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EXCLUSIVE: Apple releases three images from the set of the upcoming ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
The images include the film’s director, Martin Scorsese, and the three main stars, Indigenous actress Lily Gladstone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro
Read more at https://osagenews.org/exclusive-apple-releases-three-images-from-the-set-of-the-upcoming-killers-of-the-flower-moon/
@leonardodicaprio @martinscorsese_ @lilygladstone
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EXCLUSIVE: Apple releases three images from the set of the upcoming ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
The images include the film’s director, Martin Scorsese, and the three main stars, Indigenous actress Lily Gladstone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro
Read more at https://osagenews.org/exclusive-apple-releases-three-images-from-the-set-of-the-upcoming-killers-of-the-flower-moon/
@leonardodicaprio @martinscorsese_ @lilygladstone
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EXCLUSIVE: Apple releases three images from the set of the upcoming ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
The images include the film’s director, Martin Scorsese, and the three main stars, Indigenous actress Lily Gladstone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro
Read more at https://osagenews.org/exclusive-apple-releases-three-images-from-the-set-of-the-upcoming-killers-of-the-flower-moon/
@leonardodicaprio @martinscorsese_ @lilygladstone
@martinscorsese_ has created some of the most iconic and groundbreaking films in history, and continues, to this day, to create vital cinematic experiences that are at the pinnacle of artistic ambition and achievement. I could not be more honored to be there to celebrate as he receives the inaugural Legend Of Cinema Award at @cinemacon.
Photo: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
A fish that can leap out of water to escape predators and an air-breathing catfish are among the new species of freshwater fish identified last year and highlighted in @shoal_org’s annual New Species report.
The 201 discoveries from 2022 include:
The Juan Deriba Killifish, which can leap out of water and remain there for hours to escape predators.
The Vampire Catfish, which is exactly what one would think.
Head to the link in bio to read the full report
@rewild @synchearth @iucn_asap @calacademy @iucnssc
📸: Frank Schäfer
They once regularly roamed the entire Southeast, but now there are only about 200 Florida Panthers left. Don’t miss #PathOfThePanther, an informative film on the last breeding population of big cats surviving in the eastern United States and the fight to save their home.
Now streaming on @Hulu and @DisneyPlus.
After years of community complaints and appeals for assistance, Namibia’s Kavango East and West communities could be on the cusp of an important victory against Canadian oil company ReconAfrica. (Follow the link in bio to read the full story by Windhoek Observer)
The communities say the company has broken numerous environmental laws in their search for oil in this critically important landscape for people and wildlife. They claim ReconAfrica has endangered shallow groundwater with its dangerous oil exploration by failing to line their drilling pits, drilled illegally in a community conservancy, and ignored many other concerns while intimidating local community members to prevent their voices from being heard.
Fighting on behalf of the communities, the Legal Assistance Center and the Economic and Social Justice Trust believe they have a strong case to have the company’s drilling permit revoked. The two Namibian social justice organizations are hopeful that Namibia’s environment minister will rule in favor of these frontline communities striving to save the watershed of the Okavango River Basin, their way of life and the endangered wildlife they have sworn to protect.
#StandWithKavango
#SaveTheOkavango
📷: @rollingstone
The @unitednations adopted a new resolution that would make it easier to hold countries accountable for failing to tackle the climate emergency. The Republic of Vanuatu, a small Pacific island nation–in a region that is particularly vulnerable to extreme climate effects, especially sea-level rise–led the charge for adopting said resolution. Small Island Developing States like Vanuatu contribute far less to global carbon emissions and nature loss.
This resolution, which was supported by more than 120 countries, marks a historic moment in the fight against climate change and represents the “first attempt to establish climate obligations under international law,” according to @guardian.
@guardian has more on this at the link in bio.
