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Ireland Trip


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You seem unstoppable guys. You make me feel lazy for not being active lately. On the other hand inspiring to make me get more active with my stuff. Interesting about the solitary bees, I was not very aware about that. Looking forward to the videos!

Tip: add hashtags like nature, conservation, ireland, etc.. You will reach more people on the fediverse.



Belgium/Netherlands trip


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I am very happy that you followed TIO's advice by sharing your real experience of joining these projects. It helps people find more meaningful ideas and build stronger connections with each other. Sharing pleasures on social media actually creates DISCONNECTION. Keep the enjoyment between the two of you—don’t share it publicly! Write a blog to satisfy yourself, and people will naturally discover you.
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Sad to hear about the eels but not surprised. Happy to see you making these posts it is quite interesting to read. And awesome to see Matthias :)


Debut of Māra in Be Brave To Act video! Few weeks ago we were sailing alongside French Mediterranean Coast and participated in Cetaceans Research Expedition organized by MIRACETI . It also was a proper training for us to become experienced Cetaceans Observers.


What It’s REALLY Like on a Dolphin Research Expedition


Mara first time ever joined Dolphin research expedition in France together with NGO Miraceti.
If you want join such expedition go to : ttps://miraceti.org/

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Some pictures from Dolphin Research Expedition last week in France. T
Video about this adventure will be out next week

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By the way when you post on Friendica I suggest you add relevant tags so others can discover your posts.
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Nice! Great to see Mara getting involved too! 😀


Me & Māra are doing a lot of nature & wildlife protection and conservation work, and need some financial support. This week we participated in 2 actions, the first one was dolphin research expedition in France, 2nd habitat restoration for birds in Slovenia.
We have a Patreon page where we share our updates, plans, ideas, behind the scenes and other information. Anyone can support us there starting just from 5 euro per month. And we always produce short documentaries about the work we did, and about amazing project and organizations we are joining.
If you think that what we do is important please support us there.
patreon.com/c/BeBraveToAct
Thank you

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Great job Dima and as I told you many times before I am so happy to see you doing what you do now. You are doing a lot of great stuff! And yes I totally understand about the old footage it was the same for me when I made TROM II.


We went to Cyprus in January to join a research of Marine protected area. It's the only nesting site for Green Turtles in whole European Union. And surprisingly large and wild area. Hopefully it will stay like that for many years to come


A safe haven for sea turtles, but for how long?


We went to Cyprus to participate in research of marine protected area. Which is important nesting site for sea turtles. Also Lara bay is the only nesting site for Green turtles in European Union. We also visited turtle rescue center CyMARC .

Research was organized by MER (lab)


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Great job Dima! And great to see Mara too! Keep up the good work!


I was blown away by this movie Christspiracy
“is there a spiritual way to kill an animal”?
You can watch it for free here :
christspiracy.com/


That's how I spent my year 2024 in nature & wildlife conservation. In this video is overview of all projects, events and activities I participated and volunteered. I think it was a good year. What about yours ???

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Planting trees in Germany with Bergwaldprojekt.
In November I was in Munich planting beech trees in a spruce forest. One of the reasons it's because beech tree can hold way more underground water than a spruce. And forests like this one supply about 70% of the drinking water to Munich
youtu.be/780EM7T2i3Y

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Great video @Dima ! Very positive as usual. I am always curious to watch them and to see how many good people are out there doing important work. You are not posting on Peertube anymore? Maybe if that's too difficult for you I can help you soon and I can try to post them there too. I will put a lot of effort into growing that platform very very soon.
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Thanks Tio.
Yes, sure if you want to deal with Peertube it's ok.
For some reasons it doesn't like my standard format, and I need to reformat it specially for Peertube, and no one watches the videos there except you, so it's a bit too much effort. But if you want to do it, then of course.
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Well you have 48 subscribers on Peertube...is not just me for sure. I can try to help out maybe fix the issue with auto importing from youtube...
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@Dima, I'm watching your videos on PeerTube. I haven't seen them all yet, but will continue as time allows. You are doing great work - thank you! Keep it up!
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I went to Slovenia to participate in yearly maintenance of the artificial islands. These islands were made specially for the conservation of birds which otherwise would go extinct. The problem began when the Dam was build on the Drava river, so all natural habitats for birds been flooded. I enjoyed this trip and project a lot, much more info in the video.

youtu.be/JwQ0RWN-fzw

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Great initiative. Crazy they created these artificial islands. But well it seems effective.

