Wherever Nature - Öko-Touren, Touristenführer und Umwelterhaltung

23/03/2022

It's officially spring! Keep an eye out for new queen bumble bees as they start to come out of hibernation and emerge from their overwintering burrows. Once emerged, new queens will establish nesting sites in old logs or underground and lay a first round of eggs which will hatch into the first generation of worker bees. Worker bees will help with nest maintenance, pollen and nectar collection, and the rearing of future generations of the colony.
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Queen bumble bees are the only members of their colony to survive the winter since bumble bee colonies are annual, meaning that all the workers, drones, and even the previous year’s queen will naturally pass before the winter season once the colony has produced new queen bees. These new queens mate, forage for food, and then find a safe place to hibernate underground for the entire winter before emerging again in the spring.
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Illustration: bumble bee life-cycle by Jeremy Hemberger
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21/01/2022

Si te apasionan los temas de transformación organizacional, planeación estratégica, desarrollo organizacional, innovación, gestión de proyectos, el diseño de estrategias para el desarrollo del talento humano y la transformación cultural, estrategias de comunicación interna, en sectores relacionados con la biodiversidad, la investigación, la ciencia y la gestión del conocimiento que aportan a la construcción de país, esta invitación es para ti.

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12/01/2022

Birds introduced in Europe and habitats

When individuals of a species are (deliberately or accidentally) introduced in a new place, they must find food and shelter resources to survive. If these conditions are met, they can breed and begin to establish a population.

Today, we show some examples of introduced birds have found conditions to establish populations in a mosaic landscape (vineyards, orchards, hedges, forest edges, moorlands, etc).

1 – Colinus virginianus (native to North America): established in Croatia, and Italy
2 – Alectoris barbara (native to North Africa): established in Gibraltar, Sardegna, and Canary Islands
3 – Acridotheres cristatellus (native to Asia): established in Portugal
4 – Pycnonotus jocosus (native to Asia): established in Spain
5 – Euodice malabarica (native to Asia): established in France

Have you ever visited a mosaic landscape to observe birds? Have you ever seen an interaction involving an introduced bird species?

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04/08/2021

The Blue Forest is the first comprehensive film focusing on the important topics of kelp and seaweed around the world and explores how we can preserve one of...

03/08/2021

24/07/2021

ERMA is a one year interdisciplinary Master’s programme coordinated by the University of Sarajevo (UNSA), Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CIS) and the University of Bologna (UNIBO), Department of Political and Social Sciences.

19/07/2021

Increasingly, popular public spaces are using a conservation-oriented gardening philosophy that can also transform communities.

16/07/2021

15/07/2021

This geographical map is a perfect example of how globalized our food system has become.

Transporting a product for tens of thousands of kilometers means enormously increasing its impact on the environment in terms of CO2 emissions, and then packing it in plastic is even more absurd.

03/07/2021

Thanks Brenna Quinlan for this helpful infographic! "Heatwaves are becoming more intense and more frequent with climate change, so it pays to make a plan, be prepared, and look out for others in our community."

27/04/2021

Appreciate yourselves nerds ❤

- cay

10/04/2021

Artificial light is a pollutant that has serious and harmful consequences. Effective outdoor lighting reduces light pollution, leading to a better quality of life for all.

07/04/2021

04/04/2021

Conservationists argue that humans need to save species in order to save ourselves. The truth is we could survive without wild species — but they can’t survive without us, and the moral argument for protecting them and the beauty they bring to the world is overwhelming.

31/03/2021

A flower kiss...

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19/03/2021

18/03/2021

Fehlende Arbeit...
Diese Sonnenblume enthält mehr Blumen, als ich zählen kann... 🧐

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18/03/2021

Making Peace with Nature, UN, full report
https://wedocs.unep.org/.../20.500.11822/34948/MPN.pdf

18/03/2021

Rightly so.

18/03/2021

16/03/2021

"The world is increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn't very good for the economy... To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business."

