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

Birders rediscover lost species on Mussau in Papua New Guinea

Rarely glimpsed Mussau Triller documented for first time in 44 years

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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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(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/scien…

Scientists Made a List of Lost Birds and Now They Want Us to Find Them (Published 2024)

Some 144 bird species had not been seen in at least a decade, but a project by conservation organizations proposes they all may still be hidden somewhere in the wild.

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📏 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/expedition-t… #ConservationOptimism #ReversetheRed

Expedition to Makira Natural Park rediscovers lost species

The tropical forest is home to a huge diversity of invertebrates

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🎉 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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(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-specie…

Giant millipede lost to science for more than a century and 20 other species rediscovered in...

Small rainbow fish lost for 20 years and flowering ant-like beetles lost for 65 years are among those found

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(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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(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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🧵 (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-the-…
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(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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(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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(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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(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… #savetheokavango

Canadian giant destroying Africa’s Eden for oil!?

ReconAfrica is ripping through a pristine wilderness in Namibia to find oil, but we can stop them together. Join the campaign now!

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

ReconAfrica illegally drilled test well in Kapinga Kamwalye Community Conservancy in Namibia

Oil and gas company did not obtain permission from communal land board before drilling in the conservancy

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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.
Science Friday@scifri21 Jun 2024
Today on SciFri 📻
Today on Science Friday The search for birds lost to science. Are cities' climate action plans working? A canine cancer vaccine The discovery of a new squid species, measuring temperatures and protecting yourself from extreme heat, and much more Listen on your local public radio station from 2-4 p.m. Eastern Time.

ALT Today on Science Friday The search for birds lost to science. Are cities' climate action plans working? A canine cancer vaccine The discovery of a new squid species, measuring temperatures and protecting yourself from extreme heat, and much more Listen on your local public radio station from 2-4 p.m. Eastern Time.

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