Human-made ecosystems: Ecological novelty is now the "new normal" for our planet

"30-40% of the world's terrestrial ecosystems have already transformed into novel states."

"O'ahu as an "amazing crystal ball" that offers a glimpse of the future of our planet if humans continue to damage environments and drive species to extinction."

"Hawaii's O'ahu's lowland forests are now almost entirely devoid of the plants and animals that grew here for millions of years before the arrival of humans. Settlers brought extinctions by cutting down trees to make farms and introducing voracious predators and disease-carrying animals. Today, these tropical forests are a tapestry of non-native species introduced from every corner of the planet: Brazilian peppertree, Indonesian cinnamon and roseleaf bramble from the Himalayas and Australia. Most of the animals, including all the birds that Tarwater mentioned earlier, are also alien."

"We like to think of O'ahu as the cautionary tale for all the other Pacific Islands and the Hawaiian Islands. It's what you don't want to have happen – Corey Tarwater"
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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250403-the-new-hawaiian-freakosystem-emerging-on-oahu-accidentally-created-by-humans

Towards a novel biosphere in 2300: rapid and extensive global and biome-wide climatic novelty in the Anthropocene
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.2023.0022
#biodiversity #biosphere #ecosystems #extinction #birds #loss #InvasiveSpecies #degradation #SettlerSociety #cattle #dogs #grasses #NovelEcosystems #weeds #restoration #Pacific

I don't like this sketch...
But okay...
I won't say any bad words about my skill. Because you don't need them anyway, do you?..

This is complete degradation.
I lost the ability to draw.

Now i can only work and earn money:)

At least my parents approve my occupation and financial help to the family.
#burnout #degradation

3 Degrees More

“I consider a 3°C world to be an existential threat to human civilisation.” Professor Stefan Rahmstorf

"This open access book describes in detail what life on this planet would be like if its average surface temperature were to rise 3 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial level. On this basis, the book argues that it is imperative to keep this temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius. It then lays out a detailed plan of what politically feasible, cost-effective measures should now be taken to achieve this goal. In this context, the book provides detailed discussions of climate finance, climate education and nature-based solutions."
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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-58144-1
#climate #FossilFuel #industry #OpenAccess #book #InformedCitizens #ExtremeHeat #mortality #biodiversity #rainforest #forests #degradation #TippingPoints #disasters #CivilSociety #civilisation #AMOC #collapse

“Land is threatened by the way that we use and manage it all over the world, and human activities are the main driver behind land degradation,” says PIK scientist Julia Tomalka, author of the UN report on Land #degradation, published ahead of #COP16Riyadh: https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/land-use-change-impacting-seven-planetary-boundaries-solutions-urgent-say-scientists

Humans to push further into wildlife habitats across more than 50% of land by 2070 – study
A monoculture of humans, their meat and poodles?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/humans-to-push-further-into-wildlife-habitats-across-more-than-50-of-land-by-2070-study-aoe
#biodiversity #degradation #wildlife #ExtinctionCrisis

Native Knowledge: What Ecologists Are Learning from Indigenous People

"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."
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https://e360.yale.edu/features/native-knowledge-what-ecologists-are-learning-from-indigenous-people

Vertebrate biodiversity on indigenous-managed lands in Australia, Brazil, and Canada equals that in protected areas

"Declines in global biodiversity due to land conversion and habitat loss are driving a ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’ and many countries fall short of meeting even nominal targets for land protection. We explored how such shortfalls in Australia, Brazil and Canada might be addressed by enhancing partnerships between Indigenous communities and other government agencies that recognize and reward the existing contributions of Indigenous-managed lands to global biodiversity conservation, and their potential contribution to meeting international treaty targets."

"Many countries currently fall short of meeting targets to curb biodiversity loss.
Indigenous-managed lands represent one avenue by which national targets can be met.
Both Indigenous lands and conventional protected lands have high biodiversity.
Indigenous-managed lands have equal-or-higher biodiversity than protected areas.
Partnerships with Indigenous communities can ameliorate shortfalls in habitat protection for biodiversity conservation."
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.07.002
#TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #IndigenousPeoples #conservation #BiodiversityCrisis #SettlerSociety #Australia #degradation #extinction #extractivism #LoggingImpacts #deforestation #ClimateEmergency

"About half Australia’s land surface has been significantly modified since European settlement, and at least 19 ecosystems are collapsing due to climate change and other pressures."
"Yes, Australia’s environment is on a depressing path – but $7 billion a year would transform it."
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https://theconversation.com/yes-australias-environment-is-on-a-depressing-path-but-7-billion-a-year-would-transform-it-235305
#RestoreNature #repair #degradation #ecosystems #collapse #SettlerSociety #IndigenousPeoples

The Aral Sea Used To Be One Of The World’s Largest Inland Bodies Of Water, Now Its Disappearing
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https://www.fastcompany.com/91026729/the-aral-sea-used-to-be-one-of-the-worlds-largest-inland-bodies-of-water-now-its-disappearing <-- shared media article
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https://doi.org/10.3390/w13223196 <-- <-- shared paper, "Health Impact of Drying Aral Sea"
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #Aral #AralSea #climatechange #impacts #publichealth #watersecurity #degradation #economicimpacts #Uzbekistan #Kazakhstan #farming #agriculture #waterresources #SovietUnion #management #managementpractices #engineering #saline #salinity #watersupply #Russia #poorpractices #growth #urbanisation #habitat #loss #ecosystems #foodsecurity #desertification #environment #drikingwater #potable #landdevelopment #HEP #dams #urbanisation #populationgrowth #fishing #infrastructure

I'm just doing this to pin it as an intro.

