Mindfulness Check-In Oct. 3-6, 2024

I love the picture of that stretching cat, so cute!

Animals are wonderful. When I look at the all the different ways animals live, reproduce, socialize, it gives me a deeper appreciation of and comfort with the diversity of humanity too. :)

The way seahorses reproduce is very cool. The females deposit their eggs inside the pouch of a male seahorse, within which they get fertilized. Gestation occurs within the male seahorse's body, and once mature, the new father gives birth to many seahorse babies.

We're currently seeing an alarmingly rapid loss of biodiversity on the planet, with vast species of animals and other life on the planet going extinct. While the planet has had mass extinction events in the past due to the climate changing naturally on its own, this mass extinction event (known as the Holocene extinction) is made remarkably worse due to human activities heating the planet beyond its normal thresholds due to carbon emissions. The current rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural background extinction rates and is increasing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

In other words, we're predominantly what's causing this mass extinction event.

We can also fix it.

Indigenous lands make up around 20% of the Earth’s territory, containing 80% of the world’s remaining biodiversity—a sign Indigenous Peoples are the most effective stewards of the environment.
https://www.iisd.org/articles/deep-dive/indigenous-peoples-defending-environment-all

Yet they and their cultures, languages, and human rights and land rights are being systematically erased by governments worldwide, in the pursuit of industry. The same industries which are destroying the climate.

Supporting indigenous peoples being able to have the right to self-determination and to steward their lands - without interference or imposition from industry and the governments who back them - can help stop biodiversity loss worldwide, and in fact, revitalize and restore both them as peoples (stopping the erasure of their languages and cultures which would otherwise allow them to exist as peoples and transmit their knowledge and ways of life orally, as they've done for time immemorial) and all other life on the planet, including all our favourite animals on the planet and indeed, all humans too.

Animals are wonderful. Let's protect them and all other life on this beautiful planet of ours. 💕🌏💖🌎

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@amiablePeace77 for 18 years I only knew dogs and hairy scarys (spiders) exsisted. So finding out and learning about the animal kingdom theese past few years has been mindblowing. There are sooo many! If you haven't seen a clip of a crocodile running, I would seriously watch it, they are so comical😂😂 birds are one of my favourite animals, I like to watch them outside, I often wonder what it would be like to be a bird.And of course my little piggies are just so amazing I love them soooo much ❤ oh and I do an amazing seagull impression if anyone wants to see? ❤