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Rethink Captivity

@rethinkcaptive.bsky.social
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Mom, wife, cat servant, speech language pathologist, researcher, photographer/writer, & animal activist/conservationist. I am here for the animals, environment, & like minded people.

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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Wow, disappointing that w/ a staff you still can't take the time to consult w/ orca researchers. SR orca are on the brink of extinction, as are wild salmon. This is due to a multitude of HUMAN CAUSED environmental issues. It is not an all or nothing, just an ask they be allowed a seat at the table
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Society for Conservation Biology North America (SCBNA) @scbnorthamerica.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
TAKE ACTION with SCBNA TODAY to write in opposition to the proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) implementation guidelines. If enacted, they will deteriorate vital ecosystem functions that sustain biogeochemical processes and jeopardize the core benefits that people get from nature.
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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
saw a blue salmon swimming upstream to spawn today
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The #UMass marmoset lab is closed, but every remaining #monkey was killed so their brains could be studied. This is both a hard-fought victory & a heartbreaking loss.#EndAnimalTesting #VivisectionIsTorture www.idausa.org/campaign/viv...
idausa.org
Bittersweet Victory for Marmosets at the University of Massachusetts
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Please sign and share to ban cyanide bombs today! It’s time to protect these animals and stop the placement of tens of thousands of these bombs across our public lands. Call on your U.S. representative to put an end to this horrific practice! environmental-action.org/take-action/...
environmental-action.org
Tell your U.S. House representative: Ban cyanide bombs on public lands - Environmental Action
Cyanide bombs were outnumbering gray wolves 5-to-1. Let’s stop these senseless, cruel slaughters.
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Good for these neighbors! Way to stand against fascism!
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fordumbo.bsky.social @fordumbo.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
#elephants #asianelephants #africanelephants #United4Elephants #animals #animalcruelty #captivitykills #Asha #FreeAsha If you love 🐘💕 Short 10 minute documentary “Elephants, Out of Captivity” Film by Free All Captive Elephants (FACE) Narrated by Peter Coyote 🎥 youtu.be/19OGW3h8jPM?...
Picture of elephants walking free. Eleohants, Out of Captivity short documentary
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Ems 🍉 @emmpower.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Sanctuary life does this to 🐘s Please make Bunka equally as fortunate #FreeBunka . @FPWC_news @USAmbYerevan @UKinArmenia @NikolPashinyan @President_Arm @FPWC_Intl @AvinyanTigran @armgov #FreeBunka Petition ✍🏼https://t.co/9Yr2CtMQ41 Cc @cher @FreeBunka @fourpawsint x.com/GlobalElepha...
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Global Sanctuary for Elephants on X: "In her short time at the sanctuary, Pupy seems to have aged backwards. Thanks to nature’s spa treatment—gentle exfoliation and a layer of mud – her skin looks nourished and glowing. Her movements are full of energy and curiosity. Her ears flap more and she https://t.co/XZnTDzVPUu" / X
In her short time at the sanctuary, Pupy seems to have aged backwards. Thanks to nature’s spa treatment—gentle exfoliation and a layer of mud – her skin looks nourished and glowing. Her movements are full of energy and curiosity. Her ears flap more and she https://t.co/XZnTDzVPUu
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Please sign and share widely! act.americanrivers.org/page/81426/a...
act.americanrivers.org
Tell Members of Congress to Support Tax Incentives for Healthy Rivers and Improved Hydro Dam Operations
Take Action
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CharmaineScammell 🌱🇬🇧 @charmainescammell.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Please sign and share 🙏 The Government is planning “catastrophic” cuts to benefits that experts say will force disabled people into poverty, and even those with extreme disabilities will lose money. Our social safety net isn’t up for grabs: add your name now. 38d.gs/NoCruelCutsT...
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NO cruel cuts to benefits
The Government is planning “catastrophic” cuts that experts say will force disabled people into poverty. Don’t think that’s right? Add your name now.
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Please SIGN: Indonesia’s vast sugar and ethanol program, backed by military protection, threatens #rainforest and #Indigenous lands – an area the size of Wales! Biodiversity, local communities, and vital ecosystems are at risk. Add your voice: rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/13...
rainforest-rescue.org
Indonesia: Stop the destruction of Papua’s Marind forest!
Indonesia’s government is implementing a state-run sugar and ethanol program in southern Papua under military protection. Two million hectares of rainforest and Indigenous land are at risk – a signifi...
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
OMG, then this scumbag is going to have a monopoly over our food sources! SCARY! Just think of how many farmers voted for these two clowns!
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Seriously, what is up with Florida?
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I am beyond disappointed in Gov Bob Ferguson & am already feeling the bait & switch of my vote! JPod just had a calf, this is a critical moment & he is siding with the NRA & special interest groups! Shameful! wawildlifefirst.org/statement-fr...
wawildlifefirst.org
Statement from Washington Wildlife First on Governor Ferguson’s Appointments to the Fish and Wildlife Commission - Washington Wildlife First
Until this week, Washington had been a beacon of light in a world growing progressively darker for fish and wildlife. Under the leadership of former Governor Inslee, we were making [...]
