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**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · Mar 4

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

For #WorldWildlifeDay :
More than 1,600 Hand-Drawn Animals Roam the Earth in Anton Thomas’s ‘Wild World’ Map https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/12/anton-thomas-wild-world/ via @colossal

Colossal · Dec 18, 2023More than 1,600 Hand-Drawn Animals Roam the Earth in Anton Thomas's 'Wild World' MapTaking three years from start to finish, Anton Thomas’s meticulously detailed map takes us on a zoological journey around the globe. “I’ve imagined ‘Wild World’ since childhood,” he says. “I remember watching nature documentaries, awed by the evocation of nature—inspired to care.” Starting in July 2020 and completed in July of this year, Thomas renderedContinue reading "More than 1,600 Hand-Drawn Animals Roam the Earth in Anton Thomas’s ‘Wild World’ Map"

**Project Seahorse** @projectseahorse@ecoevo.social · Mar 3

Mar 3

Project Seahorse @projectseahorse@ecoevo.social

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay The theme for #WWD2025 is #WildlifeConservationFinance: Investing in People & Planet. Seahorses may be small, but they have a big impact. Protecting them means investing in a thriving ocean for future generations!

Join us: www.projectseahorse.org/take-action/

A Longsnout Seahorse (Hippocampus reidi) among seagrass, with "World Wildlife Day 3 March" text overlay promoting marine conservation.

**Andrew Flenniken Photography** @aflennikenphoto@vivaldi.net · Mar 3

Mar 3

Andrew Flenniken Photography @aflennikenphoto@vivaldi.net

(Cross-posted from my site, where there's an additional photo: https://andrewflenniken.com/2025/03/03/march-3rd-2025-world-wildlife-day/)

A couple of wildlife photos, in honor of World Wildlife Day.

Wildlife should matter to everyone, and does whether they realize it or not. Our environment is a system of systems, and those natural systems interact with human built ones in a multitude of ways large and small. Wildlife are the ambassadors for those systems. Healthy abundant wildlife means healthy wilderness, which makes those points of contact with human systems healthy. If you like clean air and clean water and the things that rely on them (hint: it's everything), wildlife and wilderness play a big role in those things existing. Defending them is self-defense. We're not separate from them in any meaningful way except physical distance.

Frequently not even that! The photos in today's post were taken in a town park (the elk), and on an afternoon whale watching tour.

Wildlife is closer than you think. Go see some! You'll enjoy it.

Gear: Nikon D750, Nikon Z 7II, Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3, Sigma 1.4 Teleconverter

Color photo. A line of rocks, with sea lions resting on it. There is water in front of, and behind the rocks. In the distant background the shore is visible, with a sandy beach and green trees. Two of the sea lions, in the center of the photo, are reared up, facing off against each other.

#Photography #WorldWildLifeDay #SeaLions

**Elizabeth Kennen** @JazzCatArtist@mastodon.art · Mar 3

Mar 3

Elizabeth Kennen @JazzCatArtist@mastodon.art

Burrowing Owl watercolor

My painting is inspired by a love of owls. I enjoyed working in detailed watercolor. Fine art prints are available in my shop.

Prints https://1-elizabeth-kennen.pixels.com/featured/burrowing-owl-elizabeth-kennen.html

Watercolor painting of a burrowing owl. Soft blue and lavender background.

#art #artwork #artist

**John Altringham** @JohnAltringham@mastodon.online · Mar 3

Mar 3

John Altringham @JohnAltringham@mastodon.online

On #WorldWildlifeDay: two hibernating Pond Bats. They have allowed their body temperature to drop to the ambient 6C, to slow metabolism so that stored fat will last them through the winter. In the humid environment of an abandoned mine, water has condensed on their fur.

Photo - two hibernating bats, roosting close together, their fur covered in jewel-like water droplets.

**Lucid Illusions (Pixelfed Era)** @lucidillusions@pixelfed.social · Mar 3

Mar 3

Lucid Illusions (Pixelfed Era) @lucidillusions@pixelfed.social

A tigress from the jungle of Panna, India for #WorldWildlifeDay.

#Photography #MammalMonday #MonochromeMonday

The joy I get to experience by being in the jungle and getting to see these majestic creatures is incomparable, but also to be in the jungle experiencing different landscape and coming across any wildlife calms my soul.

I'm really glad that such experiences, albeit a bit expensive, is still somewhat in our reach and more people could connect to it and help save it for our future generations!

a black and white photo of a tiger - there are dry grass in the front, and lots of bushes behind it.

