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We've lost a tiny legend.
The Christmas Island Shrew, Australia’s only native shrew & one of Re:wild’s most wanted lost small mammals, has been declared Extinct. The shrew had only been documented 4 times during the past 120 years.
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The Christmas Island Shrew, Australia’s only native shrew & one of Re:wild’s most wanted lost small mammals, has been declared Extinct. The shrew had only been documented 4 times during the past 120 years.
au.news.yahoo.com/another-litt...
Sad update on 'little-known' Aussie animal - Yahoo News Australia
No one thought to record the noise echoing through the hills before it vanished in the 1980s. Find out more.
au.news.yahoo.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
We've lost a tiny legend.
The Christmas Island Shrew, Australia’s only native shrew & one of Re:wild’s most wanted lost small mammals, has been declared Extinct. The shrew had only been documented 4 times during the past 120 years.
au.news.yahoo.com/another-litt...
The Christmas Island Shrew, Australia’s only native shrew & one of Re:wild’s most wanted lost small mammals, has been declared Extinct. The shrew had only been documented 4 times during the past 120 years.
au.news.yahoo.com/another-litt...
1/4 🚨 PLS SHARE ⚠️ to make sure you aren't unknowingly eating 'conflict beef' from illegal cattle farms in Nicaragua! 🐄 #conflictbeef #animalag
October 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
1/4 🚨 PLS SHARE ⚠️ to make sure you aren't unknowingly eating 'conflict beef' from illegal cattle farms in Nicaragua! 🐄 #conflictbeef #animalag
🐟 Freshwater fishes are the lifeblood of Africa’s rivers, lakes & wetlands—vital for food, culture & ecosystems. But they’re vanishing fast.
A new @wwfafrica.bsky.social report shows dazzling biodiversity under threat. 👉 africa.panda.org/our_work/pub...
#FreshwaterFishes #Africa
A new @wwfafrica.bsky.social report shows dazzling biodiversity under threat. 👉 africa.panda.org/our_work/pub...
#FreshwaterFishes #Africa
September 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
🐟 Freshwater fishes are the lifeblood of Africa’s rivers, lakes & wetlands—vital for food, culture & ecosystems. But they’re vanishing fast.
A new @wwfafrica.bsky.social report shows dazzling biodiversity under threat. 👉 africa.panda.org/our_work/pub...
#FreshwaterFishes #Africa
A new @wwfafrica.bsky.social report shows dazzling biodiversity under threat. 👉 africa.panda.org/our_work/pub...
#FreshwaterFishes #Africa
FOUND: After it was believed to be extinct for 5,000 years, the Leaf-toed Gecko of the Galápagos has been rediscovered! 🦎 #lostspecies #gecko #breakingnews
July 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
FOUND: After it was believed to be extinct for 5,000 years, the Leaf-toed Gecko of the Galápagos has been rediscovered! 🦎 #lostspecies #gecko #breakingnews
🐍 The world’s smallest snake — just 3–4 inches long — has been rediscovered in Barbados after being lost to science for nearly 20 years! 📏🇧🇧
It’s called the Barbados Threadsnake, and it had only been seen a handful of times before.
#FaunaFlora #RewildTheCaribbean
It’s called the Barbados Threadsnake, and it had only been seen a handful of times before.
#FaunaFlora #RewildTheCaribbean
July 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
🐍 The world’s smallest snake — just 3–4 inches long — has been rediscovered in Barbados after being lost to science for nearly 20 years! 📏🇧🇧
It’s called the Barbados Threadsnake, and it had only been seen a handful of times before.
#FaunaFlora #RewildTheCaribbean
It’s called the Barbados Threadsnake, and it had only been seen a handful of times before.
#FaunaFlora #RewildTheCaribbean
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Bosawás Reserve is a lifeline for species like the Great Green Macaw. 🦜.
But new reforms in Nicaragua bypass Indigenous rights and open this rainforest to exploitation. 🚨
Explore how we’re advancing conservation rooted in social justice here:
www.birdlife.org/papers-repor...
