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Canada is the world's second-largest country after Russia. The country stretches across 3.8 million square miles (9.9 million square kilometres). Canada is almost equal in size to China (9,596,961 sq km), but its proximity to the North Pole makes it look much larger than China.
The area north of the treeline: 2,728,800 km2, over 27% of Canada's total area.
Canada's land border: 8,890-km border with the United States, is the longest international border in the world.
Canada's land border: 8,890-km border with the United States, is the longest international border in the world.
#Canada is divided into numerous geographical zones. Average elevation is 487 m above sea level. The highest mountain peak (Mount Logan) is at 5,959 meters. The country has 52,455 mostly uninhabited islands in the open sea. #geography
Intrinsic Exchange Group "harnesses the very market forces" to include natural assets in the mainstream of the economy.
"We are pioneering a new asset class based on natural assets & the mechanism to convert them to financial capital."
#30x30 #NetZero #NACs #SDGs #Cop27
"We are pioneering a new asset class based on natural assets & the mechanism to convert them to financial capital."
#30x30 #NetZero #NACs #SDGs #Cop27
A Natural Asset Co. is able to produce financial statements that capture "vast services that are not yet monetized like #climate stabilization, #freshwater production, #groundwater storage, erosion prevention, #pollination, pest control, natural fertility from healthy soil, etc."
"Natural Asset Company: A corporation designed TO HOLD THE RIGHTS TO & MANAGE the Ecological Performance of natural assets, e.g. the productivity & health of natural assets."
intrinsicexchange.com/en/solution
@_whitneywebb, Oct 13, 2021:
unlimitedhangout.com/2021/10/invest…
intrinsicexchange.com/en/solution
@_whitneywebb, Oct 13, 2021:
unlimitedhangout.com/2021/10/invest…
Fourth post in the #WildlifeWeek series. Today’s post is more of a #reviving one than #reintroduction.
Day 4 – Return of the #bandits to #Chambal !
The Red Crowned Roofed #turtle is a #species of #freshwater turtle endemic to South #Asia.
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Day 4 – Return of the #bandits to #Chambal !
The Red Crowned Roofed #turtle is a #species of #freshwater turtle endemic to South #Asia.
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Historically the species was widespread in the #Ganga River, both in #India and #Bangladesh. Extirpated from most of its former range but currently it has dwindled a last surviving population of less than 500 adult individuals in the #wild.
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Their population reduced drastically due to depredation of eggs and hatchlings by Golden #jackals, #habitat degradation due to #pollution and illegal sand mining in the floodplains. They are also extensively #poached for their meat and shell.
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3/9
Our paper is out!
Current #adaptation projects do not automatically enhance #gender equality | need to be intentionally brought in at planning & implementation stages.
23authors|9sectors|17739 literature|countless meetings
Delighted to have brainstormed👇figure with @Joyashree9
Current #adaptation projects do not automatically enhance #gender equality | need to be intentionally brought in at planning & implementation stages.
23authors|9sectors|17739 literature|countless meetings
Delighted to have brainstormed👇figure with @Joyashree9
Embedding gender considerations and facilitating #women’s participation in project design and implementation along with #inclusive #policies, training, information access, planning, and monitoring is needed
Additional course correction for #SDG5 is needed.
Our #SDG5plus (SDG5+) approach takes into consideration #intersectionality and gender aspects beyond #women alone, & can help #adaptation actions move towards meeting #genderequality and other #climatejustice goals.
Our #SDG5plus (SDG5+) approach takes into consideration #intersectionality and gender aspects beyond #women alone, & can help #adaptation actions move towards meeting #genderequality and other #climatejustice goals.
"It’s mediaschmerz—a sadness about the news cycle and news media, which is distinct from the experience of our everyday life. I’m not sure if I think this is good or bad. It simply is. Individual hope and national despair are not contradictions." @DKThomp greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2022/06/02/dai…
Has the 'great resignation' hit academia?
