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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation

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Protecting species through community-led #conservation. Together we can create a world where #Indigenous and #genomic knowledge systems align to slow the #extinction crisis. Join us www.wiseancestors.org 🧬 Earth BioGenome Affiliate

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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“She advocates for a more comprehensive conservation model that draws on traditional knowledge alongside Western scientific tools." - Digital Journal recently featured our Community Engagement Director, Katie Jones, and Conservation Challenge model. Learn more: www.digitaljournal.com/article/the-...
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Exciting news! We're headed to #COP17Armenia next month! Katie Jones (Community Engagement Director) & @solenne-correard.bsky.social (Genomics Director) will be representing our team. #ForNature #BiodiversityAction #conservation #genomics @cop17arm.bsky.social @unbiodiversity.bsky.social @unep.org
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We’re incredibly honored to announce that we're a member of the #IUCN and the IUCN US National Committee! We are eager to be a part of one of the leading global networks working to protect #biodiversity. Read more about what this means for us: www.wiseancestors.org/discover/wis... #IDSov #genomics
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We raised over $8,000 in donations and matching funds for our Conservation Challenge for the Bosenge tree in Democratic Republic of Congo thanks to an incredible community of supporters, @maearth.com, and their philanthropic partners! Swipe to learn more about what's next for this project 🧬🐛🌳🌍
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🚨 Last call to have your donation to our #Indigenous led Bosenge tree 🐛🌳 planting & sequencing project for #food security in the Congo Basin #rainforest multiplied! Learn more about our project & donate: maearth.com/wise-ancesto... Thanks to @maearth.com for making this possible! #crowdfund
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨Today's the last day of @maearth.com #crowdfunding Round 3 where donations are matched! 🚨 Can you give $1 to our Bosenge tree 🐛🌳 restoration and sequencing project in partnership with the #Indigenous community of Botsike Village in the Democratic Republic of Congo? maearth.com/wise-ancesto...
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What is a reference #genome & why do we need them to address #biodiversity loss & support #conservation? Wise Ancestors’ #Genomics Director, Dr. Solenne Correard explains! Visit maearth.com/wise-ancesto... to learn more about our 🐛🌳 #crowdfunding project & donate on @maearth.com! #Africa
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Swipe through to learn how we co-developed our #Indigenous Led Tree Planting & Sequencing for Food Security in Congo Basin project. Now through July 21st, donations made to this project will be multiplied on @maearth.com. Help restore 🌍's 2nd largest rainforest today: maearth.com/wise-ancesto...
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
8 days left to have your donation to our project, "Indigenous Led Tree Planting and Sequencing for Food Security in Congo Basin," multiplied thanks to @maearth.com! Your gift will directly support restoring #biodiversity & generating breakthrough #genomic #science. maearth.com/wise-ancesto...
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
4 days into @maearth.com's Round 3 and our #Indigenous led #biodiversity #conservation project has 26 donors, raised $1,592, and has up to $7,400 in matching funds! Can you help us get to 50 donors by the end of the week? Even $2 makes a difference! Donate here: maearth.com/wise-ancesto...
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🎉 Big news! Our Bosenge #tree 🐛🌳 reference #genome & tree planting project with the #Indigenous Peoples of Botsike Village in Democratic Republic of #Congo is apart of @maearth.com's Round 3 campaign-- meaning donations made before 7/21 will be matched & multiplied! maearth.com/wise-ancesto...
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Something exciting is launching tomorrow! Stay tuned if you care about Indigenous-led #regeneration and local food systems. 🌍🌱🐛 We're honored to be selected as one of @maearth.com's Round 3 participants out of 800 applicants! More details tomorrow. #conservation #CongoBasin #rainforest
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
We're honored to introduce the Antioquia Biomonitores, a new model for empowering community-led #conservation. This training program is sponsored by #WiseAncestors Conservation Challenges # 3-7 in partnership with Instituto Humboldt & Neotropical Innovation. www.wiseancestors.org/discover/mee...
