Every year a group of people including me will go out weekly to a beautiful black sand beach on the west coast of New Zealand's north island(Not naming for privacy reasons) and set traps for pests like stoats and possums. We do this to protect an endangered species of bird called Dotterals. Dotterals are endangered mainly because of dogs and other animals eating their eggs. People will often take their dog for a walk and step on or have their dog eat the eggs without realizing because their eggs are very small and get laid in small scraps in the sand instead of nests. Side note we also yearly get our small community together of around 100 people to walk along the beach and pick up plastic.
Went on a hike from the Violet Crown trail to Twin Falls (which is sadly completely dry) and back along the Barton Greenbelt with my spouse and a friend. Most of the bugs were a bit too fast to snap a pic of, but got a couple that were not camera shy. The caterpillars were EVERYWHERE (I think you recently had the same species on your football stream).
Okay so I thought I'd share my ever so slow journey with dealing with my fear. Its not so the bugs themselves just the feeling of them crawling on me. I recently became brave enough to put spiders outside. This one spider decided it didn't want help getting up a wet sink. We talking tiny spider vs giant water drops. So I'm sat there for 10 minutes tryna scooch theyre butt up with a piece of paper as it attempts to climb knowing that if I don't do this and they drown I will cry the rest of the night. Finally on the piece of paper decided my hand will be it's next victim so we spend another 10 minutes holding a spider back with a nail file until I can put (throw) the paper out. Spider is alive
Spent the weekend in Portland and got to visit the Oregon Zoo!! One of the biggest zoo I’ve been to and it was incredible to see all the enrichment that was in the enclosures, even got to see some of the animals playing. Thanks to Alveus I was able to educate my friends on a lot of the animals and talk about conservation efforts.
Last week my friends and I traveled an hour north of Perth, Western Australia (home of the Quokka!) to visit my friend's farmland. I donned my 'animals' hat and we ventured out into his many acres of untouched land and spotted some wild Stompys, Kangaroos, and a lot of black angus cows.
We explored through the paddocks and different terrains until sunset. The sky was so clear and at night you could even see the milky way. It was a nice way to connect with nature and appreciate it more.
Sadly our trip ended the next morning as my mate took a bump too quickly on the quadbike and threw himself off! Luckily he is ok! He's probably not too keen on getting on the quad again though lol
I went to the Eden Project in Cornwall UK this week. It has the worlds largest indoor rainforest in one of the biomes and a mediterannian environment in the other. It also has a huge botanical garden outside with a bunch of different things with a big emphasis on attracting pollinators and showing what different types of food you can grow. There is lots of education about conservation with bits on sustainable tourism, food labels, looking after the environment and ecosystems on top of just being able to see some of the amazing plants that grow around the world that need protecting.
Today, on a sunny but chilly day I spent an hour in my garden with my elderly dog (Bear) planting some bee friendly flowers and making sure everything is growing as it should be as we head into spring!
Hi! I'm in a photoshop class and our final project was to make a magazine cover! I chose to use Alveus as the inspiration to make a tabloid magazine cover! Hope you enjoy!!
