I’m presenting at this free online @faunalytics.bsky.social conference today. See you there. faunalytics.org/fauna-connec...

Today we launched a campaign to ban shark fishing in Miami city & county. Our sharks are famous online, beloved around the world. These creeps turn them into tacky trinkets, killing endangered species. Let’s shut it down. change.org/p/save-endangered-sharks-ban-land-based-shark-fishing-in-miami

Do Lobsters and Crabs Feel? We’ve had the answer for years. 🦀🦞 Research indicates that marine animals experience pain and are capable of making complex, conscious decisions. www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/minds-unknown/202507/do-lobsters-and-crabs-feel-weve-had-the-answer-for-years/amp

The extinction impact of the beef industry is immense. Eating even a little bit multiplies a diet’s impact on endangered species. insane chart from a new open access study comparing extinction impacts of different food production systems t.co/Nc7c8ynR0N

truly sickening to see liberal politicians eulogize kirk without a word for these children whose lives he called the price of gun freedom

stole another dying fish from petsmart Here’s Glowi’s one-week glow-up.

This week's column. The details will make you gasp and rage. This massive desecration of nature is almost unbelievable, but it is happening in the UK right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Deforestation kills more than trees.

This sounds insane to speak out loud, but is a real statistic: The global seafood industry kills at least 1 trillion wild fish every year to supply 1% of the world’s food. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This may be true in a short-term sense, but it’s a mistake to overlook the relationship between distrust in medicine and privatization of healthcare.

NOAA and the White House are effectively targeting every large US marine protected area for commercial fishing. The big news story about the court ruling only slowed it down in one national monument. The Fishery Councils want them all.

Latest target in the fishing industry blitz on marine protected areas: THE OCULINA BANK. Only place in the world with giant ivory coral formations, only 10% remain — the rest destroyed by fishing gear. They want to drag shrimp trawls across this. Take action: www.floridaocean.org/protect-ocul...

STOP SOCIAL MEDIA SHARK POACHING ! 😔Sad, we are still at 5.299 signatures, let's make it 100,000+. Kindly add yours if you haven't yet and share it widely. Let's go ✍️ www.change.org/p/stop-socia... via @unpopularscience.bsky.social .

All things considered, seafood is the most environmentally damaging food type. a great interactive interpretation of Halpern et al. 2022 by Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The entire Florida Wildlife Commission just voted to establish an annual black bear trophy hunt. Polls showed 78% of Florida opposed. So did the vast majority of public comments. Every single commissioner has conflicts of interest in either real estate or hunting industries.

More sad news out of Florida: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission today voted to approve annual Florida black bear hunting seasons set to begin this December. Hunting could do real damage to Florida’s recovering population of black bears.

more shots of Coral the grouper for all of her fans #MarineLife

Tragic news for Florida panthers: Two female Florida panther kittens were found dead Sunday, apparently killed by a vehicle collision. These wildlife deaths can be reduced if state lawmakers invest in wildlife crossings that give panthers a better chance at survival. Learn more: biodiv.us/3UV6WjQ

This engineering mosquito extinction thing is a great example of how people aren’t unwitting victims of misinformation. They seek out bullshit to support their preconceptions. This idiocy was literally popularized by Bill Gates. Yet “I won’t eat the bugs” bros think it’s awesome.

Commercial longlining in Johnston Atoll, one month before and after: For over a decade, it was virtually untouched. All of this was illegal.

For three-months, longliners have raided Pacific Islands Heritage National Monument, incited by what has now been ruled an illegal proclamation from Trump’s NOAA Fisheries. Thousands of hours of industrial fishing befell Johnston Atoll alone. #MarineLife earthjustice.org/press/2025/h...

Pulled lifeless from a commercial fishing net off the Otago coast, the adult female yellow-eyed penguin had drowned in a silent, unseen death. She was the last known breeding-age female Hoiho from the Sandfly Bay colony. #NZOverFishing

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Frontiers journal is literally running ads with AI slop figures. 🧪

The argument of THE ARROGANT APE is that human exceptionalism—a.k.a. anthropocentrism or human supremacy—is at the root of the ecological crisis, giving humans a sense of dominion over Nature, entitled to commodify earth and other species for our own exclusive benefit.

