@benphalan.bsky.social
Bird conservation, mostly vegan, he/him. Seeking a better world for all people & the other species with whom we share the planet
Wrote a lot of words on SOYBEANS!🫛 I love having this job so much lol
America should have greater ambitions for the soybean—treating it not just as slop for the world’s abused livestock, but as a miracle technology with the potential to reshape world diets for the better
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Agriculture drives more biodiversity loss than any other sector, with ruminant meat causing extinction risks ~340× higher than grains by mass and ~100× higher than legumes both by mass and when adjusted for protein.
13.09.2025 14:05 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1Nice thread on the value of @inaturalist.bsky.social for sharing and preserving observations of biodiversity that might otherwise never have seen the light of day again
05.09.2025 19:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This, by @jasonhickel.bsky.social, is the clearest explanation I have yet read of why the US and UK governments continue to support the Israeli government, regardless of its great crimes against humanity.
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-t...
FACTCHECK: We asked dozens of scientists to review Trump's climate report, being used to justify major policy rollbacks.
They found "more than 100" false or misleading claims.
Click through to read them all:
interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...
What about a name with six letters? Avocet, cuckoo, magpie -- plenty there for the taking
04.08.2025 12:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'Cows just replaced the methane from wild bison'
Not even close.
At their peak, wild ruminants incl. bison emitted ~15 Tg CH₄/yr
Today’s 4+ billion farmed ruminants emit over 100 Tg CH₄/yr
That’s nearly 7x more methane.
essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
Six 6️⃣ tips on communicating effectively with politicians.
From @jacquelyngill.bsky.social some time ago.
Screenshot showing part of a webpage from Global Forest Watch, with the text: Ireland. In 2020, Ireland had 110 kha of natural forest, extending over 1.6% of its land area. In 2024, it lost 665 ha of natural forest, equivalent to 274 kt of CO2 emissions.
These are the numbers for natural forest in Ireland from Global Forest Watch: 1.6% www.globalforestwatch.org/dashboards/c...
02.07.2025 13:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Perhaps gauche to quote your own book, but I think CROSSINGS's section on the Roadless Rule gets at something fundamental: that to designate places as roadless is to assert that our national forests have value—for wildlife, for water, for slow recreation—beyond mere timber extraction. #roadecology
24.06.2025 13:34 — 👍 45 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 2This plan is utterly insane and would cause catastrophic environmental degradation and loss of outdoor opportunities throughout the west — it would accelerate the decline of forests and wildlife, and seriously restrict hiking, camping, fishing, birding, hunting, etc.
16.06.2025 03:25 — 👍 140 🔁 80 💬 4 📌 2
We've just launched AviList! - the new unified global taxonomic checklist for the world's birds, developed through the Working Group on Avian Classification, including BirdLife, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, IOC and others @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.avilist.org
11.06.2025 14:44 — 👍 80 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 6
Some seabirds such as albatrosses have been monitored for decades, with periodic counts of all colonies of some species and trend monitoring, e.g. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
04.04.2025 15:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You've been told that "tech won't save us." But the opposite is just as true. @garrettbroad.bsky.social and I wrote about the dangerous appeal of "nature-based solutionism," or the idea that natural solutions to complex problems will save us. They won't.
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
I got to know Accra, Ghana well when I did research there almost two decades ago. Please consider helping those affected by the devastating Kantamanto fire, here: donorbox.org/kantamanto-f...
07.01.2025 14:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
