DV Chaz

Biodiversity conservation has an evidence problem — it’s time to fix it Globally, more than one million species are threatened with extinction, but often interventions intended to protect biodiversity are not rooted in robust research. The field has an opportunity to change that.

Biodiversity loss is continuing at an unprecedented rate, with species becoming extinct at between 100 and 1,000 times the average pre-human, or ‘background’, rate

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Eternal Silence in the snow, this morning at Graceland Cemetery

Holiday decor in conservatory

Holiday decor in conservatory

Holiday decor in conservatory

Holiday decor in conservatory

Get into the holiday spirit with a stroll through the Holiday Flower and Train Show! 🎄

🗓️ Now–January 3
📍 Emerson Conservatory
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📸 Sundos Schneider, Robert Schmidt

#MOBOTGarden

An old cemetery with old headstones and scattered snow on the ground.

Union Cemetery, est. 1857
Kansas City, Missouri

An old cemetery monument with a draped urn on top. Scattered snow on the ground and a modern building in the background, some pine trees too.

Union Cemetery, est. 1857
Kansas City, Missouri

An old cemetery with scattered snow on the ground.

Union Cemetery, est. 1857
Kansas City, Missouri

A small old headstone in an old cemetery, scattered snow on the ground.

Union Cemetery, est. 1857
Kansas City, Missouri
“ IN PACE “

Thin Section Thursday!
Ophitic texture of plagioclase laths encased in clinopyroxene in a gabbro from the Glen Mtns. Layered Complex in southwestern Oklahoma. Contributed by Robert Puckett. You can contribute too! Send images to akoziol1 at udayton dot edu. #thinsectionthursday

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

The front of an Auditorium. Art deco style with three arched windows, brick and stone Masonary.

The auditorium at
Wyandotte High School
in Kansas City, Kansas
Image: DV Chaz.
Feb. 2025

An old cemetery with an old monument of a broken column

An old cemetery with sun shining on old headstones

An old cemetery with three large old monuments. Partial sun shining on one of the monuments.. Bare trees in the background.

🍂🍁🌾Thankful🍁🍂🥀
Union Cemetery
Kansas City, Missouri
Est. 1857

A small old headstone with a rounded top and made of white marble that is weathered. Inscribed “OUR BEAUTIFUL CHIFFIE”. It is in an old historical historical cemetery, on a clear sunny Autumn day.

Union Cemetery, est 1857
Kansas City, Missouri

A rainy day at an old historic cemetery.

Union Cemetery
Kansas City, Missouri
est. 1857
A rainy day at the cemetery.

Old headstones in a cemetery

Union Cemetery est. 1857
Kansas City, Missouri
Autumn

Old cemetery Union Cemetery est. 1857 Kansas City, Missouri Autumn

Union Cemetery est. 1857
Kansas City, Missouri
Autumn

Fall colors at an old cemetery

Autumn colors at
Union Cemetery in Kansas City, MO

My shadow in an old cemetery

My shadow in an old cemetery

My shadow at
Union Cemetery in Kansas City, MO

🍁 Fall color is HERE! 🍁

The Garden’s canopy is made up of 5,500+ trees, representing 1,100+ species. Fall colors range from bright golden yellow to muted copper to deep scarlet.

The Garden's experts highly recommend visiting this weekend to see fall foliage at its peak!

Black fan with jagged edges, painted with delicate white designs, ragged silk tassel

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Mourning fan of pierced and painted wood, c. 1860
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A trade card for Richard Middleton featuring a black coffin and undertakers.

Trade card of Richard Middleton, coffin maker and undertaker - 19th century.

Cemetery at night with a lighted red transmission tower in the background.

Union Cemetery, est. 1857
Kansas City, Missouri
Lights were just recently added to the tower. I think it looks good!

2/3 and another in the cathedral, this time a bat, and why not?

Sexton’s Cottage and front garden at Union Cemetery, the cottage is painted white with green shutters.

Sexton’s Cottage
Union Cemetery est. 1857
Kansas City, Missouri
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In our partnership with BeeKC we are having our first honey harvest on Sunday September 7th 10am-12pm! BeeKC will be joining us to show how honey is harvested directly from hives here in the cemetery. This is a free family event! Jars will be available for purchase to take honey home that day.

Red granite column shaped monument in an old cemetery with a red broadcast tower standing tall against a blue sky.

Union Cemetery and the KCTV broadcast tower. Image3
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An old cemetery with a red broadcast tower rising at a distance.

Union Cemetery and the KCTV broadcast tower. Image 2
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Old marble gravestone with a draped urn sculpture on top. And a red broadcast tower standing tall against a blue sky.

Union Cemetery and the KCTV broadcast tower. Image 1
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A tiny gold coffin pendant. The opened lid reveals a tiny skeleton lying within. The coffin is decorated with nails and has three handles on each side.

It’s a coffin! A fine way to grab a death historian’s interest. This coffin pendant is a quite a bit smaller and its pop-out inhabitant is not faithful or a traitor but a memento mori skeleton. #thetraitors

A small wooden coffin with a wooden corpse inside.

Carved from wood, this 16th-century figure shows a corpse inside a coffin. The body is decaying and worms are spilling from the stomach. The coffin is a memento mori, an object that reminds the viewer of the shortness of human life & the inevitability of death.