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Clearly this is why our economy is tanking and our democracy is breaking - he is incompetent and would rather do his 50's stand-up act of making fun of others.
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Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Regal forest-dwellers in #WestPapua, the #PapuanEagle's 🇵🇬🦅🪶 main threats incl. #hunting #mining #timber and #palmoil #deforestation. They have no protections in place 🧐😿 Help them when you #Boycottpalmoil 🌴☠️🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect palmoildetectives.com/2022/09/28/p...
Regal forest-dwellers in #WestPapua, the #PapuanEagle's 🇵🇬🦅🪶 main threats incl. #hunting #mining #timber and #palmoil #deforestation. They have no protections in place 🧐😿 Help them when you #Boycottpalmoil 🌴☠️🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/09/28/papuan-eagle-harpyopsis-novaeguineae-2/Regal forest-dwellers in #WestPapua, the #PapuanEagle's 🇵🇬🦅🪶 main threats incl. #hunting #mining #timber and #palmoil #deforestation. They have no protections in place 🧐😿 Help them when you #Boycottpalmoil 🌴☠️🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/09/28/papuan-eagle-harpyopsis-novaeguineae-2/Regal forest-dwellers in #WestPapua, the #PapuanEagle's 🇵🇬🦅🪶 main threats incl. #hunting #mining #timber and #palmoil #deforestation. They have no protections in place 🧐😿 Help them when you #Boycottpalmoil 🌴☠️🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/09/28/papuan-eagle-harpyopsis-novaeguineae-2/Regal forest-dwellers in #WestPapua, the #PapuanEagle's 🇵🇬🦅🪶 main threats incl. #hunting #mining #timber and #palmoil #deforestation. They have no protections in place 🧐😿 Help them when you #Boycottpalmoil 🌴☠️🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/09/28/papuan-eagle-harpyopsis-novaeguineae-2/
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
LOL, they are all MORONS! I don't know who she surrounds herself with if these are the most "serious, intentional, patriotic, and smartest" she has worked with!
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
spokesman.com
Trump order: Logging can skirt Endangered Species Act, environmental study
President Donald Trump took action last weekend to increase domestic logging by circumventing environmental protections and to staunch the flow of imported timber and lumber products into the country,...
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Please send a message to protect the Endangered Species Act earthjustice.org/brief/2025/a...
earthjustice.org
An 'Extinction Committee' Is Just the Beginning of Trump's Attacks on Endangered Species
President Trump is already trying to undermine the ESA by invoking a rarely used provision that empowers a committee to decide the fate of endangered species.
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
"Nesvik has been hostile to the Endangered Species Act and science-based wildlife protections. In 2020, Mr. Nesvik co-wrote an editorial stating the Endangered Species Act “must be pruned” to allow states to make their own rules on conservation." www.endangered.org/trumps-pick-...
endangered.org
Trump’s pick to lead the agency charged with the Endangered Species Act would spell disaster for the nation’s most vulnerable wildlife - Endangered Species Coalition
President Trump’s nominee for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director  is considered by Senate Committee For Immediate Release: March 26, 2025 Contacts: Jewel Tomasula jewel@endangered.org Susan Holme...
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Please sign & share! "A new poll from Data for Progress shows that almost three-quarters — 74% — of Alaskans support banning trawling in the federal waters off Alaska’s coast." salmonstate.org/bycatch?emci...
salmonstate.org
Stop Wasteful Trawl Bycatch — SalmonState
Trawlers pursuing pollock for fish sticks and fake crab continue to indiscriminately catch massive amounts of a multitude of fish species including salmon, crab and halibut.
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The only dangerous minority in the United States is billionaires. In 2024, women alone made up 85% of purchases in the United States. If money talks, we’ve got to use OURS to create consequences for the billionaire-in-chief. Take the pledge to boycott Elon Musk's companies. app.sosha.ai/s/lkuas5bx
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Sign: Not one dime for Elon Musk's companies
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Tragic. A male wolf who was released from British Columbia into Colorado earlier this year was shot and killed in Wyoming last weekend. Wolves are explorers by nature, and it's likely that he traveled from his release site in search of something - a mate? New territory? Home?
coloradosun.com
Wolf from Canada released in Colorado two months ago shot and killed in Wyoming after it killed multiple sheep
Wolves are managed differently in Wyoming, and state officials said the wolf was legally shot after finding evidence of depredation
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Please sign and share for ID wolves! actionnetwork.org/petitions/he...
actionnetwork.org
Sign Petition Today to Stop the New Attack on Idaho's Wolves!
Last week, the Foundation for Wildlife Management based in Idaho introduced a 2025 Wolf Season Change Proposal to initiate wolf trapping and snaring on public lands in the Wood River Valley. They are...
