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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 2h
“Endangered Species Act Protection for Monarch Butterfly Delayed Until 2030” — Center for Biological Diversity #EndangeredSpeciesNews #EndangeredSpecies #EndangeredSpeciesAct
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Caucasian salamander is a species of stream-dwelling salamander in the family Salamandridae. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Caucasian Salamander (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Vitellaria paradoxa, commonly known as shea tree, shi tree, or vitellaria, is a tree of the family Sapotaceae. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Vitellaria paradoxa (shea tree, karité), eastern Burkina Faso (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Acadia Counts Migrating Hawks as Researchers Study Climate Change Impact on Raptors” — Bar Harbor Story | Carrie Jones | Substack #EndangeredSpeciesNews #ClimateChange #EndangeredSpecies
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Renea paillona is a species of land snail in the family Aciculidae. IUCN status: Vulnerable
PRESERVED_SPECIMEN; Renea paillona Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989; Type status: 	N/A; Identified by:	Gargominy O.; Individual count:	1; Event date: 	N/A (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Zoo's baby crocodiles are supporting an endangered species (and they're cute!)” — TheDailyNewsOnline #EndangeredSpeciesNews #Zoo #Crocodile
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Scientists Decode the Perfect Diet for an Endangered Indian Carp” — Bioengineer #EndangeredSpeciesNews #Endangered #EndangeredSpecies
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The American black swift, or more simply black swift, is a species of bird that is found from northern British Columbia in Canada through the United States and Mexico to Costa Rica and Brazil. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Zapata Falls, United States (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Conservationists worry Trump may prematurely strip Mexican gray wolf protections” — Arizona Capitol Times #EndangeredSpeciesNews #Wolf #Trump
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Zoo’s baby crocodiles are supporting an endangered species (and they’re cute)” — The Spokesman-Review #EndangeredSpeciesNews #Crocodile #Zoo
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Pacific horned frog, also known as Pacific big-mouthed frog, Stolzmann's horned frog and Ecuadorian horned frog, is a species of frog in the family Ceratophryidae. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Ceratophrys stolzmanni (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The black-footed cat, also called the small-spotted cat, is the smallest wild cat in Africa, having a head-and-body length of 35–52 cm (14–20 in). IUCN status: Vulnerable
Felis nigripes at Zoo Wuppertal, Germany (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Partula taeniata, also called the Moorean viviparous tree snail, is a species of terrestrial gastropod in the Partulidae family. IUCN status: Critically Endangered
Photo of Partula taeniata from Moorea. (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Champsocephalus esox, the pike icefish or northern icefish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Channichthyidae, the crocodile icefishes. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Champsocephalus esox (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Iberian pond turtle, also known as the Mediterranean pond turtle or Mediterranean turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Galápago leproso ibérico "Mauremys caspica". Hembra adulta con el caparazón cubierto de algas. // Adult female of Spanish Turtle "Mauremys caspica", with seaweed-coated shield. * It's in fact a Mauremys leprosa (Mauremys caspica doesn't live in spain). Christophe cagé 13:48, 16 May 2007 (UTC) (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“The Endangered Species Act Can’t Stop Extinction with Its Hands Tied” — WildEarth Guardians #EndangeredSpeciesNews #Endangered #EndangeredSpeciesAct
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Cebu boobook or Cebu hawk-owl is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Cebu Boobook. Photo by Forest Jarvis (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Brighamia insignis, commonly known as ʻŌlulu or Alula in Hawaiian, or colloquially as the vulcan palm or cabbage on a stick, is a species of Hawaiian lobelioid in the bellflower family, Campanulaceae. IUCN status: Critically Endangered
Brighamia insignis - general view. From the Limahuli Garden and Preserve, Kauai, Hawaii. (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“California Sues over Trump Administration’s Attempt to Weaken Endangered Species Act” — independent #EndangeredSpeciesNews #Trump #EndangeredSpeciesAct
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Rhipsalis pilocarpa, the hairy-fruited wickerware cactus, is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family that is endemic to Brazil. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Rhipsalis pilocarpa (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Serianthes nelsonii is a large tree endemic to Guam and Rota of the Mariana Islands. IUCN status: Critically Endangered
Serianthes nelsonii USFWS (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“US Environmental Groups Plan to Sue to Relist Gray Whales Under Endangered Species Act” — The Good Men Project #EndangeredSpeciesNews #Whale #EndangeredSpeciesAct
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“California sues over Trump’s changes to Endangered Species Act, arguing they threaten habitat” — The Washington Post #EndangeredSpeciesNews #EndangeredSpeciesAct #Trump
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Macrochloa tenacissima, synonym Stipa tenacissima, is a perennial grass of northwestern Africa and the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Mata de esparto en la costa mediterránea española (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Banksia saxicola, the rock banksia or Grampians banksia, is a species of tree or shrub in the family Proteaceae. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Banksia saxicola infructescence, showing the furry follicles. Location: The Grampians, Victoria, Australia (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“With less than 400 left in the wild, Zoo Miami has just welcomed an adorable, critically endangered newborn gazelle” — Secret Miami #EndangeredSpeciesNews #Endangered #Zoo
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Nepenthes sibuyanensis is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Sibuyan Island in the Philippines, after which it is named. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Nepenthes sibuyanensis photographed on the Knife Edge ridge of en:Mount Guiting-Guiting, Sibuyan (Alastair Robinson, June 2007) - globose lower pitcher. (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The smallfin gulper shark or endeavour dogfish, is a medium-sized deepwater dogfish in the family Centrophoridae. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Centrophorus moluccensis (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Lathrocordulia metallica is a species of dragonfly in the family Austrocorduliidae, commonly known as the Western swiftwing. It is a medium-sized, bronze to black coloured dragonfly without pale markings, endemic to south-western Australia. It inhabits streams. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Wings of a female Western Swiftwing, Lathrocordulia metallica, a dragonfly in the family Austrocorduliidae. ANIC specimen 7-010343. 

