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Introducing the Phoenix Species Project! ✨🐦🔥✨ Follow the journey of recovering 100 species from the brink! >>> @phoenixspecies.bsky.social #phoenixspeciesfund #phoenix100 #phoenix
Phoenix Species Project@phoenixspecies.bsky.social · 2d ago🌍 Meet the Phoenix Species Project, a new global effort to help recover 100 of the world's most threatened species. Launched by @bezosearthfund.org & @rewildorg.bsky.social, support from Leonardo Dicaprio, Age of Union & the Todd Graves Family Foundation. Follow along: phoenixspeciesproject.org
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...
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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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. 🌍
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
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
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/...
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.
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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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...
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.
rnz.co.nz
💦🐸 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.
“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
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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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...
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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1/4 🚨 PLS SHARE ⚠️ to make sure you aren't unknowingly eating 'conflict beef' from illegal cattle farms in Nicaragua! 🐄 #conflictbeef #animalag
🐟 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
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
🐍 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
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...
🚨 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
🦍 💉🧬 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
(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...
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.
thetyee.ca
🌊 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.
🏝️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.
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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🦍 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
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...
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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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
(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/...
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
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 · last yr.🔔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...
🚨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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