But new reforms in Nicaragua bypass Indigenous rights and open this rainforest to exploitation. 🚨
Explore how we’re advancing conservation rooted in social justice here:
www.birdlife.org/papers-repor...
June 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Bosawás Reserve is a lifeline for species like the Great Green Macaw. 🦜.
But new reforms in Nicaragua bypass Indigenous rights and open this rainforest to exploitation. 🚨
Explore how we’re advancing conservation rooted in social justice here:
www.birdlife.org/papers-repor...
But new reforms in Nicaragua bypass Indigenous rights and open this rainforest to exploitation. 🚨
Explore how we’re advancing conservation rooted in social justice here:
www.birdlife.org/papers-repor...
🚨 New paper out!
Co-authored by Re:wild’s Dr. Barney Long, this report looks at the 10,000+ species closest to extinction on the IUCN Red List and delivers a strategic roadmap to prevent their loss and restore ecosystems.
📖 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#Rewild #StopExtinction #GreenStatus
Co-authored by Re:wild’s Dr. Barney Long, this report looks at the 10,000+ species closest to extinction on the IUCN Red List and delivers a strategic roadmap to prevent their loss and restore ecosystems.
📖 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#Rewild #StopExtinction #GreenStatus
July 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🚨 New paper out!
Co-authored by Re:wild’s Dr. Barney Long, this report looks at the 10,000+ species closest to extinction on the IUCN Red List and delivers a strategic roadmap to prevent their loss and restore ecosystems.
📖 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#Rewild #StopExtinction #GreenStatus
Co-authored by Re:wild’s Dr. Barney Long, this report looks at the 10,000+ species closest to extinction on the IUCN Red List and delivers a strategic roadmap to prevent their loss and restore ecosystems.
📖 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#Rewild #StopExtinction #GreenStatus
🦍 💉🧬 In eastern DRC, where human + environmental challenges are deeply connected, Re:wild partner, @gorilladoctors.bsky.social, is leading a one-of-a-kind effort: delivering direct, hands-on care to Critically Endagered gorillas. #gorilladoctors #rewild #gorillas #endangered
July 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🦍 💉🧬 In eastern DRC, where human + environmental challenges are deeply connected, Re:wild partner, @gorilladoctors.bsky.social, is leading a one-of-a-kind effort: delivering direct, hands-on care to Critically Endagered gorillas. #gorilladoctors #rewild #gorillas #endangered
(1/7)🛢️⚠️ Swept under the rug…What does a company trying to move toxic waste water from oil sands mining projects in Alberta, Canada, and ReconAfrica, a company exploring for oil and gas in the Okavango River Basin in Namibia, have in common? A board member. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...
Who’s Angling to Store Oilsands Toxic Waste Underground? | The Tyee
A key deep-injection player is Aqua Solutions, which advised the government while lobbying for business. Critics raise conflict concerns.
thetyee.ca
July 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
(1/7)🛢️⚠️ Swept under the rug…What does a company trying to move toxic waste water from oil sands mining projects in Alberta, Canada, and ReconAfrica, a company exploring for oil and gas in the Okavango River Basin in Namibia, have in common? A board member. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...
🌊 BREAKING NEWS – Guafo Island is now protected!
(1/3)This extraordinary island off the coast of southern Chile is home to the world’s largest breeding colony of Sooty Shearwaters—migratory seabirds that fly 40,000+ miles each year. It also shelters Magellanic Penguins + Endangered Marine Otters.
(1/3)This extraordinary island off the coast of southern Chile is home to the world’s largest breeding colony of Sooty Shearwaters—migratory seabirds that fly 40,000+ miles each year. It also shelters Magellanic Penguins + Endangered Marine Otters.
June 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🌊 BREAKING NEWS – Guafo Island is now protected!
(1/3)This extraordinary island off the coast of southern Chile is home to the world’s largest breeding colony of Sooty Shearwaters—migratory seabirds that fly 40,000+ miles each year. It also shelters Magellanic Penguins + Endangered Marine Otters.