Dorsal view of the right forewing, above, and the right hindwing, below. (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“18,000 portraits in 20 years: The man racing to photograph life on Earth” — CNN #EndangeredSpeciesNews #EndangeredSpecies #Endangered
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Malayan flat-shelled turtle is a species of turtle found in Southeast Asia.It is the only member of the monotypic genus Notochelys. IUCN status: Vulnerable
« Emys platynotha » = Notochelys platynota (Malayan flat-shelled turtle) (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Protecting Sea Life” — keysnews #EndangeredSpeciesNews #Endangered #EndangeredSpecies
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Vicars ‘becoming endangered species’ as they vanish from villages” — The Times #EndangeredSpeciesNews #Endangered #EndangeredSpecies
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Layard's palm squirrel or flame-striped jungle squirrel is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae endemic to Sri Lanka. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Funambulus layardi (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Trump rule on endangered species is bad news for Florida panthers” — Sun Sentinel #EndangeredSpeciesNews #Trump #Endangered
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The brown mesite is a ground-dwelling bird endemic to Madagascar. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Brown Mesite - Ranomafana - Madagascar_MG_1281 (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The rufous-necked hornbill is a species of hornbill in Bhutan, northeastern India, especially in Arunachal Pradesh, Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Rufous necked Hornbill female, Captured in Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, North Bengal, India. (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Sabal uresana, commonly known as the Sonoran palmetto, is a species of palm tree that is native to the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northwestern Mexico. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Sabal uresana, Montgomery Botanical Center, Miami, FL, USA. (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Mount d'Ambre leaf chameleon is a diminutive chameleon from far northern Madagascar. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Montagne d'Ambre leaf chameleon (Brookesia tuberculata) female, Montagne d'Ambre, Madagascar (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The giant scops owl, lesser eagle owl, Mindanao eagle owl or Mindanao owl, is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Pseudoptynx gurneyi = Mimizuku gurneyi (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Environmental groups take steps to sue to compel new protections for gray whales” — Alaska Beacon #EndangeredSpeciesNews #Endangered #Whale
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“For the first time in nearly 50 years, endangered piping plovers nest on Wisconsin Point” — WPR #EndangeredSpeciesNews #Endangered #EndangeredSpecies
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“Celebrating 125 years: A look at two of the zoo’s newest endangered animals” — Yahoo #EndangeredSpeciesNews #Zoo #EndangeredSpecies
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hynobius ikioi is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae, endemic to Kyushu in Japan. IUCN status: Vulnerable
両生綱有尾目サンショウウオ科の日本産サンショウウオの一種 (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“The five horsemen of the apocalypse” — Daily Montanan #EndangeredSpeciesNews #Endangered #EndangeredSpecies
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Conus crotchii, common name Crotch's cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Conus teodorae 1 (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Millepora complanata, commonly known as blade fire coral, is a species of fire coral in the family Milleporidae. IUCN status: Critically Endangered
Parte de un coral de fuego plano de la región de Taganga en Santa Marta, Colombia (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Cedrus libani, commonly known as cedar of Lebanon, Lebanon cedar, or Lebanese cedar, is a species of large evergreen conifer in the genus Cedrus, which belongs to the pine family and is native to the mountains of the Eastern Mediterranean basin. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Lebanese Cedar from Larousse du XXème siècle 1932. Extracted from previous image. (alt text from Wikimedia)
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“New Monkey Species Confirmed After 20 Years, And It May Be Endangered” — People #EndangeredSpeciesNews #EndangeredSpecies #Monkey
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Endangered Species @endangered.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Nepenthes lowii, commonly called Low's pitcher plant, is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Borneo. IUCN status: Vulnerable
Nepenthes lowii Gunung Murud by Jeremiah Harris (alt text from Wikimedia)
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