oliviatheelf:
I never even knew this and I’ve fed bread to ducks multiple times! D: Definitely reblog this so everyone knows!
Ive tried telling this to my mom and she wont believe me…who would have thought all those nice old folks at the lake are actually killing ducks, i knew it was a shitty thing to do because it fosters a dependency but this…
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Male feminists
Why the fuck doesn’t this have eight million notes? Get it together, tumblr.
Signal Boost!!!
We really don’t know why monarch butterflies are disappearing:
This is horrific. We’ve lost over 80% of the butterflies.
The waning of our monarchs has lead to the inevitable speculations as to the cause. Which is fair enough. But I’d like to point out the ideas are just speculation.
No one really knows why Monarchs are declining, or why 2012-13 is such a bad year.
Lacking the proper experiments to determine how various factors affect the butterflies, and lacking solid data about their milkweed food sources, assigning causes to the phenomenon simply isn’t possible. The monarchs are disappearing. That’s all we can say with certainty.
Candidate causes abound, though.
- The severe heat and drought of 2012 across much of the monarch’s summer range may have reduced the monarch’s host plants and stressed the remaining animals.
- The extensive use of agricultural herbicides in conjunction with herbicide-resistant crops could be eliminating the monarch’s food supply, perhaps causing the gradual decline over the past 10 years.
- The destruction of milkweed habitat for corn ethanol production, also a gradual new phenomenon in the past 10 years, could reduce the monarch’s food.
Read more: Full Article
If you want to help, here’s some things you can do:
- plant milkweed, as much as you can, everywhere you can, and encourage others to do the same, including encouraging your local government to plant butterfly gardens and use milkweed.
- protest any and all development of land that is currently good butterfly habitat.
- contact government members to petition for more money to go to butterfly conservation.
- donate to and volunteer for organizations that work to protect butterflies and their habitat.
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World’s smallest dolphin to be extinct ‘imminently’ as fishing nets reduce species to just 55 survivors
by Tamara Cohen
The world’s smallest and rarest dolphins are facing ‘imminent’ extinction with just 55 individuals left, conservationists have warned.
Maui’s dolphins – which are classified as critically endangered - have seen their numbers halve in the last seven years alone, as dozens have been caught in fishing nets. Only found on the west coast of New Zealand, there may be as little as 20 breeding females left, a new study has found.
Although part of the coast is protected from fishing, along most of it, trawling and vast fixed nets held in place by anchors have been blamed for killing the striking animals. The last corpse of a Maui dolphin – which grow to just 1.7 m long - was found last month.Maui’s have a lifespan of around 20 years but only reach sexual maturity after around seven, and breed infrequently – around one calf every three years.
A new study carried out by University of Auckland, Oregon State University and the New Zealand Department of Conservation - using DNA samples - found the number of dolphins aged more than a year had plummeted from 111 when the last survey was carried out in 2004…(read more: Daily Mail UK)
Legal documents in the United States only recognize “male” and “female” as genders, leaving anyone who does not identify as one of these two genders with no option. Australia and New Zealand both allow an X in place of an M or an F on passports for this purpose, and the UK recognizes ‘Mx’ (pronounced “Mix”) as a gender-neutral title.
This petition asks the Obama administration to legally recognize genders outside of the male-female binary, and provide an option for these genders on all legal documents and records.
PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO SIGN AND SIGNAL BOOST to sign & signal boost THIS PETITION
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it’s pretty fucked up that because of the “petition to make a death star” getting so many signatures, whitehouse.gov will now only look at petitions with 100k signatures instead of 25k. way to turn a legit means of contacting the government and getting them to notice serious issues into a shitty fandom joke.
Totally, but also can’t help but feel like really, is it that hard to ignore the few prank petitions in order to get to the legit ones. It sounds like a bit of a cop out to me.
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A US company is planning to tear down a chunk of rainforest the size of 100,000 soccer fields for a palm oil project.
The area of forest is home to thousands of Cameroonian people who rely on it for subsistence farming; people who stand to lose thier land if the project goes ahead. Their peaceful attempts to stop the project have been met with threats, arrests, violence, and beatings.
The forest is also home to endangered wildlife like African forest elephants and the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee subspecies.
It’s time for us to take up the fight.
I’ve been vegan for a year today. One of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life.
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Vegan Calcium Sources
Forget about dairy!
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Man this video was so fucking great until the fakeass Harlem Shake shit at the end
(IT’S JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE DRESSED LIKE TOFU SINGING ABOUT VEGANISM IT’S AWESOME WATCH IT)
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“If I am to be a voice for animals, then how should I speak? Am I to whisper, when they are screaming in pain? Am I to be calm, when they tremble in fear? Am I to shout for mercy, as their throats are being slit? Tell me how I need to speak, for you to grant them their freedom.”
- Davegan Raza
If you caught your kid raising cats in tiny boxes, forcing them to live in their own feces without clean air or sunlight, pulling their teeth and claws out with pliers to keep them from hurting each other, then skinning them alive to make collars to sell to their friends, you’d rush him to a psychiatrist.
But you support that very behavior every time you buy meat, eggs, dairy or fur.
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How could any logical person be outraged that the dead corpse that he chose to consume, was from a different animal than expected!?
Horse meat can be consumed in the same manner that a cows flesh is, there is no added danger nor any considerable ecological damage.
A cow experiences emotions and feels pain no less than a horse,fish,turkey,chicken,cat… So whats all this fuss about???
This hypocritical outrage, about the horse meat that burger king and the UK retailers have been selling, just proves how perverted and disconnected our culture and moral outlook is and how little we choose to know about the origins of our butchered victims.
Also another sickening observation would be that, if they feel confident enough to connivingly sell, such a known taboo “product” what else are they hiding?Amen!