~Matt Haig,
Reasons to Stay Alive

13/03/2021

É tão isto! Alguém se identifica? :)

10/03/2021

10/03/2021

Cláudia Estevão dos Reis | Clima urbano

As cidades são cada vez mais espaços pouco habitáveis. O aumento da temperatura e a deterioração da qualidade do ar, fruto das alterações climáticas em curso, assim como o bloqueio dos corredores de vento e a impermeabilização do solo condicionam negativamente o conforto térmico humano.

Fonte: https://www.metlink.org/fieldwork-resource/urban-heat-island-introduction/

09/03/2021

08/03/2021

Es ist die perfekte Zeit zum Nachdenken, Umdenken und Handeln.

Popular destinations are increasingly prioritizing quality over quantity, dispersing travelers across larger geographic areas, and clearly defining the kind of travelers they want to attract. By addressing overtourism in this way, they also place locals’ wellbeing at the forefront.

03/03/2021

Companies that sell refrigerators, washers, hairdryers or TVs in the European Union will need to ensure that those appliances can be repaired for up to 10 years.

21/02/2021

“I have devoted my past 20 years to presenting their tiny figures, colors, and textures to capture their vivid beauty.”

18/02/2021

Vorsicht ist besser als Nachsicht!
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As COVID-19 continues to spread, John Oliver discusses what could cause the next pandemic, what we can do to avoid it, and why you shouldn’t kiss pigs.Connec...

14/02/2021

United States and Europe are strongly influenced by Gulf Stream, where an unusually strong anomaly is being detected in the Ocean

04/02/2021

Three Levers for Food System Transformation in Support of Nature

22/01/2021

Want to make a real difference to someone's life? Become a Live-in carer in the UK

19/01/2021

New findings show how ants choose and protect the seeds they disperse

17/01/2021

Susana Loureiro, investigadora do CESAM - Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, fala sobre os impactos que o abuso das nanopartículas podem ter nos meios terrestre e aquático. E defende a adoção de legislação que regulamente o uso destes materiais inovadores, de forma a minimizar efeitos neg...

15/01/2021

The Mediterranean Sea hides a treasure, the Neptune Grass (Posidonia oceanica), a seagrass endemic to these waters and our ! Neptune grass is often confused with seaweed because of its shape and colour, but it is actually an underwater plant with fruits, flowers, leaves, stem and roots. It is also an important indicator of the health of the marine ecosystem as it only lives in clean water.
This plant is abundant in the Mediterranean Sea, but its population is declining due to several factors including mechanical damage from trawling, boat anchoring and turbidity, coastal development, eutrophication due to the discharges of agriculture nutrients, pollution and climate change.. In addition, the lack of genetic variability and slow growth, makes it less resilient in the face of disturbance.
Ensuring the survival of this plant is crucial, due to its multiple benefits to the environment. The Posidonia meadows are home to more than 1,000 animals and plants in the Mediterranean and they’re the spawning grounds of many other species, including those of great commercial interest. Every square metre of these meadows generates up to 20 litres of oxygen each day, thereby serving as the main source of oxygenation of the sea and even the atmosphere. They function as a CO2 sink trapping higher quantities of this greenhouse gas. And, as if that were not enough, these meadows also protect the coast from erosion.
Due to all these reasons, different initiatives are being carried out for the conservation of Posidonia oceanica. This wonderful species is protected by EU legislation, the Bern and Barcelona Conventions, other national legislations, EU fishing regulations limiting trawling activities near the shore and various marine protected areas in the countries along the Mediterranean Sea. Preserving this species is preserving marine ecosystems. Therefore, we need to work together to ensure the survival of this amazing plant.

15/01/2021

Discover spiders and their webs! Contribute your spider and web observations in the SpiderSpotter Citizen Science project and help scientists to study spider evolution in the SPIN-CITY project! Take spider pictures and investigate spider colour and webs to discover if spiders adapt to living in the....