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Watch these wildlife officials struggle to stay alive as they release the world's most badass bobcat kitten back into the wild. The bobcat, who we're calling Mr. Murderbritches, was relocated after he was caught eating 🐔🐔🐔 in Kanarraville, UT.
Long live Mr. Murderbritches!
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This male American woodcock has some glide in his stride and some dip in his hip. Here he is performing an early morning "sky dance" to woo the woodcock ladies in springtime at Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge in Maine.
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These are real, actual butterflies. The green dragontail butterfly (Lamproptera meges) is one of the smallest species of swallowtail butterfly and one of the very few species with wing transparency.
Footage by Kazuo Unno, insect aficionado extraordinaire and photographer.
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Golf courses: use 2.08 billion gallons of water per year on average, harming desert landscapes & native ecosystems.
Javelinas: maintain a balance in their ecosystem, aerating soils, dispersing seeds and are a good food source for pumas, jaguars & coyotes.
#TeamJavelina
Come along with me on my carnage (I mean course) check this morning. What should be one of the most beautiful golf courses in the country is being destroyed by herds of javelina. If anyone has a contact in AZ state govt that can help us find a solution please pass it along.
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The dead leaf butterfly (Kallima inachus) is a master of beauty and disguise. The species is found from India to tropical Asia and Japan.
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The female leafcutter bee may construct as many as 20 of these pollen-filled bee-ritos before she’s done. This footage shows a baby leaf-cutter emerging from its cozy bee-rito.
Footage by Emily Doorish
🐦Twitter
@EDoorish
📷IG:
@EmiliagoXD
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The female leafcutter bee may construct as many as 20 of these pollen-filled bee-ritos before she's done. This footage shows a baby leaf-cutter emerging from its cozy bee-rito.
Footage by
@EDoorish
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The female leafcutter bee may construct as many as 20 of these pollen-filled bee-ritos before she’s done. This footage shows a baby leaf-cutter emerging from its cozy bee-rito.
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These is what a snow day looks like for wolves in Yellowstone National Park.
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Wildlife crossings are an effective tool for combating habitat fragmentation and are a win-win for protecting wildlife and drivers from injury or death from collisions.
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The female leafcutter bee may construct as many as 20 of these pollen-filled nest cells in one go. Each cell contains an egg. Upon hatching, the larvae eats the pollen until it's mature & ready to emerge from its cozy bee-rito. Footage by
@EDoorish
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These is what a snow day looks like for wolves in Yellowstone National Park.
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Your
#PeekIntoTheWild
— a cute otter slip-sliding down a snowbank to play with another otter at Yellowstone National Park.
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Independent autopsy shows that forest defender Tortuguita (Manuel Terán) was killed while in a seated position with hands up, shot by multiple guns at least 13 times in right eye, chest, legs, abdomen, and palms.
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A pair of bobcats on a winter's day — Phantom Canyon, Colorado.
Footage by Michael Forsberg
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This is what biodiversity looks like in the mountains of Arizona as captured on a trail camera: pumas, javelinas, coati, and a young bear:
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BREAKING:
@JoeBiden
just designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in northern Arizona. This permanently protects nearly 1 million acres of public land surrounding the iconic national park.
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Meanwhile in
#Florida
... alligators, great blue herons, night herons, Florida panthers, black bears and peninsula cooters.
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This sea
#slug
can detach its head from its body and roam around, business as usual, without a heart or anus. It regenerates a whole new body in three weeks.
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Meanwhile in
#Wyoming
…adorable wolf cubs, a massive moose, a mustelid and bears visit a log.
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Surprise, surprise.....it wasn't out of concern for "federal overreach" or "states' rights" that they decided to shrink down
#BearEars
. They wanted to plunder the resources lying underneath our public lands.
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The dead leaf butterfly (Kallima inachus) is a master of beauty and disguise.
The species is found from India to tropical Asia and Japan.
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BREAKING: An appellate court just overturned federal authorization to kill 72 grizzlies near Yellowstone. Thanks to everyone who supported the Center and allies in securing this major victory — we couldn't have done it without you all.
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Wildlife Win: Yesterday,
@COParksWildlife
experts released five gray
#wolves
— three males and two females — onto public land in Grand County in a historic effort to create a permanent, self-sustaining gray wolf population in Colorado.
Learn more 👉
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The female leafcutter bee may construct as many as 20 of these pollen-filled bee-ritos before she's done. This footage shows a baby leaf-cutter emerging from its cozy bee-rito.
