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Adventurous or aggressive? Fairy-wren song reveals bird's personality
By Peter de Kruijff

The complex songs of the tiny social bird could advertise whether it's a risk-taking explorer or a stay-at-home defender, and influence how it chooses a mate.

abc.net.au/news/science/2025-0

ABC News · Superb fairy-wren personality traits can be heard in their songs, study findsBy Peter de Kruijff
#AnimalBehaviour#Birds#ScienceandTechnology
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The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨

🌱🏙️ Instead of another dystopian future, this TED-Ed #animation shows an optimistic vision of 2125. It imagines cities where public transit and urban farms replace highways, mangroves protect restored coastlines, and mushrooms clean polluted soil.

Based on the "solarpunk" movement, it demonstrates how existing technologies in #LosAngeles, #Lagos, and #SãoPaulo could create sustainable urban environments where #nature, #technology, and humans thrive together.

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/e

A sleek train passing by futuristic buildings with rooftop gardens against a blue sky backdrop, illustrating the "What if the future was awesome?" concept from TED-Ed.
#africa#city#climate
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Mongabay

A new conservation plan aims to halt the decline of langur monkeys in Southeast Asia, where habitat loss and poaching have severely reduced their numbers.

The 10-year Asian Langurs Conservation Action Plan focuses on the six countries in the Sundaland biodiversity hotspot, a region known for its astonishing range of habitats and species.

By Carolyn Cowan
news.mongabay.com/2025/04/acti

Mongabay Environmental News · Action plan aims to save Asia’s leaf-eating monkeys amid ‘alarming’ declinesPrimatologists and conservation organizations have launched a 10-year action plan to improve the outlook for langur monkeys in the Sundaland biodiversity hotspot, a region of Southeast Asia that spans Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand. Asian langurs, a group of 20 species in the genus Presbytis, are in steep decline across Southeast Asia due […]
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Mongabay

Four judges and two lawyers in Indonesia have been charged with transacting bribes to issue a favorable ruling for palm oil giants Permata Hijau, Wilmar and Musim Mas in a high-profile corruption case.

Prosecutors allege that the companies funneled up to 60 billion rupiah ($3.57 million) to the judges through intermediaries, avoiding potential fines totaling more than $1 billion.

By Hans Nicholas Jong
news.mongabay.com/2025/04/judg

Mongabay Environmental News · Judges charged in Indonesian bribery scandal after clearing palm oil giants of corruptionJAKARTA — Prosecutors in Indonesia have charged four judges and two lawyers accused of bribery in a recently concluded trial involving palm oil giants Permata Hijau, Wilmar and Musim Mas. The Attorney General’s Office made a late-night announcement on April 13 that it had charged Jakarta-based judges Muhammad Arif Nuryanta, Agam Syarif Baharuddin, Ali Muhtarom […]
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Artists Garden

From a couple of weeks ago, a drift of Tulip 'Orange emperor’, who were lucky to escape the muntjac’s attention.
This cultivar was, apparently, introduced in 1962 by the the Dutch grower J.W.A. Lefeber. Back then, he could not have imagined that the name, Orange Emperor, would acquire such an unsavoury meaning more than sixty years later.
Let’s keep this our #secret. Somebody might think that they named a tulip after him.

A drift of orange-pink flowering tulips amidst other green growth.
#OrangeEmperor#OrangeEmperorTulips#ArtistsGarden
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Mongabay

Seychelles, an archipelagic nation off the eastern coast of Africa, has become the first country to comply with the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) standard that lays down what information about a country’s fisheries sector should be published online by public authorities.

By Malavika Vyawahare
news.mongabay.com/2025/04/seyc

Mongabay Environmental News · Seychelles becomes first country to comply with fisheries transparency standardIn February, Seychelles became the first country to comply with an international standard that aims to make governments’ management of their fisheries more transparent. The goal of the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) standard is to improve oversight and public accountability. Seychelles, with an exclusive economic zone of 1.37 million square kilometers (500,000 square miles), has an […]
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Mongabay

As climate change causes ocean temperatures to rise, coral bleaching events are expected to become more frequent. So, scientists are looking for ways to help coral reefs recover more quickly, and a new study from Japan suggests that artificial structures like breakwaters may be helpful.

By Bobby Bascomb
news.mongabay.com/short-articl

Mongabay Environmental News · Corals recover faster on artificial structures than on natural reefs, study findsAs climate change causes ocean temperatures to rise, coral bleaching events are expected to become more frequent. So, scientists are looking for ways to help coral reefs recover more quickly, and a new study from Japan suggests that artificial structures like breakwaters may be helpful. When oceans become excessively warm, corals can expel the symbiotic […]
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BellingenNSW

Once you could hear the sound of koalas -
"all you hear is trucks now..."

Destruction of koala habitat through sprawl, roads and dogs

"Almost 2m hectares of forests suitable for koalas have been destroyed since 2011. They are one of more than 2,000 Australian species listed as under threat in what scientists are calling an extinction crisis." >>
theguardian.com/environment/vi
#Biodiversity #koalas #conservation #NSW #Bellingen #roads #vehicles #pets #thylacines #extinction #destruction #Australia

Bellingen, main drag. Trucks driving away koala habitat (Tuckers Nob SF) impoverishing the entire area.
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