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Meet the Antioquia Biomonitores, Empowering the Local Paisa Community for Biodiversity Conservation
The program, developed through a partnership with local NGO Neotropical Innovation, the Montañerito Paisa Conservation Initiative, and Instituto Humboldt, serves as the community-led conservation comp...
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
🚨🧬 ICYMI: Last week on #WorldEnvironmentDay we announced our latest #Conservation Challenge (and first one in #Africa!) for the Bosenge Tree, a key host for edible caterpillars, 🌱🐛 in partnership with Indigenous Peoples of Botsike Village in the Democratic Republic of Congo! #Indigenous #science
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Solenne Correard @solenne-correard.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
#2026MMM is LIVE! 🎉 Bracket ready? Mine is, and 1st point secured! 😏 This year, @mammalssuck.bsky.social is spotlighting extinct species. The extinction crisis is central to @wiseancestors.bsky.social mission, together with developing an ethical model for biodiversity genomics 🧬🤝 Follow us!
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
All individuals of a species come from the complex interactions of their genes and their environment, & the rich developmental endowment epigentically inherited from the parent. Nothing can replace or recreate that. In this Anthropocene, once lost, the species is lost forever. #2026MMM
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This initiative strengthens scientific research to expand knowledge of Antioquia’s biodiversity and support the protection of endemic species. Learn more: www.wiseancestors.org/discover/new... Support this work by donating to Conservation Challenges 3-6: platform.wiseancestors.org #WWD26
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
For #WWD26, we invite you to learn about the Biomonitores of Antioquia Program. This initiative trains local community members in the propagation and production of mortiño as a dual #conservation strategy: restoring degraded habitats while creating #regenerative economic opportunities.
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Today is #WorldWildlifeDay! In commemoration of this year's theme of #MedicinalAromaticPlants, we invite you to learn about our efforts to restore mortiño in Antioquia, Colombia. #WWD26 @unep.org www.linkedin.com/posts/wise-a...
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World Wildlife Day 2026 | Wise Ancestors
In commemoration of World Wildlife Day, which this year highlights the role of medicinal and aromatic plants in conserving health, natural heritage, and livelihoods, we share the work of the Biomonito...
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
"Data hold power, and that power shapes our futures. Share to support Indigenous-led data sovereignty and governance." Repost Indigenous Data Alliance Learn more at indigenousdata.org #IndigenousRights #Indigenous #conservation #genomics #data
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Take a moment to learn about the North Antioch Plateau which holds stories that exist nowhere else: unique birds, fragile ecosystems, and communities that decide to care for them today. Here, where the water is born and the mountain breathes, life still sings. www.instagram.com/p/DScdU3iABYK/
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Neotropical innovation® [Innovación Neotropical] on Instagram: "Aquí, donde nace el agua y la montaña respira, la vida todavía canta. 🌿💧 El Altiplano Norte de Antioquia guarda historias que no existe...
93 likes, 7 comments - neotropical_innovation on December 19, 2025: "Aquí, donde nace el agua y la montaña respira, la vida todavía canta. 🌿💧 El Altiplano Norte de Antioquia guarda historias que no e...
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
“This would equip researchers, conservationists & policymakers to conserve, study & potentially restore the native species across the archipelago, aiding the ability of Bermuda’s ecosystems to be resilient to #climatechange.” www.royalgazette.com/environment/... #Bermuda #biodiversity
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BioQuest completes draft Bermuda cedar genome
A local organisation has completed the first part of a genetic project aimed at restoring the Bermuda cedar population. A statement said BioQuest completed a draft reference genome on the critically e...
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🚨 #Conservation #genomics update! 🧬 The first publicly available annotated reference #genome for the critically endangered #Bermuda Cedar is one step closer to being completed thanks to the incredible work of our partners BioQuest! Learn more: www.wiseancestors.org/discover/dra...
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Draft Reference Genome Completed for Bermuda’s National Tree: The Critically Endangered Bermuda Cedar
This is the first step in producing a fully annotated reference genome as a part of a series of conservation initiatives in partnership with US-based NGO Wise Ancestors.