Footage by Emily Doorish
Twitter
@EDoorish
IG:
@EmiliagoXD
#WorldBeeDay
#SaveTheBees
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With a wingspan up to 6 inches, the Malabar tree nymph (Idea malabarica) of southern India is a large, almost cumbersome butterfly. Its flight is slow and fluttery and it seems built to glide. Members of this butterfly's genus are also called "paper kites."
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BREAKING: Trump just ended the ban on bringing dead elephant heads, feet and tails into the United States. He's legalizing the killing of endangered elephants.
This is DESPICABLE.
And we're going to sue.
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This mama coati and her six coati kittens were spotted on one of our remote cameras roaming a mountain range at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona.
#BorderViews
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BREAKING: In response to a lawsuit brought by the Center and allies, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit just rejected Trump's approval of the first offshore oil-drilling development in federal Arctic waters. Read:
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BREAKING: We're launching a lawsuit against Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s administration & state contractor AshBritt, Inc., for violating federal law by blocking streams and washes along the U.S.-Mexico border with hundreds of shipping containers.
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We love wildlife crossings! This wildlife crossing over Highway 191 in Wyoming provides safe passage for pronghorns and other wildlife. According to the state, wildlife-vehicle collisions have been cut by more than 85% by the crossing.
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Check out this massive school of cownose rays cruising the coast of Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia!
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Meet the world's oldest known wild bird, a Laysan albatross named Wisdom who is at least 68. Here she is on the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge with one of nearly 40 eggs she is believed to have laid over her lifetime.
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We're loving watching javelinas win Twitter's heart! Want more of these intelligent, scrappy, golf-course-destroying critters? Check out our wildlife cam footage of javelinas thriving in Arizona's Sonoran desert.
#TeamJavelina
#PeccaryNotPig
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We love wildlife crossings! This wildlife crossing over Highway 191 in
#Wyoming
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#pronghorns
and other wildlife. According to the state, wildlife-vehicle collisions have been cut by more than 85% thanks to the crossing.
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The dead leaf butterfly (Kallima inachus) is a master of beauty and disguise.
The species is found from India to tropical Asia and Japan.
Join the Center for Biological Diversity's e-list of activists, citizen scientists and animal lovers here:
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Meet the world's oldest known wild bird, a Laysan albatross named Wisdom who is at least 68. Here she is on the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge with one of nearly 40 eggs she is believed to have laid over her lifetime.
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We love wildlife crossings! This wildlife crossing over Highway 191 in
#Wyoming
provides safe passage for
#pronghorns
and other wildlife. According to the state, wildlife-vehicle collisions have been cut by more than 85% thanks to the crossing.
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Before spraying their stink, spotted skunks sometimes go into a defensive hand stand to intimidate would-be attackers. Impressed? Here's one getting defensive in front of a remote cam in Arizona.
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After a big meal of sockeye salmon, mama brown bear and her three cubs need a nap.
Footage from Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska by Lisa Hupp/USFWS
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Bald eagles are dedicated co-parenting partners. This footage from an eagle nest cam at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge gives us a glimpse of their "changing of the guard."
#2022
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We love wildlife crossings! This wildlife crossing over Highway 191 in Wyoming provides safe passage for pronghorns and other wildlife. According to the state, wildlife-vehicle collisions have been cut by more than 85% by the crossing.
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America's gray wolves were once slaughtered to the brink of extinction. This spring at least three pups were born to California's only known wolf pack today, the Lassen Pack. Hear the little pups howl:
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These male "dancing frogs" of India's Western Ghats mountain range aren't stretching. They're showing off their legs in a conspicuous act known as foot-flagging to attract females.
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Good news — this little pygmy possum has been found on Kangaroo Island for the first time since a devasting wildfire wiped out 88% of its habitat.
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BREAKING:
@USFWS
just announced the removal of 21 species from protection under the Endangered Species Act because they've been declared extinct. This grim announcement highlights a need for more action to stop the extinction crisis.
Read the list ⬇️
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WOW! Water in the desert is so precious it can bring together so-called enemies.
Watch this coyote and bobcat call a precarious truce in cat vs. dog to take a drink in an Arizona backyard -- until a javelina startles them both away.
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Watch this wild gray wolf lick the lens of a remote camera in Yellowstone National Park. It's almost like getting licked in the face.
