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Pauline Briand @petrichoeur.bsky.social · 4d

Le cinquième article de ma série sur le retour du loup sur le plateau de Millevaches est en ligne sur le site de
@lesjours.fr
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Cet article est un entretien avec quatre éleveurs du plateau qui parlent de leur rapport à la prédation avec nuance et complexité.
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« Comme on veut défendre nos troupeaux face au loup, on se sent mal-aimés »

Attaques de brebis, tirs de défense, coexistence, rumeurs : entretien croisé avec quatre éleveurs du plateau de Millevaches, en Corrèze.

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Pauline Briand @petrichoeur.bsky.social · 12d

Merci Stéphane !

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Pauline Briand @petrichoeur.bsky.social · Sep 4

Le quatrième article de ma série sur le retour du loup sur le plateau de Millevaches est en ligne sur le site de @lesjours.fr.
Cet article parle de la destruction des loups comme solution pour lutter contre la prédation et rien n'est simple dans cette histoire.
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Qui veut la peau du grand méchant loup ?

Face aux attaques de troupeaux sur le plateau de Millevaches, les appels à tuer le prédateur, légalement ou illégalement, fleurissent. Une vraie fausse solution.

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Pauline Briand @petrichoeur.bsky.social · Aug 20

Le troisième article de ma série sur le retour du loup sur le plateau de Millevaches est disponible sur @lesjours.fr. Je vous raconte l'histoire du couple de loups par lequel les lignées italo-alpine et germano-polonaise se rencontrent pour la première fois en France.

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Quand c’est flou, c’est qu’il y a deux loups

Les peurs et les fantasmes, les preuves et les attaques… En un an, un couple de canidés a concentré sur lui toutes les tensions du plateau de Millevaches.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hahaha, I love this photo of a snake nerd researcher from the Phoenix Herpetological Society using a fake leg to step on rattlesnakes & see how likely they are to bite. He "stepped" on 175 of them, and was bitten by only SIX. Snakes desperately want to just get away! 🐍🧪

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A guy out in the desert scrub who looks like Napoleon Dynamite uses a jeans-wrapped pole with a hiking boot on the bottom to "step" on a rattlesnake.

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · Aug 19

Good ocean news that a legal effort to overturn a ban on bottom fishing gear in 87 areas of the Atlantic continental shelf has failed.

These areas are now closed to all bottom trawling and dredging as well as bottom set longlines, gill nets and pots.

www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

EU court upholds ban on deep-sea fishing in Atlantic

Experts say the ruling is likely to have a positive impact on other legal cases on bottom trawling happening across the EU.

www.euronews.com

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · Aug 16

At #EOU2025 @eounion.bsky.social conference next week, we'll show new evidence implicating forestry in declines of British Marsh Tits during the era of woodland conversion in 1950/60s-1980s.
This was period of steepest decline in Marsh Tits. Why? What was going on back then? #ornithology 1/5

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Pauline Briand @petrichoeur.bsky.social · Aug 5

Le second article de ma série sur le retour du loup sur le plateau de Millevaches est disponible sur @lesjours.fr, avec l'annonce de la naissance d'une première portée de louveteaux qui fait parler d'elle, et les fracas provoqués par l'arrivée d'un premier loup en 2021.

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En Corrèze, alerte aux louveteaux sur le plateau

Quatre petits sont nés au printemps. Les naturalistes appellent à empêcher leur élimination, tandis que les éleveurs voient ressurgir des peurs ancestrales.

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Pauline Briand @petrichoeur.bsky.social · Aug 5

Cet été, je vous raconte le retour du loup sur le plateau de Millevaches dans une série d'articles pour @lesjours.fr. Ce premier article pose le contexte entre polémiques aux niveaux national et local et réalités de l'espèce.
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Pense avec les loups

Le prédateur est de retour sur le plateau de Millevaches. Entre attaques de troupeaux, éleveurs inquiets et instrumentalisation, « Les Jours » suivent sa piste.

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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our new paper out today: www.livescience.com/animals/land...

Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees unseen for 80 years

Gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help control the numbers of elk that were eating young trees, and it is finally paying off for quaking aspen.

www.livescience.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Jul 14

“fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone... The team of Kenyan, US, Austrian, & Swiss scientists found trees could draw carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere & store it as calcium carbonate 'rocks' in soil”😮

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Fig trees convert atmospheric CO₂ to stone, research reveals

Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new research has found. The team of Kenyan, U.S., Austrian, and Swiss scientist...

phys.org

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Patrick Marques @pmarques35.bsky.social · Jul 14

[1/3] AFP - En juin 2025, l’énergie solaire est devenue pour la première fois la première source d’électricité en Europe, avec 22,1% de la production, devant le nucléaire (21,8%) et l’éolien (15,8%). Ce record s’explique par un fort ensoleillement et l’essor du photovoltaïque. #geography #energymix

L’énergie solaire a constitué en juin la première source d’électricité en Europe - RTBF Actus

Arrivent ensuite le gaz (14,4% du total) puis l’hydroélectricité (12,8%), ajoute l’analyse. Selon ce bilan, au moins...

