Tierra Curry
@savelifeonearth.bsky.social
Senior Scientist at Center for Biological Diversity #StopExtinction
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Planetary Thinking: Hellbenders as Emissaries of Appalachia
Hellbenders are prehistoric salamanders that have thrived in cold rivers since before the continents divided. Once found throughout Appalachian watersheds, due to exploitation and habitat degradation ...
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What do salamanders have to do with public health and environmental justice? Everything. This article explores hellbenders, the extinction crisis and my work leading @biologicaldiversity.org's Saving Life On Earth campaign in a special edition of the journal Critical Humanities focused on Appalachia
Reposted by Tierra Curry
"Every species is connected in deep time to milions of other species and holds a direct line to the future of life on earth...when a species goes extinct we're breaking that connection." Hear more from @biologicaldiversity.org’s @savelifeonearth.bsky.social on our new podcast about extinction:
October 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"Every species is connected in deep time to milions of other species and holds a direct line to the future of life on earth...when a species goes extinct we're breaking that connection." Hear more from @biologicaldiversity.org’s @savelifeonearth.bsky.social on our new podcast about extinction:
Check out @biologicaldiversity.org's new podcast about saving life on Earth and fighting the extinction crisis. I know a podcast about extinction sounds depressing, but the focus is on turning despair into action. Check it out. www.iheart.com/podcast/269-...
Sounds Wild | iHeart
Sounds Wild is a Center for Biological Diversity podcast focusing on endangered wildlife, the extinction crisis, and saving life on Earth. Hosted by Mike Stark and Vanessa Barchfield, Sounds Wild feat...
www.iheart.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Check out @biologicaldiversity.org's new podcast about saving life on Earth and fighting the extinction crisis. I know a podcast about extinction sounds depressing, but the focus is on turning despair into action. Check it out. www.iheart.com/podcast/269-...
May your afternoon be as nice as Jack’s
September 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
May your afternoon be as nice as Jack’s
people tend to think that butterflies are fragile, but butterflies are resilient. Just ask this eastern tiger swallowtail.
September 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
people tend to think that butterflies are fragile, but butterflies are resilient. Just ask this eastern tiger swallowtail.
Reposted by Tierra Curry
"Public drinking water comes from the rivers where hellbenders swim, or at one time swam. The water they breathe courses through our bloodstream. We are in this planetary aquarium with them. Every action we take to save hellbenders will help save us," writes Curry.
August 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"Public drinking water comes from the rivers where hellbenders swim, or at one time swam. The water they breathe courses through our bloodstream. We are in this planetary aquarium with them. Every action we take to save hellbenders will help save us," writes Curry.
This is so cool! Missouri Department of Conservation is hosting craft classes to sew wildlife patterns including Spotted Skunks, Alligator Snapping Turtles, Hellbender Salamanders, and Ozark Chinquapins. Rock on!
Stitch Missouri’s Wildlife: MDC Launches Ozark Needlers Embroidery Series - Ozark Radio News
West Plains, MO — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is excited to announce a year-long embroidery class series called Ozark Needlers, designed to combine creative stitching with learning a...
www.ozarkradionews.com
July 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is so cool! Missouri Department of Conservation is hosting craft classes to sew wildlife patterns including Spotted Skunks, Alligator Snapping Turtles, Hellbender Salamanders, and Ozark Chinquapins. Rock on!
Reposted by Tierra Curry
Freedom of Voice: Learn From History’s Most Effective Protesters • @therevelator.org therevelator.org/history-effe...
Freedom of Voice: Learn From History’s Most Effective Protesters • The Revelator
Our continuing newcomer’s guide to protesting looks at the foundational movements that shape our current and future efforts.
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July 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Freedom of Voice: Learn From History’s Most Effective Protesters • @therevelator.org therevelator.org/history-effe...
Reposted by Tierra Curry
What do salamanders have to do with public health and environmental justice?
To quote @savelifeonearth.bsky.social (Endangered Species Codirector, Senior Scientist at the Center), "Everything". ⬇️
To quote @savelifeonearth.bsky.social (Endangered Species Codirector, Senior Scientist at the Center), "Everything". ⬇️
Planetary Thinking: Hellbenders as Emissaries of Appalachia
Hellbenders are prehistoric salamanders that have thrived in cold rivers since before the continents divided. Once found throughout Appalachian watersheds, due to exploitation and habitat degradation ...
mds.marshall.edu
July 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
What do salamanders have to do with public health and environmental justice?
To quote @savelifeonearth.bsky.social (Endangered Species Codirector, Senior Scientist at the Center), "Everything". ⬇️
To quote @savelifeonearth.bsky.social (Endangered Species Codirector, Senior Scientist at the Center), "Everything". ⬇️
What do salamanders have to do with public health and environmental justice? Everything. This article explores hellbenders, the extinction crisis and my work leading @biologicaldiversity.org's Saving Life On Earth campaign in a special edition of the journal Critical Humanities focused on Appalachia
Planetary Thinking: Hellbenders as Emissaries of Appalachia
Hellbenders are prehistoric salamanders that have thrived in cold rivers since before the continents divided. Once found throughout Appalachian watersheds, due to exploitation and habitat degradation ...
mds.marshall.edu
July 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
What do salamanders have to do with public health and environmental justice? Everything. This article explores hellbenders, the extinction crisis and my work leading @biologicaldiversity.org's Saving Life On Earth campaign in a special edition of the journal Critical Humanities focused on Appalachia
New term of the day for me: "hydroclimate whiplash." The atmosphere can evaporate, absorb and release 7% more water for every degree Celsius the planet warms. More intense droughts, more intense floods on harder soil . . .
