Howler monkeys now fall dead from trees in Mexico, with at least one hundred and thirty-eight found in the Gulf Coast state of Tabasco in the past two weeks, five others rushed to a local veterinarian to save them from perishing.
Thanks for the kind words. Sub-Sahara Africa needs to learn from South Africa about early warning systems. I'm curious to know how South Africa managed to get so many people to be aware of the environment, a quality different from other parts of the continent, where millions show utter disregard for things happening around them, in the face of their own destruction.
Good questions. It was actually southern Africa overall, six countries (including Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia), not just South Africa. You might also like to look close to home at the Nigerian Bird Atlas run out of the University of Jos! https://nigeria.birdmap.africa/. Biodiversity interest is high in some subcultures across this continent, but we wanted to grow it beyond the traditional academic, colonial, or ageing demographics, while starting there and encouraging people to take on mentorship roles to show young people, including in urban and rural areas, the beauty and peacefulness of observing nature in a way that could also help shape decisionmaking and planning. Here is a paper that discusses a bit of that. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320716303809. I now live in North America and am dismayed at how focused people are here only on species that they can fish or hunt.
Thanks for the link. Very impressive initiative by Nigerian Bird Atlas. With it, the chance exists to grow biodiversity interest beyond academic, colonial, or ageing demographics. Thanks once again.
Thank you for always reminding readers that humans are not the only ones affected by intense heat waves and other climate episodes. Here are two papers that might help jurisdictions trying to track and prevent such mortality. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/09/why-the-world-needs-biodiversity-early-warning-systems/ and https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ddi.12339
Thanks for the kind words. Sub-Sahara Africa needs to learn from South Africa about early warning systems. I'm curious to know how South Africa managed to get so many people to be aware of the environment, a quality different from other parts of the continent, where millions show utter disregard for things happening around them, in the face of their own destruction.
Good questions. It was actually southern Africa overall, six countries (including Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia), not just South Africa. You might also like to look close to home at the Nigerian Bird Atlas run out of the University of Jos! https://nigeria.birdmap.africa/. Biodiversity interest is high in some subcultures across this continent, but we wanted to grow it beyond the traditional academic, colonial, or ageing demographics, while starting there and encouraging people to take on mentorship roles to show young people, including in urban and rural areas, the beauty and peacefulness of observing nature in a way that could also help shape decisionmaking and planning. Here is a paper that discusses a bit of that. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320716303809. I now live in North America and am dismayed at how focused people are here only on species that they can fish or hunt.
Also https://www.facebook.com/groups/NigerianBirdAtlas/ and https://x.com/BirdNigeria ;-)
Thanks for the link. Very impressive initiative by Nigerian Bird Atlas. With it, the chance exists to grow biodiversity interest beyond academic, colonial, or ageing demographics. Thanks once again.
You are always welcome and thanks for your fabulous writing!