Tom
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Marine biologist. Cetacean researcher. Conservationist. Oceanography. Ecology. Animal rights.
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#Whales
Last year, Norway slaughtered 580 whales; many were pregnant.
Now, they are increasing whale kill numbers and have removed onboard whale welfare monitors.
They are worried about bad publicity, so let's give it to them.
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#FreyaTheWalrus
Now they've killed Freya, the gentle walrus who meant no harm to anyone.
It's indefensible. Wild animals increasingly have no safe place in this world.
Every single person who ignored the warnings should be deeply ashamed. She had her whole life to live.
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#Nature
#FreyaTheWalrus
#Walrus
So Norway threatens to kill Freya the walrus because people can't stop taking selfies, throwing things at her & swimming near her with their kids.
A perfect example of everything that's wrong with humanity.
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#Nature
What happens to a hedgerow if councils don't spray with herbicides.
Not just pretty. Essential for insects to pollinate crops & feed birds; habitat for small mammals, on which many depend, including owls.
Hedgerows are one of nature's last refuges.
Tell your council.
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#ClimateCrisis
44°C is lethal to penguins. In Patagonia, they were forced to abandon their chicks - they tried to make it to the ocean, but hundreds died....so did their chicks.
This is the reality of climate change.
For them, an unlivable world is already here.
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An exciting observation - the first time ever recorded: a wild orangutan uses a plant called Akar Kuning - an anti-inflammatory & anti-bacterial plant - to treat a wound.
Our closest relative deserves our high respect & far greater protection
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#ClimateCrisis
Monkeys are dropping dead from the trees in Mexico as extreme heat is due to surpass 113°F (45C).
85 dead mantled howler monkeys (alouatta palliata) have been reported, but many more may have died.
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#PalmOil
They shot me for walking where my forest used to be.
There is little hope for us, but save yourselves - learn about the alternatives to palm oil such as single cell oils from yeast or microalgae (SCO), so you can campaign for your own sake👇
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#Birds
Hundreds of Little penguins lie dead, their tiny frames emaciated.
They had searched desperately for food but died from prolonged starvation, as ocean heating drove fish away.
It’s not insults from CC deniers that grieves me, it’s the stark reality of climate change.
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#Dogsoftwitter
#Labradors
My sister, a vet, brought this little one home for me to adopt. Found chained in a barn, just a skeleton, dog bites on shoulders. Nursed back to life, she's still very thin & emotionally traumatised.
Could you help with name suggestions please? ❤️
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#ClimateEmergency
Most victims of wildfires are quiet, unseen tragedies.
This bear was among three rescued - one pregnant - all had serious third-degree burns to their paws.
The bandages are edible to avoid harm, and a wonderful den was built for the mother bear's release.
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#Ocean
Imagine if we found this magical scene on another planet.
People would lose their minds over it.
But here, we mine, trawl, poison, drop anchors, & stomp on fragile ecosystems, & climate change will finish the job.
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#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateActionNow
Fly all you want
Eat more meat
Buy more stuff
Vote for anti-greens
Don't insulate
Turn up your air-con
Mock the scientists
It doesn't matter to me
Now.
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#ClimateCrisis
#Mexico
The last embrace.
Howler monkeys, who dropped dead from trees in unlivable heat, are buried in each other’s arms.
We’ve ignored decades of scientific warnings yet, amid global catastrophic consequences, we are still digging our own graves.
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#COP15
#BiodiversityCrisis
The last wave goodbye.
They spend their lives peacefully dispersing tree and flower seeds.
But 98% of their forest was destroyed for raising cattle, so we can soon include the extinction of the Brown spider monkeys of Venezuela in the price of beef.
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#Birds
People who bought the wonderful yellow-crested cockatoo as a pet have driven them to the brink of extinction.
Yet they are still advertised for sale and still illegally smuggled with appalling cruelty.
They will be gone in my lifetime.
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#Arctic
Narwhals are so frightened by noise, that a ship 40 km away can stop them foraging & makes them use precious energy swimming faster to get away.
This could affect their long-term survival.
So before you book an Arctic cruise, remember - they have nowhere else to go.
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#Whales
Two friends die together - Iceland's shame
But pressure is mounting to end whaling
80 international film professionals now refuse to work in Iceland, threatening $198 million pa industry.
Tourism likely to suffer $20 million loss as people stay away.
Let's keep it up.
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#Whales
This is what Iceland does to a mother and baby.
Scurrying to hide the unborn calf.
They knew how sickening this looked.
Fear, agonizing pain & brutal death for 7 magnificent fin whales in just one week.
The world is watching these atrocities, and we won’t forget.
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#Spain
Some sanity at last. Spain has abolished its national bullfighting award ($32,217) amid declining support for using public money to reward animal torture.
