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Phoenix Species Project @phoenixspecies.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A message from Leonardo DiCaprio 🍃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEFj... #phoenixspeciesproject #phoenix100 #phoenix
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The Phoenix Species Project
YouTube video by Leonardo DiCaprio
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Introducing the Phoenix Species Project! ✨🐦‍🔥✨ Follow the journey of recovering 100 species from the brink! >>> @phoenixspecies.bsky.social #phoenixspeciesfund #phoenix100 #phoenix
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reversethered.bsky.social @reversethered.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Phoenix Species Project will provide unprecedented support to 100 species facing imminent threat of extinction! @rewildorg.bsky.social @bezosearthfund.org www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/c...
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Phoenix Species Project Announces Funds for Imperiled Wildlife
A new fund called the Phoenix Species Project will provide $200 million to help pull imperiled species back from the brink of extinction.
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The return of the Bluebuck has begun. 💙 More than 200 years after its extinction, Colossal Biosciences is working to bring this antelope back. Every breakthrough could help conserve living species today. Re:wild is helping plan its return to the wild. 🌍
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Post 1/4 🌎🇧🇷🌿 NOW 👉 Re:wild is in Rio for the first-ever Rio Nature & Climate Week! This week brings together community leaders, governments, organizations, and changemakers to explore solutions across climate, nature, and development from a Global South perspective. #rionatureandclimateweek #rio
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Re:wild calls on members of the U.S. House of Representatives to vote against today’s bill to gut the Endangered Species Act, the nation’s bedrock law preventing extinction and a cornerstone of protecting life on Earth. #ESA #earthday #earthday2026 #endangeredspeciesact
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New research shows how far into the blue abyss Whale Sharks can dive. In this recent study co-authored by Re:wild's Mark Erdmann, researchers recorded a Whale Shark diving to depths between 1,978 and 2,527 meters, extending science's known limit for the species. More: www.mdpi.com/2673-9917/5/...
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The Slender-billed Curlew once crossed continents. Now, only traces remain. Not one moment—but many: habitat destruction, drained wetlands, hunting. A “double extinction”—of species, and of knowledge. More: abcbirds.org/news/slender... A reminder why efforts like the Search for Lost Birds matter.
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Lost Forever: The Slender-billed Curlew is Extinct - American Bird Conservancy
Not long ago, scientists couldn't seriously consider tracking a bird smaller than a Mourning Dove through its migration. The typical tags were just too big and bulky. In the last decade, however, a ne...
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Mark Erdmann, Shark Conservation director at Re:wild, shares how efforts like ReShark are working to bring sharks back, restoring balance to marine ecosystems, not only protecting what remains. 🎧 Listen to the full conversation via Radio New Zealand: www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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The man on a mission to re-wild the oceans with sharks
Mark Erdmann heads up ReShark - the world's first shark rewilding program, aiming to restore Indo-Pacific leopard sharks to reefs where they've disappeared, starting in Raja Ampat, Indonesia.
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
💦🐸 Romeo changed the fate of his species. Once thought alone, his story helped spark global action — leading to rediscoveries and a newly found, breeding wild population in Carrasco National Park. Romeo has now died, but his legacy lives on.
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
“No one ever dreamed mantas would go this deep,” says Mark Erdmann of @rewild. New research shows Oceanic manta rays dive ~1,250m (4,000+ ft) into the midnight zone to navigate, not hunt. Protecting all ocean depths matters. 🔗 news.mongabay.com/2025/11/deep... #Rewild #OceanProtection #DeepSea
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Deep-diving manta rays use the ocean’s midnight zone to build mental maps, study suggests
In the darkness nearly a mile beneath the ocean’s surface, where the pressure would crush a human and temperatures hover just above freezing, a creature with wings wider than a car glides through the ...
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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...
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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.
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
1/4 🚨 PLS SHARE ⚠️ to make sure you aren't unknowingly eating 'conflict beef' from illegal cattle farms in Nicaragua! 🐄 #conflictbeef #animalag
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🐟 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
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
🐍 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
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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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...
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚨 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
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🦍 💉🧬 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
Dr. Eddy Kambale Syaluha removes a snare from infant Mountain Gorilla in Virunga National Park. The infant made a full recovery. (Gorilla Doctors)
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
(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...
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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.
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
🌊 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.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🏝️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.
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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!
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🦍 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
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
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...
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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.
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
1️⃣ 🧐 #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
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
(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/...
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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.
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔔Don’t forget — New episodes drop every Saturday!
