Japan’s ivory trade is attracting fresh global scrutiny amid warnings by conservationists that products often leak overseas from the country’s domestic market — one of few in the world still legal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/10/japan/japan-ivory-trade/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #endangered #trade
Alex Akselrod
boosted
'It will poison everything.' #NativeAmericans protest #YuccaMountain #Nuclear Waste site
by Ed Komenda, May 22, 2019
"“Those transportation routes go through any number of sensitive habitats where a #derailment or a truck accident could cause significant impacts on water or on wildlife that live along those transportation corridors,' Donnelly [Nevada state director for the Center for Biological Diversity] said.
"The office of #Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford identified the complexity of waste transport as one of many reasons storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain does little to protect the #environment and people. Other concerns include national security (waste shipments as terrorist targets) and geology (Yucca's aquifer drains to the #AmargosaValley – home to more than 1,400 people and several #endangered species). [And is seismically unstable]
"' #Contamination from Yucca Mountain could very easily contaminate the #aquifer,' Donnelly said, 'and thus contaminate all sorts of springs that harbor some kind of endemic life.'"
#NoNukes #WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalRacism
https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2019/05/22/yucca-mountain-nuclear-waste-nevada-test-site/3694806002/
Coastal erosion is threatening to reduce the populations of three types of endangered sea turtles known to nest in Okinawa Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/10/japan/okinawa-sea-turtles/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #oceans #okinawa #environment #seaturtles #endangered
Ika Makimaki
boosted
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🐢🌊 Ancient mariners that shared the planet with #dinosaurs, sea #turtles have navigated our #oceans for 100 million years. All 7 species now face threats from #fishing nets, #plastic #pollution, and #climatechange, but #conservation efforts show hope for recovery.
#climate #marinelife #wildlife #endangered #science #education #animals #babies #beach #biology #nature #ocean #reptiles #tksst #video
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🐢🌊 Ancient mariners that shared the planet with #dinosaurs, sea #turtles have navigated our #oceans for 100 million years. All 7 species now face threats from #fishing nets, #plastic #pollution, and #climatechange, but #conservation efforts show hope for recovery.
#climate #marinelife #wildlife #endangered #science #education #animals #babies #beach #biology #nature #ocean #reptiles #tksst #video
The survival of Europe's wild pollinators is increasingly at risk, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has said, as it declared dozens of bee and butterfly species to be threatened. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/10/13/wildlife/europe-bees-butterflies-risk/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #wildlife #europe #bees #butterflies #wildlife #environment #climatechange #pesticides #endangered
A rebound in populations of the fish shows capitalist self-interest and regulation can work together. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/16/japan/sushi-and-tuna-extinction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #tuna #fishing #fish #oceans #food #environment #endangered
Ika Makimaki
and 1 other
boosted
Described in 2009, assessed as Critically Endangered in 2010, not seen since 2013...until now.
The cave crayfish Cambarus laconensis.
And you lucky ducks who follow me get to see a photo of it! It is endemic to a single cave. Talk about pressure! It has one home in the entire world. Let's protect it, shall we? By protecting the small critters, we protect us all.
#endangered #critical #habitat #crayfish #cave #caves #biology #ecology #nature #animal #wild #wildlife #science #life#SilentSunday
Described in 2009, assessed as Critically Endangered in 2010, not seen since 2013...until now.
The cave crayfish Cambarus laconensis.
And you lucky ducks who follow me get to see a photo of it! It is endemic to a single cave. Talk about pressure! It has one home in the entire world. Let's protect it, shall we? By protecting the small critters, we protect us all.
#endangered #critical #habitat #crayfish #cave #caves #biology #ecology #nature #animal #wild #wildlife #science #life#SilentSunday
John Hume, the South African who bred the world’s biggest rhino herd, has been arrested on charges of smuggling millions of dollars worth of the endangered animals’ horns. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/20/wildlife/rhino-herd-horn-smuggling/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #wildlife #rhinos #southafrica #endangered #animalwelfare #poaching
The European Union on Friday proposed making all eel species, including the Japanese eel, subject to regulation under an international treaty to protect endangered species — a move that Japan opposes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/28/japan/eu-eels-proposal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #eu #endangered #eel #fish #trade #eujapanrelations #cites
Fifty years after "Jaws" vilified sharks, real-world overfishing, climate change and misunderstanding — not cinematic horror — now threaten their survival, though conservation efforts offer hope for their recovery. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/22/world/movie-jaws-demonized-sharks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #jaws #sharks #conservation #climatechange #endangered
This elusive possum was thought to be extinct outside Victoria. Now ecologists have made an ‘amazing’ discovery
Leadbeater’s possum spotted in NSW at Kosciuszko national park, at least 250km away from the nearest sighting in Victoria