Replied to Newsmast Foundation

**Charlie Phillips/Dolphinchaz** @Dolphinchaz@mastodon.scot · Mar 3

Mar 3

Charlie Phillips/Dolphinchaz @Dolphinchaz@mastodon.scot

@newsmast @nature A favourite Bottlenose dolphin shot of mine for #WorldWildlifeDay #Nature

Four Bottlenose dolphins breaching out of the water at the same time with Black Isle coastline in the background.

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Mar 3

Mar 3

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

5: Anna Crowe, “A Calendar of Hares”
Published in A SECRET HISTORY OF RHUBARB, Mariscat 2004

https://annacrowepoet.com/2021/04/21/a-calendar-of-hares/

A Calendar of Hares
Anna Crowe

for Valerie Gillies

1. At the raw end of winter
the mountain is half snow, half
dun grass. Only when snow
moves does it become a hare.

2. If you can catch a hare
and look into its eye,
you will see the whole world.

3. That day in March
watching two hares boxing
at the field’s edge, she felt
the child quicken.

4. It is certain Midas never saw a hare
or he would not have lusted after gold.

5. When the buzzard wheels
like a slow kite overhead
the hare pays out the string.

6. The man who tells you
he has thought of everything
has forgotten the hare.

7. The hare’s form, warm yet empty.
Stumbling upon it, he felt his heart
lurch and race beneath his ribs.

8. Beset by fears, she became
the hare who hears
the mowers’ voices growing louder.

9. Light as the moon’s path over the sea,
the run of the hare over the land.

10. The birchwood a dapple
of fallen gold: a carved hare
lies in a Pictish hoard.

11. Waking to the cry of a hare
she ran and found the child sleeping.

12. November stiffens
into December: hare and grass
have grown a thick coat of frost.

#Scottish #literature #poem

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Mar 3

Mar 3

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

4: Iain Crichton Smith, “Owl and Mouse”
Published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS: Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2021)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800170940

Owl and Mouse
Iain Crichton Smith

The owl wafts home with a mouse in its beak.
The moon is stunningly bright in the high sky.

Such a gold stone, such a brilliant hard light.
Such large round eyes of the owl among the trees.

All seems immortal but for the dangling mouse,
an old hurt string among the harmony

of the masterful and jewelled orchestra
which shows no waste soundlessly playing on.

#Scottish #literature #poem

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Mar 3

Mar 3

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

3: Meg Bateman, “Dòbhran Marbh”
Published in THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF SCOTTISH VERSE, @canongatebooks 2021

https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/

Dòbhran Marbh
Meg Bateman

Tha a’ chlosach air ragachadh
mar gun robh e a’ snàmh,
spliadh is ceann air an togail,
sùil lainnireach,
bian mar umha.

Tionndaidhidh mi air falbh,
air mo nàrachadh ro mheatair de
dhòbhran fom sgrùdadh,
is am bàs air biast cho falbhach
a ghlacadh.

Air ulbhaig, làrach fhuilteach
a chuinnlean; os a cionn,
sgeilp a’ stobadh a-mach
de riasg ’s de fhraoch
far an do thuit e

an comhair a chinn dha na creagan fodha,
far an laigh e san dubhar mar chloich eile,
a shròn air a pronnadh, gaoisid na fhiaclan,
’s air a chùlaibh, a shaobhaidh urail gorm,
dàil-chuach is seobhrach a priobadh sa bhruach.

Sinidh mo làmh gu grad thuige
’s mi a’ tuigsinn gun deach a nàdar
cearr air an drip an earraich,
gun rachadh an dòbhran mòrail
cuideachd air iomrall.

Dead Otter
Meg Bateman

Rigor mortis curves the beast
as if swimming,
flat head and webbed foot
raised, eyes gleaming,
pelt of bronze.

I turn away, embarrassed
by a metre of otter
laid out for my scrutiny,
by death’s exposure
of so fleet a creature.

On a boulder, the bloody
stamp of its nostrils;
above, a jutting ledge
of tangled, fibrous root
where it must have fallen

headlong to the rocks where it lies in shade
with staved in snout and stillness of stone,
white fur gripped between its teeth,
with its lair behind, lush with liverwort,
and a flicker of violets and primrose in the bank.

I reach out to it, shocked
that in the urgency of spring
instinct could fail it,
shocked that it too
could lose its footing.