(1/3)This extraordinary island off the coast of southern Chile is home to the world’s largest breeding colony of Sooty Shearwaters—migratory seabirds that fly 40,000+ miles each year. It also shelters Magellanic Penguins + Endangered Marine Otters.
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🏝️In a new op-ed, leaders from the Island-Ocean Connection Challenge founding organizations—Island Conservation, @rewildorg.bsky.social & Scripps Oceanography — urge a shift in how we view islands. Not as a site of vulnerability, but as living laboratories of resilience, restoration and innovation.
Islands are Solutions: the Case for Island-Ocean Coalitions — Island-Ocean Connection Challenge — Island-Ocean Connection Challenge
Islands are places where global climate solutions can be tested and proven, showing recovery is not only possible but fast!
www.jointheiocc.org
June 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
🏝️In a new op-ed, leaders from the Island-Ocean Connection Challenge founding organizations—Island Conservation, @rewildorg.bsky.social & Scripps Oceanography — urge a shift in how we view islands. Not as a site of vulnerability, but as living laboratories of resilience, restoration and innovation.
🦍 Four Eastern Lowland Gorillas—Isangi, Lululingu, Mapendo & Ndjingala—just made history. Once victims of the illegal wildlife trade, they were rehabilitated by GRACE Gorillas and have been rewilded in @gorilladoctors.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🦍 Four Eastern Lowland Gorillas—Isangi, Lululingu, Mapendo & Ndjingala—just made history. Once victims of the illegal wildlife trade, they were rehabilitated by GRACE Gorillas and have been rewilded in @gorilladoctors.bsky.social
1/2 Want to help protect our planet’s wildlife? Submit a public comment today to protect the U.S. Endangered Species Act from a new rule that would make it legal to destroy critical wildlife habitat.
www.npr.org/2025/04/17/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/17/n...
Destroying endangered species' habitat wouldn't count as 'harm' under proposed Trump rule
The Trump administration is reinterpreting a key word in the Endangered Species Act that could have big consequences for the habitats of species at risk.
www.npr.org
May 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
1/2 Want to help protect our planet’s wildlife? Submit a public comment today to protect the U.S. Endangered Species Act from a new rule that would make it legal to destroy critical wildlife habitat.
www.npr.org/2025/04/17/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/17/n...
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🧐 #DYK there are 200+ chameleon species—and nearly half live in Madagascar! Our fave? The Voeltzkow’s Chameleon, rediscovered after 100+ years. 🌈 #LostSpecies #ChameleonDay #worldchameleonday
🧐 #DYK there are 200+ chameleon species—and nearly half live in Madagascar! Our fave? The Voeltzkow’s Chameleon, rediscovered after 100+ years. 🌈 #LostSpecies #ChameleonDay #worldchameleonday
May 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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🧐 #DYK there are 200+ chameleon species—and nearly half live in Madagascar! Our fave? The Voeltzkow’s Chameleon, rediscovered after 100+ years. 🌈 #LostSpecies #ChameleonDay #worldchameleonday
🧐 #DYK there are 200+ chameleon species—and nearly half live in Madagascar! Our fave? The Voeltzkow’s Chameleon, rediscovered after 100+ years. 🌈 #LostSpecies #ChameleonDay #worldchameleonday
(1/4) The IUCN Primate Specialist Group and International Primatological Society released a report detailing the 25 most Endangered primates in the world. www.primate-sg.org/storage/pdf/...
May 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
(1/4) The IUCN Primate Specialist Group and International Primatological Society released a report detailing the 25 most Endangered primates in the world. www.primate-sg.org/storage/pdf/...
