Age 10 💚 The Barometer of Life ✨
‘We could be facing the largest loss of life since the dinosaurs, and it’s being driven by humans. #TheRedList David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation Liz Bonnin 💙 Prof. Eliot Jacobson WWF UK
#Climatechange #biodiversity #Polarbearday 🌎🤍
🎶 We Tried Louise Harris

‘Thank you so much to everyone who entered my giveaway! The prize goes to Marthy!’ Gemma 🥰You win my original lino print, octopus, and a card and print of your choice!’❤️Last days to buy Prints and cards in Benji’s shop, all proceeds to charity❤️ benjaminfallow.etsy.com

The decision at #COP28 to finally recognize that the climate crisis is, at its heart, a fossil fuel crisis is an important milestone. But it is also the bare minimum we need and is long overdue. The influence of petrostates is still evident in the half measures and loopholes…

Every endangered species we ID at the Reserve is another legal defense of this area, which is blanketed in mining concessions. Min. de Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica 🇪🇨

‘Nature is precious and we can’t survive without it. We’re part of nature, we’re not separate. 🌍 young people need a future’ 🙏💚💚💚
💚 Benji was proud to speak with youth activists around the world for Reserva: The Youth Land Trust message to #COP 2022 last year 🙏Governments need to listen! 🌍

Here's the good news:
💚 Gen Z is the first generation to list the environment as one of their top 3 priorities
🤙 Millenial giving has grown 40% since 2016
🤷‍♀️ Can't afford to give? Charities benefit from your time, talent, passion, and story!
🐣 Every gift makes a difference.

📰 We are excited to share some long-awaited news: The paperwork is complete, and Dracula Reserve has grown by 1,050 acres! 🌴 Hundreds of youth donated or fundraised for this project, an expansion to the world's first youth-funded reserve and the wider Dracula corridor. 💚

We photographed this Buff-tailed coronet during a baseline bird study last month at Dracula Reserve. After collecting data on the bird's size, weight, and health, we snapped a few quick photos and released it back into the forest! 🌴 📸 @calliebroaddus #birding

Genial registro en #Carchi de Callie Broaddus. Hay muy poca información de estos gusanos del género Onoreodrilus (bautizado en honor al Dr. Giovanni Onore). Solo se han descrito 5 especies, todas del #Ecuador y 2 las compartimos con #Colombia . Más motivos para usar iNaturalist

My first #observationoftheday on iNaturalist is a GIANT worm from Dracula Reserve in Ecuador!

You've seen headlines today about the new ipbes Report on #InvasiveAlienSpecies ? Here's a 1-min. snapshot of what the world's best experts say on the growth of this problem & its impacts.

Take 1 minute: this affects you, your family and your community! ipbes.net/IASmediarelease

A monumental contribution to science and humanity ❤️

Even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as during the pandemic lockdown, we wouldn't achieve our climate targets.

While individuals made huge sacrifices, the system remained. This shows that individual action will not solve climate change. We need the system to change.

¡Hoy hicimos historia!

Esta consulta, nacida desde la ciudadanía, demuestra el mayor consenso nacional en Ecuador. Es la primera vez que un país decide defender la vida y dejar el petróleo bajo tierra.

¡Es una victoria histórica para Ecuador y para el planeta!

#SÍalYasuní

So elated to share that the episode of #WildHopeTV featuring Reserva: The Youth Land Trust is live on Nature! Learn about how mining is *still * threatening Ecuador's cloud forests and what we're doing to help. youtu.be/ntdzbxTtv7A

Ecuador, Yasuní National Park oil exploitation referendum results:

34.8% counted

Yes (banning oil exploitation in the park): 58.8 (-0.3)%
No (continuing oil exploitation in the park): 41.2 (+0.3)%

+/- vs. 10.8% counted

#Ecuador #Ecuador ALasUrnas #EleccionesEcuador2023

HIGHLY recommend watching this entire #TEDtalk by Al Gore to very quickly understand the climate crisis and why so many people are livid about the continued development of fossil fuels projects.

Massively under-reported science story because there's so much going on right now but...it turns out that we might have figured out what's causing this very scary spike.

Quick thread, on how WE'VE BEEN ACCIDENTALLY GEOENGINEERING FOR DECADES...but then we stopped:

The 🌎 is facing a planetary emergency of nature loss & #ClimateChange .

It’s made worse by the impacts of inequality, conflict, insecurity & health crises.

But nature is humanity's most powerful asset. Investing in it will help us fight back #ForNature . go.undp.org/vNXb

‘Today is Earth Overshoot Day, and these are very hard times for nature, so it’s incredible that Reserva and Dracula Youth Reserva have reached their target! 1,050 more acres of cloud forest protected for nature! 💚 congratulations Reserva: The Youth Land Trust !’ 💚
Callie Broaddus Bella Lack