The reintroduced wolves to Yellowstone 25 years ago has been a major success and a critical step in the ecosystem's recovery.
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Life advice from this red fox: Hunt like no one's watching.
📽️ : Yellowstone National Park / NPS
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Nudibranchs are slow-moving predators related to snails. They dwell on the ocean floor where they creep around munching on corals, sponges, barnacles, other nudis and sometimes jellyfish. Witness the beautiful diversity of nudis.
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Bald eagles are great parenting partners. This footage from an eagle nest cam at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge gives us a good look at their "changing of the guard."
#PeekIntoTheWild
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In 2020 only 1,914 monarch butterflies were counted on the California coast. That's a horrific decline of 99% from the millions of monarchs that lived there in the 1980s.
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Your moment of zen: A pair of fox kits frolic in the woods, surrounded by bird song on an idyllic afternoon.
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Watch this wild wolf lick the lens of a remote camera in Yellowstone National Park. It's almost like getting licked in the face.
#PeekIntoTheWild
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It's been a rough year. Treat yourself to something nice and watch a bear family enjoying a morning splash together in the mountains above the Center’s headquarters.
Footage by Greg Joder @ _eco.nut_ on Instagram
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A nature photographer found a pair of two globe mallow bees napping in a beautiful globe mallow flower. 😍
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What a win! This wildlife crossing provides safe passage for pronghorn, allowing them to make their ancient seasonal migration unharmed. Wildlife-vehicle collisions here have been reduced by more than 85 percent by the crossing.
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Nudibranchs are slow-moving predators related to snails. They dwell on the ocean floor where they creep around munching on corals, sponges, barnacles, other nudis and sometimes jellyfish. Witness the beautiful diversity of nudis.
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This is what a snow day looks like for gray wolves in
#Yellowstone
National Park.
Join the fight to
#SaveOurWolves
:
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BREAKING: We just won a historic victory to protect blue whales, sea turtles and other wildlife from crab gear off the coast of California!
Read:
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Our super-official meow-worthy scientific classification of wild felines.
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For your New Year's Eve, here's something wildly wonderful: a peek at a rare Iberian lynx. Once one of the rarest cats in the world, there are now over 1,000 of these beautiful critters thriving in the wild thanks to conservation efforts.
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We love wildlife crossings, like this one in Wyoming which cut wildlife collisions by +85%. It's time for
#California
to love them. Vehicles kill millions of animals every year on its roads and highways, including endangered mountain lions. Take action:
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We love wildlife crossings! This wildlife crossing over Highway 191 in Wyoming provides safe passage for pronghorns and other wildlife. According to the state, wildlife-vehicle collisions have been cut by more than 85% by the crossing.
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Red wolves, like this male picked up on a trail camera at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina, are among the most endangered carnivores in the world. Only eight wild red wolves are known to remain. Learn more:
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The gray wolf is one of the most persecuted animals due to a complex history of misinformation and fear. We can't let that overshadow the facts: Wolves need federal protection to stop states from slaughtering them back to the brink of extinction:
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Want to hear the cutest war-cry ever?
Pound for pound, the roar of the African rain frog is every bit as fearsome as that of the lion. And you, like this bold little warrior, should remember to never stop squeaking up for yourself!
Special thanks to Dean Boshoff for the footage
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This is the first video footage captured of a wolverine in Yellowstone National Park. There are only about 300 wolverines left in the lower 48 —yet they were recently denied Endangered Species Act protection by the Trump administration.
Read:
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This is mesmerizing to watch — a little condor chick hatching from its egg and being welcomed by its rather large condor mother in their cliff den.
Footage by USFWS
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BREAKING: The Biden administration just cancelled an oil and gas lease sale that would have auctioned off over 78 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico.
More:
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In 2020 only 1,914 monarch butterflies were counted on the California coast. That's a horrific decline of 99% — Congress must pass the MONARCH Act to
#SaveTheMonarchs
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We love wildlife crossings! This wildlife crossing over Highway 191 in Wyoming provides safe passage for pronghorns and other wildlife. According to the state, wildlife-vehicle collisions have been cut by more than 85% by the crossing.
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We love wildlife crossings, like this one in Wyoming which cut wildlife collisions by +85%. It's time for
#California
to love them. Vehicles kill millions of animals every year on its roads and highways, including endangered mountain lions. Take action:
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Watch the Milky Way move across the sky over Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan's lower peninsula. This time-lapse is food for the soul.