nature.com/articles/d4158…
#GreatResignation, #LeavingAcademia, #EarlyCareerResearchers, #TenureTrackPositions, #GrantMill
nature.com/articles/d4158…
#GreatResignation, #LeavingAcademia, #EarlyCareerResearchers, #TenureTrackPositions, #GrantMill
'Everything Is Terrible, but I'm Fine'
theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
#weltschmerz, #EconomicWellBeing, #PerceptionGap, #BadNews, #MediaSchmerz
theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
#weltschmerz, #EconomicWellBeing, #PerceptionGap, #BadNews, #MediaSchmerz
#ICYMI a revolution in #biodiversity monitoring is underway. This revolution is driven by independent technological advances - but even more so once those can be integrated
A 🧵to highlight just a few recent papers and #preprints
(📸 biodiversity wall (c) @mfnberlin)
A 🧵to highlight just a few recent papers and #preprints
(📸 biodiversity wall (c) @mfnberlin)
1. environmental DNA (eDNA)
It's now possible to detect animals & other organisms through tracking their molecular traces 🧬. Originally developed for #freshwater animals 🐸(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…), the technology can now be adapted to almost every environment:
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It's now possible to detect animals & other organisms through tracking their molecular traces 🧬. Originally developed for #freshwater animals 🐸(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…), the technology can now be adapted to almost every environment:
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e.g. very recent advancements include (A) sampling of eDNA from the air to detect #insects ...
3/
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
This tiny crab trapped in 100-million-year-old amber is the most complete fossil crab ever discovered! But how did a crab get trapped in amber in the first place? Here we tell you the story
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #Science #Evolution #SciComm 1/n
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #Science #Evolution #SciComm 1/n
Transitions from marine to non-marine environments (e.g., land, brackish & freshwater) are an infrequent even in most animal groups. And yet, true crabs, or #Brachyura, have done it independently over a dozen times! #ocean #freshwater #evolution 2/n
Amber is like a time capsule that preserves organisms like frozen in time. While most fossils in amber are land-dwelling animals—principally insects—, aquatic organisms such as crabs are extremely rare! #amber #jurassicpark #Cretaceous #Crabs Photo by @LidaXing1982 3/n
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 05/25/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/05/25/dai…
We’ll Innovate Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis or Die Trying
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
#ClimateChange #innovation #technology #consequences
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
#ClimateChange #innovation #technology #consequences
Doing More by Doing Less: A Call to Rethink Philanthropy
nonprofitquarterly.org/doing-more-by-…
#philanthropy #impact #participation #grantmaking
nonprofitquarterly.org/doing-more-by-…
#philanthropy #impact #participation #grantmaking
20th century problems on 21st century #Crimea: Unlike in Soviet times, #watersupply is not any longer a complicated infrastructural, but today a simple financial issue. 1/4
A broad variety of #desalinationtechnologies is today allowing many countries with insufficient #freshwater reserves, e.g. Israel, Saudi Arabia or Iraq, to live on desalinated sea water. Yet, #Moscow is unwilling to invest money into building #Crimean d
#desalination plants. 2/4
#desalination plants. 2/4
Instead, #Kremlinmedia portrays falling #freshwatersupply on Crimea as a #humanitariandisaster caused by #Ukrainian stubbornness. Many brainwashed #Russians may accept this geopolitical rather than financial-technical explanation of #Crimea's principal infrastructural issue. 3/4
Great news for #conservation: protection of freshwater #biodiversity can be increased by up to 600% through integrated freshwater-terrestrial planning. Our new @RAS_network study in @ScienceMagazine: science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65… 1/4
📷@maricruppe
📷@maricruppe
We found that conservation planning solely focused on terrestrial #species is likely to protect just ~20% of freshwater biodiversity in the Brazilian #Amazon. 2/4
science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65…
@RAS_network
science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65…
@RAS_network
Even where freshwater species data is missing, we can still increase freshwater conservation. By using only terrestrial species + accounting for #river connectivity, #freshwater protection result in conservation gains as high as 200%. 3/4
science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65…
📷@maricruppe
science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65…
📷@maricruppe
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 6/18/2020-2
greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/06/18/dai…
Decision-Making in a Time of Crisis – O’Reilly
oreilly.com/radar/decision…
#DecisionMaking #crisis
greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/06/18/dai…
Decision-Making in a Time of Crisis – O’Reilly
oreilly.com/radar/decision…
#DecisionMaking #crisis
Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems | Nature Ecology & Evolution
nature.com/articles/s4155…
#impacts #scales #ecology #freshwater #ecosystems
nature.com/articles/s4155…
#impacts #scales #ecology #freshwater #ecosystems
Responsible Investment needs a bigger toolbox - Preventable Surprises
preventablesurprises.com/publications/b…
#investment #toolbox
preventablesurprises.com/publications/b…
#investment #toolbox
Water pollution is destroying the remaining 0.007% of all water, which is left to support the population.
