Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #endangered-species, aggregated by home.social.
Celebrating a decade of WA’s Wheatbelt conservation on the silver screen
Ten yea…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #animalrehabilitation #australianwildlifeconservancy #AWC #conservation #conservationsuccess #DOCO #documentary #Endangeredspecies #feralanimals #GoodNews #MtGibsonsanctuary #MtGibsonWildlifeSanctuary #Pests #predatorfreefence #Science #springloadedwoylie #threatenedspecies #wanews #whatisawoylie? #wheatbelt
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/886672/
🐒 ICYMI: Quiet #video footage captured along the #rivers and canopy of #Ecuador reveals how #monkeys, #birds, and #insects share one of the most #biodiverse places on #Earth.
👉 https://seethis.tv/post/ecuadors-amazon-rainforest-five-calm-minutes-with-the-animals
#amazon #rainforest #animals #biodiversity #birds #camouflage #dolphins #endangeredspecies #howlermonkeys #monkeys #nature #parrots #marmosets #southamerica #tksst
Celebrating a decade of WA’s Wheatbelt conservation on the silver screen
Ten years of late-night stake-outs and…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #animalrehabilitation #AU #Australia #AustralianWildlifeConservancy #AWC #Conservation #conservationsuccess #DOCO #documentary #Endangeredspecies #feralanimals #GoodNews #MtGibsonsanctuary #MtGibsonWildlifeSanctuary #pests #predatorfreefence #Science #springloadedwoylie #threatenedspecies #WANews #whatisawoylie? #wheatbelt
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/932201/
https://www.europesays.com/ie/739917/ Celebrating a decade of WA’s Wheatbelt conservation on the silver screen #AnimalRehabilitation #AustralianWildlifeConservancy #AWC #conservation #ConservationSuccess #doco #documentary #Éire #EndangeredSpecies #FeralAnimals #GoodNews #IE #Ireland #MtGibsonSanctuary #MtGibsonWildlifeSanctuary #pests #PredatorFreeFence #Science #SpringLoadedWoylie #ThreatenedSpecies #WANews #WhatIsAWoylie? #Wheatbelt #Wildlife
No. 5192 —the whale that refuses to die
This is one tough whale. A critically endangered North Atlantic right whale — known to researchers as No.…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #AtlanticOcean #deaths #Endangeredspecies #fishing #Massachusetts #montauk #NewJersey #Science #Whales #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/885888/
The #TohonoOodhamNation : US Threatens and Promises Destruction while Building #BorderWall
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Oct. 16, 2026
"The Tohono O'odham Legislature said today that their Nation and way of life are under attack by the federal government, while the #USGovt threatens and feels assured of its power to violate the rights of a #SovereignNation.
" #HomelandSecurity plans to begin removing #Oodham relatives, the #Saguaro, and #Ocotillo, in two weeks. The government plans to start building the wall on December 1. More than
half of the 2,000 Saguaro and Ocotillo will not survive, even if they are transplanted, the tribe said.
"Last week, the Border Patrol told the tribe that the prayer camp at #SanMiguelGate would be removed and the people 'manhandled.' O'odham at the #SacredFire were able to move further from the international boundary, the tribe said.
"Condemning the Border Patrol's action, the Tohono O'odham Legislature said O'odham have a right to freedom of speech, freedom of worship and to peacefully assemble.
"Reporter John Carlos Frey said that #BorderPatrol stormed the Tohono O’odham #PrayerCamp with rifles raised while families slept inside. At 3:28 am in the morning, Border Patrol agents stormed the camp. Awakened, the fire keepers heard a gun being chambered by an agent with a long gun. The #FireKeepers ' log lists 665 sightings of #drones and helicopters and surveillance."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-tohono-oodham-nation-us-threatens.html
On Substack https://norrellbrenda.substack.com/p/the-tohono-oodham-nation-us-threatens
#USPol #IndigenousSovereignty #NoBorderWall #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #DefundDHS #IndigenousNews #ReaderSupportedNews #EnvironmentalDamage #EndangeredSpecies #ProtectTheSacred
How the quirky puffin became a symbol of the climate crisis – and hope
By Stephen Moss
In an extract from his new book, the nature historian explains how technology could help the seabird survive
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/17/how-puffin-symbol-climate-crisis-hope
#Birds #Animals #Environment #Wildlife #Conservation #Endangeredspecies #UKnews #TheGuardian #StephenMoss
🐒 ICYMI: Quiet #video footage captured along the #rivers and canopy of #Ecuador reveals how #monkeys, #birds, and #insects share one of the most #biodiverse places on #Earth.
