia’s largest expanse of #mangroves and the Lower #Kinabatangan-Segama #Wetlands forms the largest contiguous tract in the southern Sulu Sea, but I had never heard of it before. I was only familiar with the Kinabatangan tourists visit for wildlife-spotting river cruises. So my curiosity started from a very basic place: What does this place look like? How do the people there live?
I may yet post some reflections on my newsletter Movable Worlds in the near future—but for now, you can follow https://instagram.com/emilydingwrites to see the photo journal I am sharing of my reporting trip.
Thrilled by this #SaturdaySighting of well over 100 snow geese that just rose out of the marsh where I was walking and then soared about together as though they wanted to get a murmuration going.
Share if you think every day should be #WorldWetlandsDay. Without these ecosystems we would have more drought, less clean water, stronger coastal storm impacts, and biodiversity would be far far less interesting and beautiful. #mosstodon#lichensubscribe#wetlands#Climate