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There’s a popular talking point that says boycotting animal products is an “individual action” that distracts from the responsibility of powerful corporations.

The meat industry spent decades promoting this narrative.

new paper:
🌎 🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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For the fifth consecutive year: We've documented widespread damage to critical habitat for Gila chub and Western yellow-billed cuckoo from herds of unauthorized cattle in Arizona’s Agua Fria National Monument.

We've been fighting this issue for years: biodiv.us/4bKzAfi
March 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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This is what America looked like before the creation of the EPA
March 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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MORE OF THIS! 👏

1,000+ people rallied in Montana on Sunday in support of public lands and public lands workers who have been fired by Trump and Musk.

We the people are not going to be silent as this administration tries to gut and sell off our treasured natural spaces. #HandsOffOurLands
Roughly 1,000 people rally in Missoula to protect public lands
Roughly 1,000 people gathered in Missoula to advocate for public lands, marching from McCormick Park to Caras Park.
www.kpax.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Now is the time to sound the alarm and urge the Trump admin not to dismantle some of the most important places our country has to offer, including Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments.

Text LANDS to 43428 to tell Interior Secretary Burgum to protect our national monuments.
Voices: The Trump administration poses a significant threat to Utah’s national monuments and America’s natural heritage
“Now is the time to sound the alarm and urge the administration not to dismantle some of the most important places our country has to offer,” write Steve Bloch, Aaron Paul and Heidi McIntosh in an op-...
www.sltrib.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Cheatgrass spreads where livestock grazing wipes out native plants, fueling fire and invasion. WWP’s meta-analysis proves grazing makes it worse, yet agencies push cows as the “solution.” Shifting baselines make people forget what’s been lost. This isn’t natural—it’s policy-driven destruction.
March 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is under attack!

The current administration is trying to dismantle NEPA and remove regulations, destroying an act that has protected our environment for decades.

Comments due: March 27, 2025

Submit Comments at: tinyurl.com/Federal-Reg
March 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Contrary to the regenerative ranching racquet, this meta-analysis further adds to the consensus:

Natural ecosystems contain more stable soil carbon stores than even the best agricultural land, and their preservation (& restoration as best as possible) is therefore crucial.
January 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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For so-called marginal land, if its use as agricultural land is necessary, organic amendments (say introducing plant compost or a diversity of nitrogen fixing perennial crops) and even biochar, are far better for soil improvements than grazing cattle:
January 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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‘But grazing cattle net stores GHGs and is the best way to protect grasslands’

Nope:

The presence of grazing compared to no grazing decreased SOC by as much as -31% ! (avg -7.1%) (CI -31, -3.9)
January 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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There's zero evidence that grazing cattle perfectly can ever be better than this:

“The preservation of SOC can be effectively achieved through the protection of natural ecosystems and the introduction of perennial crops in croplands”

🧵meta-analysis of 25,000+ studies
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A global meta-analysis of soil organic carbon in the Anthropocene - Nature Communications
Over 25,000 synthesized experiments identify effective land management practices, such as tree planting and biochar use, that partially mitigate land-use change effects. Yet, indirect climate change e...
www.nature.com
January 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Bison should be allowed to roam free and cattle should be restricted to private land.
All abandoned barbed wire should be removed from public land.
The money today being wasted on public lands grazing should go into building wildlife overpasses and installing wildlife safe guide fencing.
February 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Meanwhile, in the world of #whales -
Steps taken to reduce the likelihood of shipping killing individual Gulf of Mexico whales (Balaenoptera ricei) have been rescinded

~50 or so is the best estimate of the abundance of this species
🐳🌍🦑
Endangered Rice's Whale At Risk As Protection Efforts Are Rescinded
After BOEM rescinded its protection efforts aimed at slowing ship traffic, there is little to save the whale from extinction.
www.thetravel.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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There will be a hearing tomorrow on this terrible piece of legislation so we need you to act TODAY!
Act Now: Oppose the “Fix Our Forests” Act - Western Watersheds Project
westernwatersheds.org
March 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Today’s Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations’ hearing on experimental populations under the Endangered Species Act is the next step in anti-wildlife Members of Congress attempts to play politics with the ESA and undermine best available science.

dfnd.us/3Dha6Jw
Natural Resources Committee Puts Experimental Populations in Danger
Defenders of Wildlife today expressed deep concern over the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations’ hearing on experimental populations under the Endangered...
dfnd.us
March 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM