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💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐘💩 In a 15-year field #experiment at #Mpala, #Kenya, researchers built fences to keep #elephants out and watched what happened.

Without elephant dung to eat, dung #beetle populations collapsed, resulting in 23% fewer species and 67% fewer individuals. The #study, led by Finote Gijsman, is the first large-scale #demonstration that protecting elephants also protects everything that depends on them.

👉 https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/removal-of-african-elephants-causes-coextinction-of-dung-beetles-study-finds/

#dungbeetles #ecology #conservation #savanna #ecosystem #insects #biodiversity #science #africa

Removal of African elephants causes coextinction of dung beetles, study finds

Researchers in Kenya found that removing elephants from the landscape causes local extinction of dung beetles and a cascade of ecological harms.

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CBC Top Stories 1d ago

Among Christian conservative women, potential trouble in support for Trump
Savanna Stone is a rising star in the online conservative community, with some 800,000 followers across her social media platforms. She was invited to be a keynote speaker at the Turning Point USA Women’s Leadership Summit. While she didn't raise her concerns about U.S. President Donald Trump in her main stage address, s...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/turning-point-usa-womens-conference-savanna-stone-9.7231088?cmp=rss

KUVO Playlist 3d ago

10:17am Savanna by David Sanborn from Hearsay
#DavidSanborn #Savanna #AJazzyThing #KUVO

Annals of Botany May 7

🎉 Great news! The paper ‘The phylogenetic diversity of plant communities in response to anthropogenic disturbances in a Neotropical savanna’ in @AnnBot by Monize Altomare and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/8)

👉 https://doi.org/q5mg

#AoBpapers #Biodiversity #Conservation #InvasiveSpecies #Savanna #PlantScience