Brent A. Mitchell
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Learner, conservationist VP, QLF and Vice Chair, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Views are my own.
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Join us in this interactive session where we will learn about efforts to operationalize the One Health approach on the ground, nationally, and internationally; develop recommendations for an IUCN One Health strategy. IUCN World Conservation Congress
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Calls for applications:

IUCN WCPA Publications Editor – Oversees WCPA’s knowledge products and support members in producing high-quality publications, reports, and knowledge products.
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IUCN WCPA Publications Group Members
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Deadline: 30 September 2025
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Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.

The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
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HHS just gutted mRNA vaccine development. A reckless move that undermines science, global health equity, and future pandemic preparedness. This isn't just bad policy. It's dangerous. www.linkedin.com/pulse/disarm...
#PandemicPreparedness #Pandemic #GlobalHealth #vaccines
Disarming the World: How U.S. Health Policy Endangers Everyone
Some mornings, the news hits harder than the coffee, and today was one of those gut-punches. It's hard to believe, even amid the daily deluge of devastating headlines, that things can, so unnecessaril...
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Income inequality - we've been there before.

Note this is _annual_ change, the disparity grows worse each year. All major religions teach the importance of helping the poor and needy, inc., esp. Christianity.

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Here's the proof: Republicans are only looking out for their millionaire and billionaire friends – and they're willing to gamble with your lives to pay them off.
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My Mosquito Buckets of Doom (for larvae). Mosquito fogging kills everything except mosquitoes.
🪣 This bucket does it better, without harming pollinators or people.

Learn how: visit link in bio HomegrownNationalPark.org

#MosquitoBucketChallenge #HomegrownNationalPark
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Five things to remember about war:
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I read and subscribe to the @theatlantic.com, but have stopped following it here. Too many repetitive posts.
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.” – Orwell, 1984
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The Latest National Park Order: No “Negative” Information About Past or Living Americans
Signs are popping up at NPS sites asking visitors to report any instances of rangers speaking negatively about America. Critics say it’s an attempt to whitewash U.S. history.
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Hey @cnn.com, sure, war in the Middle East is big news (though hardly new). But you can’t spare a few minutes for Federal crimes in the US?
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We've just launched AviList! - the new unified global taxonomic checklist for the world's birds, developed through the Working Group on Avian Classification, including BirdLife, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, IOC and others @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.avilist.org
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If you are poor and working hard to make a life for yourself and your family, we'll deport you. (Very roughly.)
But give us $5 million & we'll talk.
Check out the new, official government website for yourself. (And note how the regions are listed. Clearly by order of preference.)
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Trump Card - Pathway to American Citizenship
Join the official Trump Card waitlist - Donald Trump's revolutionary pathway to American citizenship. Secure your spot today.
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For D-Day, I am returning to a piece I wrote last year after visiting the beaches of Normandy—a reflection on the time Americans and the world came together to defeat fascism, with resonance today.

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Surviving D-Day: 2024
How to get through the fear, anxiety and potential violence of this election
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The next decade will be difficult for #nature #conservation. In a new editorial in @oryxthejournal.bsky.social, we suggest a range of things we can do to rebuild support and challenge #post-truth politics. Led by Nigel Dudley, the piece reminds us that we must not abandon hope.

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Conservation in troubled times | Oryx | Cambridge Core
Conservation in troubled times - Volume 59 Issue 1
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