Mastodawn

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Oct 14, 2025

The Ambitious [but do-able] Effort To Save New Zealand’s Iconic Bird [and so many more - including eradication of ferals]
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https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5565215/the-ambitious-effort-to-save-new-zealands-iconic-bird <-- shared media article
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https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-and-threats/ <-- shared New Zealand Department of Conservation Pests & Threats site
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“The kiwi, a… flightless bird from New Zealand, is disappearing, largely because of invasive species brought to the country’s islands by humans. So New Zealand has set a goal of exterminating rats, possums and other invasive animals that threaten the country’s biodiversity…”
#biodiversity #feral #NewZealand #habitat #risk #hazard #threat #death #humanimpacts #invasivespecies #kiwi #kea #flightlessbird #indigeneous #reptile #bat #skink #biota #cat #domesticcats #possum #stoat #ferret #weasel #culling #eradication #protection #systematic #endangered #island #Australasia
#DepartmentOfConservation

Daniel Pomarède Sep 1, 2025

Canada's Artemis II Mission Patch Highlights Indigenous Teachings

https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/canadas-artemis-ii-mission-patch-highlights-indigenous-teachings

#space #artemis2 #csa #canada #turtlelodge #indigeneous #teaching #culture #art

Canada's Artemis II Mission Patch Highlights Indigenous Teachings

Canadian Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen has long worked with Turtle Lodge, a center for Indigenous education and knowledge in Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba, on the southern tip of Lake Winnipeg. In collaboration with Anishinaabe artist Henry Guimond, Hansen sought to create Canada’s moon mission patch with inspiration from local indigenous communities. This led to a design that features the seven sacred laws, each of them being represented by a different animal.

Supercluster

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Mar 11, 2025

Example Of Maps Used Well In A Media Article About Greenland
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https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GREENLAND-ELECTION/MAPS/zjvqaeledvx/ <-- shared media article
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[this post is NOT about geopolitics, rather the excellent use of multiple maps to illustrate the story / situation… so no text from the article itself...]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #media #reuters #greenland #projection #visualisation #education #presentation #NorthwestPassage #NorthernSeaRoute #ice #climatechange #seaice #thaw #melting #navigation #routing #shipping #transportation #geopolitics #strategic #military #NORAD #monitoring #naturalresources #mineral #oilandgas #rareearth #indigeneous #FirstNation #size #population #area #mapprojection #marine #glacier #ocean

Maps: US interest puts Greenland in focus

Trump’s persistent interest has focused international attention on the sparsely populated island

Reuters

Jeanne de Brigue 🧶🎶🪥💀Feb 27, 2025

Le Groenland aux Groenlandais

Les Groenlandais, dont près de 90 % sont des Inuits, sont les grands oubliés de ces échanges. Dénonçant le président Trump, un porte-parole du gouvernement allemand a déclaré que « les frontières ne doivent pas être déplacées par la force », ignorant que c’est justement ce que le Danemark a fait concernant le Groenland.
https://www.revue-ballast.fr/le-groenland-nest-pas-a-vendre/
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https://jacobin.com/2025/01/greenland-trump-maga-denmark
Via @RevueBallast #colonialism #indigeneous

BALLAST • Le Groenland n'est pas à vendre

« Tenir tête, fédérer, amorcer »

BALLAST

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Feb 25, 2025

Lasers [LiDAR] Reveal 15th-Century Fortified Zapotec City In Mexico
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https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/lasers-reveal-15th-century-fortified-zapotec-city-in-mexico <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536124000166 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #LiDAR #groundsurface #survey #Zapotec #Oaxaca #Mexico #topography #archaeology #vegetation #indigeneous #history #Tehuantepec #Guiengola #city #urban #urbanplanning #layout #residential #neighbourhoods #leisure #sports #elite #ethnohistory #FirstNation #spatialanalysis #postclassic #mesoamerica #typology #barrio #epicenter #plaza #road #infrastructure #river #ballcourt #buildings

Lasers reveal 15th-century fortified Zapotec city in Mexico

Lidar has fully revealed a 600-year-old Zapotec city in southern Mexico.

Live Science

Pat Nov 19, 2024

Screwiing over indigenous is a never ending worldwide national undertaking .

Thousands rally at N.Z. capital to oppose controversial bill, support Māori rights

#Cdnpoli #NewZealand #Indigeneous #Justice #Colonizers

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6568528

Thousands rally at N.Z. capital to oppose controversial bill, support Māori rights

A large crowd, which police estimated at more than 40,000 people, gathered outside New Zealand’s Parliament in Wellington to oppose a bill that opponents have decried as a bid to reinterpret a founding treaty and set back Māori rights. New Zealand’s prime minister has said the bill won’t become law.

CBC

earthling Sep 13, 2024

The Creation of Adam
‘The Creation of Adam was made while I was an artist in residence in 2023, in collaboration with the Indigenous Paiwan peoples of Taiwan. Catalysed by Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, this reinterpretation of the biblical creation myth questions who the creator is and who or what the creator has created.'

Photograph: Greg Semu

See ALT

@photography
#religion
#Taiwan
#indigeneous
#Paiwan
#tattoo

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Jul 29, 2024

A Hidden Landscape - Interpreting Buried Archaeological Site Potential in the White River Valley, Indiana
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https://doi.org/10.5406/23274271.48.3.02 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #geoarchaeology #buriedsitepotential #inceptisols #mollisols #predictivemodel #soils #WhiteRiverValley #Indiana #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #sampling #FirstNation #indigeneous #settlements #geochronology #dating #age #construction #infrastructure #freeway #I69

A Hidden Landscape: Interpreting Buried Archaeological Site Potential in the White River Valley, Indiana

Abstract. A model for buried site potential has been developed and presented here following extensive geoarchaeological investigations conducted along the White River valley in Indiana. Backhoe-trenching efforts identified 35 buried archaeological sites dating from the Late Archaic through postcontact periods. Buried archaeological sites were found primarily in soils classified as inceptisols, with fewer found in soils classified as mollisols and entisols. Geochronological dating and artifact analysis suggest that after 3000 BP the White River valley transitioned from lateral to vertical accretion, providing landforms suitable for precontact occupation.

Scholarly Publishing Collective

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Apr 25, 2024