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International Day of Forests

Every year on March 21, the world celebrates the
#InternationaldayofForests to recognise the importance of forests and take action to protect them.

🌿#InternationalDayofForests2025🌿

#gogreen #naturist #naturism #spirituality #saveforest #forests #jungle #savetrees

March 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM

David Tomkins 🦋

@davidctomkins.bsky.social

Saving forests is climate action - and right now, that’s one of the most urgent low-hanging fruits we have.
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Saving Forests Is Climate Action

I stuck this sign up on the ACT-NSW border today as I crossed the Brindabella mountains on my way to #CitSciOz25 in Melbourne, where I’m keynoting on Monday morning. I left Canberra early, and pedalle...

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October 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM

Derek May

@derekmay.bsky.social

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#savebirds #saveforest #savewildlife #birds #conservation #savetrees #educational #awareness #ornithology #savenature #saveearth | Dr.Geetha Plackal | 13 comments

Common green magpie (Cissa chinensis) The common green magpie (Cissa chinensis) is a member of the crow family, roughly the size of the Eurasian jay or slightly smaller. In the wild, specimens are ...

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December 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM

Grádh the Buff ⛥ and Grey

@gradhthedruid.bsky.social

#SAVEFOREST
#saveferris
#PROTECTPARKS
#Druidsky
#druidcraft
#druid
#pagan
#Pagantifa
#stand
#resist
#riseup
#F47
#fiftyfiftyone
#handsoff
Today I march for @altnps.bsky.social
#greenlung
#forestchurch

April 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM

Western Hemlox

@westernhemlox.bsky.social

In case you thought we had come to our senses, I'm here to inform you that we have not.

#yyj #VancouverIsland #bcpoli #oldgrowth

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From the SaveForests community on Reddit: This ancient rainforest on Vancouver Island has been growing for over a thousand years. A government agency wants it to be logged.

Explore this post and more from the SaveForests community

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May 19, 2026 at 5:19 PM

sathsara(womens.org)World Research MINING 🛣️🪐📖

@sathsaramiracle.bsky.social

1997-2003 UN Special Ambassador against female genital mutilation🤝
Who?📖

From 🙈📖Desert Flower to Forest Flower 🌵➡️🌲
Waris Dirie: She crossed the desert at age 13 and ran towards freedom!

We too must run to save our forests! 💚
#DesertFlower #SaveForest #WarisDirie #WomenAndNature

Multiple skills 📖 love it magical owner 🙈

1997-2003 UN special ambassador against female genital mutilation

2002 Founded Desert Flower Foundation

Films and Books
• 1987 Played Bond girl in the film The Living Daylights.

• 1997 Wrote the book Desert Flower (Her name, “Waris,” means “desert flower” in Somali). It has been published in 65 languages & sold more than 13 million copies around the world.

• 2001 Wrote the book Desert Dawn.

• 2005 Wrote the book Desert Children.

• 2007 Wrote the book Letter to My Mother.

• 2009 Co-produced the film Desert Flower, based on her book of the same name (Produced by Oscar Nominee Peter Hermann).

• 2010 Wrote the book Schwarze Frau, Weißes Land.

• 2013 Wrote the book Saving Safa: Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM.

• 2017 Wrote the book My Africa-The Journey (For Children)

Awards
• 1999 German Africa Award (Federal Republic of Germany)

• 2000 Woman of the Year Award (Glamour Magazine)

• 2002 Corine Literature Prize (German Book Trade)

• 2004 Women’s World Award (Mikhail Gorbachev)

• 2005 Bishop Oscar Romero Award (Catholic Church)

• 2007 Legion of Honor (France)

• 2007 Prix des Générations (World Demographic Association)

• 2008 Martin Buber Gold Medal (Euriade Foundation)

• 2010 Gold Medal of the President of the Republic of Italy (Contribution to human rights activism)

• 2013 Woman of the Year for “Campaign work” (Woman of the Year Foundation)

• 2017 Woman of the Year for “Women for Women” (Gala Magazine)

• 2018 Woman of the Year (Valle d'Aosta Regional Council, Italy)

September 20, 2026 at 1:40 PM

Western Hemlox

@westernhemlox.bsky.social

Still logging ancient giants like it's 1905.

Only difference between a BC Lib gov't and an NDP gov't is the latter pretends to care about #oldgrowth.

Disappointed in @davidebybc.bsky.social and Forests Minister @rparmarbc.bsky.social.

#bcpoli #VancouverIsland #yyj

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