👉 https://seethis.tv/post/ecuadors-amazon-rainforest-five-calm-minutes-with-the-animals
#amazon #rainforest #animals #biodiversity #birds #camouflage #dolphins #endangeredspecies #howlermonkeys #monkeys #nature #parrots #marmosets #southamerica #tksst
Critically endangered red wolves survive interstate journey
A group of 10 critically endangered American red wolves made the journey from New York to North Carolina or vice versa on…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Animals #Endangeredspecies #Lifestyle #NewYork #northcarolina #rescues #Science
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/885016/
Tiny, critically endangered bat rescued and released in Pennsylvania
South Australian toxic algal bloom killed more than 8,000 sharks and rays, including endangered species
By Petra Stock
Ecologists and experts fear mass mortality event that began in March 2025 may have led to the collapse of some local populations
#Endangeredspecies #Marinelife #SouthAustralianalgalbloom #Environment #Wildlife #Animals #TheGuardian #PetraStock
Powerful image of a grieving elephant wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Super El Niño influencing ‘strange uptick’ in illegal Galápagos iguana trafficking
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/environment/super-el-nino-galapagos-iguana-smuggling/
‘Like selling wolves from Yellowstone’: how protected US sharks are being sold off to foreign aquariums https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/15/conservation-aquariums-endangered-sharks-protected-waters-delaware-bay-us-sand-tiger-sharks #Oceans #Sharks #EndangeredSpecies #Fishing #Conservation #Animals #Environment #Food #MarineLife #Wildlife #WorldNews #Zoos #Delaware #UsNews
‘Like selling wolves from Yellowstone’: how protected US sharks are being sold off to foreign aquariums
By Maya Yang in Delaware Bay
While anglers cannot take endangered sand tiger sharks, a loophole lets private firms catch the fish to sell abroad, profiting from Delaware Bay’s conservation success
#Oceans #Sharks #Endangeredspecies #Fishing #Conservation #Animals #Environment #Food #Marinelife #Wildlife #Worldnews #Zoos #Delaware #USnews #TheGuardian #MayaYanginDelawareBay
#Environmentalism #Wildlife #EndangeredSpecies #Petition: Iceland Might Finally Ban Commercial Whaling, Protecting Animals From Horrific Suffering
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/201/622/990/
Two white tiger cubs have been born at Ashgabat Zoo, drawing attention to both their striking appearance and the controversy around breeding white tigers https://ow.ly/qNtH50ZXLE4 #Turkmenistan #AshgabatZoo #WhiteTigers #Wildlife #WhiteTigerCubs #EndangeredSpecies #BigCats
White Tiger Cubs Born at Ashga...
Two white tiger cubs have been born at Ashgabat Zoo, drawing attention to both their striking appearance and the controversy around breeding white tigers https://ow.ly/qNtH50ZXLE4 #Turkmenistan #AshgabatZoo #WhiteTigers #Wildlife #WhiteTigerCubs #EndangeredSpecies #BigCats
White Tiger Cubs Born at Ashga...
