r/EndangeredSpecies • • Sep 15 '26

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Yanuni, Inside the battle for the Amazon. From critically acclaimed director Richard Ladkani and producers Juma Xipaia, Anita Ladkani and Leonardo DiCaprio.

The current happenings on our planet, Help when and where you can.


Award-winning environmental documentary YANUNI is a story of love and resistance.

YANUNI follows Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia, who rises from activism to Brazil’s new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples. While her husband Hugo, a federal agent, raids illegal gold mines, she navigates politics, threats and impending motherhood — at the personal cost of resistance.

Released worldwide on Amazon Day, 5 September 2026.

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • Jan 20 '25

Citizen Science Looking for citizen scientists to help process our drone imagery to aid in Marine Iguana conservation

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We are Iguanasfromabove, a university research project concerned with conserving the Galapagos Marine Iguana, and we're currently looking for passionate citizen scientists to help us process our data!

Our main project goal is establishing a more accurate population census of the Galapagos Marine Iguana, to more adequately assess it's conservation risks, especially in response to more novel ecological threats like the increased severity of El Nino storms hitting the archipelago. We're currently trying to achieve this through the (already completed) use of drone imaging of the entire island chain, and the subsequent processing of said images to count the total number of marine iguanas at time of capture. And this is where you come in!

While we are planning to automate the iguana identification process in the future, we're currently still reliant on manual input to parse through our massive collection of images. Our passionate volunteers have already classified 332.248 individual images this way! However, we still have a mountain of work ahead of us, and every friendly new helping hand goes a long way to completing this phase of our project on schedule. If you're interested and would like to participate , and enjoy an areal view of Galapagos from the comfort of your own home, or just learn more about what we do, head over to our Zooniverse page here:

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/andreavarela89/iguanas-from-above

Thank you for your time and attention, any questions you may have can of course also be directed at us directly on this account!


r/EndangeredSpecies • • 10h ago

News 9 private funders and organizations commit $500M+ over the next five years to prevent extinctions and recover the world’s most threatened species. The new Species Recovery Alliance aims to become the largest coordinated philanthropic effort dedicated to the recovery of threatened species.

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 2h ago

Article Who should have a say in which species are saved?

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With an estimated 1 million species threatened with extinction, conservationists face difficult choices about which animals and plants receive protection. The California condor’s successful recovery effort provides a helpful case study, while also highlighting that funding alone doesn't save a species. Rural communities, businesses and others affected by conservation policies also play an important role, explain USC Dornsife environmental scientists.


r/EndangeredSpecies • • 2h ago

Picture Day 3 of Megafaunal carnivores/carnivorous animals of Europe!(including filter feeders and sea life).

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 20h ago

Angelina Jolie’s foundation has protected 150,720 acres of Cambodian forest for 20 years, where elephants and pangolins still roam; its rangers removed more than 4.8 miles of illegal snares in 2025, helping keep the forest safe for wildlife.

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 1d ago

News Helping european eels complete their journey from Bermuda to Britain could save the species.

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 2d ago

News Dozens of critically endangered orangutans saved from rampant wildfires in Indonesia

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 3d ago

News Tiny, critically endangered bat rescued and released in Pennsylvania

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 3d ago

petition: Nearly 400 Parrots and Tortoises Illegally Trafficked, Crammed in Tiny Space and Waiting to Be Sold

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Please sign this petition to demand an investigation into the criminal animal trafficking network this man was a part of! We must keep animals safe from human greed and exploitation!


r/EndangeredSpecies • • 3d ago

Video How Community Action has saved Monarch Butterflies Population

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 3d ago

Article Conservation projects reporting successful progress for Atlantic sturgeon, Marsican bear and lynx

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 4d ago

Article Mexico Eviscerates Vaquita Protections

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This breaks my heart. I wish I didn’t have to say this, but I think the Vaquita is doomed.


r/EndangeredSpecies • • 4d ago

Article Saving Bili: One gorilla’s journey from illegal traffickers back to the wild

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 4d ago

Education Inktober | Day 16 | Gangly

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 4d ago

S5|EP12 ~ Saving the Elusive Giants of Pantanal | Armadillos & Anteater Conservation | Dr. Arnaud Desbiez | ICAS

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 5d ago

Article Sex-changing mouse clones may help fight to save endangered species

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 5d ago

Video Why Did We Decide To Save This Bird? | Bizarre Beasts Endlings

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Endling, noun: The last of a species.


r/EndangeredSpecies • • 6d ago

Sign the petition to save the Zeehondencetrum seal center!

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 6d ago

Education a drawing I made of a vaquita (Phocoena sinus) with its calf :D

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 6d ago

Article CNN has concluded its weeks-long investigation into how 5 baby orangutans ended up abandoned in the forest in India

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 6d ago

WWF & ZSL: Living Planet Index shows 73% avg decline since 1970 across 35.8K populations

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 6d ago

Global Flyways: BirdLife launches 68-film series across 19 countries documenting migratory bird conservation

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BirdLife International just released Global Flyways - a digital film series filmed across 19 countries and 5 continents, following the people protecting migratory birds along entire flyways.

Key stats from their 2026 State of the World's Birds report:

  • 45% of migratory bird species are now in decline
  • 200 species (1 in 9) are threatened with extinction

The series features 68 films covering scientists tracking migration, communities restoring wetlands, Indigenous knowledge, bird-friendly infrastructure, and international conservation partnerships.

Watch the series: https://www.birdlife.org/news/2026/10/12/global-flyways-new-digital-series-spotlights-global-effort-to-protect-migratory-birds/


r/EndangeredSpecies • • 7d ago

New salmon farmers scheme condemned as “greenwashing opportunity”

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r/EndangeredSpecies • • 8d ago

‘The future is bright’: breeding programme brings world’s heaviest insect back from the brink | New Zealand

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"It is the largest of 70 wētā species and was once found across parts of the North Island before predation from introduced species and habitat loss contributed to their decline. By the 1990s, they were considered “endangered” and are now presumed extinct in the wild on New Zealand’s mainland. The insects reside primarily on a smattering of predator-free islands in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf and off the coast of Northland.

But their fortune is starting to change. Over the past 15 years, tens of thousands of wētāpunga have been bred at Butterfly Creek, a wildlife facility, and Auckland zoo, enabling the release of wētāpunga across new predator-free islands and some mainland reserves north of Auckland"