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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 4/4 💚 Re:wild is proud to be part of a coalition helping bring this vision to life. Follow us on other socials as we share stories, voices, and moments from the heart of Rio Nature & Climate Week. #rio #rionantureandclimateweek rionatureandclimateweek.org#programacao
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Post 3/4 There’s also something meaningful about this taking place in #Rio. More than 30 years after helping shape landmark agreements around climate and biodiversity, the city is once again becoming a place to convene ideas, action, and collaboration ahead of #COP31. #rionnatureandclimateweek
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Post 2/4 For many of us working in conservation and climate spaces, this feels long overdue. Climate, biodiversity, and development are deeply interconnected, yet these conversations have often happened in separate rooms.
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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
4/4 TAKE ACTION: sign our open letter www.rewild.org/no-conflict-... to urge companies like Burger King and Walmart not to source beef from Nicaragua!' 👏 #noconflictbeef #plantbased #sustainable
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
3/4 Nicaragua is the fifth-largest source of frozen beef for the United States... 🍔, meaning your favorite fast food patty might be contributing to deforestation and violations of Indigenous rights. #plantbased #eatmoreveggies #conflictbeef
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
2/4 Re:wild has supported a new report by the @patrolthemovie.bsky.social campaign that found that Nicaragua's weak beef traceability system is allowing major slaughterhouses to source cattle from illegal operations in Indigenous territories and protected areas. #indigenousrights #conflictbeef
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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
Re:wild + @shoalorg.bsky.social + Univ. of Dar es Salaam are protecting Tanzania’s Killifish—tiny, brilliant survivors whose eggs can “pause” life in dry mud. 🌊 With partners, we’re restoring fish populations & habitats so people + nature thrive. #Conservation #Biodiversity
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
It’s not too late. The report lays out a science-backed Emergency Recovery Plan + highlights efforts like the Freshwater Challenge and bold local leadership across Africa. Momentum is building. ⚡
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🌍 Africa has 3,000+ freshwater fish species, most found nowhere else on Earth. But nearly 1 in 4 are now threatened with extinction due to habitat loss, overfishing, invasive species & climate change.
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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 · 08/09/2025
🌍 Africa has 3,000+ freshwater fish species, most found nowhere else on Earth. But nearly 1 in 4 are now threatened with extinction due to habitat loss, overfishing, invasive species & climate change.
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
➡️ Learn more about Leaf-toed Geckos - www.islandconservation.org/rare-gecko-s... 🟢 Restoration & rewilding continues thanks to the Island-Ocean Connection Challenge 🌊 led by Island Conservation , @rewild, and @scrippsocean.bsky.social (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) #worldnatureconservationday
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Press Release: Rare Gecko Species Rediscovered in Galapagos Following Island Restoration Success - Island Conservation
A species once thought extinct just made its comeback. The Leaf-toed Gecko has been rediscovered on Rábida Island in the Galápagos, and a study just published in PLOS ONE confirms what our team has wi...
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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
Barbados has lost many native species to habitat destruction + invasive species. Re:wild works with local partners to reverse that trend — and protect these living threads of biodiversity before they vanish forever. 🌱 📸 Photo: Blair Hedges, 2006 #RewildTheCaribbean #florafauna
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Found under a rock in central Barbados by @rewild’s Justin Springer + Connor Blades of the Barbados Ministry of Environment, this tiny snake is rare, cryptic, and now — finally — back in the spotlight. 🗣️ “I smell a threadsnake,” Springer joked... then found one. 👀
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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
With 260+ field interventions over 10yrs, Gorilla Doctors treat snare injuries + disease, monitor DNA from nesting sites, and since 2022: 0 snare injuries or illness in Mt. Tshiaberimu groups. Re:wild is proud to support this mission of healing and hope.
Dr. Eddy examines swelling of hands and wrist of an infant Mountain Gorilla while removing rope snare in Virunga National Park. The infant made a full recovery. (Photo credit: Gorilla Doctors)
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Last Dec., they helped contributed to the largest-ever reintroduction of Eastern Lowland Gorillas in Africa –rewilding 4 females from the GRACE Gorillas facility into Virunga NP. A historic first. Behind it? Years of planning, collabing and unmatched field expertise. #gorilladoctors #rewild
Adult female Eastern Lowland Gorilla, Itebero, after being rescued as an infant now, living at GRACE, the world’s only sanctuary for Eastern Lowland Gorillas. (Photo credit: Boddy Neptune for Re:wild)
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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
(7/7)At @rewild, we work with partners to defend the Okavango Delta, a refuge for biodiversity. 🌍 rewild.org/okavango #ProtectOkavango #StopReconAfrica #WaterIsLife #Biodiversity
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
(6/7)The board chair of ReconAfrica is also on the board of Aqua Solutions., which one activist says should "raise red flags." #EnvironmentalJustice #FossilFreeFuture #Rewild
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
(5/7)Nearly 1 million people depend on the freshwater in the Okavango River Basin and the basin is their only source of water.
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
(4/7)Meanwhile, in southern Africa’s Okavango River Basin, Canadian company ReconAfrica is exploring for oil and gas. The company stored potentially toxic wastewater from one of its exploratory wells in unlined drill pits.
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
(3/7)But scientists are concerned that even if the toxic waste is moved deep underground, it could still contaminate surface water through cracks and fissures in rocks.
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
(2/7)The projects are on opposite sides of the world, but the danger they pose to freshwater sources have some similarities. In Alberta, Aqua Solutions Inc wants to inject toxic waste water deep underground.
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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
(3/3) Re:wild was represented pro bono by Akin attorneys, with Carey serving as Chilean local counsel. Together, we’ve helped secure one of the most biodiverse marine areas in the Southern Hemisphere! Press Release 🔗 rewild.org/press/guafo-island-protected
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Re:wild, the Jeff and Marieke Rothschild Foundation, the Wyss Foundation, Art into Acres, Cultiva and WWF Chile prevent developers and extractive industries from destroying Chile’s irreplaceable Guafo...
Re:wild and partners stop developers from threatening Chile’s irreplaceable Guafo Island and the rich biodiversity it sustains.
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
(2/3) Protecting Guafo Island was made possible thanks to Re:wild, the Jeff and Marieke Rothschild Foundation, the Wyss Foundation, and Art into Acres, with WWF Chile and Cultiva subsequently joining to collaborate on future efforts.
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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
Made possible by Congolese communities, GRACE Gorillas, Virunga National Park, @gorilladoctors.bsky.social and Re:wild. Proof that with care and collaboration, wild futures are possible.
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Re:wild @rewildorg.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This is the largest successful release of Eastern Lowland Gorillas—and it boosted the Critically Endangered population in Virunga by 50%. A game-changing milestone for gorilla conservation.
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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
2/2: Submit comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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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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