Right-wing conservatives are furious, they say it's an art form & cultural tradition.
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#Elephants
That Asian elephants carry a dead calf for as long as 48 hours to reach a specific burial place
That they are all laid to rest in the same way
That they trumpet loudly after the careful burial
Somehow makes the deplorable way we treat them even more unbearable.
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#Birds
Depravity in North Carolina. Slaughtering swans for fun.
Swans fly thousands of miles to find food.
Humans use decoys & calls to deceive them.
1/3 of live swans' bodies studied contain shot.
It is haunting to see how deeply swans mourn the loss of their life partner.
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#USA
#Wolves
I hope Cody Roberts from Daniel, Wyoming will be shunned across America.
He enjoys tormenting - and killing - the young, defenseless, injured and terrified.
Calls for his further prosecution under state anti-cruelty law 👇
Further on the young wolf that Cody Roberts, from Wyoming tortured & then killed: Ran it over with his snowmobile, wounded it, tapped it’s mouth shut, before first taking it home, then parading round a bar before killing it. How terrified & in pain it must have been. Heartless!😢
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Horseshoe crabs are aquatic chelicerate arthropods.
Their fossil record spans ~445 million years
We use them as fish bait & in medical science - we drain their blue blood for testing vaccines etc & numbers have crashed.
They are kinder to each other
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#PalmOil
Look at their innocent faces.
Their lives depend on what we buy.
Palm oil is in vegan products like Earth Balance.
Laundry & cleaning products too
No palm oil is sustainable. It's just a lie.
We've taken everything from them.
The least we can do is read a label.
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#BoycottIceland
So, the whale killer wins again
Iceland's minister has granted the millionaire owner of Hvalur hf. a permit to slaughter 128 whales this year.
What can we do? Share this news widely, & ask people to boycott Iceland, so next year, they'll know how much we care.
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This baby rhino was found traumatized after poachers killed her mother, then she was attacked by hyenas
Dedicated care means she will survive & may have a calf of her own one day.
Only one month in the world, and she has met the very cruellest, and also the kindest of humans.
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#Nature
Pigs are extremely good swimmers.
They're hoping that the more people know about them,
the less likely they are to end up on a plate.
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#Africa
Giraffes are quietly leaving the world, and few seem to care.
We need to prevent this silent extinction.
If giraffes matter to you, then RT.
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#Pangolins
A former police officer has been sentenced to one of the longest jail terms Malaysia has ever given for a crime involving the world’s most trafficked mammal.
He has been sentenced to over 15 years for possession of 81 critically-endangered pangolins.
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#birds
I'm now in Peru. Here, at the Yawar Fiesta, a wild condor is trapped, fed alcohol, then its legs are sewn into a bull's skin for a fight to begin.
Trying desperately to escape, the condor pecks in fear at the terrified bull's neck & eyes as the crowd jeers in jubilation.
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#Seahorses
#TCM
If only we had a cure for human stupidity.
Tens of millions of seahorses die every year for bogus traditional remedies, and around a million go as pets, but only a tiny fraction survive more than a few weeks.
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#WorldElephantDay
My leg is swollen, too painful to stand on.
They use terror to force me to do tricks.
The wound on my face is from the cruel bullhook.
You know, I mattered once, to my family.
But only human pleasure matters in this world.
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#Nature
Nigerian pangolins are nearly extinct after traffickers have turned to Africa.
In Asia, a million pangolins were killed in 10 years.
All 8 extant species of pangolin are on the brink of extinction due to belief in China & Vietnam that keratin has medicinal properties.
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#Nature
This stunning supermodel canid is the Maned wolf.
Neither wolf nor fox, it belongs to its own genus, Chrysocyon.
Habitat destruction for cattle crops in South America is causing the decline of this important species, an omnivore, whose main diet is the wolf-apple.
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#rivers
A swan and a mallard try to feed in the river Thames - so polluted it is barely recognizable as water.
A physical manifestation of Tory corruption, inaction, lack of vision and ineptitude.
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#Vegan
#Vegetarian
Saying it's cruel to eat my body,
and equally cruel to wear my skin
doesn't sound extreme to me,
just rational.
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#FaroeIslands
156 long-finned pilot whales were slaughtered in Suðuroy last night.
After a terrifying chase, they all witnessed their family members being brutally butchered in front of them, before dying themselves.
This must stop.
(📷 Andrija ILIC from previous grind)
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#NewYear2024
As people celebrate with noise and air pollution,
most of the world struggles to survive and protect their loved ones.
I wish everyone a more thoughtful and compassionate New Year.
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Don't look away
Look at us - over a hundred rare dolphins died here
Think what we suffered when we cooked alive
in water hotter than your bath.
We deserve you to feel - really feel
so you have the fire in your heart to fight
for those still alive on planet Earth.
