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
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.
Protect where bats forage
Protect where bats roost
Include primary pandemic prevention alongside preparedness and response.
"While biomedical approaches are an essential part of the pandemic response toolbox, the genesis of a pandemic is rooted in ecological systems, necessitating ecological approaches for prevention."
"To reduce the likelihood of pandemics, we must protect where animals forage and rest so that we can keep wildlife healthy, minimize allostatic load, reduce the need for animals to alter their spatial behavior, and minimize risky human-wildlife encounters."
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Plowright, R.K., Ahmed, A.N., Coulson, T. et al. Ecological countermeasures to prevent pathogen spillover and subsequent pandemics. Nat Commun 15, 2577 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46151-9
#Wildlife #habitat #destruction #degradation #fragmentation ##bats pandemics #HWI #biodiversity #conservation #deforestation #livestock #ungulates #grazing #horses #hendra #pathogens #spillover #ZoonoticRisk #roads #extractivism #sprawl #OneHealth #EcologicalCountermeasures
Hot Midday Memorial Day Run
I made the mistake of deciding to get my run in after getting home from a weekend away camping. This of course meant doing my run in the middle of the afternoon when the sun was full on and it was hot. #HWI #Run4Water #GRHalfMarathon #Running #Garmin Share this:
Getting in a Long Run Before The Holiday Weekend
I shifted my long run day to Thursday. It’s OK right now, I have a feeling it’s going to be harder when I need to do a 12 mile run in the wee hours of a Thursday morning before work. #HWI #Run4Water #GRHalfMarathon #Garmin #HalfMarathon #Running Share this:
#garmin #grhalfmarathon #halfmarathon #hwi #run4water #running
I shifted my long run day to Thursday. It's OK right now, I have a feeling it's going to be harder when I need to do a 12 mile run in the wee hours of a Thursday morning before work. #HWI #Run4Water #GRHalfMarathon #Garmin #HalfMarathon #Running
Kicking Off The 2023 GR Marathon Training
Today was the second of the new training plan, after a quick and short baseline run yesterday, as I prepare for another #HalfMarathon this fall. #HWI #Running Share this:
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