Floods, droughts, then fires: Hydroclimate whiplash is speeding up globally
New research links intensifying wet and dry swings to the atmosphere’s sponge-like ability to drop and absorb water.
newsroom.ucla.edu
July 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
New term of the day for me: "hydroclimate whiplash." The atmosphere can evaporate, absorb and release 7% more water for every degree Celsius the planet warms. More intense droughts, more intense floods on harder soil . . .
Was lawn. Is now baby Eastern Bluebird in a Pawpaw. Good job nature. Good job me.
June 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Was lawn. Is now baby Eastern Bluebird in a Pawpaw. Good job nature. Good job me.
Common Milkweed smells amazing and it’s so pretty. Even if it didn’t feed monarch butterfly caterpillars it would be lovely to plant. I’m amazed by the dozens of other insects that are feeding on it in my yard.
June 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Common Milkweed smells amazing and it’s so pretty. Even if it didn’t feed monarch butterfly caterpillars it would be lovely to plant. I’m amazed by the dozens of other insects that are feeding on it in my yard.
Scientists-- we have one week left to boost support to protect endangered species' habitat safeguards. Sign on to the scientists' open sign-on letter here and please share: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
May 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Scientists-- we have one week left to boost support to protect endangered species' habitat safeguards. Sign on to the scientists' open sign-on letter here and please share: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Furry little brown bird at the feeder today
May 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Furry little brown bird at the feeder today
Any day I get to hang out with a toad is a very good day. Backyard Fowler’s Toad. I’m going to name him Bueller.
May 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Any day I get to hang out with a toad is a very good day. Backyard Fowler’s Toad. I’m going to name him Bueller.
Scientists-- Please sign onto this open letter from scientists in defense of habitat protections under the Endangered Species Act. The comment period for the proposed regulation intended to diminish habitat protections closes on May 19. Any scientist is welcome to sign on. Thanks for sharing.
Scientists' Letter in Opposition to Rescinding the Regulatory Definition of “Harm” in Endangered Species Act Regulations
May 19, 2025
Submitted via: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0034-0001
Public Comments Processing
Attn: FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0034
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, MS: PRB/3W
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May 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Scientists-- Please sign onto this open letter from scientists in defense of habitat protections under the Endangered Species Act. The comment period for the proposed regulation intended to diminish habitat protections closes on May 19. Any scientist is welcome to sign on. Thanks for sharing.
Rewilding axolotls! 💗#SaveSalamanders
Captive-bred axolotls thrive in Mexican wetlands, researchers find
The cartoonish-looking salamanders have faced an uncertain future in the wild. But researchers hope that breeding axolotls in captivity and releasing them in the wild can help their numbers.
www.npr.org
May 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Rewilding axolotls! 💗#SaveSalamanders
Reposted by Tierra Curry
“Like the monarch butterfly for pollinators, there is no better sentinel for protecting waterways in the eastern United States than the hellbender,” said @savelifeonearth.bsky.social, senior scientst and endangered species co-director for the Center.
Legend has it this salamander came from hell. We’re about to send it back.
Climate disasters, human sprawl, and now Trump: This is how extinctions happen.
www.motherjones.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“Like the monarch butterfly for pollinators, there is no better sentinel for protecting waterways in the eastern United States than the hellbender,” said @savelifeonearth.bsky.social, senior scientst and endangered species co-director for the Center.
Cool endangered species art project! www.giddyupartstudio.com/blog-1/april... #sciart #artsci #stopextinction
April '25 Featured ECO Artist: Juliet Whitsett | Really Small ECO Museum
Artist creates an environmental art installation dedicated to the Endangered and Threatened species of her county, Travis County, Texas
www.giddyupartstudio.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Cool endangered species art project! www.giddyupartstudio.com/blog-1/april... #sciart #artsci #stopextinction
Monarch, Monarch, Let down your golden wings! We’re so ready for hungry hungry caterpillars.
April 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Monarch, Monarch, Let down your golden wings! We’re so ready for hungry hungry caterpillars.
Let's roll up our sleeves and save all of the freshwater mussels <3 arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
Who will mourn the Arkansas Fatmucket? - Arkansas Times
Fatmuckets, pocketbooks, pigtoes and other unfortunately named and endangered invertebrates don’t receive the same level of funding or public sympathy as game species that make their home in The Natur...
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April 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Let's roll up our sleeves and save all of the freshwater mussels <3 arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
Hellbent on saving hellbenders. @biologicaldiversity.org
Legend has it this salamander came from hell. We’re about to send it back.
Climate disasters, human sprawl, and now Trump: This is how extinctions happen.
www.motherjones.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Hellbent on saving hellbenders. @biologicaldiversity.org
I hung out with goats at a farm animal sanctuary today. 💓 How was your day?
April 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I hung out with goats at a farm animal sanctuary today. 💓 How was your day?
Have you seen this video of the young man who can perfectly imitate birds calls? You should. www.facebook.com/share/v/1QPE... 💓
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April 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Have you seen this video of the young man who can perfectly imitate birds calls? You should. www.facebook.com/share/v/1QPE... 💓