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🐝 🍄 Like bees to...mushrooms?? Mycologist Paul Stamets is using fungi to create mycelium-laced honey, providing bees with the nutrients to safeguard their survival and our ecosystem. More details from Bioneers:

Solutions Underfoot: How Paul Stamets is Using Mushrooms to Save the Bees | Bioneers Visionary researcher Paul Stamets has spent more than 40 years studying mycelium and its role in sustaining life from the ground up. Now he's using those restorative properties to save the bees from extinction.

Playful sea otters were once numerous in San Francisco Bay, but the fur trade in the mid-1800’s almost led to their extinction. These charismatic animals play an important role in ecosystems, and reintroducing them to the area has been beneficial to both them and to an endangered seagrass. Full article from Hakai Magazine:

We’ve Been Systematically Underestimating Sea Otters’ Historical Habitat | Hakai Magazine Estuaries once harbored thousands of otters, and now conservationists want to extend recovery efforts to California’s largest estuary: San Francisco Bay.

As we all navigate the evolving Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, sources of accurate health information are more important than ever. World Health Organization has ongoing updates related to the pandemic, including steps we can take to protect ourselves and each other. Visit link for more info.
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public

Global Wildlife Conservation, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Kaha Kamasa Foundation work to strengthen land conservation and protect the species inhabiting Central America's Mosquitia jungle, like the white-lipped peccaries. These hairy pig-like creatures act as ecosystem engineers by dispersing seeds, creating habitats for insects and amphibians, and helping to control palm plant species. More info from The New York Times about the steep decline of this vital environmental indicator species:

White-Lipped Peccary Species May Be in Steep Decline With forests depleted by development, the pig-like animals are disappearing rapidly, scientists have found in a new study.