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The snakes belong here

"Years-long research project finds snakes become 'very disoriented', lose weight and get sick when relocated.The snakes belong here. They have always been here and it's us humans coming in needing to learn how to live better with snakes."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-09/research-project-canberra-snake-tracking-discoveries/104904398
#native #wildlife #habitat #HomeRange #snakes #possums #relocation #translocation #sprawl #pets #HWI #HumanWildlifeInteractions

Years-long research project finds snakes become 'very disoriented', lose weight and get sick when relocated

Hundreds of snakes are moved from backyards, inside homes and other urban areas into reserves and bushland around Canberra each year — but until now, little has been known about what happens to snakes after they’re released.

ABC News

BC Info Bot Aug 17, 2023

Global News BC: Food ban in effect at 3 Coquitlam parks with at least 20 recent bear sightings https://globalnews.ca/news/9901043/food-ban-coquitlam-parks-black-bears/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #humanwildlifeinteractions #Coquitlamparkfoodban #Coquitlamblackbears #Coquitlampicnicban #Coquitlamfoodban #CityofCoquitlam #coquitlamparks #CoquitlamRiver #Environment #BCwildlife #BlackBears

Food ban in effect at 3 Coquitlam parks with at least 20 recent bear sightings

Picnics, snacks and garbage are now banned in at the Hockaday, Galette and Karley Crescent parks as safety measure both for humans and black bears.

Global News

BC Info Bot Jul 16, 2023

Global News BC: ‘This little gal’: B.C. man reportedly fired for rescuing moose calf in work truck https://globalnews.ca/news/9835703/fort-nelson-man-fired-moose-rescue-bc/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BCConservationOfficeService #humanwildlifeinteractions #Canadianwildlifestories #FortNelsonnews #wildliferescue #BCWildlifeAct #Environment #BCwildlife #bccos #Moose

‘This little gal’: B.C. man reportedly fired for rescuing moose calf in work truck

Mark Skage said he brought "this little gal" back to town to a farm, and eventually, she wound up at a permitted wildlife rehabilitation facility in Dawson Creek.

Global News

BellingenNSW May 14, 2023

The broken relationship between humans and nature:
Skimming the edited extract from Foreign Bodies by Simon #Schama:

#Displacement is a symptom of #Ecosystems under stress.
“The crashing of barriers between wild and domestic spaces has an ominous side."
"Clearcutting for suburban #Construction to meet the quickened demand has brought new residents ever closer to those ubiquitous reservoirs of #Disease."
The #AmericanDream (The #AustralianDream): the suburban hyperfertilised #Lawn
"The #Sprawl of herbicide-saturated, brilliantly lurid carpet lawns of “colonial” McMansions."
The cult of #Individualism
Cities, suburbanites and species out of place..

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/13/simon-schama-foreign-bodies-book-extract-broken-relationship-humans-animals
#EcologicalDisruption #HumanWildlifeInteractions #HWI #WildlifeTrade #Extinction #Biodiversity #Pandemics #Zoonosis

Simon Schama on the broken relationship between humans and nature: ‘The joke’s on us. Things are amiss’

More than ever, the relationship between our two worlds has been disrupted, says the historian. If we don’t mend our ways, will we face even deadlier threats than Covid, Sars and Mpox?

The Guardian