📷: @reuters
In the last two years, #Ecuador and #CostaRica have created or expanded Marine Protected Areas between the Galapagos and Cocos Islands. Combined, these areas protect a nearly 140,000 mile2 (360,000 km2) marine corridor, an area nearly three times larger than New York state. Protecting known wildlife corridors is critical to ocean health because wildlife use them for migration, feeding, and breeding.
Now, both Ecuador and Costa Rica have created funds for supporting the effective management of these protected areas. Costa Rica’s fund was created with philanthropic support, while Ecuador’s – the world’s largest to date – leverages a restructuring of the country’s debt, where part of the proceeds are invested in conservation. Each of these helps finance effective protections for #sealife like whale sharks, manta rays, sea turtles and dolphins.
Congratulations to Ecuador, Costa Rica and all the supporters that made this possible.
#30×30 @guillermolasso @ambienteec @gustavomanriquemiranda @parquegalapagos
#MasGalapagos
Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy (@pewtrusts @bertarellifoundation)
Credit Suisse
Aqua Blue Investments
Oceans Finance Company
US Development Finance Corporation (@dfcgov)
Inter-American Development Bank (@el_bid)
Costa Rica Blue Fund (@costaricaporsiempre)
MINAE Costa Rica (@minaecr)
SINAC Costa Rica
Forever Costa Rica (@costaricaporsiempre)
Bezos Earth Fund (@bezosearthfund)
Re:wild (@rewild)
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (@moorefound)
Wyss Foundation
📷: Alex Hearn
Congratulations to local communities in Ecuador’s Intag Valley, who have won a huge victory in the Imbabura Provincial Court that will protect their livelihoods, sources of freshwater, and threatened wildlife. The court recently ruled that the Llurimagua large-scale copper mining project violated local communities’ constitutional right to consultation and the rights of nature, which are enshrined in Ecuador’s constitution. The license for the mining project was revoked and all work on the project must stop.
Local communities in Intag have been resisting mining projects in the cloud forests where they live for nearly 30 years, and their latest hard-fought victory has global implications. Intag Valley is in the Tropical Andes, one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, harboring more species than even the Amazon. Intag Valley also makes up part of the Intag-Toisan Key Biodiversity Area, a place that scientists have identified as critical for the persistence of biodiversity on Earth.
By winning this court case, local communities in Intag Valley have helped protect an irreplaceable slice of the wild. If we are going to prevent the most catastrophic effects of climate change and biodiversity loss, we need to protect the species and cloud forests in the Tropical Andes, like Intag Valley. Special thanks and congratulations to everyone working to protect Intag Valley and support local communities there, including:
@cedenma.ec
@centrojambatu
@amphibiansurvivalalliance
Alianza por los Derechos Humanos Ecuador
Defensa y Conservacion de Intag (DECOIN)
Atelopus Survival Initiative
@rewild #SalvemosIntag
Congratulations to @nativegiving, in partnership with Biodiversity Funders Group, on the launch of the Tribal Nations Conservation Fund at the White House this week. Fifteen major funders have come together to commit more than $100 million over the next five years to support Tribal-led conservation work.
This pledge demonstrates an important commitment to a new way of thinking about conservation that centers the people who are most impacted by the climate and biodiversity crises but also hold the knowledge on how to best steward our lands and water. The collaboration of these funders represents a shift in philanthropic support for Tribal-led solutions in conservation work. It is a turning point in climate funding that recognizes and supports Native communities who have long been leaders in this work.
Learn more at link in bio.
📷: Tomás Karmelo Amaya, KANION Production
@alaskaconservationfoundation
@decolonizingwealth
@DorisDukeFdn
@moorefound
@thejmkaplanfund
@packardfdn
@resourceslegacyfund
@rewild
@waltonfamilyfdn
The Christensen Fund
The Grousemont Foundation
The Water Foundation
The Wilburforce Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
The Wyss Foundation
Dominica, the “Nature Island” of the Caribbean, is home to a resident population of approximately 200 sperm whales. These gentle giants support jobs and even help to mitigate climate change. This Sunday at 7:00 PM Eastern, tune into CBS to catch @natgeopristineseas founder @enricsala and @60minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega swim with the sperm whales and discuss the value of a healthy, resilient ocean for local communities and the local economy.
