r/enviroaction

Snapping turtles are endangered on turtle island and are vital to our ecosystem.

The duck that died of starvation and asphyxiation because of a carabiner that got stuck around its beak.

The squirrel that got wrapped in a discarded fishing net with its baby, bodies floating netted in the river.

The 1000 year old tree that was illegally sawed down and the many chipmunks, birds and other critter creatures that fell into the water with a massive, heavy, devastating crash - killed all the animals in the tree with the force alone. Stunned and drowned in the water below or crushed under the weight of the branches and trunk. It also caused the river to rise and destroy ecosystems on the riverbank, that 1000+ year old tree had created a natural bank stabilization and riparian buffering. That root mass holds soil together, slows floodwater, traps sediment. Remove the tree and you lose that armoring, so banks slump, water undercuts, and you get flashier flooding and erosion.

Southern Ontario like many other places in Turtle Island (North America) was recently covered in an orange brown haze of wildfire smoke, and then I saw and heard all of this over the next few days along the edge of the river.

This turtle pushed me to my breaking point.

Clean up after yourself, stop consuming unnecessarily especially for the sake of minor convenience (do you really need another plastic tool to make your hair look instagram ready? Do you need plastic wrap or can you use wax organic paper that can decomposes after many years of use and YES still seals things), respect the damn land, without whom you would not f*cking survive. Treat it like family because it is. Treat it like you care about the future generations that come after you and not like you care about your singular individual experience for a damn day. Take the extra time to make sure you aren’t financially supporting corrupt monopolies that destroy us. (This does not apply to people who have no other options, eg. rural folk who only have 1-2 options).

And to the fisherman and travellers who like to say they are in harmony with the land, you need to be more mindful of what the yell you leave behind. We all have an ECO FOOTPRINT. Anytime you walk a piece of land, or travel through the water, try to leave it the same as OR better than when you arrived. To those who catch and release, I see the slow death you often leave behind in the river. Fish for resources and allow the life to have dignity, appreciate the reciprocity, let it sustain us - eat it, use its bones - you are not helping and are not being humane by throwing it back to die slowly and unnecessarily. Stop treating life like it can be sported and gamed.

The animals and the land give their entire lives to support us everyday. And this is what we do. This is what you do. This is what I do. We are all guilty.

Replacing pristine forests and biodiversity with concrete, brick-and-mortar resorts isn't 'development'—it is outright ecological destruction. We demand that V\\\*\\\* Group stop prioritizing short-term profits at the expense of our environment and start protecting the gorgeous landscapes that belong to the Vietnamese people, not private investors.

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Photos: 1. Milos Jakobi, 2 and 4. Anne Steinkogler, 3. Katja Jemec

I along with a few other students of Acharya Prashant gathered in Frankfurt, Germany to increase awareness about climate change. On Sunday, we gathered in the Grüneburg park with a set of questions that starts with urgency of the Climate change and gradually move towards root cause of the issue.

Then we walked around trying to ask people these objective questions and depending on their interest we would engage in deeper discussions.

The survey set 5 was on Global Crisis, Governance & Coping Mechanisms.

People acknowledged that their consumption pattern is not necessarily linked to their well-being and they wish to reduce their behavior of coping via consumption. There were mixed opinions about what can be done about climate change. There were opinions that it is too late to address the harm that has been and is being inflicted on the planet as well as opinions that wield agency in response to the present situation which involves taking action starting from changing lifestyle to drive systemic changes.

The cynical point of view is scientifically not accurate. There is still a lot that can be done to mitigate the impact of climate change and take corrective measures. Indeed, climate models demonstrate that aggressively peaking and reducing global greenhouse gas emissions can prevent temperatures from crossing the critical 1.5 deg C warming threshold, avoiding the most catastrophic tipping points. However, this requires radical changes in individual lifestyle choices which are no doubt difficult but nonetheless possible.

For me it was great learning experience on both how to approach strangers respectfully to participate in our activity as well as gaining perspectives from people from entirely different culture.

What is your opinion about using objects to cope with emotions? How can we be more aware about our consumption patterns?

Where do you think lies the solution to the climate problem as well as broader ecological threat we are facing today?

Bonjour à toutes et à tous, partout dans le monde 🌱🌍,

Nous lançons aujourd’hui un appel à toute l’humanité, à tous les pays, à toutes les personnes passionnées par la nature et l’avenir de notre planète.

Nous sommes Les Gardiens de la Nature, un mouvement porté par des jeunes passionnés par l’environnement, basé à Lubumbashi, en République démocratique du Congo (RDC).

Nos premières actions commencent par la production de plantes dans notre pépinière, la sensibilisation écologique et l’encouragement de chaque personne à planter, protéger et valoriser la nature.

Notre vision est de construire un grand mouvement mondial des Gardiens de la Nature, où chaque personne, chaque communauté, chaque organisation et chaque pays peut participer.

🌱 Nous invitons toutes les personnes qui souhaitent nous rejoindre à :

devenir Gardien ou Gardienne de la Nature ;

parrainer des plantes et soutenir des actions de plantation ;

partager leurs idées, leurs expériences et leurs compétences ;

apporter un soutien matériel, technique ou humain selon leurs possibilités ;

créer ensemble une grande communauté mondiale engagée pour la protection de la planète.

Nous croyons qu’en unissant nos efforts, nos moyens et nos cœurs, nous pouvons créer une force mondiale pour restaurer notre environnement.

Ce mouvement commence ici, en RDC, mais notre rêve est qu’il appartienne à toute la planète. 🌎

President Donald Trump signed proclamations on Monday reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah by about 90%.

Grand Staircase-Escalante will shrink from approximately 1.87 million acres to 181,500 acres, while Bears Ears will be reduced from 1.36 million acres to 121,100 acres. The White House said the changes would support "common-sense land use," while critics warned that the move could expose culturally and environmentally significant areas to mining and other developmentiments.

With wildfires dominating the news across Canada right now, I figured I'd share a conservation project that seems especially worth supporting.

This is a fundraising campaign for the Amazon Rainforest Conservancy through Ma Earth's Round 3. Donations are matched through a $1 million funding pool, so each contribution can have a larger impact than it normally would. The campaign also takes the number of individual donors into account, which means even smaller donations can help the project receive more matching funds. Amazon Rainforest Conservancy is a non-profit based in Canada founded over a decade ago.

The Amazon is already a well-known conservation priority, so I won't oversell it. The combination of rainforest protection and matched donations makes this one of the stronger environmental fundraising campaigns I've come across recently.

Here’s the link to check it out: https://maearth.com/amazon-rainforest-conservancy-51f595c7/cccf4408

https://c.org/M5Sj7GvpJF

Recently, the Trump administration made changes to the Endangered Species Act that pose an inevitable threat to many, if not all of the endangered species within the United States, rewriting the definition that restored the nation's most recognizable symbol, the bald eagle, to a stable population. I looked for an existing petition to sign, and when I couldn't find one I made my own. Please sign to do your part in protecting nature and our planet.