Last fall this butterfly flew all the way to Mexico to overwinter in mountain fir forests. She just flew north again for thousands of miles, dodging cars, predators and pesticides, and hopefully just laid her eggs on milkweed, hope for the first summer monarch generation @biologicaldiversity.org

Save the water dragons! Because they rock!

Never ever gonna give up on hellbenders

"Every species is connected in deep time to milions of other species and holds a direct line to the future of life on earth...when a species goes extinct we're breaking that connection." Hear more from @biologicaldiversity.org’s @savelifeonearth.bsky.social on our new podcast about extinction:

Check out @biologicaldiversity.org's new podcast about saving life on Earth and fighting the extinction crisis. I know a podcast about extinction sounds depressing, but the focus is on turning despair into action. Check it out. www.iheart.com/podcast/269-...

May your afternoon be as nice as Jack’s

people tend to think that butterflies are fragile, but butterflies are resilient. Just ask this eastern tiger swallowtail.

"Public drinking water comes from the rivers where hellbenders swim, or at one time swam. The water they breathe courses through our bloodstream. We are in this planetary aquarium with them. Every action we take to save hellbenders will help save us," writes Curry.

This is so cool! Missouri Department of Conservation is hosting craft classes to sew wildlife patterns including Spotted Skunks, Alligator Snapping Turtles, Hellbender Salamanders, and Ozark Chinquapins. Rock on!

Freedom of Voice: Learn From History’s Most Effective Protesters • @therevelator.org therevelator.org/history-effe...

What do salamanders have to do with public health and environmental justice? To quote @savelifeonearth.bsky.social (Endangered Species Codirector, Senior Scientist at the Center), "Everything". ⬇️

What do salamanders have to do with public health and environmental justice? Everything. This article explores hellbenders, the extinction crisis and my work leading @biologicaldiversity.org's Saving Life On Earth campaign in a special edition of the journal Critical Humanities focused on Appalachia

New term of the day for me: "hydroclimate whiplash." The atmosphere can evaporate, absorb and release 7% more water for every degree Celsius the planet warms. More intense droughts, more intense floods on harder soil . . .

Was lawn. Is now baby Eastern Bluebird in a Pawpaw. Good job nature. Good job me.

Common Milkweed smells amazing and it’s so pretty. Even if it didn’t feed monarch butterfly caterpillars it would be lovely to plant. I’m amazed by the dozens of other insects that are feeding on it in my yard.

Scientists-- we have one week left to boost support to protect endangered species' habitat safeguards. Sign on to the scientists' open sign-on letter here and please share: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Furry little brown bird at the feeder today

Any day I get to hang out with a toad is a very good day. Backyard Fowler’s Toad. I’m going to name him Bueller.

Scientists-- Please sign onto this open letter from scientists in defense of habitat protections under the Endangered Species Act. The comment period for the proposed regulation intended to diminish habitat protections closes on May 19. Any scientist is welcome to sign on. Thanks for sharing.

Rewilding axolotls! 💗#SaveSalamanders

“Like the monarch butterfly for pollinators, there is no better sentinel for protecting waterways in the eastern United States than the hellbender,” said @savelifeonearth.bsky.social, senior scientst and endangered species co-director for the Center.

Cool endangered species art project! www.giddyupartstudio.com/blog-1/april... #sciart #artsci #stopextinction

Monarch, Monarch, Let down your golden wings! We’re so ready for hungry hungry caterpillars.

Let's roll up our sleeves and save all of the freshwater mussels <3 arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Hellbent on saving hellbenders. @biologicaldiversity.org

I hung out with goats at a farm animal sanctuary today. 💓 How was your day?

Dear Monarch Butterflies, I built it. Please come. #milkweed

Have you seen this video of the young man who can perfectly imitate birds calls? You should. www.facebook.com/share/v/1QPE... 💓

Every single safe space we protect for wildlife can help save biodiversity and combat the extinction crisis @biologicaldiversity.org

The Fish and Wildlife Service re-opening the comment period for monarch butterflies is notable, but the fact that they re-opened the comment period for two other pollinators at the same time is downright alarming.

We need to take urgent action to safeguard butterflies and other insects. Every action we take to help pollinators also helps us because our fate is directly tied to their health.

A heartfelt thank you to the 16,000 people who took @biologicaldiversity.org's action alert and submitted a letter in support of Endangered Species Act protection for monarch butterflies. You make our hearts flutter. 🧡🦋

Restoring milkweed provides monarch butterflies the breeding substrate required to loosen the grip of stochasticity to grow away from the absorbing boundary of extinction USGS Thogmartin 2024 NonNegligible NearTerm Risk of Migratory Monarch Extinction #SavetheMonarch #PlantMilkweed #PollinatorGarden

Baby Bear wins the golden plunger for best costume at the Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics Kentucky. Frostpaw would be proud. 🥶

Good news: the overwintering eastern monarch population doubled since last year. Bad news: The migratory population is still only 1/3 of the size needed to be above risk of extinction.

A love note for everyone fighting for what is good and right: we can do this. 💚

There's one week left to submit a comment in support of Endangered Species Act protection for monarch butterflies. Your voice counts. Please take action for these flagship beauties as safeguarding the monarch migration will benefit hundreds of other pollinators.

On this World Wildlife Day, may our hearts brim with the beauty of the wild as we rage against the slaughter of the light

@biologicaldiversity.org Sues to Expose Musk and 'Department of Government Evisceration'

Mental state: I woke up at 2am heart pounding from a nightmare that Russia took over Appalachia. Two hours and some bourbon later I dreamed I was shopping for lime green pleated shirts with Sylvie from Emily in Paris and we were crafting magical jars of La Vie en Rose scented powder. 2025 duality 😵‍💫

Fuck the broligarchy keychain on the ground

Long may you reign, Axolotl, Ajolote, Ah-show-lowt

Velvet ears of the resistance #DogsofBlueSky

Little Brown Bird at my feeder this morning.

I can’t even

This is the name I’d been waiting to see. Decolonize.

Scientists, if your funding has been frozen/slashed and your research involved(s) endangered species and you’d be willing to share your story DM me.

Here are media contacts if you are/were a federal employee harmed by DOGE

This event, listening to Tierra Curry, revived my need to focus teaching and community work on how to connect with this earth, each other, what we love. I said to my students a few weeks ago: if we don't love this life and all its connectivity, then we won't fight for it. We fight for what we love.

Do you think you're too small to make a difference? Take the advice of a raindrop. That's how you win. A poem to consider IN THESE TIMES for fighting back, as part of a storm that changes everything, by Kim Stafford #naturewriting