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mkwadee@diasp.eu
Khurram Wadee

Today's #flower in the #garden is a star of Behtlehem. At least it looks like one of the many #species of #plants that go by that common name and I'm not a botanist and won't try to be more specific. It has six #petals which struck me as odd (no, not odd, you know what I mean). The number of petals is often a number from the #FibonacciSequence and so what might happen here during development is that each of the three petals split into two. I'm just speculating and I'm sure there are many more knowledgeable people who could give the right answer.
Close up of star of Bethlehem flower

This second image is a cropped version of the one above. You can see the #stamens covered in yellow #pollen well. Instead of putting the centre of the flower in the centre of the image, I've used the #RuleOfThirds to try to make it a bit more interesting, which has the added benefit of being able to fit an entire petal into the frame.
Cropped image of start of Bethlehem flower

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Spring #Horticulture #MacroPhotography

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ramil_rodaje@diasp.org
ramil rodaje**

https://vimeo.com/538050700

Refugia

Our documentary series, Refugia, is available to stream worldwide via Waterbear https://join.waterbear.com/. Through a positive lens, Refugia’s founder, Liana Cornell, activates her inescapable urge to do more, and gains a deeper understanding of the current crises in nature, and the people devoted to preventing them.

From the perspective of the five elements present in every living thing – earth, air, fire, water, spirit – Refugia reveals the good work undertaken by unsung, everyday heroes. We also celebrate communities and companies dedicated to nurturing nature, and preserving these pockets of protection.

Cinematically stunning, bold, personal and evocative, Refugia illuminates their rewarding stories, and inspires us to realise that we are the solution. When we react with action, we unite in a compassionate, global collective, creating continuing, constructive change.

To do so is in our nature… and our nature is in us.

Refugia would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we live and work. We would also like to pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

#Refugia #documentary #film #series #nature #people #aboriginal #Indigenous #Peoples #species #survival #collective #solutions #elders #firstnations #earthprotectors #LianaCornell #RefugiaPtyLtd #docu-films

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eccodrum@diasp.org
David Dewain

Extinction obituary: why experts weep for the quiet and beautiful Hawaiian po’ouli
Frantic conservation efforts couldn’t save the tiny, intricately colored songbird, whose obit is the first in our new series of memorials for species that have gone extinct in living memory

The last po’ouli died in an unusual nest. Too weak to perch, the brownish-greyish songbird rested in a small towel twisted into a ring. He was the last of his species, the last in fact of an entire group of finches, and occurred nowhere on Earth outside its native Hawaii. For weeks, as scientists tried to find him a mate, he had been getting sicker. The only remaining po’ouli had just one eye. Alone in the towel, alone in all the world, he closed it.

#Hawaii #Maui #birds #biology #conservation #extinction #endangered #species #science #climate #wildlife #animals #songbird #Guardian

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elegance@socialhome.network
elegance@socialhome.network

Extinct tree from the time of Jesus rises from the dead in Israel - BBC REEL

Forests of Judean date palm trees once covered ancient Israel, from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea.

The fruit of the tree symbolised life and prosperity and was praised in ancient literature for its unique medicinal properties. But the dates of Judea were made extinct by the Middle Ages.

Now a team of scientists has succeeded in resurrecting the ancient tree.

Video by Ori Szternfeld
Executive Producer: Camelia Sadeghzadeh

#regenerating #extinct #species #trees #date-palms #nature #food #agriculture

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sylviaj@joindiaspora.com
Sylvia J

Humanity Is Still Trying To Be Born

#CaitlinJohnstone

https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/humanity-is-still-trying-to-be-born

"To have a #healthy #world we’re going to have to #metamorphose into a #species which is not driven by #fear and #greed and #us-versus-them othering. Which doesn’t see my own suffering as meaningfully separate from the suffering of my #neighbor. If we survive to see that #future, #humans will look back upon the stretch of #history as we know it today as a kind of #embryonic stage in our #development."

#humanity #consciousness #extinction #evolution #audio

Humanity Is Still Trying To Be Born

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Things are fucked. That's our current situation in a nutshell. In a slightly bigger nutshell, things are fucked because powerful people are making them fucked, and they won't stop making things fucked unless...

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