exactly 1 minute ago i had absolutely no idea what the plants sesame seeds and peanuts came from look like and i am shocked and surprised
for some reason every time I see pineapples growing I laugh out loud. Like, the punchline is it’s a pineapple!!!!!!!!! it’s a pineapple
An Interesting Fact About Peanuts, while we’re on the topic of food-plants:
Peanuts-you-eat grow underground, but they are NOT part of the peanut plant’s roots. Peanut plants are ambitious little fuckers and plant their seeds themselves. They flower like any perfectly reasonable legume, but once the flowers have been pollinated the plants do something called “pegging” (no really), in which they drill the stems where the flowers used to be into the ground. And that’s where the peanuts you eat form. Like so:
Appalachian Wildlife Refuge, a nonprofit wildlife sanctuary in North Carolina, is asking people to donate used mascara wands so they can be used to help care for animals.
“Wands for Wildlife” took off in 2017 when wildlife rehabilitator and the refuge’s co-founder Savannah Trantham posted on her Facebook page asking for used wands. She said that instead of being thrown away, cleaned wands can be used to help the tiny critters in her care. The post was shared thousands of times and since then, the refuge has received hundreds of thousands of wands from every state in the U.S. and from places around the world, including Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy and Spain.
If you’d like to donate, clean old mascara wands in warm, soapy water, then mail them to:
Appalachian Wildlife Refuge P.O. Box 1211 Skyland, North Carolina 28776
Be sure to check postage as some packages have arrived postage due.
If you don’t have mascara wands, the refuge asks that you don’t buy news ones. Instead you can help in other ways by collecting them from family and friends, by contributing to the refuge’s wish list or by making a financial donation.
A man pointing to the skulls of victims of the Tapel Massacre of Philippino civilians by fleeing Japanese soldiers, Cagayan Province, Luzon, Philippines, November 23, 1945
Wolf hunt quota set to kill twenty percent of Alaska’s rare Alexander Archipelago wolves
(This is from October 2018, but I want to share this with you still)
Although only 225 rare Alexander Archipelago wolves remain on Prince
of Wales Island, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game and the U.S.
Forest Service announced on October 12th 2018 that hunters will be allowed to hunt and trap 45 wolves on
Prince of Wales and associated islands in 2018′s fall and winter hunting
season, and on federal lands no less.
Any hunting or trapping of these rare wolves is already controversial. Subsistence hunters on the island worry that the wolves are killing too many deer.
The Alexander Archipelago wolf is a genetically distinct subspecies
of gray wolf that dens in the roots of old-growth trees in the Tongass
National Forest in Alaska. Its populations are already
fragile, threatened by logging and hunting.
Three years ago, after a 60% drop in the population in just one year,
the wolves were feared endangered and twice petitioned to be listed
under the Endangered Species Act. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed
that protecting them under the ESA “may be warranted.”
Despite this, Alaska Department of Fish and Game will allow hunters
to hunt and trap 20% of the Alexander Archipelago wolves on Prince of
Wales while U.S. Department of Agriculture is working to undermine safeguards for the Tongass’s centuries-old trees – the only home for these wolves and their prey.
