Nature

The Mushroom Color Atlas is a resource and reference for everyone curious about mushrooms and the beautiful and subtle colors derived from dyeing with mushrooms. 

Donna Kalil has plunged into canals in the dead of night, straddled two-hundred-pound serpents, and been bitten more times than she can count—all in the name of killing a thing she loves and playing a game she can’t win.

Fantastic piece in Garden & Gun on Donna Kalil, a professional, full-time Python hunter. Don't like to read? Here's a short video. But you should read the article. How could you not with a pull-quote like the one above.

Via Metafilter

Tremendous footage of Monarch butterflies captures by hummingbird drones.

Gorgeous work from Phyllis Shafer.

"I believe that a kind of transcendental essence lies at the heart of all natural forms and objects."

Many more on Shafer's website.

I somehow missed this sweet video a couple months ago. One swan was injured and removed from Bluffer's Park. When Toronto Wildlife Center returned the swan to the park, this happened:

Winners of the 2024 Big Picture Nature Photography Contest have been chosen.

My favorite is one of the runners-up, but I'm biased as I recognize the heron, Glinlid, whom I met in the Dominican in 2019:

Check out all the 2024 winners on the Big Picture site.

Winners from years going back to 2014 are also viewable.

Ant Lab is back with another stunning video, this one of Beetles, in flight and at swim, filmed at 6000 frames per second.

If you're unfamiliar with the Ant Lab channel, check out their vid on moths from a few years ago:

Stunning two minute video of a Starling Murmuration. Such a glorious phenomena.

From filmmaker Jan van Ijken.

Mossy.Earth is a member-driven organization that works to restore wild ecosystems, support wildlife and biodiversity, and help fight climate change.

Their YouTube channel has some very interesting and informative videos outlaying their projects.

Here's one on a forest they flooded in 2022:

And another on rewilding a Butterfly meadow:

Check out their site at mossy.earth and consider becoming a member.