COMMERCIAL FISHING ON NEON REEF Months ago, the Miami Beach City Commission voted unanimously to designated this reef a marine protected area. As the process now stalls in budgeting and permitting, commercial lobster boats have begun dropping traps, killing the delicate soft corals. #MarineLife

Yesterday a federal judge ruled the US Fish & Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act when it stripped wolves of ESA protections in 2011. In the 14 years since this illegal decision, thousands of endangered wolves were killed in trophy hunts. www.westernwatersheds.org/2025/08/cour...

Let’s deploy a hydrophone. 🧪

Manatees have widely varying personalities. Some rightfully dart off at the sight of a diver. Others stop to greet a human crossing paths, even after suffering horrible injuries by our hand. #MarineLife

“Blue whale vocalizations dropped by nearly 40% alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations. ‘It’s like trying to sing while you're starving… They were spending all their time just trying to find food.’” www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

The sargassum was thick today but it created some interesting lighting conditions for this nurse shark to swim under🩺🦈 #nurseshark #sharksofcoralcity #shark #everydayissharkweekincoralcity #sargassum #mat #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Even if every whale and dolphin stranding in the world was caused by wind turbines (they are not), the death toll would still not surpass the number of cetaceans killed by commercial fishing bycatch alone.

NEON REEF The thriving nearshore reef off Miami Beach, just 100 meters from one of the busiest beaches in the world. This ecosystem was almost completely wiped out just a decade ago. Keep your eyes out for Neon Reef, the upcoming documentary on the movement to protect this place. #MarineLife

NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show. “They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.

2025’s Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo wildlife killing contest This year $20K from corporate sponsors were distributed for killing the top 10 biggest sharks. ADSFR organizers insist this tournament is vital for scientific research, giving shark samples to local universities. What do you think? 🦑🧪

Grazing livestock and farming over the past 4000 years have rapidly accelerated the rate of soil loss in the Alps, jeopardising the ecosystem and putting the mountains at risk of further erosion

In just four hours of marine debris cleanup in Tampa Bay: •50+ abandoned crab traps •Thousands of pounds of plastic •Hundreds of feet of ropes and fishing line

wrangled some frenchies A dog breeder dumped seven of these in a public park. They were going to die of heat stroke since their collapsed noses cannot properly ventilate. This is the most popular breed in the United States. When you buy from breeders, you support killing dogs.

the current rate of extinction, as estimated by ourselves and others, whom we cited, and across diverse major taxa, we may well be headed in the direction of a new mass extinction event www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🌐🧪

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface. See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3

Snorkeling on a reef off of a beach on Green Turtle Quay, I had fish follow me and keep checking to see if I were benign, and having proven benign, had them accompany me around the reef like underwater pets interested in sharing an afternoon. It was delightful. Sort of spoiled it dining on fish.

I don't think I could ever eat a grouper sandwich again. Thank you for the info.

my friend Coral Coral is a young goliath grouper, resident to a reef in the Florida Keys. There were once countless groupers here, of all different species. They’ve been hunted nearly to extinction. Like the few living coral formations on her reef, she survives here in spite of us. #MarineLife

endangered giant manta ray being stolen from the wild off Panama City, FL hunted down by aircraft to sell into captivity for display in an aquarium by a corporation called Dynasty Marine story developing…

He sold vaccine cards and injected kids with saline so they thought they were vaccinated. There are no rules anymore

A lot of people don’t understand this, but recreational saltwater fishing is typically practiced as a sort of pyramid game, where the fisherman starts by catching small species and uses them as bait for larger fish. This is what it looks like underwater. #MarineLife

Environmental impact of common pesticides seriously underestimated, finds research phys.org/news/2025-07... via @physorg_com

Spring on the Spiegel Grove There’s a certain romance to a shipwreck, something in the way life blossoms from the wreckage. To think some people show up to this place and start dropping hooks, wanting nothing more than to kill these beautiful animals, without so much as peering into their world. 🦑🧪

legendary fish sighting this morning off Miami Beach 🦑🧪

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”