#Scottish #literature #Gaelic

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Mar 3

Mar 3

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

2: John Burnside, “Wild”
Published in THE THING THAT MATTERED MOST: Scottish poems for children *Scottish Poetry Library/B&W, 2006)

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/wild/

Wild
John Burnside

Today,
on our journey home,
we saw

a buzzard
making a kill
on the roadside verge.

It glided across
our windscreen
and hunkered down

on something –
we couldn’t see
what it was – as the wings

folded around
what Lucas called
‘the prey’.

He wanted to know
if buzzards took children,
or cats;

then,
as we slowed to look,
he chose to admire

the plumage
and the fierce light
of its eye.

#Scottish #literature #poem

**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Mar 3

Mar 3

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

A short of Scottish poetry for World Wildlife Day – 3 March 2025

1: Kathleen Jamie, “The Hinds”
Published in THE BONNIEST COMPANIE (Picador, 2015)

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/the-bonniest-companie/9781509801718

The Hinds
Kathleen Jamie

Walking in a waking dream
I watched nineteen deer
pour from ridge to glen-floor,
then each in turn leap,
leap the new-raised
peat-dark burn. This
was the distaff side;
hinds at their ease, alive
to lands held on long lease
in their animal minds,
and filing through a breach
in a never-mended dyke,
the herd flowed up over
heather-slopes to scree
where they stopped, and turned to stare,
the foremost with a queenly air
as though to say: Aren’t we
the bonniest companie?
Come to me,
you’ll be happy, but never go home.

#Scottish #literature #poem

**Monsieur Ralph** @RalphBassfeld@swiss.social · Mar 3

Mar 3

Monsieur Ralph @RalphBassfeld@swiss.social

#WorldWildlifeDay
#kenya

Four zebras are grazing in a grassy area, viewed from behind. A dirt path is visible in the background, leading into the distance.

**European Commission** @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu · Mar 3

Mar 3

European Commission @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

Global progress for biodiversity!

Elephants, orangutans, leopards, and whales—some of our most endangered species—are vital to ecosystems. Protecting them means protecting life itself.

At COP16 in Rome, global leaders committed to swift action on biodiversity:

A roadmap for funding beyond 2030
A new monitoring framework
A review process for COP17
The Cali Fund to support biodiversity-rich nations & Indigenous communities

More → https://europa.eu/!np7RDB

A baby elephant walks on dry ground while an adult elephant’s trunk reaches toward it.

A mother orangutan sits on the ground in a green forest, holding her baby close.

A blue whale swims in the deep ocean with light filtering through the water.

A leopard lies on a rock, looking straight ahead.

#WorldWildlifeDay

**Ma Quest** @MaQuest@mastodon.green · Mar 3 *

Mar 3 *

Ma Quest @MaQuest@mastodon.green

It's World Wildlife Day!

https://wildlifeday.org/en
#WWD #WorldWildlifeDay #WildlifeConservation #Wildlife #Biodiversity

World Wildlife DayHomeWorld Wildlife Day (WWD) is a United Nations international holiday that takes place every year on March 3 to celebrate the world's wild animals and plants. This date is the birthday of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which was signed in 1973. Every year, WWD is hosted by the CITES Secretariat. People around the world join this annual awareness-raising campaign and organize events, such as education programmes, youth symposiums and classroom exhibitions. The World Wildlife Day 2024 Theme is Connecting People and Planet: Exploring Digital Innovation in Wildlife Conservation.

**Newsmast Foundation** @newsmast@newsmast.social · Mar 3

Mar 3

Newsmast Foundation @newsmast@newsmast.social

Today is World Wildlife Day

So, share your best wildlife shots, or your favourite wildlife facts today! Did you know that beavers can swim up to 5 mph?

You can explore wildlife photography, news, and discussion on the open social web - all hand curated by our team - in the @nature Community Feed!

Learn more: https://www.wwf.org.uk/world-wildlife-day

An image of a black bear. The copy reads: World Wildlife Day. We can't live in a #WorldWithoutNature.

#WorldWildlifeDay #WorldWithoutNature #Wildlife

**Rewilding Britain** @rewildingbritain.org.uk@bsky.brid.gy · Mar 3

Mar 3

Rewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk@bsky.brid.gy

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay At the beginning of this year, we funded 11 pioneering #rewilding projects across Britain — including four that are working towards reintroducing missing species. What better day than today to celebrate them? (1/6)

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