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Do you want to see more Indigenous & Local Community-led biodiversity conservation initiatives? Take part today by donating to our new crowdfund! Every dollar makes a difference. platform.wiseancestors.org/challenges/14 #conservation #genomics #IndigenousRights #datasovereignty #Indigenous
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
With your support, we can establish an ethical model for conservation—one that honors Indigenous expertise and knowledge from the very beginning. Give today: platform.wiseancestors.org/challenges/14 #GivingTuesday
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We're thrilled to see what @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social office is calling "the largest-ever 'land return' in the Sierra foothills" to the Tule River Indian Tribe, whose ancestors lived in the southern Sierra Nevada for thousands of years. Learn more - www.sfchronicle.com/california/a... #NAHM
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Major California ‘land-back’ deal with tribe preserves swath of southern Sierra
This acquisition, which will restore 17,000 acres to the Tule River Indian Tribe, is the largest-ever “land return” deal in the Sierra foothills, according to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s...
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
🧬 #LivingData2025 Update from our Community Engagement Director, Katie Jones: ""Every session discussing #Indigenous #Data #Sovereignty and Governance at Living Data 2025, including the one I spoke at today, has been delivered to a packed house. Standing room only..."
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
🌿 Field Notes from #Colombia 🇨🇴 Ahead of #LivingData2025, our Community Engagement Director Katie Jones joined the #Antioquia Biomonitores for field work with our project partners Instituto Humboldt and Neotropical Innovation. Learn more: wiseancestors.org/discover/new... More details coming soon!
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Happy #Indigenous Peoples Day! We absolutely love this teaching from #NinaGualinga by @atmosmag.bsky.social about the importance of language and the words we choose to use to describe our relationships to other living beings. #nature #Indigenousrights #wisdom
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
How do we power community-centered biodiversity conservation that supports #Indigenous data sovereignty? Watch this clip from our introduction video - youtu.be/65bVkOvBbaM?.... Learn more & take action at wiseancestors.org. If you’re at #IUCNcongress visit Booth 107 &- meet members of our team!
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We made it to #IUCNcongress! Members of our team will be in booth 107 starting tomorrow - Monday! Come by and see how we're braiding #genomic science, traditional knowledge systems & an equitable, decentralized approach for #biodiversity #conservation. Learn more & take action: wiseancestors.org
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 08/10/2025
Kelp forests, mangroves, seagrass meadows, and coral reefs are vital blue ecosystems that sustain our planet. Yet, they are severely threatened by climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and waste. Here's why their protection matters: www.unep.org/interactives...
Underwater view of a seagrass meadow with green blades swaying in the water. Text overlay reads: “Seagrass meadows store carbon up to 35 times faster than tropical rainforests, and are an important habitat for dugong and seahorses. Join #GenerationRestoration.” Logos of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Life Below Water) appear at the bottom and top left.
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
We're creating a world where #Indigenous & Local Communities are supported in protecting eons of evolutionary information – stored in the DNA of plants, animals, & fungi -- and where genomic research + locally led #conservation initiatives are supported within the same project. Pt. 2 drops Thurs.
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Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🧬 Why sequence plant genomes? To reveal their hidden histories 🌿, find the genes behind resilience 💪, and protect the green blueprint of life 🌎.
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
You’re invited into the world of Wise Ancestors. wiseancestors.org #collaborate #sequence #conserve Booth 107 #IUCNcongress 2025
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Exciting News! We will have a booth at the upcoming #IUCNcongress in Abu Dhabi, October 9-12th. Meet our team attending: 🧬 Katie Jones, Community Engagement Director 🧬 Bwalya Chibwe, Community Engagement Manager 🧬 Ann Pace, Executive Director Let us know if you'll be there too! #climate
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
We highly recommend reading this new free resource, "PROTOCOLS For Non-Indigenous People Working with #Indigenous Knowledge," made possible by Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig & Deakin University, especially for those in #sustainability, #biodiversity #conservation, etc. media.licdn.com/dms/document...
