#endangeredspecies — Public Fediverse posts

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

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 #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

#photography
#EndangeredSpecies
#crocodiles

🐒 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://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

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/giant-tortoise-population-is-thriving-survey-finds-180000-on-one-island-chain/