Koalas at risk of death once seven-day temperatures rise beyond 27C
Nutritional and climate refugia for koalas

"Extreme heat is a major factor in the number of deaths and hospitalisations of Australians every year....An analysis of 11,862 koala rescue admissions to NSW animal hospitals found the marsupials were more likely to die when the seven-day average maximum temperature was greater than 27 degrees Celsius."

"Dr Mella said water stations could be left out as well as shade structures built for koalas in hot regions like north-west NSW. We do that for cattle and we do that for animals that we use for our needs, so we really should be doing it for wildlife as well."

When koalas rests low to the ground in the shade trying to beat the heat they are usually chased and injured by dogs and car. >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-05-27/koala-deaths-linked-to-a-few-extra-degrees-of-heat/106722276
#Koalas #refugia #FossilFuels #heatwaves #drought #climate #cars #sprawl #dogs #NSW #MassMortalities #widllife #extinctions #DomesticAnimals #HeatRelatedRisks #biodiversity

African #frogs haven’t forgotten the ice ages. Scientists can tell by where they live https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/african-frogs-havent-forgotten-the-ice-ages-scientists-can-tell-by-where-they-live/ paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.73207

"the #CongoRainforest remained stable throughout the #Pleistocene ice ages. But as Earth’s #climate cooled and dried, the #Congo’s forest borders receded in some places, creating pockets of more or less stable forested areas called #refugia... they aligned with the modern diversity of frogs... & with the small distributions of #endemic species."

#Crowdfunding für #REFUGIA startet am 5. Februar: #Arteninseln sollen bedrohte heimische Pflanzen retten

https://www.l-iz.de/politik/engagement/2026/02/crowdfunding-fuer-refugia-startet-am-5-februar-arteninseln-sollen-bedrohte-heimische-pflanzen-retten-646220
#Leipzig #Artenschutz #Kleingärten

Reading up on the #Cordilleran ice sheet, which is/was the ice sheet on the west coast of North America during the current period of #glaciation (from 2,580,000 years ago to present.)

#Wikipedia's article has an uncited section about #Refugia which includes a possibly controversial statement - needs tagging:

"…evidence of ice-free refugia above present sea level north of the Olympic Peninsula has been refuted by genetic and geological studies since the middle 1990s."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordilleran_ice_sheet#Refugia

@Broadfork Let us know if you do please!

#hedgehog
#refugia
#hibernacula