https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/39556/ Appeals Court hears wolf ESA cases in Missoula #conservation #EndangeredSpecies #Environment #FederalCourts #MontanaToday #wildlife #wolves
Shy albatross colony on remote Tasmanian island to receive bird flu vaccine in complex operation
A vaccination pr…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #albatross #albatrossisland #albatrossvaccine #animalethicscommittee #animalvaccinations #AU #Australia #avianinfluenza #bassstraitterritory #birdfluvaccine #departmentnaturalresources #Endangeredspecies #H5birdflu #naturereserve #nretas #remoteisland #shyalbatross #tas #Tasmania #tasmaniabirdflu #vaccination #vaccinations
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/927693/
At the Cape Canaveral #powerplant, a single winter count found 585 #manatees packed into its warm-water discharge, because prolonged exposure below 68°F can kill a tropical mammal and a cooling system built to dump waste heat has become the artificial spring it returns to
A power plant's waste heat became an accidental refuge for an #endangeredspecies—until the infrastructure that saves them in winter threatens to trap them in dependence.
https://spacedaily.com/b-at-the-cape-canaveral-power-plant-a-single-winter-count-found-585-manatees-packed-into-its-warm-water-discharge-because-prolonged-exposure-below-68f-can-kill-a-tropical-mammal-and-a-cooling-sy/
Customs intercept three live pangolins in Lagos
The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘A’, Ikeja, said it had intercepted three live pangolins during…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #animalsmuggling #BusinessClubIkeja #ComptrollerGeneraloftheNigeriaCustomsService #Endangeredspecies #Endingwildlifetrafficking #GreenfingersWildlifeInitiative #OladapoAfeni #pangolins #Science
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/881628/
Scientists deploy a 24-armed secret weapon to save California’s kelp forests
By Ben Tracy of Climate Central
Team works to restore the sunflower sea star as 95% of these key underwater ecosystems have been decimated along the Pacific coast in past decade
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/13/sunflower-sea-star-california-kelp-forests
#Climatecrisis #California #Environment #USnews #Marinelife #WestCoast #Wildlife #Worldnews #Endangeredspecies #Oceans #Endangeredhabitats #Animals #Conservation #TheGuardian #BenTracyofClimateCentral
Scientists deploy a 24-armed secret weapon to save California’s kelp forests https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/13/sunflower-sea-star-california-kelp-forests #ClimateCrisis #California #Environment #UsNews #MarineLife #WestCoast #Wildlife #WorldNews #EndangeredSpecies #Oceans #EndangeredHabitats #Animals #Conservation
Trill seekers: can scientists use AI and tutors to help birds remember lost songs? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/13/ornithology-trill-why-birds-sing-birdsong-dialects-tutors-ai-aoe #Birds #Wildlife #Environment #EndangeredSpecies #Animals #Conservation #WorldNews #AnimalBehaviour #Birdwatching #Biodiversity #Science #Biology #Zoology
Trill seekers: can scientists use AI and tutors to help birds remember lost songs?
By Rebecca Ratcliffe
When populations fall, fledglings can struggle to learn the right notes to attract mates. But research on how birds communicate offers hope for species’ survival
#Birds #Wildlife #Environment #Endangeredspecies #Animals #Conservation #Worldnews #Animalbehaviour #Birdwatching #Biodiversity #Science #Biology #Zoology #TheGuardian #RebeccaRatcliffe
🐒 ICYMI: Quiet #video footage captured along the #rivers and canopy of #Ecuador reveals how #monkeys, #birds, and #insects share one of the most #biodiverse places on #Earth.
👉 https://seethis.tv/post/ecuadors-amazon-rainforest-five-calm-minutes-with-the-animals
#amazon #rainforest #animals #biodiversity #birds #camouflage #dolphins #endangeredspecies #howlermonkeys #monkeys #nature #parrots #marmosets #southamerica #tksst
Gelsenkirchen, Germany
A critically endangered Philippine crocodile, considered the rarest in the world, looks out from its newly opened enclosure at a zoo.
Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP
🐒 WATCH: Quiet #video footage captured along the #rivers and canopy of #Ecuador reveals how #monkeys, #birds, and #insects share one of the most #biodiverse places on #Earth.
👉 https://seethis.tv/post/ecuadors-amazon-rainforest-five-calm-minutes-with-the-animals
#amazon #rainforest #animals #biodiversity #birds #camouflage #dolphins #endangeredspecies #howlermonkeys #monkeys #nature #parrots #marmosets #southamerica #tksst
North America’s tiniest mammals are living at a Marine Corps training area. That’s good.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/environment/pacific-pocket-mice-california/
North America’s tiniest mammals are living at a Marine Corps training area. That’s good.
