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Cryptic Tree-Hunter
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cryptic treehunter
Lesser woodcreeper
Threat to existence
Habitat destruction
Clearance of forest
Pau brasil extraction
Sugarcane industry
Extensively logged
Converted to agriculture
Forest remnants are small
Unable to support biodiversity
The Cryptic tree hunter
Used to be found
In mixed flocks
Of small birds
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hasn’t been seen
In four decades
pressures from hunting
and deforestation
calls were reportedly heard
in 2008
creatures haven’t been
seen or heard from since.
High canopy rainforest
Exclusive habitat
Cocoa industry
Deforestation
They usually formed large family groups
Highly vocal and social
Safety depends on many eyes and ears
Fruit seeds and foliage
Were the main food sources
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Humane Treatment
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"People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth"
-G Thunberg
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Vachellia Bolei
02:12
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Legumes enrich the soil
Sequester carbon
Stabilize dunes
Provide habitat
Variety of birds
Pollinator insects
Nutritious pods
Medicine from bark
Flowers and stems
Illegal sand mining
Voracious appetite for minerals
Construction and toothpaste
Coastal erosion
Continuous and severe pollution
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Formerly found in several countries
south of the Sahara
a grazer in grasslands and savanna woodlands.
Two remain
* Najin, a female, was born in captivity in 1989. She is the mother of Fatu.[4] Her mother was Nasima and her father was Sudan.[5]
* Fatu, also a female, was born in captivity in 2000.[4] Her mother is Najin and her father was Saut.[6]
Suni, a male bornin 1980 died from natural causes in Ol Pejeta Conservancy in 2014.
Sudan, caught from the wild in 1975, died on 19 March 2018
Like elephants, rhinos in Africa aggressively hunted
for their lucrative horns and skin.
In 2013, the western black rhino
declared extinct.
The eastern black rhino,
numbering around a thousand,
could be the next
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-vision of flaccid oligarch
-pulsing intestines dripping cowardice
-bilge mouth vitriol expulsion
-ears entombed in status coin
-small-eyes fixed upon
mirage of fearful generalization
-hideous screaming appendage
-victoria fire harnessed
-turned to stampede over
-the earth and underclass
-flames of greed lick their black boots
-inferno of corruption boils the frog
-our spirit croaking for release
-from the hell of our own kind
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Nobregaea Latinervis
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Nobregaea latinervis [1] [2] [3] is a leaf moss species described by Lars Hedenäs in 1992. Nobregaea latinervis is part of the genus Nobregaea and the family Brachytheciaceae. [4] [5] No subspecies are listed in the Catalog of Life. [4]
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mainland Australia’s
first reptile extinction
small, elusive and camouflaged
Quest for hidden dragon
Does it still exist?
The search continues as it does
For many other
Lost and potentially extinct species
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Extinction Louisville, Colorado
Extinction is not a band that formed or began; it is a continuation in a long trail of smoldering ruin dragging behind the
feet of homo sapiens. We play on instruments made of felled trees, extracted metals and petroleum, and assembled by the impoverished among our species. Everyone is human, everyone is civilization, everyone consumes. We are extinction.
photo by Rachel Saccardi
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