Because of its striking appearance, the rare butterfly is also in demand for home décor, framed and hung on the wall. It’s part of a massive trade that includes more than 3,700 butterfly species the world over, mostly coming from the Global South. They’re bought primarily by consumers in the U.S. and Europe

2% of the animal protein consumed in all of Europe […] provides an estimated social value of €2.46 billion per year.

Sooo that shouldn’t have been a positive offset against the environmental harm done

Nor this one:

This one probably wasn’t either:

I guess this photo wasn’t taken in the past week or something:

Another headline pic from an article I didn’t post:

This cutie was the headline pic on a different article that I’m not planning to post.

He claimed they were best for traversing the forest floor, though it’s kinda hard to imagine the tradeoffs were worth it.

Check out these eyes too! Different frog, not a toad, but it’s a nice close-up shot.

I’m guessing y’all don’t federate NSFW comms.

Iran’s “nuclear program” has been about energy production so far, and the constant imperialist fearmongering about “breakout time” has always sought to instead conflate it with a nuclear weapons program.

Hopefully Iran can soon be on equal footing with occupied Palestine.