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🚨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
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The Data Room
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🌎 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
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
🔔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...
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Okavango Series Trailer #savetheokavango
YouTube video by Rewild
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🚨 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
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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…
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
We are off the RAILS about this comeback 👏🐦‍⬛!
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🚨 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
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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…
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IUCN UK Peatland Programme @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Today is #WorldWildlifeDay, a perfect day to celebrate #PeatlandBiodiversity. Peatlands support a range of specialist flora and fauna. #PeatlandRestoration is vital to protect these species from a range of threats. What's your favourite #PeatlandWildlife? #SpeciesShowcase tinyurl.com/3p278j3a
Dragonfly on heatherGreater Bladderwort flowers Dunlin standing on vegetationA close-up picture of an Adder's head and part of the body.
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IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group @iucnshark.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Happy World Wildlife Day 2025! This year's theme is "Wildlife Conservation Finance: Investing in People and Planet." #WorldWildlifeDay #WildlifeConservationFinance #WWD2025 #InvestingInPeopleandPlanet #shark #ray #chimaera #ocean #marine #conservation
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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Notice anything missing?🧐 For #WorldWildlifeDay, we’re joining #WorldWithoutNature, removing nature from our logo to highlight the urgent biodiversity crisis. Imagine a world where birds soar and nature thrives. Together, we can protect wildlife.🦜 Share this content to spread hope!💫
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 03/03/2025
Over one million species of wild flora and fauna are threatened with extinction, many within decades. Today is #WorldWildlifeDay. Let's take action #ForNature and invest in our planet - every action counts: wildlifeday.org/en
A leopard rests its head on a thick tree branch, gazing into the distance. Its golden fur, covered in black rosettes, contrasts with the surrounding green foliage. The background is softly blurred, creating a peaceful jungle atmosphere.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 03/03/2025
Protecting biodiversity means protecting life itself. On #WorldWildlifeDay, we celebrate the commitment made at COP16 to swiftly implement the Global Biodiversity Framework. By working together, we have made a huge global step to stop and reverse biodiversity loss. → europa.eu/!np7RDB
A baby elephant walks on dry ground while an adult elephant’s trunk reaches toward it.A mother orangutan sits on the ground in a green forest, holding her baby close.A blue whale swims in the deep ocean with light filtering through the water.A leopard lies on a rock, looking straight ahead.
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Wildlife & wildlands aren’t just scenery—they sustain life on Earth. 🌍 But with 1M+ species at risk, protecting nature takes more than love—it takes investment. This #WorldWildlifeDay, we’re calling on governments & businesses to fund our planet’s future. More: wildlifeday.org/en #WWD2025
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🙌 Indigenous communities, activists, and local leaders have successfully halted (for now) 👏 a major mining project in 692,000 acres (280,000 hectares) of Suriname's Amazon Rainforest. 🇸🇷 #indigenousvoices #indigenousrights #suriname
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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 25/02/2025
The #Trump administration is making plans to illegally reduce and sell off large swaths of our public lands to oil, gas and mining interests. This would bring irreparable harm to the Indigenous stewards of these lands, the outdoor industry and critical ecosystems we all depend on.
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Lewis Pugh Foundation @lewispughfdn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Happy #InternationalPolarBearDay to the Arctic’s most iconic predator! 🐻‍❄️❄️💙
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Here’s looking at shrew kid! ✨🐀 The elusive Mount Lyell Shrew has been rediscovered in Yosemite National Park, charming us with glam shots for the first time since 1964! #searchforlostspecies #lostspecies More: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...
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See the First-Ever Photographs of the Elusive Mount Lyell Shrew, Finally Caught on Camera in California
A group of young researchers captured and photographed the animal on a three-day expedition to the Eastern Sierra Nevada
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Climate Justice Alliance @cjaourpower.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Slavery and genocide enabled climate destruction. Black liberation will fuel regeneration. Read the latest piece by Quinton Sankofa of CJA member group @MoveGen in MG’s year-long Murmurations column for YES! Magazine: www.yesmagazine.org/environment/...
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Murmurations: Climate Solutions Require Black Ecology
Slavery and genocide enabled climate destruction. Black liberation will fuel regeneration.
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Re:wild is now on Bluesky! 🌍 We’re bringing breaking news on biodiversity, conservation, and the fight to protect our planet—straight from us and our partners. Follow along and sign up for our Your Weekly Wild newsletter 👉 www.rewild.org/signup #firstpost #bluesky
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