insanely depressing how “cool” looking species are waaaayyy more likely to receive funding for conservation efforts because anything that appears bland or dull to us is not worthy of life apparently
no but you’re right! or why white tigers at big cat rescues receive 100x the sponsorships of “normal” cats. if you’re an animal you have to prove yourself to have value to live in this world
This makes me think of Clams.
I live in Tennessee, where there are a number of regionally extinct animals like grey wolves and cougars. We have bald eagles. Conservation programs talk about bobcats and an initiative to re-introduce the red wolf.
Most of our endangered species are river clams that probably play vital roles in keeping our river systems healthy.
not mentioning that the current red wolf breeding population is sooooo fucked that those plans are probably wayyyyy off
i’m Indian, and conservation efforts here for rhinos, elephants, lions and tigers have yielded excellent efforts
however river bustards and the gangetic dolphins and many other species, which also have a big role in keeping our ecosystem healthy are mostly neglected. In fact
THERE ARE ONLY 50 GREAT INDIAN BUSTARDS LEFT IN THE WILD.
50. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. JUST 50 BUSTARDS. IN A LAND OF 7 MILLION KILOMETRE SQUARES JUST 50 BUSTARDS. RAJASTHAN, WHICH IS THEIR HABITAT, HAS AN AREA OF 342 THOUSAND SQUARE KILOMETRES, AND JUST 50 BUSTARDS.
apparently animal lives also matter only if they are pretty enough.
we are reintroducing 50 cheetahs cause we along with the brits hunted our own species to extinction, but we can’t even we bothered to take care of that which we have.
“The typical coastal Huskies of the aboriginal Chukotka” or Chukchi people, and “Volʹnica of the village of Lawrence. 1990. Photo B. Wide” is some of the translation. Posted on Facebook by Борис Широкий
Doesn’t the one up top look like my Siberian husky/sheltie Kai? That’s what caught my eye.
The Chukchi indigenous sled dogs are what modern Siberian huskies descend from, and are much more varied in appearance and purpose. It is only through Western breeding that they have become a single-purpose working dog with a very distinctive breed type. I’ve found some historical text references that Chukchi dogs, like most laika types from other areas, were used not only for sled-pulling but also for camp guarding, for reindeer herding, and for hunting.
Nenets herding laika –> Samoyed is another transition from a diverse, multipurpose Indigenous working breed to a drastically narrowed gene pool, appearance, and instincts via Western breeding practices. I’ll dig up some pictures and resources and make another post.
Madly, wildly in love with the guy who’s going viral by finding clips of beautiful areas of Europe and then posting them while claiming that they’re from a boring part of North Carolina
Sending someone on a drive to Gastonia and telling them that it’ll look like the Alps is one of the meanest, funniest pranks I can think of.
What makes it even better is that she’s a Floridian who was in the middle of a drive from Boone, NC to Charleston, SC, so she was already on a trip between two Carolina towns that genuinely are gorgeous, arguably two of the prettiest places in the eastern US. And then she goes a few hours out of her way for
Its sooo crazy how no matter how long u work on a piece of art like no matter how beautiful and perfect it is, how much passion And patience you put into it, it will never amount to .01% of the beauty and passion and patience of a single beetle made by god
Chinese giant salamander (娃娃鱼) a.k.a ‘baby fish’ due to the sound they make that sounds like a baby crying.
The Chinese giant salamander is one of the largest salamanders and one of the largest amphibians in the world. It is fully aquatic and is endemic to rocky mountain streams and lakes in the Yangtze river basin of central China.
The Chinese giant salamander is considered to be a “living fossil”. Although protected under Chinese laws, its population has faced severe declined over the last 70 years and is currently (2022) listed as threatened. There are evidence indicating that the Chinese giant salamander may be composed of at least five cryptic species, further compounding each individual species’ endangerment.
I was thinking about that post that’s like “put what your accent is in the tags” and I was looking up maps to see like… what the actual name of my accent would be
But instead I found this, which is possibly the best map ever made
