thedailywhat:

Save The Dolphins of the Day: When 30 dolphins suddenly became standard on a beach in the Brazilian city of Arraial do Cabo, beachgoers rushed to help and happily managed to save every last one.

Hooray for humans!

Perhaps now the dolphins will think twice before abandoning us to face the mindless bureaucracy of the Vogons.

[thd.]

mabelmoments:

Brent Stirton of South Africa, a Getty Images photographer working for National Geographic magazine, has won first prize in the Nature Stories category at the World Press Photo awards for his ‘Rhino Wars’ series. The picture shows a female rhino in Tugela private game reserve, Colenso, Natal, South Africa, that four months earlier survived a brutal de-horning by poachers who used a chainsaw to remove her horns and a large section of bone in that area of her skull. The surviving rhino has now joined up with a male. Photograph: Brent Stirton/Getty Images for National Geographic/2011 WPPC

(via twentyfiveight)

allcreatures:

A greater one horned rhino drinks from a river in Janakauli community forest bordering Chitwan National Park in Nepal. Increased security and close work with the local community has led to a significant rise in Nepal’s rhinoceros population over the past three years. Photograph: Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP

themagnificentlifeofplants:

A House Built With Old Billboards and Broken Umbrellas

mabelmoments:

Orphaned orangutans saved from extinction in Borneo jungle

At the Nyaru Menteng centre 47 “babysitters” – women recruited from nearby villages in central Borneo - help care for 650 apes as they move through nursery, Forest School One and Forest School Two before hopefully heading out for a new life in the jungle.

The centre was set up 12 years ago by ­Danish conservationist Lone Dröscher-Nielsen who devised the baby-sitter system of giving the traumatised young orphans the ­unconditional love they need to survive.

(via allcreatures)

Do you look forward to the extinction of humankind? I sure do, I feel like the most beautiful thing that humans could achieve would be to finally die off and let the good earth try to heal itself. When I say this to close family members they never agree and sometimes are angry at me, calling me morbid. There isn’t anything more morbid than our species smothering and poisoning every other one on the planet. I’m not worried about being judged, just worried about those who are reproducing and those who want to cure major human diseases.

The good earth? You fucking idiot. The earth is an ethically inert mud ball hurtling around an amoral little star in an infinitely vast universe that is neither good nor evil. On a geological time scale, the measurable effect of our species on the planet is an insignificant burp.

It takes the human condition to color the world with value judgments, and yours are self-hating and silly. Besides, we’re not going to make it anyway. Not at our current stage of evolution, and certainly not if we stick around this corner of the solar system. 99.9% of all species that have ever existed on earth are now extinct, and one day we will be too. We aren’t that fucking special.

Does that mean we should wish for our annihilation? Fuck no. Only arrogant malcontents think like that. All you’re doing is projecting your own self loathing onto a species-centric world view, one that’s no different from the ignorant fucks who think we were put on the planet to rule over the animals.

Humanity is a fleeting and beautiful experience, the sum total of which probably won’t count for shit in the long run. So what? Don’t resent your species. It’s a wasted emotion based on a primitive way of thinking.

If you really look forward to the extinction of humankind, then do your part and kill yourself. Otherwise, shut the fuck up and enjoy the ride.

-okay, so maybe no killing yourself, because that’s sad. But thanks coketalk, haha <3

Earlier this week, Jane Goodall visited with Sir David Attenbourough, the famous British broadcaster and naturalist. The two are longtime friends and are often jokingly referred to as the “Tarzan and Jane” of the conservation world.

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