According to the #Guardian, former officials at the #FAO claimed that they faced censorship, sabotage, and victimization for more than a decade after they published a landmark report in 2006 called Livestock’s Long Shadow.

It estimated that #livestock, mostly #cattle, accounted for 18% of global greenhouse gas #emissions, which was more than the transport sector.

The report also highlighted the impacts of livestock on land use, water use, and #biodiversity loss.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/20/the-anti-livestock-people-are-a-pest-how-un-fao-played-down-role-of-farming-in-climate-change

A global #biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

Excited to share 70+ coauthored Comment @NatureEcoEvo
Read it here 👇
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02171-0

For #WorldTurtleDay I’m sharing my ‘Turtles all the way down’ #linocut. Made for an exhibition about #cosmology I also took the opportunity to highlight the #biodiversity of #turtles. This hint of an infinite stack includes from the top down: …
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#printmaking #sciart ⁠ #turtles #biodiversity #conservation #cosmology #turtlesallthewaydown #MastoArt

Pacific Seamounts 2018 Expedition Report [British Columbia, Canada]
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https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2022/mpo-dfo/Fs97-6-3460-eng.pdf <-- their shared report as a PDF
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[Tang.ɢwan – ḥačxwiqak – Tsig̱is Area of Interest (TḥT AOI)]
#environmental #marine #mining #data #management #environment #biodiversity #canada #offshore #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #sonar #bathymetry #bathymetric #britishcolumbia #seafloor #seamounts #HaidaNation #NPSEP #ocean #oceanconservation #oceanography #survey #expedition #research #rov #underwater
Fisheries and Oceans Canada