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/environment/pacific-pocket-mice-california/
😱 Google decided that forests are just inconvenient speed bumps on the road to tech supremacy. 🌳🌲 Who needs trees when you’ve got data? Clearly, the real endangered species here is common sense. 🤦♂️
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/google-datacentres-finland-temporary-halt-environmental-impact-assessment #GoogleTechSupremacy #ForestsMatter #CommonSense #EndangeredSpecies #DataOverNature #HackerNews #ngated
Giant Tortoise Population is Thriving–Survey Finds 180,000 on One Island Chain
Giant Tortoise Population is Thriving–Survey Finds 180,000 on One Island Chain
#Environmentalism #Wildlife #EndangeredSpecies #Petition: Trump Administration Quietly Gutted the Endangered Species Act's Core Protection. Now, Vulnerable Animals Are Going to Die.
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/826/893/637/
‘We cannot accept foxes as part of our landscape’: the plan to save Australia’s threatened wildlife
By Nick Visser
Draft national strategy accepts the wily invasive species can’t be eradicated but outlines steps to protect native animals most at risk
#Australianews #Invasivespecies #Endangeredspecies #Wildlife #Conservation #Animals #Environment #TheGuardian #NickVisser
Rare ‘pumpkin spice’ baby sea turtle spotted in Florida
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/environment/pumpkin-spice-baby-turtle-florida/
Today is International #SaveTheVaquita Day! 🎉
With fewer than 20 left, the Vaquita is the world's most endangered marine mammal. I painted this piece in the hope of raising awareness for vaquita.day.
#Cetacean #Whales #Porpoise #Endangeredspecies #Conservation #Animalart #Sciart #NatureArt
Scientists discover 180,000 #GiantTortoises on one #Seychelles island
Free-roaming #Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme
8 October 2026
Excerpts: "A survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has discovered that the once #EndangeredSpecies is thriving.
"A population of Aldabra giant tortoises lives on an island in Seychelles called #Aldabra Atoll.
"The most recent survey, led by #SeychellesIslandsFoundation (SIF) and the University of Exeter, revealed there were approximately 180,000 tortoises living on the island. This is the highest figure ever recorded for the species and far exceeds the human population of Seychelles.
"The new figure was obtained by a team who analysed five years of tortoise counts between 2018 and 2022. It is the first update since a widely cited figure of 100,000 tortoises from the late 1990s.
Aldabra Atoll is one of only two places in the world where giant tortoises are found in the wild, with a much smaller population living in the #Galápagos.
Dr Frauke Fleischer-Dogley, the CEO of SIF, said: 'More than 180,000 giant tortoises roaming freely on our atoll is proof of what long-term commitment to #conservation can achieve. This is wonderful news for Seychelles, for the world, and for everyone who has worked to protect Aldabra.'
[...]
" 'These results are great news for the tortoises and testament to the fantastic work done in the field,' said Dr Dave Hudson, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Exeter’s Cornwall campus.
" 'But it’s important to remember that the numbers provide a baseline – not an endpoint.
" 'Hopefully we have provided the conservation managers the evidence they need to track future change and act early as the tortoises face increasing pressures from #ClimateChange , drought and #InvasiveSpecies.”
