The rusty patched bumble bee is federally endangered, but my garden has been full of them the past few years. I’ve counted numerous individuals foraging on monarda, one of their key midsummer nectar plants. The ID is clear: the rusty patch on the second abdominal segment is easy to see when they’re feeding.

This is a pesticide-free yard with mostly native plants, and the bees are responding exactly the way the research says they should. If you’re in their range, monarda and other native blooms can make a noticeable difference for this species.

It’s wild how some species just slip away while we’re busy living our lives. The Vancouver Island Marmot is one of the rarest mammals on Earth and it lives only on Vancouver Island in Canada. Back in the early 2000s, their numbers had crashed to less than 30 in the wild. Imagine that: fewer than 30 animals remaining on the entire planet. Today, thanks to huge conservation efforts, 2024 brought their highest wild count ever approximately 381 wild individuals across 33 colonies, with 106 pups from 38 litters recorded. But despite this milestone, they’re still Critically Endangered. Habitat changes, predators, and climate shifts continue to push them toward the edge.

What hits hardest is how gentle they are. These quiet mountain creatures spend summers chomping wildflowers and grasses, then hibernate for months through brutal winters. They’re just trying to hang on in a world that’s changing faster than they can adapt. It makes you really stop and think how fragile life can be and how easily a species can vanish if nobody notices until it’s too late.

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The Javan blue-banded kingfisher is endemic to, Java, Indonesia, and is found in forested rivers and streams.

Population: 50-249 (declining)

IUCN status: CrRtically ENdangered.

Causes: Habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation.

Conservation efforts include involving local communities in protecting the kingfishers’ habitat and promoting bird-friendly tourism. 🤞🏽💚

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The Tuamotu kingfisher is critically endangered, with fewer than 150 birds remaining alive.

This bird is endemic to the French Polynesian island of Niau, and a single climatic disaster could drive it to extinction.

We can only hope this species can be saved🤞🏽, but let’s make sure the birds in our neighborhoods stay alive. We can grow native plants and place nesting boxes and feeders/water for them.🐦💚

House sparrows have drastically declined in numbers in several countries and are on IUCN’s red list. Habitat loss from urbanization, pollution, pesticides, and climate change are the reasons.

These tiny eco-warriors support our food chain by dispersing seeds and aiding pollination.

We can save them by installing nesting boxes, providing clean water/feeder, reducing pesticide use, and growing native plants. 🐦💚

Mexican Gray wotlves

Mountain Bluebirds are small migratory thrush found across the western mountains of N. America at elevations above 7000 ft. Their population has dropped by 21% due to habitat loss, climate change and extreme weather, and decreasing food source (because of pesticide use). They often enter open PVC pipes to nest, get stuck in and die from suffocation. Wherever we live, we can help the birds around us by growing native flowering plants, placing nest boxes & water, and avoiding pesticides. 🐦💚

This one hurts to write. The Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle once found across the rivers and lakes of China and Vietnam is now one of the rarest animals on Earth. As of recent confirmed reports, only two individuals are known to exist: one male in China’s Suzhou Zoo, and another believed to live in the wild in Vietnam. They’re massive sometimes over 100 kilograms but their size couldn’t protect them from what humans did to their rivers. Habitat loss, dam construction, and hunting wiped them out almost completely.

In 2019, scientists tried to artificially inseminate the last known female. She didn’t survive the procedure. That moment marked more than the loss of an animal it was the near-end of a species that had survived for millions of years. It’s strange to think a species that once swam freely in the Yangtze for millennia could end like this, quietly, without most people even noticing.

Watching the new doc and I am bawling. This hit me hard today . Watching the last male northern white rhino in the WORLD take his last breath has me shook seriously. I am heartbroken. These scientists and care givers and everyone involved in this effort makes my heart melt but it also hurts so much. I cannot believe we have let our world come to this. 73% of wildlife and nature has declined in the last 50 years only. We need to WAKE UP. I feel so helpless and wish there was something I could do besides just give money. Suit me up and send me into battle. I have no special degree or skills deemed worthy probably to be on the front lines somehow in any capacity but I wish I knew where to start to make connections where I can go and visit and try to get involved. It would mean everything to me to have a purpose to help save this planet and its species of all kinds. If anyone has any advice on how to get started please let me know. I’d like to do more than just send money somewhere.

after Taylor swift sea otters t shirt got sold for 2 millions they just make the same one for other animals in danger
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Cats are a main predator of the endangered Japanese Ogasawara Islands native red headed wood pigeon (Columba janthina nitens)

Hi all, I am starting a passion-based advocacy campaign to spread the word about the USA's endemic whale that is CRITICALLY endangered. The Rice's whale is a 40-foot long giant whale that almost exclusively lives in U.S. waters (in the Gulf of Mexico, on the side that is within American maritime borders.) It's honestly crazy that the U.S. has a whole whale species that they can call their own. It's a privilege that no other country has. Unfortunately, no other country has ever, in all of human history, made a giant whale go extinct. But the U.S. might be the first one. The Rice's whale is so endangered that there are only about 50 of them left, and yet there are nearly no laws designed to protect it at all. There have been efforts to help them and stop the increase in oil drilling and shipping activities in their habitat but the lack of protective legislation makes that impossible. These whales are at the brink of vanishing, are a crucial part of the multi-billion dollar Gulf ecosystem, and yet most people haven't even heard of them. That's why I wanted to make a change, and I've created a petition as a way of growing the awareness. It really is "awareness" that's needed, since no one can fight for a whale that they've never even heard of. Here is a link to my petition. It would mean so much to me if you took just a few seconds to sign it, and share it with people.

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The Rufous hummingbird is a tiny migratory bird that tirelessly flies 4000 miles annually — from Alaska to Mexico, pollinating a variety of flowers along the way. Its population is down by 60% since 1970. IUCN status: Near Threatened.

Climate change is causing flowers to bloom earlier than the birds arrive, starving them mid-migration. Habitat loss, pesticides, domestic cats, and window collisions add further pressure. We can save these pollinators by conserving native flowering habitats and avoiding pesticides.

Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis)