"“The population may be getting younger because individuals born after 2008, the year a marine sanctuary was introduced off the west coast of the North Island, have better chances of survival, since they are less likely to be accidentally caught in fishing nets,” suggests Professor Rochelle Constantine."
#Conservation #MarineEcology #MauiDolphins
SunLive - Good news for world’s rarest dolphin? - The Bay's News First
https://sunlive.co.nz/news/328255-good-news-for-world---s-rarest-dolphin-.html
It's so cooked that the conservation system in Aotearoa New Zealand is so broken that government agencies need fund raising assistance to be able to deliver basic conservation services.
"A fundraising campaign to save the southern New Zealand dotterel from extinction has been launched after feral cat predators killed at least one of the 126 birds remaining at Rakiura/Stewart Island."
Fundraising campaign launched to save southern dotterel from extinction | Stuff.co.nz
https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/300983537/fundraising-campaign-launched-to-save-southern-dotterel-from-extinction
"A two-decade-old experiment in the tropical rainforest of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, is beginning to reveal that human-assisted restoration of logged forests can increase the speed of an ecosystem’s recovery.
The researchers also found that planting a diverse suite of seedlings, instead of only one species, led in just one decade to greater biomass and forest complexity."
Forest restoration can fare better with human helping hand, study shows
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/forest-restoration-can-fare-better-with-human-helping-hand-study-shows/
@f6d99904 Yes, I would be suing his employer for not keeping him safe.
The cases in US that have been won are mainly around insufficient labelling on containers, not the potential carcinogenity of glyphosate.
@f6ddecc9 Yeah I met people working on the Mount Vic bowling green for years with mushrooms which were being used to bioremediate the soil.
Essentially they would harvest the mushrooms and send them to the dump.
@29b9efc5 I used to "acquire" everything. Paid for Netflix and Disney for quite a few years now but everything has splintered so much there are sometimes shows/movies I want to watch that I don't want to sign up for another streaming service.
I think the video game industry has a much better model. I get most of what I want from Xbox Gamepass and freebies through Epic. Anything else I will buy and I'm happy to do that every now and then.
@29b9efc5 In 2023, gaming industry revenue is projected at $365.6 billion globally.
The annual revenue of the global film industry as of 2022 was $77 billion.
Global television market revenue amounted to around $94 billion in 2022.
Not that hard to tell who has the better model.
@29b9efc5 I used to "acquire" everything. Paid for Netflix and Disney for quite a few years now but everything has splintered so much there are sometimes shows/movies I want to watch that I don't want to sign up for another streaming service.
I think the video game industry has a much better model. I get most of what I want from Xbox Gamepass and freebies through Epic. Anything else I will buy and I'm happy to do that every now and then.
@f6ddecc9@58db300d Yes, correct.
The firearm currently in my possession (legally) was gifted to me by a mate who moved overseas.
I still need to register it's existence under the new rules but for the last 5 years the state has had no knowledge of it.
Easy to see how many firearms end up being used in crimes.
@b92dcc07 Even spacing for landscape scale planting projects is standard practice. I'm not sure if it's a viable argument that even spacing makes fires worse. Perhaps if it means you have a higher fuel load/biomass over a given area, but that's not clear in the article and isn't shown in anything I have read so far.
@b92dcc07 This article is very informative.
Black spruce dominated ecosystems are under threat. Not from black spruce, but from hotter, dryer conditions which mean that black spruce is being out-competed by other species such as white spruce, aspen and birch.
Black spruce has dominated boreal forests for the last five to ten thousands years. The climate is beginning to change that dominance.
https://www.woodwellclimate.org/black-spruce-regeneration-failure/
@b92dcc07 Even spacing for landscape scale planting projects is standard practice. I'm not sure if it's a viable argument that even spacing makes fires worse. Perhaps if it means you have a higher fuel load/biomass over a given area, but that's not clear in the article and isn't shown in anything I have read so far.
Just looked at a 1960s place across the road from us, offers over $715,000.
It's been a rental for the past 20 years. Significant rot in the shower and no underfloor insulation.
The owners have a yacht.
We suspect they can't be arsed getting it up to healthy homes standard for new renters.
"But a council report prepared for Thursday’s operations committee meeting said there had been no clear decision on whether Jobs for Nature funding would extend beyond its June 2024 expiry, despite requests being made for all projects in the region to continue.
“This raises a risk that council and Maraetaha Incorporation will lose the substantial pest plant and animal control gains made as a result of this funding,” the report read."
https://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/news/forest-restoration-funding-in-question
"We find a nonlinear relationship between knowledge and confidence, with overconfidence (the confidence gap) peaking at intermediate levels of actual scientific knowledge. These high-confidence/intermediate-knowledge groups also display the least positive attitudes towards science."
Intermediate levels of scientific knowledge are associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes towards science | Nature Human Behaviour
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01677-8
#Science #HumanBehaviour
Lax dog and cat breeding laws just means a lot more dead cats, dogs and wildlife.
Great that SPCA is taking a science led approach now as we lost decades of progress from their previous stance.
"Auckland Council said a lack of de-sexing during Covid and irresponsible owners has caused an explosion of roaming dogs and they urgently need government support to get on top of the numbers."
Number of dogs being put down in Aucklands doubles in last year https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018906936/number-of-dogs-being-put-down-in-aucklands-doubles-in-last-year
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