“The plain of Hurriana is like a vast sea; the hill of Tosham and, till lately, a peepul tree near Hansi, like ships in the offing . . . could be seen from a great distance towering over the stunted bushes and grass jungle.” –Quondam, Lion-Shooting, 1833

Japan dispatches troops to help combat deadly bear attacks “More than 100 attacks, record 12 deaths since April" That's kind of wild.

there is simply no world where tom brady thought or said the words "A few years ago, I worked with Colossal and leveraged their non-invasive cloning technology through a simple blood draw of our family's elderly dog before she passed."

1/2 Hounds in the garden just now, on the trail of some poor fox. This is still the reality of "trail hunting" in North Dorset in 2025. I put so much effort into making this place a sanctuary for wildlife. @angelaeagle1.bsky.social @parliamentarygoose.bsky.social

Ecotourism has transformed jaguars in the Pantanal from hunted predators into valuable attractions. But overcrowding, with up to 30 boats surrounding a single animal, risks stressing wildlife and eroding visitor experiences. Read more in Mongabay: https://ow.ly/9LA650X92Km

South Korea has mandated solar canopies for large parking lots. It's a no-brainer. We could offer firms incentives to do it here, or they could just friggin' do it! (H/t @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social) Here's a little sumptin' I put together a while back...

I don't know what the right path is with regards to rhino horn trade. Not my area of expertise, though I see it discussed a lot. It's possible that opening up legal trade for horns sustainably and non-lethally harvested could fund rhino protection and reduce demand for illegal horns. But...

Some public toilets in Hong Kong have toilet paper only outside the stalls. You have to bring in with you how much you expect to use. I'm curious to know how much paper is wasted on this practice. I suspect it's a lot.

🧪You may have heard that large-carnivore recovery in Yellowstone National Park triggered one of the world’s strongest trophic cascades. Our new open-access article explains why that story doesn’t hold up: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tens of thousands of nationals from at least 77 countries have been trafficked into more than 100 scam compounds in Myanmar in recent years.Among them have been at least 75 South Africans.

🧪About that “152×” Yellowstone aspen claim (see WaPo headline). In a new preprint we show it’s a math error that inflated the effect by 768%. Corrected: 17.5×. Preprint: doi.org/10.32942/X2W...

See also #climate and #envpol - imagined publics are much more convenient than actual ones! "..rather than following ‘what the people want’, elite actors play an active part in shaping and constructing public opinion and legitimising reactionary politics."

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

Great op-ed response to Califorina lethally removing 4 wolves from a pack that killed 87 (!!) cows in just 6 months. We need to learn how to manage conservation success, including abundance of carnivores recovering. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/o...

My op-ed on Chronic Wasting Disease response in British Columbia cranbrooktownsman.com/2025/10/28/c...

Facebook is flooded with animal AI slop accounts (text + images). This is probably common knowledge. What may not be is how often these are tied to Vietnam. I found out that if you visit the profile ➡️ "About" ➡️ "Page Transparency" ➡️ "See All" of them, they are usually managed from Vietnam.

"Killing of captive-bred lions is not hunting" by the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment of South Africa, Dion George. I don't find much to disagree with in that.

Allowing domestic bees in a national park is akin to letting cattle graze in it. If beekeepers wanted healthy forests they would not introduce a competitor to wild pollinators.

"“We have long known that poaching is a major problem in the United States, but we didn’t truly understand the magnitude of the problem until this Poach and Pay research,” noted Boone and Crockett Club chief executive officer Tony A. Schoonen" 95% of US poaching is unreported or undetected.

I hope the next president renames it to the Ballroom of Mexico.

People who call themselves "entrepreneur" are invariably insufferable douchebags and whatever they've entrepreneured has added nothing of value to the world, regardless of how much money it's made them.

GM Daniel Naroditsky passed away. He was a talented chess player, commentator, and educator. FIDE extends its deepest condolences to Daniel’s family and loved ones.

You're not allowed to do this.

I don't know how it is that paprika tastes good on anything. If I dip my finger in it and taste it alone, it just tastes like dirt.

Because apartheid South Africa really did a fantastic job of spaffing out a functional human being with you, didn’t it? You loathsome bellend.

Anyone thinking that having a car or two is ''quality of life'', should pay a visit to Paris to experience a city where a car is not only 'not necessary' but even a burden. Paris was transformed by improving public transport, extending bike lanes, and by converting streets to green spaces. Amazing.

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece. It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out. 1/2

I will never understand the choice to sell your soul and integrity for more money when you already have more than you could ever use. bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-08/cristiano-ronaldo-is-first-football-billionaire-after-saudi-al-nassr-deal

Of course. How has he not yet demanded that his head is added to Mount Rushmore, but bigger than the others and made of gold?

Lion estimates are a circus when both hunting orgs and antihunting orgs try to be involved. If you combine the silliest "research" coming out of each side, you learn that there are less than 7,000 lions left in the world and that over 20,000 of them are in Tanzania.

Meet PhD researcher Jenny Linden! Jenny’s research aims to assess the potential impacts of climate change on the endangered African wild dog using data from remote sensing, accelerometer collars, thermal data loggers, and fieldwork in South Africa. 👉 wildcru.org/members/jenn... @biology.ox.ac.uk

Long interview with Sean Bean, which I gather is pretty rare. I like that man. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCLt...

@zslofficial.bsky.social wtf are you doing?

Normally the appeal to authority is considered a fallacy, but I somehow can't help but feel that being the pope adds a bit of extra credibility that Austin doesn't have.

"How Russia Lost Chess." Good little video. It's been fun to see India take over in recent years.

Bill Burr should never EVER be allowed to live down performing at the Riyadh comedy show. None of them should be, but especially him.

DAVID CROSS: “I am disgusted and deeply disappointed… These are some of my HEROES… how can any of us take any of you seriously ever again?” Here’s who went to the Riyadh Comedy Festival: www.timeoutriyadh.com/news/riyadh-...

Cannot stop laughing at this. Look at them running like toddlers and getting outrun and outmanoeuvred by the guy dragging a bike. I have never seen that many big men being that pathetically unathletic at the same time. Look at the time it takes the first three to change direction! 🤣

Is that a "[sic]" to note that it's not politically correct to write "men"? I don't see any grammar or spelling mistakes. I've never seen a political correctness sic before.

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

I just watched a PlayStation 2 restoration video and felt a little old.

Saw someone testing guitars on YT. Testing cheap and expensive guitars. Lots of commenters are saying that the testing should be "double blind" to be scientific... What... You mean to ensure the guitars don't know they're being tested? I think they just mean blindfolded and not double blind.

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I think about this scene often lately. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnvT...

Lions across Africa are under threat from habitat loss, poaching, and wildlife trade. A continent-wide survey of 132 lion subpopulations was conducted in collaboration with landscape managers and lion researchers to determine perceived threat severity. [1/2] @biology.ox.ac.uk

Is no one ever going to question how Sheldrick and Born Free have essentially bought themselves into running KWS like their own private free-range zookeeping service?

This antihunting strategy sounds like a great idea. Since buying up bear hunting tags requires a hunting license, it'll force a lot of antihunters to learn about hunting, and since no bears are getting shot, there'll be more and more tags every year to buy up, meaning ever more conservation funding.

Big typhoon Ragasa hit Hong Kong last night. Ocean Park hotel living up to its name.