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Julien JONNARD @julienjonnard.bsky.social · Jul 9

Parce qu'il ne s'arrête jamais, le Sénat et sa majorité droitière préconisent de supprimer purement et simplement le Conservatoire du Littoral. Organisme qui a notamment permis d'éviter de nombreuses betonisations et œuvré pour la préservation de nos côtes.

Une pétition est lancée 👇

Signez la pétition

Protégeons ensemble nos littoraux, soutenons le Conservatoire du littoral

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hey Camera Trappers 📸🐺🐗🦌🦅Snapshot Europe is back for 2025!
Join us in deploying cameras this Sept-Oct. Help build a crucial snapshot of European biodiversity. Learn more & express interest here ▶️ app.wildlifeinsights.org/initiatives/...
Spread the word and help expand our community across Europe🙏

Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) captured in Stelvio National Park, Italy

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · Jul 3

Just came across a 2003 paper that stated that "all conservation needs could be readily met through only moderate reductions in military spending." We're further away from global conservation goals than ever now.

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social · Jun 24

Yesterday we released our cosmic treasure chest...and now it's yours to explore! With ✨~10 million galaxies✨ in the image, there's plenty to find.

Pan, zoom, and hunt for gems in this treasure chest using Skyviewer - and be sure to share your favorites with us! 🔭🧪

➡️ skyviewer.app/explorer

$A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At left is a large elliptical galaxy, smooth like a polished stone. At right lies a large spiral galaxy that is nearly a ring, with bright golden core. To its lower left is a smaller spiral with a barred core. At top and bottom, two bright stars shine brightly with multi-colored diffraction spikes emanating out. In the background, hundreds of galaxies are just smudges of various colors.$

A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At top left is a large galaxy that is smooth like a stone, with wisps like cotton candy spiral from left and right. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. / A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At bottom left is an elegant two-armed galaxy, with arms extended like a dancer viewed from above. The bright points of three stars form a triangle at top center. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors against the black of space.

$A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At top right is a large galaxy with two whirling spiral arms wrapping around like a hug. At bottom left, two smooth elliptical galaxies appear near each other, like champagne glasses in the midst of a cheers. A bright star above the pair has red, green, and blue diffraction spikes emanating out. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors.$ A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At center is a spiral galaxy peppered with tight, knotted clumps of vivid blue, young stars. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors against the black of space.

A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At center is a spiral galaxy peppered with tight, knotted clumps of vivid blue, young stars. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors against the black of space.

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Charli Grimes @charli-ocean.bsky.social · Jun 24

We did some science. We found some things.
Killer whales get by with a little kelp from their friends.

Evidence of tool manufacture and use in resident killer whales - check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Manufacture and use of allogrooming tools by wild killer whales

The manufacture and use of tools, while widespread in terrestrial animals1, has been less frequently reported in marine taxa2. In cetaceans, clear exa…

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WildCRU, Oxford @wildcru.bsky.social · Jun 18

Bison and moose are returning to Central Europe, but are we ready to coexist with them?

A new study analyses stakeholder perspectives to identify key priorities for fostering sustainable coexistence.

👉 bit.ly/40bmXVI

@biology.ox.ac.uk @skcdelrio.bsky.social

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Jun 19

A paper in Nature suggests that the Australian Bogong moth may be the first invertebrate known to be able to use the stars to navigate. Experiments in flight simulators indicate that the insects use stellar cues to help them fly in the right direction. go.nature.com/3ZEaDgG 🧪

This is figure 2, which shows Bogong moth navigation under natural night skies.

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Pauline Briand @petrichoeur.bsky.social · Jun 19

Perdre le merle.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Birdwatch: Britain’s dry springs put beloved blackbird under threat

Species already threatened by Usutu virus finding it difficult to extract worms from sun-hardened soil

www.theguardian.com

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · Jun 19

Woah! Such an important study published in Nature today! Quick thread with some of their key figures!
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WIRED @wired.com · Jun 12

BTW, our new guide on protesting safely in the age of surveillance is unpaywalled.

From phone safety tips to just how much law enforcement can track your movements, take a look at the guide:

WIRED @wired.com · Jun 12

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

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Jon.B @jonbright.bsky.social · Jun 12

More than 24,000 factory farms have opened across Europe
Intensive livestock farms such as those found across the US are spreading across the continent, according to new data. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: More than 24,000 factory farms have opened across Europe

Intensive livestock farms such as those found across the US are spreading across the continent, according to new data

www.theguardian.com

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Jane Qiu, PhD @janeqiu.bsky.social · Jun 11

Wildlife trade acts as a vast global network of unregulated natural laboratories,with ample opportunities for viruses to circulate & evolve to become more dangerous

We can either turn a blind eye or try to understand & mitigate the risks

My latest in @nature.com

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Exclusive: Inside the thriving wild-animal markets that could start the next pandemic

Live-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, yet scientists lack support to study the risks they pose.

www.nature.com

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · Jun 10

Breaking news: it appears Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica are declining faster than predicted.

Latest satellite data shows a massive 22% drop in penguin numbers over the last 15 years in key regions.

This is more than double the rate of loss that experts had expected...

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