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Wildlife-unfriendly suburbia
The 70-kilometre-long agricultural irrigation channel is a wildlife graveyard.

"Birds, kangaroos, wallabies, possums, you name it. Various animals [are] getting trapped in the channel... More and more native animals are being hit on our roads...It's because our areas are growing and our government hasn't considered how we can build the infrastructure that we need while also considering the needs of native animals and how we can protect them."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-05-14/dro
#housing #sprawl #wildlife #habitat #irrigation #infrastructure #cars #traps #biodiversity #WildlifeUnfriendly #Australia

ABC News · Kangaroos rescued from open water channel in central Victoria as rescuers call for roo-proof fenceBy Emile Pavlich

Folks working in tech, ask yourselves:

“Am I making tools or am I making traps?”

If you’re doing the latter (and, let’s face it, if you work in Big Tech, you’re 99% doing the latter), maybe you should think about where and how you can do the former instead.

Y’know, ’cos democracy and even the future of the species might depend on it.

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with 14,314 killed in 2023 compared to 364,734 in 2019.

According to the new data, the wildlife-killing program unintentionally killed more than 2,484 animals in 2023, including 658 river #otters and 428 #turtles, as well as several dogs and cats. Its killing of nontarget birds included a federally protected #GoldenEagle, #WoodDucks, great #BlueHerons and #WildTurkeys. Such data reveals the indiscriminate nature of leghold #traps, #snares, #poisons and other methods used by federal agents.

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Across Victoria, there are 17 community groups engaging in Dingo control, and each management zone is allocated a government employed ‘wild-dog controller’ to assist in the lethal management of Dingoes. These groups deploy foothold #traps, and 1080 #baits, with the aim of killing Dingoes in the area. Unbelievably, the Victorian government also offer a #bounty to hunters to submit Dingo #pelts too.

agriculture.vic.gov.au/biosecu

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Agriculture VictoriaVictorian fox and wild dog bounty

SAVE WHALES FROM ENTANGLEMENT AND DEATH

#Whales are vital for healthy #OceanEcosystems. Sadly, #TrapFisheries entangle dozens of endangered humpback, gray, and blue whales off the U.S. West Coast every year.

These fisheries place thousands upon thousands of long, strong, thick ropes in whales' #habitat. The lines run vertically through the water, connecting buoys on the surface to heavy #traps on the sea floor. Endangered whales caught in mazes of lines can get seriously injured,

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Here's why I describe myself as an editor. I have been described as "Lawful Gridded" which amuses me, and when Paul Hughes asked me to look at some of the stuff for DDG then I was delighted.

In addition to NODES which is a fractal analysis
levelup5e.com/news/dungeon-del which you can apply _to any element of a campaign_ and which changed how I run games for the better. There were also some very cool #traps #DND doesn't do those well, but #LevelUpA5e does. :)

It's why I'm an editor too. :)

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