Maria

Amazing work Shaun!

Illustrations from the beguiling Clavis Artis, a German alchemical manuscript which claims to hail from the 13th century and have pages made from dragon skin: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/clavis-artis

Dear Brits, if you like your foreign friends and colleagues please respond to this hot mess of a consultation.

Could there be a more confusing way of phrasing this question in the government’s immigration consultation? Why do this unless it’s deliberate?

Ahaha, I've just been gaslit by AI looking for a particular deforestation map and then it apologized when I pointed out it's recommending a paper that doesn't exist. 🤡

Трейлер фильма «Мои медведи. Гималайцы» This is "Трейлер фильма «Мои медведи. Гималайцы»" by LESFILM on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

This film is coming out in Russia, it's a documentary about moon bears (Asiatic black bears), filmed in the wilderness of Sikhote-Alin. It looks amazing! vimeo.com/1085694876

Arctida

Drool worthy vacancy for an investigative journalist to write about the Russian Arctic! (Website is cool too - I am not affiliated in it)
arctida.io/en/vacancies

Заложники Тигры История о том, как для государства жизнь амурского тигра стала важнее человеческой и почему во всем виновата вырубка лесов

Fascinating story about human-tiger conflict in Russia. Tiger programs are backed by the Kremlin (Putin loves big cats) but aren't dealing with lack of prey in forests. Meanwhile indigenous Udege are sent to prison for self-defence. thenewtab.io/zalozhniki-t...

Водно-болотные неугодья Россия выйдет из международного экологического соглашения

Russia has left the Ramsar convention on wetlands because it’s become ‘infiltrated by anti-Russian narratives’ 🐸
www.kommersant.ru/doc/7907974

UNEP is hiring a journalist to develop climate and biodiversity content (six months consultancy in Nairobi) careers.un.org/jobSearchDes...

Abandoned lynx, roaming wild boar, ‘beaver bombing’ – has rewilding got out of hand? From unauthorised species releases to small groups buying up land, ‘guerrilla rewilding’ is going mainstream. But experts worry that these rogue efforts could do more harm than good

Beaver bombing should be the only kind of bombing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What a great photo series, there is so much I miss
www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/p...

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