Re:wild @rewild

🟢 Get the latest breaking news from Re:wild and our partners, and find sources for biodiversity stories here. Reach out ➡️ [email protected] rewild.org/press Global Joined July 2010

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Re:wild @rewild

2 years ago

(5/5) Read more about some of the past rediscoveries and why keeping track of lost species is so important from @nytimes nytimes.com/2024/08/23/sci…

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(4/5) The #SearchforLostBirds, a collab between Re:wild, @ABCbirds & @BirdLife_News, identifies bird species lost to science, mounts expeditions to find them & tracks rediscoveries around the world. searchforlostbirds.org.

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Re:wild @rewild

2 years ago

(1/5) Trilled to be back! 🐦‍⬛🎶 The Mussau Triller, undocumented since 1979 has been rediscovered in Papua New Guinea >>> rewild.org/news/birders-r… #lostbirds #lostspecies

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Re:wild @rewild

2 years ago

📏 Rediscovered in Madagascar's Makira National Park: a giant millipede lost since 1897! 20 other species found in 2023 #SearchforLostSpecies. Learn more: rewild.org/news/expeditio… #ConservationOptimism #ReversetheRed

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American Bird Conservancy @ABCbirds

2 years ago

🎉 A 2023 expedition to Makira, the largest and most intact forest in Madagascar, found 21 species previously lost to science. 🦎🕷🐟 🥾 However, one species eluded the Search for Lost Species team... Learn more at bit.ly/3zOoLtK. @rewild @peregrinefund @BINCOnpo

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Re:wild @rewild

2 years ago

(5/5) The expedition included team members from Antananarivo University, @ABCbirds, @peregrinefund, @TheWCS & BINCO, and was 🌳 supported by RIDGES Foundation. #ConservationOptimism #ReversetheRed

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Re:wild @rewild

2 years ago

(4/5) The team also found 5 jumping spiders that were lost to science & 1 completely new zebra spider species to science. Before the expedition, zebra spiders were not thought to live in rainforests in Madagascar. 📸: @johnmittermeier

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Re:wild @rewild

2 years ago

(1/5) 🦎 21 lost species rediscovered in Makira Natural Park in Madagascar during a first-of-its-kind expedition by the #SearchforLostSpecies! rewild.org/press/lost-spe…

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Re:wild @rewild

2 years ago

(3/3) Unconfirmed sightings have left birders and international conservation organizations hopeful that the Pink-headed Duck may still be out there in Myanmar’s dense, largely inaccessible elephant grasslands, swamps and floodplains.

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Re:wild @rewild

2 years ago

(2/3) The search hasn't been an easy one, by any means. But Thorns and his collaborator Way Lin are not giving up. They have had to come up with creative ideas to search remote & inaccessible wetlands in Myanmar—including sending camera traps down stream on floating platforms.

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Re:wild @rewild

2 years ago

🧵 (1/3) Richard Thorns has been searching for a duck with a head of bubblegum pink feathers for nearly 20 years. But the latest expedition brought some disappointing news. Regional gold mining had destroyed one of the key survey sites for the Pink-headed Duck. rewild.org/news/keeping-t…

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Re:wild @rewild

2 years ago

(3/3) Read more about the types of tactics and destruction communities have been experiencing. #SavetheOkavango rewild.org/news/reconafri…

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Re:wild @rewild

2 years ago

(2/3) Local communities have appealed to Namibia's Minister of the Environment & Tourism to revoke ReconAfrica's drilling permit, but after 2 years the minister still hasn't issued a ruling in the case. They are asking for people around the world to help secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/ok… #savetheokavango

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Re:wild @rewild

2 years ago

(1/3) For 4 years local communities, activists and civil society orgs in Namibia have been fighting oil exploration in the country's Kavango regions. A recent complaint to @CORE_ombuds from @UofTLaw Int'l Human Rights Program & @SOUL_Okavango outlines alleged human rights abuses by Canadian oil company ReconAfrica. #savetheokavango

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Re:wild @rewild

2 years ago

Keep those eagle eyes peeled! Citizen scientists, birders, conservationists and local communities helped the #SearchforLostBirds determine which bird species are lost to science. Learn about how @ABCbirds, @BirdLife_News & Re:wild are looking for lost birds.