This @therevelator.org piece could be posted twice a day, every day, and it still wouldn’t be enough.
Because what’s being lost isn’t just history. It’s memory of who fought, who suffered, who persevered, and who was erased.
History doesn’t vanish all at once. It disappears one omission at a time.
Every day traffickers pack imperiled turtles and tortoises into coolers, load them into personal vehicles, and drive them north through Tijuana and into San Ysidro, California — the busiest land border crossing in the world.
Read about it in the latest from @therevelator.org ⬇️
Climate vs. Teeth. @earthislandjournal.bsky.social
www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
The species disappearing into this pipeline are not generic “turtles.” They are some of the most ecologically irreplaceable reptiles in the Western Hemisphere. #wildlifetrafficking
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What’s next for @biographic.bsky.social -- big changes in store for this important environmental publisher. I know I'll support them as soon as donations are enabled. 45450221.hs-sites.com/the-email-yo...
Smuggled Alive: Turtles and Tortoises Trafficked Across the Mexico-U.S. Border https://therevelator.org/smuggled-alive-turtles/
During Pride Month, the Trump administration continues to erase civil rights and environmental history: https://therevelator.org/the-great-forgetting/
Imagine being paid millions to play and deciding that making LGBTQ+ fans feel welcome is the hill to die on. The fact that Pride Night remains controversial shows how fragile progress becomes when history is forgotten. 🌈
Read “The Great Forgetting” in The Revelator:
therevelator.org/the-great-fo...
When languages go extinct, so does the vital ecological knowledge they contain. #IndigenousPeoples https://therevelator.org/extinction-languages/
The Extinction of Languages Is an Environmental Issue
More than 2,000 Indigenous languages are at risk of disappearing this century — and with them we could lose vitally important traditional ecological knowledge.
therevelator.org/extinction-l...
A dentist documents how extreme heat is turning Pakistani farmworkers’ mouths into hostile environments for their own teeth.
www.earthisland.org
More than 2,000 Indigenous languages are at risk of disappearing this century — and with them we could lose vitally important traditional ecological knowledge.
A look inside the illegal turtle and tortoise trade operating through the world’s busiest land border crossing — and the enforcement vacuum making it possible.
A look inside the illegal turtle and tortoise trade operating through the world’s busiest land border crossing — and the enforcement vacuum making it possible.
More than 2,000 Indigenous languages are at risk of disappearing this century — and with them we could lose vitally important traditional ecological knowledge.
therevelator.org
How memory, civil rights, and environmental history are being quietly erased.
A look inside the illegal turtle and tortoise trade operating through the world’s busiest land border crossing — and the enforcement vacuum making it possible.