I'm am a #submissive #sub into #bdsm #freeuse #spanking #objectification and #degradation

I am a #bisexual #bottom slut who loves to serve my betters and take orders. Dream of staffing a #gloryhole someday. Tell me how you'd use me.

Send me lewd messages at https://ngl.link/nickyttrpg

Something has to give.

How Will The Golden Age Of "Making It Worse" End? https://defector.com/how-will-the-golden-age-of-making-it-worse-end

Private landholders control 60% of the Australian continent.
Many of Australia’s ecosystems are severely degraded.
Only 22% of Australia’s landmass is currently protected.

"About 60% of the continent is owned or managed privately – and 70% to 90% of inadequately protected wildlife is found mostly on such land, which includes farms, pastoral leases and mines."

"Through what legal mechanism can private landholders be engaged in biodiversity conservation? A conservation covenant is a legally binding commitment landholders make to restrict how their property is used."

"Existing covenants are generally used to protect high-value conservation land where ecosystems are healthy. Rarely are they used on degraded land needing restoration, such as overgrazed paddocks or former mining."
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https://theconversation.com/private-landholders-control-60-of-the-australian-continent-so-lets-get-them-involved-in-nature-protection-217450
#PrivateLandholders #degradation #mining #overgrazing #ConservationCovenant #NaturePositive #30x30 #nature #wildlife #koalas #Refuges #NatureRepair #restoration #conservation #biodiversity #climate

Straight up: I’m a slut, submissive, service slave. I like being reminded of my place as a faggot. Indeed I revel in it. I am Autistic and have ADHD. All that said, there is this nuance between degradation and still being respected.

So I’m having this increasingly excited conversation. With a man I’d really like to be abused by in the very best ways. And then I get “oh so you’re autistic and retarded?”

Full. Stop. Buzkill.

I instantly blocked him. Right or wrong it took me to a very bad place. I might tolerate it once there was an understanding and trust but not right at the start. Sigh.

#BDSM #submission #neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ADHD #respect #trust #degradation #boundaries #PowerExchange #slut #faggot #ENM #CNC @actuallyautistic

Silencing biodiversity
Biophony is the collective sound produced by all living organisms that reside in a particular biome. It is not about a 'decontextualized single-species recording model'. Bernie Krause is recording "the “Great Animal Orchestra,” a constantly shapeshifting constellation of individual voices in motion, and he termed their symphonic soundscape a ‘biophony’ — all of the “sounds originating from nonhuman, nondomestic biological sources.”

In 1988 he recorded the so-called selective logging of a timber company:
"The outcome was a spectrogram with a remarkable density throughout all frequency bands, as could be expected for a habitat replete with the most diverse animal life. In 1989, he returned to the meadow after the operation had been completed for a second session under the exact same conditions and at the exact same time. In keeping with what had been promised by the logging company, the place still looked as though it was teeming with life — “I was delighted to see that little seemed to have changed,” as Krause remarked. Back in the studio and after a look at his spectrogram, he had to revise that impression: “Gone was the thriving density and diversity of birds. Gone, too, was the overall richness that had been present the year before. The only prominent sounds were the stream and hammering of a Williamson’s sapsucker.” The ear, then, turned out to be capable of detecting the true state of the habitat much more precisely and truthfully than the eye ever could."

"The recurring pattern seemed to be that the ‘evil sounding’ spaces were those devoid of animal noises, while those full of life and sound tended to come across as far more agreeable"
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/everything-is-wrong-bernie-krauses-concept-of-biophony/

Biophony, Bernie Krause
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2017/08/biophony/
#BiodiversityCrisis #SoundEcology #biophony ##sound #NatureSounds #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #degradation #koalas #wildlife #habitat #ecology #biodiversity #extinction #NSWLogging #SaveTuckersNob

"Australia now has about 100 ecological communities at risk."

"Australia is an enormous contributor to global biodiversity loss. A recent study found 97 species in Australia have now gone extinct since British colonisation in 1788, with roughly 10% of all native mammal species gone forever. The numbers would be higher if invertebrate losses were included."

"What happened here? These forests have been subject to decades of intensive clearfell logging, as well extensive cutting dating back to the late 1920s."

"Our analysis found nearly 70% of these forest communities are already either severely disturbed by fire and logging or exist within 70 metres of severely disturbed areas."

https://theconversation.com/its-not-just-victorias-iconic-mountain-ash-trees-at-risk-its-every-species-in-their-community-214582
#LoggingIndustry #NativeForests #ClearFelling #extractivism #degradation #biodiversity #restoration #extinction makers