Photo by Manu San Félix / National Geographic Pristine Seas
Last month, President Biden declared Avi Kwa Ame in Nevada –also known as Spirit Mountain– a national monument. For decades, Indigenous tribes in the region advocated for the federal preservation of the landmark, which is culturally and spiritually significant and home to critical desert biodiversity.
These new federal protections prevent any future industrial and manufacturing development on the sacred site and is an important move by the administration to strengthen collaboration with Indigenous communities.
Learn more from @reviewjournal at the link in bio.
📷: @reviewjournal
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Glaciers located in the Amundsen Sea Embayment in West Antarctica have lost more than 3 trillion metric tons of ice over a 25-year period, according to a recent study in the journal Nature Communications. Scientists said that the region is currently the biggest contributor to rising sea levels from the West Antarctic ice sheet.
The team of researchers, led by Ben Davison, calculated the ‘mass balance’ of the Amundsen Sea Embayment by looking at the balance between the amount of snow and ice gained from snowfall and the amount lost through calving, which is the process where ice breaks off from glaciers. When calving occurs faster than ice is formed, the result is an increase in sea levels.
They found that there was a net loss of 3,331 billion metric tons—which is equal to 3 trillion—of ice between 1996 and 2021, which caused an approximately 0.4-inch rise in global sea levels.
‘The 20 glaciers in West Antarctica have lost an awful lot of ice over the last quarter of a century, and there is no sign that the process is going to reverse anytime soon, although there were periods where the rate of mass loss did ease slightly,’ Davison said in a statement.
‘We were really surprised to see just how much periods of extremely low or high snowfall could affect the ice sheet over two- to five-year periods — so much so that we think they could play an important, albeit secondary role, in controlling rates of West Antarctic ice loss’ he continued. #news #ice #climatechange #climatecrisis #antarctica
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Every year, millions of monarch butterflies make their way across North America to spend winters in the same forests of central Mexico’s Michoacán state — a phenomenon that remains an evolutionary mystery.
But in just one year, the population of monarch butterflies wintering in those hillsides dropped 22 percent, according to a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Mexico report released last week.
Monarch butterflies are considered one of the world’s oldest and most resilient species. Their life cycles depend on optimal conditions: temperatures between 55 and the low 70s when they migrate, an abundance of milkweed when they mate, and some rain during the winters.
But climate change has scrambled the consistent weather patterns they rely on, and more butterflies are dying. Read more through the link in our bio.
Happy Earth Day 🌏
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Fastest-Growing Town in the U.S Hopes to Solve Water Shortage
‘We have to be laser-focused on doing more with less water’ — Here’s how the fastest-growing town in the U.S. is planning on tackling its ongoing water crisis
#watershortage #utah #climatenews #waterconservation
“Earth is asking for help and it is the world’s Indigenous peoples who must be recognized as leaders in healing our planet,” says Brazil’s first-ever Minister for Indigenous Peoples, Sônia Guajajara. Sônia has dedicated her life both to Indigenous rights and to the Amazon Rainforest, which are inherently connected.
During the previous administration in Brazil, Sônia fought against anti-Indigenous legislation, the destruction of Indigenous lands by extractive industry, and the rapid deforestation of the rainforest. She brought together and inspired Indigenous ethnic groups across the country to do the same.
In 2018, she became the first Indigenous woman to appear on a presidential ticket in Brazil and in 2022, she was named one of Time Magazine’s (@time) 100 most influential people of 2022. Last month I was proud to present the Healer Award to Sônia at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards.