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/izmAL
#SolarPunkSunday #EndangeredSpecies #WildlifeConservation #Tortoises
#SolarPunkSunday #RestoringNature #Rewilding
Australia Announces 3 New National Parks to Protect Gliders, Owls, and Other Victoria Wildlife
Australia Announces 3 New National Parks to Protect Gliders, Owls, and Other Victoria Wildlife
Local Opinion and Involvement Found as Key Determinant in World’s Conservation Success Stories
Local Opinion and Involvement Found as Key Determinant in World’s Conservation Success Stories
Recent changes to US forest rules might put over 400 endangered species at risk as old-growth lands open for development. #endangeredspecies
The Iron-Clad Snail Living Beside 400°C Hydrothermal Vents
Scaly-foot snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum) from the Longqi hydrothermal vent field in the Southwest Indian Ridge. Photo: Chong Chen, Katsuyuki Uematsu, Katrin Linse and Julia D. Sigwart, CC BY 4.0.Dear Cherubs, this is Chrysomallon squamiferum, better known as the scaly-foot snail: a deep-sea gastropod with metal armour, a huge heart for its size, and a surprisingly grim conservation problem. It lives around hydrothermal vents thousands of metres beneath the Indian Ocean, where the neighbourhood is essentially an underwater furnace.
The 400°C Catch
First, a small but important correction to the viral version of this fact. The snail does not live in seawater at 400°C. Hydrothermal vent fluids can reach temperatures around 400°C or more, but the snail occupies the surrounding vent environment, including cooler diffuse-flow areas where seawater mixes with the superheated fluids. At depths of roughly 2,400 to 2,900 metres, pressure is enormous and sunlight is, unsurprisingly, not on the guest list. According to the IUCN, the species is currently known from just three restricted vent locations in the Indian Ocean.
And then there is the armour.
The scaly-foot snail has hundreds of hard scales, or sclerites, covering its foot. These can become heavily mineralised with iron sulfide, including pyrite and greigite. Its shell can also contain an outer layer of iron sulfide. So while saying it has an “iron shell” makes for an excellent headline, scientifically it is more accurate to say that the shell and body armour are mineralised with iron sulfides. Still pretty metal. Literally.
Research published in PNAS found that the snail is unique among animals in having an iron-sulfide skeleton. Scientists believe the armour may help protect it from predators and the mechanical stresses of life around the vents.
Life Without Sunlight
Like other hydrothermal-vent specialists, the scaly-foot snail has an unusual food arrangement. Instead of depending directly on sunlight-driven food chains, it hosts chemosynthetic bacteria that obtain energy from chemicals associated with the vent environment. The snail essentially provides the accommodation while its microscopic tenants help supply the groceries. Ocean real estate, but make it symbiotic.
The species also has an unusually large heart relative to its body size. Research has suggested this supports its dependence on symbiotic bacteria by helping transport the chemicals and oxygen required by its unusual lifestyle.
A Tiny Snail, A Big Problem
Its extraordinary adaptations have not saved it from an altogether ordinary human problem: mining.
The scaly-foot snail became the first animal to be listed as Endangered by the IUCN specifically because of the threat posed by deep-sea mining. The IUCN reports that two of its three known locations have been subject to exploratory mining licences or interests. Mining polymetallic sulfides could damage or destroy the highly restricted habitat on which the snail depends.
The stakes are bigger than one peculiar mollusc. Hydrothermal vents support entire communities of specialised organisms, many of which exist nowhere else. In 2026, the IUCN reported that 62% of known endemic hydrothermal-vent mollusc species are considered at risk from deep-sea mining.
So yes, this tiny snail is strange. It is also a rather useful reminder that “extreme environment” does not mean “environment we can safely ignore”. For more unusual science and deep-ocean curiosities, thisclaimer.com is another place to explore.
Sources:
IUCN Red List — https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T103636217A103636261.en
IUCN Marine Invertebrates Red List Authority — https://iucn.org/our-union/commissions/group/iucn-ssc-marine-invertebrates-red-list-authority
IUCN, Deep-sea mining — https://iucn.org/resources/issues-brief/deep-sea-mining
IUCN, 2026 Red List update — https://iucn.org/press-release/202607/desert-frog-deep-sea-molluscs-remarkable-species-risk-iucn-red-list
Nature Communications, The Scaly-foot Snail genome — https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15522-3
PNAS, The making of natural iron sulfide nanoparticles in a hot vent snail — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6789796/
Smithsonian Ocean, Meet the Metal Snail from the Bottom of the Ocean — https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/meet-metal-snail-bottom-ocean
thisclaimer.com — https://thisclaimer.com/