London zoo not pissing around

A rare bit of good news to start the week

Going to Salzburg this weekend to meet the peeps from gold extra and talk insects, Bookworms and AR! ❤️

A glimmer of hope for the Amazon rainforest 🌳 Lula da Silva wins the Brazilian election. In Silva's previous terms in office (2003 - 2010), deforestation fell from 25,000 km² to almost 5,000 km². Since then, progress was reversed but it can turn again.

6 Entwicklungen, die 2023 für den globalen Umweltschutz super waren. Kurzer Mut-Mach-Thread zum Jahresabschluss.

On Wednesday we will vote on #RestoreNature. Last week we visited one example close to Leuven of #NatureRestoration. Giving rivers more space will be crucial to protect people against floods and #climatecrises #NoNatureNoFood #NoNatureNoBeer

Want this in Vienna ! 🥰 theguardian.com/world/2023/jul…

THIS is what it looks like when nature wins! 👇💚 Thanks to all the MEPs, especially from Greens/EFA in the EU Parliament 🌍, who fought tirelessly to #RestoreNature! In 2024: remember that your vote makes a difference! #NatureRestorationLaw

We published our AR story ‘Insects & Us’ about a year ago now. 💚 It’s a lovely app full of ants, dragonflies, crickets and top notch entomologists taking about why they are so important for us. Produced by Abigail Addison 🐜 apps.apple.com/jm/app/insects… #insects #AugmentedReality

Super happy to be invited by La Biennale di Venezia to the Gap-Financing Market with our first VR experience ‘Out of Nowhere’ … an animation about the need for rewilding efforts, protecting marshlands & alluvial forests 💚 @animateprojectsuk and I be there 1-3 September #veniceimmersive

‘A Golden Age for Assholes’ … so much truth packed in hugely entertaining 10 minutes open.spotify.com/episode/3wQLjn…

Early morning ant-spotting in pretty pretty Vienna. 😍 . #wienliebe #AdobeAero

During times of conflict and suffering, we can only hope that outsiders who are not immediately affected will nurture seeds of peace. The job of intellectuals, artists and scholars is to try and go deeper. To try and see the complexity of reality, especially in today's climate of

„Ich bin der festen Überzeugung, dass es nur eine einzige legitime Lehre des Holocaust gibt. Und das ist, die absolute bedingungslose Verteidigung der Menschenrechte für alle. Punkt.“ DeborahFeldman bei #Lanz

Almost a third of those cancelled in Germany for their supposed antisemitism have been Jews. - Emily Dische-Becker theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A rare bit of good news for the planet 🌍

Wenn Medien über alles so berichten würden, wie über die Klimakatastrophe 👇

Had to FINALLY write another piece about the by now unbearably shrill dissonance between UK and German-speaking discourse on Gaza that's making me despair every single day. Tried very hard to keep an open mind. Auf Deutsch für Radio FM4 fm4.orf.at/stories/304110…

The EU today proved it can still pass a green bill. All it took was a rogue Austrian minister willing to throw away her job, get sued by her own government, and potentially tank her entire coalition. You know, easy stuff. My dispatch from Luxembourg: politico.eu/article/rogue-…

The Guardian view on meat: we need to eat less of it | Editorial theguardian.com/commentisfree/…