carefully blended for a specific chicago area native habitat made by #ecologists who study plant communities and understand the water and #soil needs of each container holds ascatters this amount of seed across an area about half the size of a volleyball court #woodland seed mix
#Ecologists
On the one hand, my walk along the #Eno River this morning was about as low-critter as they have all been this fall.
(I'm curious if any #naturalists or river #ecologists or #herpers on here have thoughts about the impact of the massive flooding caused by TS Chantal on the reptiles of the Eno River basin.
I just literally haven't seen a single Nerodia species along the Eno or New Hope Creek since Chantal.)
OTOH, I saw a gorgeous Kingfisher rocketing along the river, so that was awesome.
(I'm curious if any #naturalists or river #ecologists or #herpers on here have thoughts about the impact of the massive flooding caused by TS Chantal on the reptiles of the Eno River basin.
I just literally haven't seen a single Nerodia species along the Eno or New Hope Creek since Chantal.)
OTOH, I saw a gorgeous Kingfisher rocketing along the river, so that was awesome.
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‘It is not a Sunday in the countryside that we need, but a less artificial life.’
—Bernard Charbonneau, in « Le sentiment de la nature, une force révolutionnaire », 1937
It is our disconnection from nature that gives rise to the feeling that we lack something, that an essential part of our existence is missing.
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Who was Bernard Charbonneau? 🧶
Bernard Charbonneau was raised in the Bordeaux bourgeoisie. He obtained his agrégation in 1935.
In 1945, he decided not to pursue an academic career and, ‘eager to live in the countryside, he obtained a position at a small teacher training college in the Pyrenean foothills, in Lescar, France, where he remained until his retirement’. (written by Daniel Cérézuelle, in ‘Ecology and Freedom: Bernard Charbonneau: Pioneer of Political Ecology’, Lyon, Parangon/Vs, coll. ‘après-développement’, 2006)
He viewed technical progress as the source of ever-increasing organisation, and therefore greater conformity, hence less freedom. He was a close friend of Jacques Ellul for six decades.
In his own words (in Combat nature no. 106, August 1994): https://lagrandemue.wordpress.com/2019/11/20/bio-graphie/
#biography #postDevelopment #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #Pyrenees #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #JacquesEllul #Ellul
Here I am slowly spining a yarn of Bernard Charbonneau 🧶
#development #revolution #conformism #progress #personalism #State #nationState #anarchism #anarchy #technoCriticism #technique #bureaucracy #technocracy #industry #economy #capitalism #spectacle #property #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #goodLiving #city #rurality #historyOfIdeas #philosophy #politics #vote #elections #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #longThread #yarn
Racing to Save #California’s #ElephantSeals From #BirdFlu
In 2023, bird #flu arrived on the rocky shores of the Valdés Peninsula in Argentina, ripping through the local colony of southern elephant seals. More than 17,000 seal pups died. It could take decades for the population to recover.
Now, a team of #ecologists, #epidemiologists and #veterinarians is scrambling to keep the same thing from happening to northern elephant seals.
https://www.nytimes.com/card/2025/06/03/science/bird-flu-mammals-elephant-seals-california
https://archive.ph/Xe8d6
#H5N1 #influenza
‘Half the tree of life’: #ecologists’ horror as #nature reserves are emptied of #insects
A new point in history has been reached, #entomologists say, as #climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of #pesticides
The declines witnessed by Janzen and others around world – are part of what some ecologists call “new era” of #ecologicalcollapse, rapid #extinctions occur in regions that have little direct contact with people.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe
#Ecologists are spending less time in the field. That could be a problem. #ecology #fieldwork #mongabay
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/04/ecologists-are-spending-less-time-in-the-field-that-could-be-a-problem/
Enchanted by Daphne: The Life of an Evolutionary Naturalist by Peter R. Grant, 2023
The extraordinary life story of the celebrated naturalist who transformed our understanding of evolution. Enchanted by Daphne is legendary ecologist Peter Grant’s personal account of his remarkable life and career.
»In the last 60 years, #ecologists have discovered that specific #animals have an outsized impact on the #health of their communities. The functioning of these #ecosystems are sometimes entirely dependent upon certain individual species or small groups of species than others (...)«
From 2018: #Native Knowledge: What #Ecologists Are Learning from #IndigenousPeople
From Alaska to Australia, scientists are turning to the knowledge of traditional people for a deeper understanding of the natural world. What they are learning is helping them discover more about everything from melting Arctic ice, to protecting fish stocks, to controlling wildfires.
By Jim Robbins • April 26, 2018
"While he was interviewing Inuit elders in Alaska to find out more about their knowledge of beluga whales and how the mammals might respond to the changing Arctic, researcher Henry Huntington lost track of the conversation as the hunters suddenly switched from the subject of belugas to beavers.
"It turned out though, that the hunters were still really talking about whales. There had been an increase in beaver populations, they explained, which had reduced spawning habitat for salmon and other fish, which meant less prey for the belugas and so fewer whales.
"'It was a more holistic view of the ecosystem,' said Huntington. And an important tip for whale researchers. 'It would be pretty rare for someone studying belugas to be thinking about freshwater ecology.'
