Nature Contents Archive

Many national parks didn’t start out as pristine wilderness https://t.co/PCgvTsSKJk

Happy #Saturday from the "unicorn of the sea!" 🦄 Learn more about the incredible & unique narwhal with our Marine Life Encyclopedia: https://t.co/FI6JTg7eti https://t.co/Cb4Z9Si1pp

Our time is too precious not to love. Jack Kornfield

Did you know the U.S. is home to 41 Ramsar sites, totaling over 4.6 million acres? 23 of these sites fall completely or partially within @USFWSRefuges! Discover more about these globally important, rare and unique wetlands: https://t.co/07y7MMQkD6 #AmericanWetlandsMonth https://t.co/pyDHrmTVvC

Wildlife biologist Nancy Pau is working to conserve the imperiled salt marsh sparrow at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge in Massachusetts through partnerships, science, and nature-based solutions 🪶 Images by: Peter Paton Nancy Pau/USFWS @USFWSIntl #AAPI #AANHPI #USFWS https://t.co/HoZNe2z420

This flower is open for only six days and doesn't pollinate with just anyone https://t.co/YOcAPzEVTN

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have seized 2 metric tons of ivory in the city of Lubumbashi, a hub for ivory trafficking. The May 14 seizure is one of the largest in recent years, according to Adams Cassinga, who heads Conserv Congo, an... https://t.co/La1Fkcd7NO https://t.co/hwHVSDltf3

ADD YOUR NAME: Plastic pollution has no place in America's treasured national parks. Tell Congress to pass the Reducing Waste in National Parks Act and keep unnecessary single-use plastic out of our national parks: https://t.co/Jma2vO5aut #PlasticFreeParks #LeaveNoTrace https://t.co/ETCmVZqUV3

Have you ever ended up with some of these attached to your clothes?! Wood avens or 'herb bennet' flowers in late spring. The yellow flowers quickly turn to red, hooked seedheads that can easily stick to you - or a passing animal! 🌼 https://t.co/x83DdRp5Ls https://t.co/TBJJEJ9ZT1

The real work of conservation happens only when a diversity of voices come together. 12 of our colleagues of AAPI heritage shared their stories and experiences in conservation with us, here: https://t.co/YcwqeKFN9B

Falling prices, rising costs, and anti-fur sentiment are endangering a way of life that has sustained the Indigenous people of northern Canada for hundreds of years https://t.co/fEBbY0Inzn

Butterfly Conservation has revealed that there has been a 26% increase in the number of butterfly species threatened with extinction. https://t.co/UBFl9tPeqM

Photo: White ibis at Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge by Caitlin DiMaria.

[Update] Nurseries would have to 2x output to provide seedlings to move the needle on the US's reforestation & carbon seq. potential, @MikeG2001 reported last year. Since then, Pres. Biden signed an infrastructure package incl. $millions for nurseries: https://t.co/nMDNwoxv6q

The reporting alliance ManchadosXelPetróleo (StainedByOil) reveals the overlap of oil lots with over 1,600 Indigenous territories and 52 protected areas in the Amazon of Peru, Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador, @alexavz and @vannessaromo report: https://t.co/DHK7Rbck3x https://t.co/uQBAaOfIOA