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Your feel-good pic of the day! This was a rare sighting of a decreasing population of Indian Ocean Humpback Dolphin. Photo taken in Mozambique by @ivy_yin_ while documenting the conservation efforts of Dr. Andrea Marshall @queenofmantas and the Marine Megafauna Foundation @marinemegafauna #humpbackdolphin #mozambique #bazaruto #research #education #conservation #protectwhatyoulove #ourchildrensearth
Where did all the birds go? Due to human activity nearly 30% of the North American bird population has declined since 1970. That’s nearly 3 billion birds in the last half century in this unprecedented crisis. “I would call it an imminent disaster,” says Ken Rosenberg, a conservation scientist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the @americanbirdconservancy , and the lead author of this research. “We need to do something about it now, and we need to pay attention. The loss of that magnitude could signal an unraveling of ecological processes. People need to start paying attention to the birds around them, because if the loss continues we’re really going to notice it and feel it.” Scientists believe that the loss of bird populations is due to a variety of factors, chief among them habitat loss, intensifying agricultural production and disruption of coastal ecosystems, all of which are exacerbated by the intensifying impacts of anthropogenic climate change. “The bulk of that loss is occurring in the common species and across every habitat”, says Rosenberg. In particular, the authors of the paper believe that the stunning losses of grassland bird populations are driven in large part by increased pesticide usage and habitat loss due to agriculture. Grassland bird species showed the largest impacts, with more than half their number, over 700 million breeding individuals across 31 species, lost since 1970. Birds living in forests also showed massive hits, with total losses of more than a billion birds. How can you help? Avoiding meat and dairy is the 'single best way' to combat water pollution, ocean dead zones, species extinctions, deforestation and climate change. (Photos @ivy_yin_ ) #birds #audubon #extinction #go #vegan #plantbased #organic #chemicalfree #saynotoplastic #protectwhatyoulove #ourchildrensearth
Trying to make the world a better place is much easier with Captain Planet on your team 🌎 Thank you @the_veganmodel for all you do in educating us all. #protectewhatyoulove #thisiszerohour #go #vegan #plantbased #ourchildrensearth
We are celebrating a third legal victory in the ongoing "Sick of Sewage" campaign. We secured a positive settlement with Sarasota County that will bring the county back into compliance with the federal Clean Water Act, after an ill-suited plan to consolidate its wide-ranging sewage system put over a billion gallons of sewage water into Phillippi Creek and Sarasota Bay." Our 2019 investigation of Sarasota County’s wastewater systems revealed a shocking pattern of longstanding, systematic infrastructure failures and communications breakdowns that contributed massive amounts of pollution to area waters, harming public health and ecosystems. Long story short: the storage pond at the county’s largest treatment facility began periodically overflowing into Phillippi Creek, which flows into Sarasota Bay. The County knew about the Bee Ridge Pond overflows since at least 2013 and inexplicably did nothing to curtail its illegal practice of letting excess reclaimed water flow over the weir and into area waters, claiming it did not have enough re-use customers and therefore nowhere to send the nitrogen-laced water. Florida DEP also was inactive for 6 years. Our investigation revealed that the real cause of those spills was a total failure to properly manage the county’s sewage infrastructure in the face of insufficient demand for the re-use water produced at the Bee Ridge treatment plant. To date, spills from the Bee Ridge pond have totaled over a billion gallons since 2013 on 394 separate days, adding more than 65 tons of nitrogen into local waterways. To their credit, after receiving our notice of intent to sue in early 2019, the Sarasota County Commission showed a willingness to work toward solving the problems and avoiding litigation. Throughout 2019, they have been responsive to public’s calls for environmental protection and have demonstrated a commitment to fixing infrastructure problems and making big investments in environmental infrastructure moving forward. Our legal settlement secured court enforceable commitments for the County to implement. #ourchildrensearth
Your feel-good pic of the day by OCE Member @jeffbiegephotography 💙 Be sure to check out his outstanding gallery that continues to connect us with the natural world 🌎 To be featured, click the link in our bio and fill out the (Contact Us) form. #sunday #bellyscratch #beatpollution #protectwhatyoulove #ourchildrensearth
Recipe of the week by @the_veganmodel | Lentil stuffed peppers and tomatoes! Do you have a favorite plant-based recipe you want to share? Tag us or send us a message to be featured! Remember, avoiding meat and dairy is the 'single best way' to combat water pollution, ocean dead zones, species extinctions, deforestation and climate change. Source: Dr. Joseph Poore, University of Oxford 🌎 #citizens4cleanwater #go #vegan #plantbased #crueltyfree #beatpollution #protectwhatyoulove #ourchildrensearth
This generation gets it. #climatestrike #changeiscoming #fridaysforfuture #thisiszerohour #go #vegan #plantbased #climatejustice #ourchildrensearth
She speaks, and the world listens. Greta Thunberg arrived on stage at a #climatestrike rally in Battery Park to cheers of “Greta! Greta!” More than 250,000 people in New York City joined millions of others striking worldwide. “It’s not just the young people’s house. We all live here. It affects all of us,” Thunberg said. “Why should we study for a future that is being taken away from us? That is being stolen for profit? Some people say we should study to become climate scientists or politicians, so that we can, in the future, solve the climate crisis. But by then, it will be too late. We need to do this now.” #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #thisiszerohour #go #vegan #plantbased #climatejustice #ourchildrensearth
“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.” - John F. Kennedy | Researchers have pointed out, it was in our oceans that life as we know it began some 3.4 billion years ago, well before life on land took shape a mere 400 million years ago. Water also accounts for 60 percent of the human body. In short, we are ocean. Let’s protect it 🌎 #citizens4cleanwater #beatpollution #protectwhatyoulove #ourchildrensearth
Making signs for the #climatestrike marches Sept 20 and for the following week of action. OCE staff will join the marches in NYC & SF. Want a sign? Find us at the marches or send a note via our website (link in bio) #youth4climate #strikewithus #fightforwhatyoulove #oneplanet #divest #youthvgov #ourkids #ourfuture #waterislife #climatecrisis #12yearsleft #changeiscoming #ourchildrensearth

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