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Have you met Mr. Murderbritches yet?
#longlivemrmurderbritches
Watch these wildlife officials struggle to stay alive as they release the world's most badass bobcat kitten back into the wild. The bobcat, who we're calling Mr. Murderbritches, was relocated after he was caught eating 🐔🐔🐔 in Kanarraville, UT.
Long live Mr. Murderbritches!
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#BREAKING
: Following a Center lawsuit, the ‘i‘iwi — Hawaiian's iconic honeycreeper bird — just won more than 275,000 acres of protected habitat.
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This sea slug can detach its head from its body and roam around, business as usual, without a heart or anus. It regenerates a whole new body in three weeks.
Read more at the New York Times:
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Did you know that whales can make rainbows? This beautiful whale filmed off the coast of California shows off its expertise in making what could be called a "rainblow."
Footage by Domenic Biagini
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The war on wolves in Idaho and Montana must be stopped. New state laws opened the door to an almost total slaughter of their gray wolf populations.
@POTUS
can help
#SaveOurWolves
by restoring federal protection for wolves in the West. Take action:
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BREAKING: In a major victory for Nevada's wildlife, Congress just stopped the Dept. of Defense from seizing 1.7 million acres of public land as a bombing range.
Read:
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Most extinct species will disappear in silence, unnoticed, unremarked upon, even as the web of life that supports humans on this planet continues to unravel. Here are stories for dozens of lost species you may not have heard about:
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This Super Mom must be pretty quacked out by the end of the day with 56 ducklings.
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Red wolves are among the world's most endangered carnivores. After the last known were captured in 1980, they were declared extinct in the wild. As of Feb. 2023, only 14 are known to live in the wild.
Learn more about these clever, adaptive carnivores 👉
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This is now the largest wildlife crossing in the United States. Well-sited crossings can reduce wildlife collisions with vehicles by 85% to 95%.
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This adorable four-year-old is helping clean up his favorite park in the middle of the government shutdown. He is worried that the trash left behind in national parks is hurting animals.
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Witnessing the amazing spectacle of eastern monarchs in Mexico has inspired us at the Center to fight even harder to save this great migration from pesticides, climate change and habitat destruction.
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Bald eagles are great parenting partners. This footage from an eagle nest cam at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge gives us a good look at their "changing of the guard."
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This is what happens when you build a wall in the wild. Ancient wildlife migrations are severed. Access to critical resources like water, food and shelter are cut off. This mule deer buck was found dead yesterday — trapped by the wall — in the hottest month of the year.
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This is the courtship display of the endangered California condor. The female (tag 9) soars in to share a high perch with her longtime travel partner & mate (tag J3). He then shimmies over and starts a slow, sultry, wings-out dance around his sweetie. Who says romance is dead?
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It's
#WorldBearDay
, so take a moment to watch this absolutely *adorable* trail cam footage of a grizzly mama with three rowdy cubs in tow. Then join us in fighting for them and their Idaho home.
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July 2022 saw extreme heat harming the habitats of endangered species and humans alike.
@NASA
released this statement and graphic to help you visualize the well-above-average temperatures that should have
@POTUS
declaring a
#ClimateEmergency
.
More here:
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#ThatsWild
: Scientists recently caught footage of female octopuses throwing seashells at males during mating attempts. Read about it
@PopSci
.
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Good news on Arizona's shipping container border wall fiasco. After our multiple lawsuits and weeks of protests blocking construction, the last container was pulled down last week. The wild grassland valley and the Huachuca Mountains are returned to relative peace for now.
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These stunning pictures could be all that's left of these rare and endangered bird species unless we act now on the
#ExtinctionCrisis
.
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It's heartbreaking to see this sea turtle and her babies struggle in the plastic trash. Luckily the videographer, Dr. Chang-Liu, was able to save the young turtles.
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"In the last 40 years, the worst human pandemics and epidemics — HIV, SARS-CoV, avian influenza, swine influenza, Ebola virus and Zika virus — all stemmed from trading and consuming animals and destroying their habitat."
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One of the most powerful personal actions we can take to save wildlife is choosing a plant-based diet.
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Unless the public speaks out in protest, a 211-mile industrial road will be bulldozed through interior Alaska — ripping through one of the largest wild areas in North America, including Gates of the Arctic National Park. Help stop this travesty.
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