Join our guest @ayoade_adegbite on #WASHDriversHangout this Thursday. A conversation for people and planet
#ClimateAction #EarthDay2020 #WASH #SDG6 @NigeriaEarthday
Join our guest @ayoade_adegbite on #WASHDriversHangout this Thursday. A conversation for people and planet
#ClimateAction #EarthDay2020 #WASH #SDG6 @NigeriaEarthday
#WASHDriversHangout starts in 20mins.
Our guest, @ayoade_adegbite is set to share with us on #WASH and Freshwater Conservation.
#EarthDay2020
Join the conversation. #Covid_19
Our guest, @ayoade_adegbite is set to share with us on #WASH and Freshwater Conservation.
#EarthDay2020
Join the conversation. #Covid_19
A thread on the Emergency Recovery Plan for #freshwater #biodiversity, just published by @BioScienceAIBS
6 actions to Bend the Curve on freshwater biodiversity loss
#1 Implement environmental flows, such as below Three Gorges Dam on Yangtze River
academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…
6 actions to Bend the Curve on freshwater biodiversity loss
#1 Implement environmental flows, such as below Three Gorges Dam on Yangtze River
academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…
#2 To bend the curve on freshwater biodiversity, improve water quality.
The Cuyahoga River (below in @CVNPNPS) once was biologically dead from pollution. Actions-local to federal-tackled pollution & bent the curve for Cuyahoga; sections which lacked fish now have > 40 species.
The Cuyahoga River (below in @CVNPNPS) once was biologically dead from pollution. Actions-local to federal-tackled pollution & bent the curve for Cuyahoga; sections which lacked fish now have > 40 species.
#3 to bend the curve on freshwater biodiversity loss, protect and restore critical habitats.
Ramsar designation and other protected areas can safeguard habitats and species, such as this American crocodile in the Terraba-Sierpe National Wetlands in Costa Rica
Ramsar designation and other protected areas can safeguard habitats and species, such as this American crocodile in the Terraba-Sierpe National Wetlands in Costa Rica
@McHargCenter provides some great maps and overviews of a diverse selection factors in the #US here: mcharg.upenn.edu/2100-project-a… #ThePowerOfMaps #Insights #GlobalTrends - A few of my favourites..(1/6) US use of land...
Today is #GuruNanakJayanti550 . He taught us to #love #respect all 🙏🏽These #photographs are from the #BanglaSahib #Gurudwara (place of worship of the #Sikhs)It is said that its built on the bungalow (hence #colloquial term ‘Bangla’)of Maharaja Jai Singh, ruler of #Amber #Jaipur
8th Sikh #Guru, Har Kishen, helped #smallpox #cholera #epidemic patients in 1664 from here.The #freshwater from the well here quenched many thirsts. He himself succumbed.Later, the #Maharaja built a #reservoir, still revered as it #symbolically links to the water from its #well
The main shrine hall is painted with #gold, motifs here and the inlay work heavily influenced by the reigning #Mughal This Gurudwara is now #plasticfree from #October #gurunanak550 #sikhism #architecture #delhi #pakistan #religion #secularism #heritage #historic #handmade #India
I’m so bloody tired of freshwater ecosystems being overlooked 😤. So here’s a thread about why you and everyone else should give a shit #freshwaterneedslovetoo #tellyourgrandmothertoo🏞️(1/n)
#Freshwater makes up less than 2.5% of the world’s water (much is inaccessible, trapped in glaciers) yet 140000 species incl. 55% (!!) of all #fish species 🐟depend on it to survive (2/n)
Source: USGS
Source: USGS
The world (people, organizations etc.) focuses much more on marine and terrestrial ecosystems, often literally excluding #freshwater at all. Ex: this figure by IUCN. Where the fuck are freshwater species? #freshwaterneedslovetoo (3/n)
Source: IUCN
Source: IUCN
2018 is the 61st year of long term ecological research in Burrishoole #BurrishooleLTER @MarineInst. I'm going to pin this tweet here and at the end of every month add some phenological happenings 🌿🐛📈🐟💦🦆🦉🦇🕷🍃🌼🌙🌝❄️, including our main jobs. Stay tuned 👇🏼
@MarineInst This will coincide with our monthly staff meetings (last wed of each month) so I can get everyone's observations @FishEcoEvo @elizabethtray3 @B2020project