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#Whalewatching
A Pilot whale cries in fear & pain after a boat strike.
Known for their highly-social, altruistic behavior, the others call and circle protectively.
Whale-watching is just another way of hunting - the payoff being entertainment, but it is also often deadly.
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#RIPLolita
#RIPTokitae
How it began: August, 1970
80 orcas captured. Using boats, explosives & nets they separated calves from their mothers.
Locals were haunted by their pitiful cries.
Most of the babies didn't last a year.
One orca killed herself by ramming into a wall.
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#Orangutans
#Easter
As you buy your hot cross buns, I hope you will think of me
The palm fat they contain cost my forest & 100,000 orangutan lives.
When they found me, a bullet in my chest, my family all dead
They called me Friday - it was Good Friday.
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#BoycottIceland
A near fully-developed fin whale calf is pulled from its butchered mother.
Kristján Loftsson, owner of Hvalur hf. whaling Co says he prefers the whales he slaughters to be pregnant "It shows they are healthy"
He has a new permit to kill 128 whales.
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#Sharks
The UK has a long, dark participation in the shark fin trade, importing 60 tonnes p.a in recent years (UK Gov data)
After years of campaigning, on 16th June 2023 the Lords finally passed a bill for a ban.
Royal assent is still required.
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#Brazil
He tried to run, but with his fur on fire, and flames raging faster than a jaguar, this anteater didn't stand a chance.
The worst of the fire season is weeks away, but this year looks even more catastrophic than 2020, when an estimated 17 million animals died here.
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#Colombia
Colombia, a country I love for the warmth of its people, its beauty & biodiversity, voted today to ban bullfighting.
No one who saw this fatal goring of a brave horse by a terrified bull could defend animal torture as entertainment in 21st century.
Great decision.
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#Gaza
UPDATE: on starving animals in Rafah zoo in Gaza: of the multiple agencies contacted, only one has responded so far:
Four Paws, who have done heroic work to save dying animals in 5 zoos in Gaza in several of Israel’s bombardments over the past years👇say: 🧵
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This is the moment the last male Northern White Rhino on earth died.
It is one of the greatest losses in history.
In 1960, there were 2,000. By 1984, only 15.
Have we learnt from this?
You will see, in my next tweet, the shocking news today.
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#FridayFeeling
It's been a difficult day. We found a 13ft tiger shark entangled in a massive discarded fishing net.
Rob, one of our team, got injured - the shark was very stressed - but due to the depth, he couldn't be rushed to the surface.
We eventually got the shark free.
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#FreyaTheWalrus
The adorable Freya the walrus was needlessly killed by Norway a year ago today.
Her death was caused by the public's refusal to leave her in peace & Norway's failure to control them.
People hounded her; the authorities shot her & dissolved her body in lye.
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@Johnmccorry55Mc
This is what local volunteers are doing: giving them water & food.
The other question is, what are the rest of us doing about it?
Obviously extreme heat kills people too, esp the poor, the elderly & children.
I suspect most will think this sad, & go back to doing nothing.
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Deep shame of Australia's live export:
Gasping to breathe
Lungs burning from stench of ammonia
Covered in feces
14K sheep & 2.5K cattle in 104°F heatwave
Will suffer onboard hell for 58 days or more
And that's before the slaughter horror
Full story👇
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#Extinction
For a sixth night, he desperately calls for his lost brother, killed on this road.
A year ago, there were only three females left.
We are watching the extinction of the magnificent Asiatic cheetah unfold, his cries soon only a memory, forever silenced.
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#Birds
Happy news: the world's cuddliest bird, the kākāpō is back from the brink of extinction
Soft, gentle & intelligent, with a scent like papaya, they are so trusting they were easy prey to humans & the species they brought to NZ, which used to be a paradise island of birds
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#Dogs
He’s brought me a gift - a leaf.
He trusts me now, but it’s been a long road.
My sister, a vet, treated his fractures - he’d been brutally kicked & stamped on.
I adopted a deeply troubled soul.
Dog cruelty happening on ‘massive scale’ RSPCA
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#Climate
Apocalyptic wildfires in the Pantanal wetlands in South America have affected 45% of the already threatened jaguar population.
This female jaguar has a chance of recovery, she was treated with stem-cell injections for her badly burned paws.
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#Vegan
One of the most depressing things on twitter is the number of people who write 'Definitely not vegan' on their profile.
Like they're really proud to be pro-cruelty.
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What we can’t show is
Their fear
The choking stench
What happens to slurry in rough seas
Their thirst & hunger
Their exhaustion
Their bellows of distress
🩸The horror that awaits 🩸
All this, because people don’t want frozen meat.
This must stop.
