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🌟 Get ready for our next Full Length Documentary! 🌟
Tomorrow, Thursday, September 12th at 1 PM, we will be uploading a full nature documentary (50 min.) about Brazil's beautiful Cerrado highlands and its incredible wildlife! Join us for an in-depth exploration of these breathtaking grasslands and their unique animals! This will be the second episode in our Brazil series. 🇧🇷
📅 Date: Thursday, 12.07.2024
🕐 Time: 1 PM
🎉 Countdown: Be sure to click on "Notify Me" and tune in for the premiere!
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Shrimp farms threaten Mexico’s mangroves and the jaguars that inhabit them 🐆
Western Mexico’s rapidly expanding shrimp farms, many of which are illegal, are contributing to the deforestation of the Pacific coast’s mangroves, an important habitat for jaguars. Satellite images show the total surface area of shrimp ponds along Mexico’s Gulf of California increased by more than 1,100% between 1993 and 2021, to more than 114,000 hectares (282,000 acres). Researchers emphasize the importance of small private reserves, like La Papalota in the state of Nayarit, for jaguar conservation: These areas serve as critical sanctuaries and corridors between larger conservation sites, such as Marismas Nacionales Biosphere Reserve, home to a fifth of Mexico’s mangroves. Conservationists say urgent action is required to safeguard the remaining mangroves and jaguars, yet efforts continue to be hindered by inadequate enforcement of protection laws and the alleged involvement of cartels reportedly using shrimp farms for money laundering. More: news.mongabay.com/2024/07/shrimp-farms-threaten-me…
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Education & research bring Rio’s dolphins back from the brink of extinction 🐬
The Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) is one of the most common cetaceans in Brazil but also one of the most vulnerable, with numbers dwindling by up to 93% in the last 40 years. One of the worst affected regions is Guanabara Bay, in Rio de Janeiro, where Guiana dolphins face daily industrial contamination, sewage and noise pollution, causing chronic stress that leads to weakened immune systems and reproduction difficulties.
A recently published study found high toxin concentrations in Guiana dolphins in neighboring Sepetiba Bay, which has significantly impacted the health of the population, the researchers found. Environmentalists are banking on research and education to help protect the species and consequently the marine environment. So far, a protected environment in Sepetiba Bay has helped stem dolphin mortality, and efforts are being made in Guanabara to clean up the bay, but more is required to restore and save the population. More: news.mongabay.com/2024/04/education-research-bring…
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Our 3rd full documentary is online! 🎉🤩🦁
Enjoy a full 50-minute documentary about #whitelions! ⬇️
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Rio’s grassroots agroforestry sustains birds, bees & communities 🇧🇷👩🏻🌾🐝
In 2017, some residents of the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Governor’s Island spontaneously started tending a neglected garden that originated from a brief corporate event. Lacking ongoing governmental or corporate support, the initiative shifted toward agroforestry — a sustainable agroecology system where fruit trees, shrubs, medicinal plants and vegetables are grown in combination to benefit each other — inspiring a dozen more such projects across the island. These agroforests have reshaped the urban landscape and now attract an array of fauna, from birds to bees and even fireflies, drawn by the diversity of plant life thriving on improved soils. Perhaps most importantly, the agroforests offer free food and medicines to residents in need, plus shade and educational opportunities for the whole community, from schoolchildren to university students and residents.
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Why Birds Have Colorful Feathers 🦜
📺 https://youtu.be/FECLV2v8rcI
From #parrots to peacocks, we’re all familiar with brightly colored birds. Our feathered friends use vivid pigments to attract a mate – but where do they get their colors? And is it true that tropical birds are brighter than their cousins from the north? Humboldt and Darwin certainly thought so – and now science has proved them right. Join us on a fascinating journey into birds’ feathers, where we discover the foods, pigments, and microstructures that make flamingos pink and turacos green. #newvideo
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German Zoo Honors Little Lynx’s Wish to be Free After Repeat Escape Attempts 🐾
Despite being brought up in the Nuremberg Zoo a young Carpathian lynx named Chapo was born to be wild. Respecting his wishes, the German zookeepers abandoned their intention to raise him to eventually contribute his genes to a vital captive breeding program and release him into the wilds of Germany. Now residing in the forests of Saxony, he joins a steadily growing population of wild lynx across Germany and Switzerland that are slinking back across the acreage they prowled long ago. More: www.goodnewsnetwork.org/german-zoo-honors-little-l…
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Sharks found with cocaine in their systems. How did that happen?
It may sound like a B-rated movie plot, but ‘cocaine sharks’ are plying the coastal waters of #RioDeJaneiro. New analysis of Brazilian sharpnose sharks has revealed that the illicit drugs are getting into the ocean and contaminating the fish, a first-of-its-kind discovery. For the study, researchers dissected 13 sharks captured accidentally by fishermen between September 2021 and August 2023 in the waters off Recreio dos Bandeirantes, a Rio de Janeiro neighborhood with long, pearly-white beaches. The team found cocaine and benzoylecgonine—a metabolite produced when cocaine is broken down in the body—in muscle and liver tissues of all 13 fish. More: www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/cocaine…
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Our second full documentary is online! 🎉🤩
Enjoy a full 50-minute documentary about parrots in urban areas.
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Tiny ‘Frog Saunas’ Help Endangered Amphibians Fight off Fungal Disease 🐸
In humans, sauna use is so beneficial that some medical researchers are attempting to add it to the standard of care for those at high risk of heart disease. Well, researchers in Australia have found that this same leisure activity can save certain species of frogs from the ongoing fungal pandemic called chytrid. Anthony Waddle at Macquarie University in Australia built a series of “#frog #saunas” to see if they could help golden bell frogs and green bell frogs native to Australia recover from chytrid. The fungal pathogen thrives in cooler tropical temperatures, and is unviable above 29°C. Consisting of unshaded black brick structures with narrow holes inside an artificial greenhouse habitat with water and plants, the frogs quickly made themselves right at home inside the saunas. Four healthy frogs were used as control for a study group of eight frogs, half of whom were infected with chytrid. Some of the habitats were shaded, and others were left uncovered to test a range of temperatures. Infected frogs who frequented the unshaded structure, where temperatures could climb as high as 97 to 100°F, had milder infections, but access to any sauna helped the frogs fight off the disease. Once they recovered via the saunas, the bell frogs were 23 times less likely to die in the case of a repeat infection with chytrid. 🔗 More: www.goodnewsnetwork.org/tiny-frog-saunas-help-enda…
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