Earth Day reminds us that environmental stewardship is essential for ensuring a good quality of life for ourselves and future generations. The environmental issues of tomorrow will require innovative solutions today. #earthday #earthday2025 #thereisnoplanetb
April 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Earth Day reminds us that environmental stewardship is essential for ensuring a good quality of life for ourselves and future generations. The environmental issues of tomorrow will require innovative solutions today. #earthday #earthday2025 #thereisnoplanetb
A WIN for water! 🌊
After more than a decade of grassroots conservation, Ecuador has officially declared the Corazón de la Amazonía (“Heart of the Amazon”) a Water Protection Area (WPA), protecting nearly 47,000 acres of vital páramo and cloud forest ecosystems in the province of Zamora Chinchipe.
After more than a decade of grassroots conservation, Ecuador has officially declared the Corazón de la Amazonía (“Heart of the Amazon”) a Water Protection Area (WPA), protecting nearly 47,000 acres of vital páramo and cloud forest ecosystems in the province of Zamora Chinchipe.
April 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A WIN for water! 🌊
After more than a decade of grassroots conservation, Ecuador has officially declared the Corazón de la Amazonía (“Heart of the Amazon”) a Water Protection Area (WPA), protecting nearly 47,000 acres of vital páramo and cloud forest ecosystems in the province of Zamora Chinchipe.
After more than a decade of grassroots conservation, Ecuador has officially declared the Corazón de la Amazonía (“Heart of the Amazon”) a Water Protection Area (WPA), protecting nearly 47,000 acres of vital páramo and cloud forest ecosystems in the province of Zamora Chinchipe.
🔔Don’t forget — New episodes drop every Saturday!
🔔New YouTube series! The Okavango River Basin is a lifeline for people & wildlife—but it’s under threat. This #worldwaterday, explore its beauty & the fight to protect it. 💧New episodes every Saturday.
Water is life. The #Okavango must remain wild. #savetheokavango
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Fb...
Water is life. The #Okavango must remain wild. #savetheokavango
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Fb...
Okavango Series Trailer #savetheokavango
YouTube video by Rewild
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March 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
🔔Don’t forget — New episodes drop every Saturday!
🚨ReconAfrica’s activities in Namibia raise red flags. Their oil discovery claims, shifting narratives on extraction, and investor manipulation threaten the Okavango River Basin’s biodiversity and local livelihoods.
🔗 More: savingokavangosuniquelife.blog
#ActNow #ReconAfrica #SaveTheOkavango
🔗 More: savingokavangosuniquelife.blog
#ActNow #ReconAfrica #SaveTheOkavango
The Data Room
by SOUL
savingokavangosuniquelife.blog
March 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
🚨ReconAfrica’s activities in Namibia raise red flags. Their oil discovery claims, shifting narratives on extraction, and investor manipulation threaten the Okavango River Basin’s biodiversity and local livelihoods.
🔗 More: savingokavangosuniquelife.blog
#ActNow #ReconAfrica #SaveTheOkavango
🔗 More: savingokavangosuniquelife.blog
#ActNow #ReconAfrica #SaveTheOkavango
🌎 Historic win for Indigenous rights & wildlife!
Colombia just formalized a 3.2M-acre territory to protect the Yuri-Passé, an isolated Indigenous group in the Amazon—also safeguarding threatened species like the Oncilla & Giant Armadillo.
#IndigenousRights #Amazon #conservationnews
Colombia just formalized a 3.2M-acre territory to protect the Yuri-Passé, an isolated Indigenous group in the Amazon—also safeguarding threatened species like the Oncilla & Giant Armadillo.
#IndigenousRights #Amazon #conservationnews
March 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🌎 Historic win for Indigenous rights & wildlife!
Colombia just formalized a 3.2M-acre territory to protect the Yuri-Passé, an isolated Indigenous group in the Amazon—also safeguarding threatened species like the Oncilla & Giant Armadillo.
#IndigenousRights #Amazon #conservationnews
Colombia just formalized a 3.2M-acre territory to protect the Yuri-Passé, an isolated Indigenous group in the Amazon—also safeguarding threatened species like the Oncilla & Giant Armadillo.
