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Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽

Alberta biologists were key to the recovery of the worlds fastest animal after DDT nearly wiped them out. A keystone cops investigation nearly snuffed the recovery program. Peregrine's are a poaching target for oilmen in the Middle East. There's a really great documentary about it by Reel Girls Media:

cultureunplugged.com/documenta

Headline: The age of extinction "I've known some of these peregrines for 15 years'’: protecting 14 Scotland’s raptors -in pictures peregrine falcons are can sell for up to £250,000 in the Middle East. Poaching is a constant threat, with eggs theguardian.com
Return of the Peregrine | 48mins Director: Ray Harper | Producer: Ava Karvonen Focus Years: 2001 | Country: Canada Subject Tags: Americas, Canada, Ecology, Education, Science Synopsis: The peregrine falcon is one of the world's most widely dispersed species. In a full stoop, a peregrine can reach speeds of over 360 kilometers an hour, making it the world's fastest animal. The peregrine falcon is a species that has been at the edge of extinction. The liberal use of the pesticide DDT was devastating to the peregrine population. The decline of these birds became critical in the late 1960s and early 70s, prompting Richard Fyfe to found the Peregrine Recovery Program in 1970. By 1975, the peregrine had vanished from most of North America; virtually extinct in the United States and nine of Canada's ten provinces. a€ceReturn of the Peregrinea€N tells the story of Dr. Gordon Court and his mentor, Richard Fyfe, in their efforts to bring the peregrine falcon back to the skies. It is a conservation success story filled with adventure and intrigue, and a human tale of friendship, courage and vision. @ cultureunplugged.com
#ReturnOfThePeregrine#Biodiversity#PeregrineFalcon
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Leesu

Et voici les nouvelles de la 2e quinzaine de juin ! 📣

Offre de #thèse sur la "pression chimique, l'#antibiorésistance et la #biodiversité des milieux aquatiques" via de l’analyse non ciblée d'ADN environnemental.
leesu.fr/offre-de-these-2024-r

Questionnaire Biocid@Home sur les produits du quotidien dans l'habitat : leesu.fr/questionnaire-sur-les
Pour comprendre les pratiques domestiques d'utilisation des #biocides

N'hésitez pas à partager largement le lien du questionnaire : ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/3aKqKLOO

www.leesu.frOffre de thèse 2024 : Relier la pression chimique à ses effets sur la biodiversité dans les milieux aquatiques en couplant l’analyse non ciblée avec l’ADN environnemental à l’aide d’outils numériques : exemple de l’antibiorésistance - Laboratoire Eau Environnement et Systèmes Urbains (Leesu)Le Laboratoire Eau, Environnement et Systèmes Urbains (Leesu) est un laboratoire de recherche français en sciences de l'environnement, spécialisé dans l'étude de l'eau et de sa gestion, principalement en milieu urbain. C'est un laboratoire commun de l’École des Ponts ParisTech et de l’Université Paris-Est Créteil.
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bellule

@Goneri
S'agissant des #biocides interdits en France en Europe ou aux USA mais produits en occident et vendus dans les pays à législation plus faible / moins regardante / davantage soumise aux lobbies...
C'est toujours le cas pour pléthore
Même le fameux Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (le DDT) continue à être produits dans des pays occidentaux... puis exporté pour l'agriculture et pour la démoustication, ce malgré les graves conséquences sur la santé et l'environnement

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bellule

Le papillon monarque est au bord du précipice
Les causes sont connues et classiques, destruction des habitats, #biocides éliminant les plantes hôtes des chenilles, États (ici Canada & USA) qui continuent de détruire ou qui ne respectent pas les mesures de protection prises. Sans omettre un zeste de changement climatique. Du classique quoi ‼️
🇨🇦🇫🇷ledevoir.com/environnement/806
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worldwildlife.org/stories/east

Photo: Alexandre Shields Archives Le Devoir Le papillon monarque, classé «en voie de disparition» au Canada, est confronté à plusieurs menaces anthropiques tout au long de sa vie.
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RobCornelius

@breadandcircuses @araucana

30 years ago the demand for #cider was in steep decline here in the UK. The big commercial cider makers paid farmers to grub out their #orchards and turn them over to other forms of agriculture.

Now "cider" is booming as a cheap drink. The "apple juice" feedstock is imported from China and gods only know what the apples are like and what is done to the juice/cider. Cider makers in the UK are paying farmers to plant orchards again.

Some of the orchards that were grubbed out were hundreds of years old as were the trees growing in them. They contained rare varieties of #apples found nowhere else in the world that gave the cider real flavour and were naturally disease resistant. Old orchards were havens for #wildlife of all kinds. New orchards tend to be deserts of grass with a limited number of varieties of apple trees plonked in them and sprayed with #biocides multiple times per year.

One of the best cider makers in England, Julian Temperly, of Burrow Hill Cider, coincidently just down the road from where I grew up and lived most of my life, was trying to get an EU law passed to say that if you wanted to call your product cider it had to be 99.5% apple juice. Sadly Brexit put an end to it.

#capitalism what are you going to do?

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