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The people are being consumed by the so called "free" entertainment.

But it is not "free". It is dumb and trade-based. TikTok, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and so forth mandate that you give them your data and attention (watch ads) in order to use their platforms. In return they give you access to a ton of dumbed down content.

Trading stupidity is much easier than trading well made content. Therefore stupidity evolves faster in a trade-based society.

To make a good researched video can take months, to make a dumbed down one can take minutes. To write a good book about real and important things, and research for it, takes months or years. To write bullshit fictional stories takes a lot less. Music, movies, articles, they are all under the influence of trade, allowing simplistic content to thrive while good one to barely breath.

It is this trade based society to be blamed for the vast majority of the destruction, suffering and idiocy we see worldwide.

#trade #TradeRuinsEverything #capitalism #money #media #journalism

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Still, there are people tha want just that, dumbed down content.

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TROMhome:

This is our new, and kinda personal, project tromhome.com/

Although it is also about TROM.

This will be our home and it will take us to many new places, meeting many new people and projects. We will talk to people about TROM, try to organize talks and meetings, volunteer for all sorts of trade-free projects, and make videos about all of our adventures.

That’s the plan at least 😀 !

We have released a fundraiser to help us a bit if possible. See gofundme.com/f/help-us-get-the…

#motorhome #vanlife #fundraiser #trom #tromsite #volunteer #volunteering

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Discovering wildlife of the Carpathian Mountains


Few weeks ago together with Mara we went to Romania to stay for a few days in a wildlife hides to see some animals, especially bears! The cool thing that the hides are managed by conservation NGO Carpathia and all of the profits goes into the conservation of wildlife and ecosystem of Fagarash Mountains. This video is my experience of staying for a few days in the mountains and seeing wild animals.

youtu.be/7u9_Ct_j8pI

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Thank you Tio.
Yeah man, such places are not far from your hometown :)
Agree, people need to spent way more time in the raw nature rather than shopping malls. And surely most of such experiences in the wilderness are for free.
And this cabins are very nice, also because they are managed by conservation NGO they really pay attention to every smallest detail. Of course they don't feed the animals, but they also don't use any chemicals on the wood and walls of such cabins. Normally they will be treated to prevent rotting and protection from ants and other insects. But because such treatment is toxic, they decided not to use it. Kind of small detail, but it shows the values of the guys running this cabins.

And that's what we need to see more in our society.
Also large part of the forest there is restored by this organization. And as you know very well, in Romania illegal logging is quite huge issue.

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Yeah must be so difficult in Romania where there is so much corruption. So much so that I find it hard to trust even such NGOs fully. But they seem decent and doing some great work there.


Kayaking for free


youtu.be/CAaqn7Lbb6A?si=X0E9A4…


Euronews Episode


I took a part in EURONEWS video episode about environment protection. The program called "The Road To Green". We went to Graz in Austria to participate in 2 events. It was great experience and amazing opportunity to be involved with Euronews . Huge thanks to Cyril Fourneris !
You can watch video and read article here :
euronews.com/green/2024/05/01/…

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I was about to write the same thing 😁 Great last line in that video. And great work you're doing in general, you're very inspirational 🙂 Nice that you got on Euronews! 😀

But oh man... Air Bee and Bee 😂😂😂😅😁


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This society is still primitive.


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EURONEWS Iinterview


This Wednesday I was taking a part in Euronews TV show "The Road To Green". They travel around and highlight various sustainable initiatives, ecology and conservation projects. But also people behind such initiatives. I am happy that I had a chance to participate.
Here is some info on my Patreon about the experience.
The episode will be aired on 30/04 on TV and later will be available online.


patreon.com/posts/euronews-102…

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My Book Release!


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Wooaa! This day has come! 🥳 My sincere and heartfelt congrats to you, Sasha! Amazing work! I am touched and pleased to help you out on the way, full of bumps and obstacles, it seems 😉 As one of a few who was honored though not to read entirely, but to get familiar with a few chapters of this magnificent book, I can only say that it is 100% must read and must become an unique shiny gem of somebody's book shelf or eBook collection 😌 At least mine - for sure 😄

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Thank you so much @Roma that is so sweet 🙂 I really hope you enjoy it!
@Roma


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Never come close to the seals


I have joined North Seal Team volunteers in Belgium for this mission to protect grey and common seals.
Also I have visited SeaLife Blankenberge which have the only seal sanctuary in Belgium and they are doing great job of taking care of the seals.

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