Researchers rediscover #weevil believed to be extinct thanks to photos posted online https://www.actionnews5.com/2025/12/08/uofm-researchers-rediscover-weevil-believed-be-extinct-thanks-photos-posted-online/ https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(25)01460-5

"The greater chestnut weevil was believed to have gone #extinct with the decline of the #AmericanChestnut tree... a classic example of #coextinction — the loss of dependent species due to the decline of their hosts... This #rediscovery wouldn’t have been possible without volunteers and the digital tools that connect their data to scientists"

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#CoExtinction
2021 documentary film
https://coextinctionfilm.com/the-film/

#FirstNations #Orca #GrizzlyBears
#Extractivism #FishFarm
#Salmon as a #commodity
#Watershed #Aquaculture

Coextinctions dominate future vertebrate losses from climate and land use change

In a new paper https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn4345 in Science Advances, Giovanni Strona and Corey Bradshaw use a virtual Earth model of interconnected terrestrial vertebrate food webs to predict loss of biodiversity under future landuse and climate change scenarios and predict coextintion to increase the pace of primary extinctions up to 10 times due the loss of trophic and networks complexity.
#biodiversity #coextinction