Richard Michael Blaberhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/21/england-wildlife-watchdog-has-stopped-designating-special-sites-for-protection. "No new #sites of #special #scientific #interest (SSSIs) have been designated by #NaturalEngland since 2023. SSSIs are nationally or internationally important places for rare #wildlife & #habitats. Without the designation, endangered #species can be at risk of being lost to #development." See: https://wildjustice.org.uk/unprotected-nature-report/; https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/natural-englands-strategy-recovering-nature-for-growth-health-and-security/natural-englands-strategy-recovering-nature-for-growth-health-and-security#foundations-of-success, which does not mention SSSIs.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/21/calls-restrict-pet-flea-products-study-finds-neurotoxins-bird-feathers. "Conservationists have called for restrictions on #pet flea treatments after research found #songbird feathers widely contaminated with substances that can damage the birds’ brains & kill unborn chicks. Almost every feather sample tested from 5 common #species of UK garden #birds contained either permethrin, imidacloprid or fipronil - all insecticides that are banned for #agricultural use but still common in pet tick & flea treatments."
CBC CalgaryNew animal species coming to Calgary Zoo this summer
The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo is welcoming a new species this summer as part of the first phase of its Imagine Asia destination, formerly known as Exploration Asia.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-zoo-new-animal-summer-9.7170689?cmp=rss
The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo is welcoming a new species this summer as part of the first phase of its Imagine Asia destination, formerly known as Exploration Asia.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-zoo-new-animal-summer-9.7170689?cmp=rss
DragofixHow microplastics hurt the species that keep our coasts healthy https://phys.org/news/2026-04-microplastics-species-coasts-healthy.html
Americas flyways atlas maps the routes of 89 at-risk migratory bird species https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/americas-flyways-atlas-maps-the-routes-of-89-at-risk-migratory-bird-species/
Americas flyways atlas maps the routes of 89 at-risk migratory bird species
Announced at the end of March, the “Atlas for the Americas Flyways” website tracks high concentrations of migratory bird species at risk of major population declines along their routes throughout the Americas. This new United Nations-backed tool identifies heavily trafficked breeding grounds, migratory stopover locations and wintering areas, with the aim of providing policymakers and […]
beSpacificGREAT THINNING of the skies is underway. There are 3 billion fewer #birds in #NorthAmerica than half a century ago. Five hundred million fewer in #Europe. Seventy-three million fewer in #Britain. Worldwide, almost 50 percent of# bird #species are in decline. What was once called “common” is becoming rare: the “common eider” is now in the same global conservation category as the jaguar. #environment #climatechange #windows #buildings #lights #habitat https://thewalrus.ca/billions-of-birds-have-vanished-in-a-generation/
More than half of Britain’s butterfly species in decline, monitoring scheme shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/butterfly-monitoring-scheme-britain-decline
#Britain #environment #insects #butterfly #butterflies #species
Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈#MissKitty, global civil war sounds impossible because it's not one nation. Oh that's correct, but it's one #species stuck on a fucking #dirt ball in the middle of #infinity losing it's shit killing itself. That's what the fuck it is. So it is #fucking #civil #war cuz the money is trying to kill us.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/butterfly-monitoring-scheme-britain-decline. "More than 44m #butterfly sightings scientifically collected in #Britain since 1976 show that of the 58 native #species recorded, 33 species have declined & 25 have increased in number... #Habitat loss & #pollution are driving #declines, but #globalheating is often playing an indirect role."
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMylena Masache and the #frog #species she discovered *while an undergrad* at Pontificia Universidad Católica del #Ecuador in #Quito
She and her colleagues named the frog after Neisi Dajomes, the first Ecuadorian woman to win Olympic gold, at the Tokyo 2020 Games: Nymphargus dajomesae
The species is a glassfrog and is a sign of a much larger #amphibian hotspot in the Cordillera del Cóndor
Mylena is now in grad school at UC Berkeley
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0345097