#BanLiveExport
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#Cats
Six cheetahs have died in rising death toll from the disastrous plan to relocate 20 from Africa to India
Extreme heat & malnutrition are the main suspected causes.
A female had 4 cubs - all dead from dehydration but one, who is at death’s door.
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#Birds
Puffins, who are devoted parents, are now driven to smashing their own egg as they can't find food to feed their chicks.
Desperate, they fly for 100km but return to find the chick has starved.
Overfishing and climate change is wiping out some of the biggest colonies.
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#Whales
If the whales are pregnant when they die
it’s “a plus point, as it means they are healthy.”
Using harpoons which explode inside them, Norway kills more whales than any country: 580 last year.
They can take two hours to die.
If this matters to you
#boycottNorway
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#Primates
The latest outrage:
Tobacco farmers destroyed the trees which contain essential minerals, so now chimpanzees in Uganda are driven to eating dangerous bat guano.
Metagenomic analyses of the guano identified 27 eukaryotic viruses, including a novel betacoronavirus.
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#Vegan
"Where's Mummy gone?"
His heartbreak, his lonely pain, his death, HIS milk.
#DitchDairy
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#boycottNorway
Norway has increased kill quota to over a thousand whales for 2024.
Many will be pregnant and will die in agony.
Would you help whales by telling Minister for Fisheries
@CecilieMyrseth
who set quota to 1,157
and PM
@JonasGahrStoere
if this matters to you?
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#Climate
It was today, two years ago, in the extreme heat of Melbourne when 4,500 grey-headed flying foxes died.
"They're looking up at you and gasping. It’s so distressing & heartbreaking; it haunts me"
Let their deaths not be in vain. We must remember why we have to change.
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#China
Sometimes good triumphs over evil...and 💰💰💰
A courageous decision by Sri Lanka to reject sending 100,000 macaques to hell in China - they badly need the $
The 📸said "We can find much greater love & compassion in the wild, they are probably more human than humans."
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#Tigers
An extraordinarily rare glimpse of one of the last Malayan tigers; there are only 150 left on Earth.
Their rapid decline is due to deforestation & poaching for body parts. 1400 snares were found in their protected area.
So, take a good look, we may not see one again.
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#Nature
Exploding jaw bombs are now the biggest killer of the hundreds of elephants who die every year in Sri Lanka.
Farmers are the keenest buyers as revenge for the crops elephants eat now their natural habitat is destroyed.
Unable to eat, they die slowly from starvation.
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#PalmOil
#Animals
#Deforestation
When all you've got left to hang onto
are those who took everything from you.
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#Whales
Iceland's deep, deep shame.
A harpoon exploded inside the male, but it didn't kill him - he suffered in agony for a full 30 minutes more before they fired the 2nd.
Another was shot, but escaped, no doubt to die slowly.
Don't support this barbarity
#BoycottIceland
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#Cats
Texas Big Bobcat killing Contest USA
Last year, the winner was awarded US$35,530.
Teams have to shoot 5 coyotes or 5 gray foxes to qualify.
This is the weigh-in; all that grace & beauty treated like trash.
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#Birds
What I can't stand is how we won't make even the tiniest change to protect other species.
New report shows the devastating effect of bird panic from fireworks - they fly for hours in terror, at high altitudes, & 11 days later are still trying to replace energy lost. 1/2
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🌱
Death of Dairy in USA:
2,730 US dairy farms have gone out of business in 18 months.
Now, Borden Dairy & Dean Foods in Dallas, the nation’s largest milk producer, filed for bankruptcy protection, while plant-based milk sales are booming.
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#Fireworks
In 36 days, at least 6 million dogs in UK will cower in terror as fireworks explode & metal particulates inc lead pollute children's lungs.
In wild birds, research shows av heart rate increased 96%, & was still 31% higher 2 hours later.
Time to stop the madness?
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#PaddingtonBear
#Animals
I am back from the Andes, home to the beautiful Spectacled bear - the original Paddington.
Highly intelligent, 95% herbivorous, timid & no threat to humans, they are relentlessly trapped & shot.
So few remain, soon they will exist only in fiction.
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#Nature
#Palmoil
#Deforestation
Orangutan comes from the Malay words 'orang' (people) and 'hutan' (forest).
People of the forest.
Not animals. People.
Named by those who knew them best.
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This orangutan was found starving to death.
80% of his habitat is now destroyed
Despite now being one of the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, Indonesia has lifted freeze on permits for new palm oil plantations.
About 1/2 of supermarket products contain palm oil
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#ClimateCrisis
Brazil's pantanal is the world's largest tropical wetland, a biodiversity hotspot & haven for jaguars.
It is currently on fire - the heatwave a searing 43C/109F.
Summer doesn't start until December 22nd.
Terrible burns & starvation await many survivors.
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