Ancient family burial tells story of migration that reshaped Europe
https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-family-burial-tells-story-migration-reshaped-europe #archaeology #genetics #migration #france #herders #farmers #steppe
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@bmk @AlfredJH Als herder of boer is het al honderdduizenden jaren je primaire taak: Je vee beschermen tegen roofdieren.
Dit zijn we in Europa alleen de laatste ~150 jaar vergeten doordat de mens de wolf had uitgeroeid, met alle schadelijke consequenties voor de natuur.
Heel blij dat de wolf weer terugkeert! 
#wolf #NatuurHerstel #natuur #boeren #herders
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The greenwashing of wool, explained
(thanks to @josh for the link)
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Ruminant farming’s hunger for land has made it a prime engine for colonial expansion around the world; we see this in Brazil, for example, where cattle ranching is driving illegal seizures of Indigenous land. Sheep brought by colonists to Australia “immediately trampled and destroyed all of the native yams and edible vegetables that Aboriginal people had. The land that Aboriginal people never ceded was taken for pastoral practices,” said Emma Hakansson, the Australia-based founding director of Collective Fashion Justice, which advocates for what she calls a “total ethics” fashion system: one that’s fair to people, animals, and the planet. “Animal-derived materials in particular are a focus for us because it’s in those supply chains that all three of those groups are consistently harmed.”
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Vox · The greenwashing of wool, explained
"Researchers documented three cows in Ohio killed by Asian longhorned ticks" CW: pictures of ticks.
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“The tick will be a nuisance, and it is spreading,” Kevin Lahmers, an anatomic pathologist at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine who was not involved with the study, tells Jenny McGrath of Business Insider. “It will cover most of the eastern half of the U.S.—that’s most likely.”
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This tick species was likely imported into the US by some animal trader and spread by sheep herders.
Animal farming/herding contains within itself the seeds of is own destruction. Some of those seeds are seed ticks (larvae).
Livestock Use on Public Lands in the Western USA Exacerbates Climate Change: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
This is related to "marginal lands" arguments. Ranchers and their apologists like to claim that the lands are somehow useless without their ranching business to squeeze a living profit out of the lands. It's a trick and we do actually need lots of land to be left alone to rewild - including wild animals.
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The social costs of carbon are > $500 million year−1 or approximately 26 times greater than annual grazing fees collected by managing federal agencies. These emissions and social costs do not include the likely greater ecosystems costs from grazing impacts and associated livestock management activities that reduce biodiversity, carbon stocks and rates of carbon sequestration. Cessation of grazing would decrease greenhouse gas emissions, improve soil and water resources, and would enhance/sustain native species biodiversity thus representing an important and cost-effective adaptive approach to climate change.
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-022-01633-8
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#Pastoralism (herding, ranching) vs climate change and heating: it's not going to work. The LUC and enteric GHG emissions have negative feedback loops. Warning: contains images of animals suffering/dying from drought
Impacts of heat stress on global #cattle production during the 21st century: a modelling study https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(22)00002-X/fulltext (optimistic)
Amid #mega-drought, rightwing #militia stokes water rebellion in US west https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/08/klamath-falls-oregon-protests-ammon-bundy and https://www.irehr.org/reports/peoples-rights-report/
Insight: Drought forces North American ranchers to sell off their future https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/drought-forces-north-american-ranchers-sell-off-their-future-2021-09-03/
'The Worst Thing I Can Ever Remember’: How Drought Is Crushing #Ranchers https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/climate/drought-cattle.html
AP PHOTOS: ‘If they die, we all die': Drought kills in Kenya https://apnews.com/article/drought-kills-in-kenya-livestock-wildlife-climate-change-49f3639e72332ae7735b988d7641e5d4
As the Bootleg Fire burns, locals are faced with the realities of climate change — and remain skeptical https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/07/17/bootleg-fire-oregon-heat-wave/
Dried-up #pastures push Kenya's #Maasai to mix cattle with crops https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-kenya-farming-idUSKCN1US0NW
In a Famed Game Park Near the Foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Animals Are Giving Up https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22122022/kenya-animals-drought-famine/
As water falls short, conflict between herders and farmers sharpens https://www.reuters.com/article/kenya-climatechange-conflict-idUSL8N13D4G420151123
Photos: #Ladakh herders struggle on the frontier of climate crisis https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/1/10/photos-ladakh-herders-struggle-on-the-frontier-of-climate-crisis
Nomads no more: why Mongolian #herders are moving to the city https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/05/mongolian-herders-moving-to-city-climate-change
‘This new snow has no name’: Sami #reindeer herders face #climate disaster https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/dec/17/new-snow-no-name-sami-reindeer-herders-climate-disaster
‘The treeline is out of control’: how the climate crisis is turning the #Arctic green https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/20/norway-arctic-circle-trees-sami-reindeer-global-heating