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Please sign and share widely for the Department of Education www.nea.org/advocating-f...
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Stop the Destruction of the Department of Education | NEA
Gutting the department will destroy programs and protections that guarantee educational opportunities for all students—whether funding for schools or support for students with ADHD, autism, and more.
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The only dangerous minority in the United States is billionaires. In 2024, women alone made up 85% of purchases in the United States. If money talks, we’ve got to use OURS to create consequences for the billionaire-in-chief. Take the pledge to boycott Elon Musk's companies. app.sosha.ai/s/lkuas5bx
app.sosha.ai
Sign: Not one dime for Elon Musk's companies
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Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Palmoil is a disaster for #wildlife in #Indonesia 🇮🇩 Now #India's 🇮🇳 endangered animals: elephants 🐘 leopards 🐆 ungulates, monkeys 🐒 edge closer to extinction. Indians you must resist #palmoil #ecocide! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife
palmoildetectives.com
Palm Oil: A Recipe for Disaster in India
Given the widespread destruction of rainforests and native biodiversity caused by oil palm plantations in Southeast Asia, environmental experts and politicians are warning that the move to promote …
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The U.S. government spent $710 billion in Trump’s first month, an increase from the same period a year prior. Cost-cutting efforts are ineffective, and job losses are occurring without clear justification.
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Thank you!
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
#BreachTheDams Southern Residents traveled to CA due to the dwindling numbers of salmon, their primary food source. The wild salmon population & Southern Residents are so compromised they are facing extinction! @bobferguson.bsky.social @pattymurray.bsky.social www.foxweather.com/earth-space/...
foxweather.com
See the rare creatures that showed up in a California bay to feed on salmon
A group of Southern Resident killer whales were spotted in Monterey Bay, California, on Tuesday in a rare spectacle of the endangered creatures.
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
If you haven't already, please sign the petition to breach the lower Snake River dams and prevent the SRKWs from being dammed to extinction. Here is the latest blog post on the damtruth.org website, if you haven't seen it.
damtruth.org
Home | DamTRUTH, SRKW CSI
Check out the work we are doing to breach Lower Snake River dams!
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Great to see you here!
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Please sign and share widely to tell Congress to Fire Elon Musk! actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-c...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Stand up to the coup at the Environmental Protection Agency! Fire Elon Musk!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency to do the bidding of fossil fuel interests. Already, they have told more than 1,000 EPA employees to stay home and prepa...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The Supreme Court, in its first ruling on President Trump’s use of executive power during his second term, decided that he cannot, for now, dismiss the government lawyer leading the watchdog agency responsible for protecting whistle-blowers.
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Please sign and share widely to protect our national monuments! wawild.salsalabs.org/ActionAlertP...
wawild.salsalabs.org
President Roosevelt created the Antiquities Act to protect our cultural, historical, and ecological treasures as monuments, for the benefit of all Americans. The Trump Admin wants to sell them off to pad the pockets of the fossil fuel industry.
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
My pleasure and you as well!
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Heather Timm (We/Us/Ours) @hmtimm.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
So many street art opportunities… Feel free to copy paste and print your own #stickerart #streetart #transrights #cc0
Square sticker art that reads Protect Trans People. The T in Trans looks like the T from the Tesla logo. Square sticker art that reads Protect Trans Rights. The T in Trans looks like the T from the Tesla logo.
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Bee hunter saving native species, one 'hotel' at a time www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02... via @ABCaustralia
abc.net.au
Bee hunter saving native species, one 'hotel' at a time
A 23-year-old ecologist known as "The Bee Man" is on a mission to conserve solitary pollinators by building them structures where they can nest — and he's urging others to do the same.
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The largest and heaviest #pangolin in the world is the Giant Pangolin of #Uganda 🇺🇬 #Congo 🇨🇩 #WestAfrica. Endangered by #palmoil and #cocoa #deforestation and #poaching Help them survive when u #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-7jM
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Giant Pangolin Smutsia gigantea
The Giant Pangolin is are the largest and heaviest of the pangolin species weighing up to 35 kilos. These majestic creature are cloaked in keratin armour and embark on nightly quests through Centra…
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Help the #endangered Giant Ground #Pangolin 🙏🌿 of #Africa and boycott #Chinese medicine using them. Spoiler alert: their scales DO NOT CURE ANYTHING! Another threat is #palmoil #deforestation #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-7jM
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Giant Pangolin Smutsia gigantea
The Giant Pangolin is are the largest and heaviest of the pangolin species weighing up to 35 kilos. These majestic creature are cloaked in keratin armour and embark on nightly quests through Centra…
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
DOGE is reportedly threatening NOAA with massive staff and budget cuts. NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms. This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.
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Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Thank you for sharing, Gena!
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Rethink Captivity @rethinkcaptive.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Thank you!
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