Let’s join Sônia this #EarthDay2023 and every day in calling for the reforestation of minds and the preservation of the link between the right to life and the protection and restoration of nature. Video provided by @marcosamend @leo.otero
Environmental activist and poet, Reinhold Mangundu (@reiny_kapitan), is passionate about protecting the Okavango River Basin in Namibia and Botswana. He has worked with activists to organize a climate strike, petition UNESCO and has called on Namibia’s National Assembly to stop oil exploration in the Kavango regions. Reinhold has seen first-hand how environmental destruction can sow chaos. After the forests around the small village where he is from were cleared and destroyed, droughts and floods became progressively worse. He is working to protect the wildlife and freshwater in the Okavango River Basin–which is an important water source for nearly 1 million people.
For #EarthDay2023 join Reinhold in demanding an end to fossil fuels–especially in irreplaceable places like the Okavango River Basin–and instead building a future that supports people and the wild. #SavetheOkavango
For #EarthDay2023 conservationist Tim Faulkner (@timswildlife) and Aussie Ark invite you to learn more about mammals and the important role they play in the environment. Australia has the worst mammal extinction rate in the world, but Aussie Ark is rewriting that narrative. Almost three years ago, Aussie Ark reintroduced Tasmanian Devils to mainland Australia. It was the first time Tasmanian Devils had lived on the mainland in 3,000 years. The rewilding hasn’t stopped there–Aussie Ark has also reintroduced Potoroos, Eastern Quolls and Rufous Bettongs to the Barrington Wildlife Sanctuary.
Recognize the wild around you, learn about it, and use your voice to protect it.
Fungi are their own kingdom of life and mycologists believe there could be as many as 3.8 million fungi species on Earth. Despite being a critical part of the wild, only about 8% of fungi have been documented and fungi represent 0.2% of our conservation priorities. @giulifungi and @fungifoundation are working to make sure Flora, Fauna and Funga are integrated and used by global educational and environmental institutions and organizations to refer to macroscopic life on Earth.
For #EarthDay2023, commit to learning more about fungi and their important impact on the environment.
Europe’s western Balkans is filled with incredible wildlife and beautiful rivers. It’s known as the Blue Heart of Europe. Lejla Kusturica, director of ACT Foundation (@fondacijadrustvenepromjene_act), works with communities, activists and artists from across the Balkans to keep the region’s rivers wild. Activists in Bosnia and Herzegovina have organized protests, sometimes lasting hundreds of days, to protect their local rivers from small hydropower dams. Thanks to the efforts of activists, in 2021 Bosnia and Herzegovina stopped guaranteeing subsidies for small hydropower dams, which divert water, and can restrict water access and threaten wildlife.
Balkan rivers, including those in Bosnia and Herzegovina, are considered the most important hotspot for threatened freshwater biodiversity in Europe. There are 113 Endangered freshwater fish species in the region and 69 fish species that only live in Balkan rivers.
For #EarthDay2023 take inspiration from Lejla and activists from Bosnia and Herzegovina to protect rivers.
@blueheartrivers
“No matter what age, size, shape, color, or gender you are, you too can have an impact and can help us protect and restore the wild,” says Shanna Challenger (@specieswithshanna), the offshore island conservation program coordinator for @eagantigua
The wild is for the 100% and the health of our planet relies on each and every one of us.
Collectively, the Caribbean islands contain more than 11,000 plant species and more than 1,300 vertebrate animals, and are part of the Caribbean Biodiversity Hotspot. Unfortunately, the Caribbean is also facing the highest extinction rates in modern history. But EAG aims to change that.
For #EarthDay2023 connect with local environmental organizations near you to discover what you can do with your skills to help protect and restore the wild.
@EarthAlliance condensed the @IPCC report — 7,500 pages of climate science — into five takeaways for creators, but also for anyone on social media to learn about climate change and what they can do to make smarter environmental decisions. Shifting narratives is key to inciting change. Let’s imagine a better future for humanity and the planet.
Link in bio to learn more.
