Эта фотография победила в международном конкурсе «Лучший птичий фотограф 2024 года» среди 23 тыс. работ. На ней авторы изобразили птиц, погибших в результате столкновения с жилыми зданиями.
Ежегодно во время сезонной миграции только в Северной Америке погибает 1,3 млрд птиц в результате столкновения с окнами жилых домов. Это происходит из-за ряда причин, например, ночью свет в окнах дезориентирует птиц, они не видят стекло и врезаются в него.
Фото: Patricia Seaton Homonylo/Bird photographer of the year
Эта фотография победила в международном конкурсе «Лучший птичий фотограф 2024 года» среди 23 тыс. работ. На ней авторы изобразили птиц, погибших в результате столкновения с жилыми зданиями.
Ежегодно во время сезонной миграции только в Северной Америке погибает 1,3 млрд птиц в результате столкновения с окнами жилых домов. Это происходит из-за ряда причин, например, ночью свет в окнах дезориентирует птиц, они не видят стекло и врезаются в него.
Фото: Patricia Seaton Homonylo/Bird photographer of the year
At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Since January 2022, the SC has received a total of 47 complaints and enquiries on illegal investment schemes promoted through Telegram. These fraudulent schemes offer non-existent investment opportunities, promising very attractive and risk-free returns within a short span of time. They commonly offer unrealistic returns of as high as 1,000% within 24 hours or even within a few hours. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. The account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel. As the war in Ukraine rages, the messaging app Telegram has emerged as the go-to place for unfiltered live war updates for both Ukrainian refugees and increasingly isolated Russians alike.
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