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We're looking forward to Dr. Carika Weldon's Trust Talk about our Conservation Challenges for the Critically Endangered #Bermuda Cedar in partnership with BioQuest & The Bermuda National Trust. Explore the projects & take action! #genetics #genomes #conservation #genomics #research #science
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Exciting news for all who care about protecting #biodiversity! Our partner @ebpgenome.bsky.social announced plans to sequence 150,000 #genomes by 2030 & all 1.67M known eukaryotic species by 2035! Read more: www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci... Video credit: #FrontiersInScience #conservation
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Do you care about taking new action to protect #biodiversity amidst the sixth mass #extinction? Then you'll want to take a moment to read our partner @ebpgenome.bsky.social latest news! #conservation #genomics #sequencing #DNA #research #science
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Insects are essential to bird species worldwide with about 90% of them relying on them for food at some point in their lives. Unfortunately, insects are "disappearing at a rate of about 1% to 2% a year," according to @smithsonianmag.bsky.social. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu... #biodiversity
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Scientists Are Tracking Worrying Declines in Insects—and the Birds That Feast on Them. Here's What's Being Done to Save Them Both
In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have found the answers to keeping them both alive
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Did you know there's a global initiative happening right now that aims to sequence all animal, plant, and fungi species on Earth? We're honored to be a part of @ebpgenome.bsky.social, and applaud our EBP-affiliate colleagues in this massive endeavor to protect Earth's genetic heritage!
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We're very excited to share that Bwalya Chibwe & Katie Jones are now leading our Community Engagement team! Together they will help advance #Indigenous & Local Community-led #biodiversity #conservation utilizing genomic #science. 🧬 Learn more about our team members at www.wiseancestors.org/team
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
🚨Attn. JOBIM 2025 attendees🚨 Please note that our Scientific Director will be there too! If you're a sequencer, bioinformatician and/or biobanker looking to help address a biodiversity loss, we invite you to explore the Wise Ancestors Platform! platform.wiseancestors.org
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Did someone say discovery of a new species? 👀 Check out this clip featuring our Executive Director, Dr. Ann Pace at #FtCSF. Learn more about our conservation work in #Colombia on 2 endemic #birds: www.wiseancestors.org/blog/new-con... Take action: platform.wiseanceators.org #genomics
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🚨 #LosAngeles 🚨 Join us next week for a #sustainability cocktail event hosted by our friends, The Carbonauts, at @parksprojets.bsky.social office in #CulverCity! Our very own Media Relations Director will be speaking! Learn more & RSVP at letsgo.thecarbonauts.com/thecarbonaut... #sustainability
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
We created our Platform with the hunch that people are looking for new ways to address the #biodiversity crisis. 100% of your donation will go towards this community led #conservation project platform.wiseancestors.org/challenges/5 to help restore the Critically Endangered #Bermuda Cedar species.
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Today on #WorldEnvironmentDay, we invite you to learn why Environmental DNA (eDNA) is a powerful tool for protecting native species, and how we’re putting it into practice. www.wiseancestors.org/blog/what-is... #DNA #environment #climatechange #genomics #eDNA #biodiversity #genetics #conservation
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What is eDNA & How Can it Help Us Protect the Environment?
It’s come to our attention that many outside academic circles may not be familiar with the concept of environmental DNA (eDNA) and how it can be utilized to draw insights regarding environmental healt...
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Our work to protect the Critically Endangered #Bermuda Cedar was featured in The Royal Gazette! www.royalgazette.com/environment/... You can take part in helping protect this #IUCN Red Listed species by making a donation here and/or help spread the word! platform.wiseancestors.org/challenges/5
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Groundbreaking gene research to help restore lost habitat
Genetic tools for reviving the island’s endemic cedar, central to Bermuda’s culture and heritage as well as the environment, are being developed to create a gene test to identify the pure strains of t...
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Wise Ancestors (NGO) | Crowdfunded Community-Led Conservation @wiseancestors.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
We give scientists the opportunity to work on #genomic research co-developed with #Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities. We hope bioinformaticians, biobank laboratories, geneticists, genome annotators, and DNA sequencing labs will register as Collaborators! Platform.wiseancestors.org 🧬
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