Diabetics rationing insulin. Jaundiced babies missing appointments. Appendicitis festering untreated for days. Expectant mothers laboring in hiding.

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I stand with Palestine. 🇵🇸

21 Species Declared Extinct
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Let's talk eels & colonization!

In the early 17th C. London was growing fast and needed more eels.The surrounding countryside couldn't provide enough.

The Dutch importers could...but the English were nervous of the strong Dutch monopoly.

So where did they look? Ireland. 1/5 🧪🗃️

Let's talk about eels & dams. 'Cause dams are a problem for eels now, but they haven't always been.

Eels can live out of water for a while, & travel overland. Young eels climb up & around small waterfalls as they migrate. And so many medieval dams weren't a problem for them. 1/7