#IndigenousRights #Amazon #conservationnews
🔔New YouTube series! The Okavango River Basin is a lifeline for people & wildlife—but it’s under threat. This #worldwaterday, explore its beauty & the fight to protect it. 💧New episodes every Saturday.
Water is life. The #Okavango must remain wild. #savetheokavango
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Fb...
Water is life. The #Okavango must remain wild. #savetheokavango
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Fb...
Okavango Series Trailer #savetheokavango
YouTube video by Rewild
www.youtube.com
March 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🔔New YouTube series! The Okavango River Basin is a lifeline for people & wildlife—but it’s under threat. This #worldwaterday, explore its beauty & the fight to protect it. 💧New episodes every Saturday.
Water is life. The #Okavango must remain wild. #savetheokavango
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Fb...
Water is life. The #Okavango must remain wild. #savetheokavango
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Fb...
Age of Union & Re:wild are joining forces to accelerate global conservation! This partnership combines science + bold storytelling to protect critical ecosystems—starting with a $1M commitment to Madagascar. “The wild will not only survive, but thrive.” 🔗 www.ageofunion.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Age of Union & Re:wild are joining forces to accelerate global conservation! This partnership combines science + bold storytelling to protect critical ecosystems—starting with a $1M commitment to Madagascar. “The wild will not only survive, but thrive.” 🔗 www.ageofunion.com
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🚨 The Okavango Delta—a UNESCO World Heritage Site and biodiversity hotspot—is under siege. ReconAfrica’s deception and disregard for Indigenous rights put this irreplaceable ecosystem at risk. Protecting it is about justice.
Read more: savingokavangosuniquelife.blog/2025/02/27/d...
#savetheokavango
Read more: savingokavangosuniquelife.blog/2025/02/27/d...
#savetheokavango
Discord Gods.
Part one. Slick Promotion Pumps ReconAfrica Stock Rob Parker, February 27, 2025 A sudden rise in ReconAfrica’s stock price at the end of January 2025, followed by a similarly steep and rapi…
savingokavangosuniquelife.blog
March 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🚨 The Okavango Delta—a UNESCO World Heritage Site and biodiversity hotspot—is under siege. ReconAfrica’s deception and disregard for Indigenous rights put this irreplaceable ecosystem at risk. Protecting it is about justice.
Read more: savingokavangosuniquelife.blog/2025/02/27/d...
#savetheokavango
Read more: savingokavangosuniquelife.blog/2025/02/27/d...
#savetheokavango
Congratulations Trevor and Kyle on this upcoming book about a #lostspecies with an INCREDIBLE story that will forever live on in our hearts. June can’t come fast enough! 💛🌟🤩✨
#searchforlostspecies #goldentoad
#searchforlostspecies #goldentoad
Honored to announce that “The Golden Toad: An Ecological Mystery and the Search for a Lost Species” will be published by @diversionbooks.bsky.social this June! Written by me and Kyle Ritland, with art by Daniel Wesson and support from @rewildorg.bsky.social (plus a TON of support from Monteverde)…
March 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Congratulations Trevor and Kyle on this upcoming book about a #lostspecies with an INCREDIBLE story that will forever live on in our hearts. June can’t come fast enough! 💛🌟🤩✨
#searchforlostspecies #goldentoad
#searchforlostspecies #goldentoad
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I'm excited to share a new paper out in the BBOC today! We documented 6 new island records for Fergusson Island in Papua New Guinea + cool natural history information.
...Including first photographs of a nesting Goldie's Bird-of-Paradise! Open access below. #birds
bioone.org/journals/bul...
...Including first photographs of a nesting Goldie's Bird-of-Paradise! Open access below. #birds
bioone.org/journals/bul...
March 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I'm excited to share a new paper out in the BBOC today! We documented 6 new island records for Fergusson Island in Papua New Guinea + cool natural history information.
...Including first photographs of a nesting Goldie's Bird-of-Paradise! Open access below. #birds
bioone.org/journals/bul...
...Including first photographs of a nesting Goldie's Bird-of-Paradise! Open access below. #birds
bioone.org/journals/bul...