"While crop seed vaults are common around the world, nurseries for wild and native plants are rare, and many plant species quietly become extinct. This marks #Gurukula out as a Noah’s ark for endangered plant species."
"While crop seed vaults are common around the world, nurseries for wild and native plants are rare, and many plant species quietly become extinct. This marks #Gurukula out as a Noah’s ark for endangered plant species."
For #TravelTuesday here's some cloud forest in Costa Rica from last year. We made it to and across that bridge pictured. Not scary. The viper we came across: also not scary. The tarantula webs around holes that our guide kept peering into: a tad scary.
Another highlight of #Singapore was the #CloudForest which featured a huge artificial waterfall inside a “bio dome” (I am not sure if that is the correct term, but it was like a massive greenhouse with various plants inside).
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We found a very special visitor to the farm this morning.
Moments like these fill our sails to keep doing what we do.
Esta mañana en ontramos un visitante muy especial en la granja.
Momentos como estos llenan nuestras velas para seguir haciendo lo que hacemos.
The newly described deer species Pudella carlae from Peru.
#NewSpecies of #PirateSpiders discovered on South Atlantic island https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024/february/new-species-pirate-spiders-discovered-south-atlantic-island.html
Two new sympatric species of the pirate #spider genus Ero C.L. Koch, 1836 from the cloud forest of #SaintHelena Island, South Atlantic Ocean https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/2417
"Having been confused for a closely related species, the 2 new #spiders have been hiding out on #StHelena for decades. Now newly recognised, it’s hoped the spiders will provide added impetus to preserve the island’s threatened #CloudForest."
My brief visit to #CostaRica, my mother's birthplace, almost 30 years ago, was at the start of the #ecotourism trend described in this article, and was nothing at all like the author's experience.
We stayed in #SanJose, but I did visit the #CloudForest (and a river tour and my then third #volcano, #Arenal). It is a beautiful country.
The #ferns especially struck me as #primeval; I imagined dinosaurs eating or wading through them, they were so massive.
#link: https://www.travelandleisure.com/eco-friendly-hotels-in-costa-rica-8382645
Chatting with someone on Instagram who's currently very near where we visited in Costa Rica three weeks ago and who's had more stationary hummingbirds to photograph. Our flying friends were decidedly more zippy-all-over-the-place and this is probably the best of the photos I managed to snap in the cloud forest.
working from Monteverde until next week! #CostaRica #CloudForest
https://www.ted.com/talks/nalini_nadkarni_conserving_the_canopy
#biodiversity #biology #mosses #Bryophytes #canopy #conservation #rainforest #forest #cloudforest #trees #climatechange
#Green #Prison Reform Project
#sustainability
#organic #gardening
#worms #wormCulture #compost #composting
#recycling
#water #waterConservation #waterCatchment
#bees #beekeeping
We're in Ecuador so I haven't been posting much but here are some cool owl-eyed #butterflies from #MashpiLodge in the #CloudForest.
I walked through a cloud forest today and this hummingbird nest was pointed out to me. Two days ago, it had babies in it, which means that somewhere there is a happy snake with a full belly. #BirdNest #BirdNests #CloudForest #RainForest #hummingbird #CircleOfLife
Today I hiked through a cloud forest. I went across hanging bridges, and even climbed up inside the hollow remains of a very old strangler ficus. #stranglerFig #Ficus #Vine #TreeClimbing #CloudForest #RainForest