"Around the globe, researchers are turning to what is known as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) to fill out an understanding of the natural world. TEK is deep knowledge of a place that has been painstakingly discovered by those who have adapted to it over thousands of years. 'People have relied on this detailed knowledge for their survival,' Huntington and a colleague wrote in an article on the subject. 'They have literally staked their lives on its accuracy and repeatability.'
"This realm has long been studied by disciplines under headings such as ethno-biology, ethno-ornithology, and biocultural diversity. But it has gotten more attention from mainstream scientists lately because of efforts to better understand the world in the face of climate change and the accelerating loss of biodiversity.
"Anthropologist Wade Davis, now at the University of British Columbia, refers to the constellation of the world’s cultures as the 'ethnosphere,' or 'the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions, brought into being by human imagination since the dawn of consciousness. It’s a symbol of all that we are, and all that we can be, as an astonishingly inquisitive species.'
"One estimate says that while native peoples only comprise some 4 or 5 percent of the world’s population, they use almost a quarter of the world’s land surface and manage 11 percent of its forests. 'In doing so, they maintain 80 percent of the planet’s biodiversity in, or adjacent to, 85 percent of the world’s protected areas,' writes Gleb Raygorodetsky, a researcher with the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance at the University of Victoria and the author of The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change."
Read more: https://e360.yale.edu/features/native-knowledge-what-ecologists-are-learning-from-indigenous-people
#SolarPunkSunday #Resiliency
#Biodiversity #CulturalPreservation
#ClimateChange #Ethnosphere #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #SustainableDevelopment #TEK #TIK #TraditionalIndigenousKnowledge
Now that there is a bridge between Mastodon and Bluesky (thanks to @bsky.brid.gy), do people have any recommendations for #ecologists or #EvolutionaryBiologists whose main account is on Bluesky but who have activated a bridge to Mastodon?
🐟 #Ecologists at Kyoto University explore the potential of #environmental protein (#eProtein) analysis to monitor #aquatic organism health, disease dynamics & reproductive cycles; and support #aquaculture management.
➡️ See more in their Research Idea published with us: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e127927
Meet our new #ORKG grantees, @AlbertoPiaOrtiz & Ana María Millán Márquez! As #ecologists, they bring a critical researcher’s eye to the ORKG. Their perspectives’ are invaluable as we refine the #reborn approach for machine-reusable scientific articles. Stay tuned to learn more!
Work starts to #rewild former #cattle #farm - BBC News -
#Ecologists have started work to turn a former livestock farm into a #NatureReserve.
#Derbyshire Wildlife Trust hopes the land attached to Common Farm in Nether Heage will become a "mosaic of habitats" for insects, birds and mammals.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c728ze77pw8o
#UK #Rewilding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Ecological_and_Social_People's_Union
To help those of us wanting to understand the political situation in #France 🇫🇷 , here's one acronym: #NUPES
#NewEcologicalAndSocialPeoplesUnion #NouvelleUnionPopulaireEcologiqueetSociale
A left electorial alliance of political parties, including #Insourmise (#LFI), #Socialistparty (#PS), the #FrenchCommunistParty (#PCF), the #Ecologists (#EI), #Géneration.s (#Gs) (G.s) and their respective smaller partners.
Nine months ago, the russians destroyed the Kakhovka Hydro Power Plant, leaving behind a desolate landscape. However, signs of nature's recovery have emerged this spring. #Ecologists are cautiously optimistic. Yet, all this restoration work would have been unnecessary had the russians not committed this act of terror.
Watch (36 Second) Insta Reel Source: United 24 Media
Stand with #Ukraine
#Canada moves to protect #CoralReef that scientists say ‘shouldn’t exist’
Discovery was made after #FirstNations tipped off #ecologists about groups of fish gathering in a fjord off #BritishColumbia
by Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Fri 15 Mar 2024
"On the last of nearly 20 dives, the team made a startling discovery – one that has only recently been made public.
"'When we started to see the living corals, everyone was in doubt,' says Cherisse Du Preez, head of the deep-sea ecology program at Fisheries and Oceans Canada. 'Then, when we saw the expansive fields of coral in front of us, everybody just let loose. There were a lot of pure human emotions.'
"Despite existing in absolute darkness, the lights of the submersible captured the rich pinks, yellows and purples of the #corals and #sponges.
"The following year, the team mapped #LopheliaReef, or #q̓áuc̓íwísuxv, as it has been named by the #Kitasoo Xai’xais and #Heiltsuk First Nations. It is the country’s only known living coral reef.
"The discovery marks the latest in a string of instances in which Indigenous knowledge has directed researchers to areas of scientific or historic importance. More than a decade ago, #Inuk oral historian Louie Kamookak compared #Inuit stories with explorers’ logbooks and journals to help locate Sir John Franklin’s lost ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. In 2014, divers located the wreck of the Erebus in a spot Kamookak suggested they search, and using his directions found the Terror two years later."
#IndigenousWisdom #Environment #WaterIsLife #PacificOcean #DeepSeaEcosystems #NoDumping
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