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🐦 🦆 New report shows US bird populations continue to decline rapidly.

"The report, produced by a coalition of leading science and conservation organizations, reveals continued widespread declines in American bird populations across all mainland and marine habitats, with 229 species requiring urgent conservation action."

#Wildlife #WildlifeConservation #Nature #Conservation #Birds

phys.org/news/2025-03-bird-pop

Phys.org · US bird populations continue alarming decline, new report findsBy Cornell University

Brazilian biologist Fernanda Abra building canopy bridges so sloths don’t have to play Frogger with trucks. That’s the kind of badass innovation we need—saving critters’ asses one rope bridge at a time. #Conservation

If you are caught cutting down the Amazon Rainforest illegally, chances are you will get off without being required to pay for the environmental damage. According to a recent report, only 5% of offenders have paid court-ordered fines for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

By Shanna Hanbury
news.mongabay.com/short-articl

Crabs could be key to tackling the 'secret army' of starfish destroying the reef
By Holly Richardson

Researchers have found crabs are key predators of juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish and could be a hidden link to what controls their destructive spread.

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-13/cra

ABC News · Scientists observe crabs eating juvenile crown-of-thorns starfishBy Holly Richardson

Africa’s elephants have been in dramatic decline for 50 years. A new study explores what can be done to save them.

From @ConversationUS: The research "put together data from 1,325 surveys of elephant populations — everything we could find — to evaluate how elephant numbers in Africa have changed."

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The ConversationAfrica’s elephants have been in dramatic decline for 50 years. What can be done to save them – new studyMaintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.

Gebe Island in eastern Indonesia is the site of seven nickel mining concessions.

Local Indigenous communities say the mining sites have put their food security at risk, with pollution affecting fruit trees and root vegetables as well as depletion of local fisheries.

Forestry campaigners say the mining clashes with a 2007 law on small islands designed to prevent large-scale environmental destruction in these fragile ecosystems.

By Jaya Barends
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/nick

Mongabay Environmental News · Nickel miners dig up Indonesia’s Gebe Island despite Indigenous and legal oppositionGEBE ISLAND, Indonesia — Abdul Manan Magtiblo watched the excavator dump a piece of Gebe Island into the back of a truck. Barely a thicket remained on the buzz-cut upland above Umera village as the vehicle drove off to the nearby port. “That’s the PT Bartra Putra Mulia [BPM] nickel mine,” Manan, the village chief, […]