Re:wild In the News

December

• December 29 - Earth Touch News: From long-nosed echidnas to trapdoor spiders, here are 5 species 'rediscovered' in 2023

• December 28 - The Cool Down: Bird that was feared extinct spotted for the first time in 24 years: 'I thought this one has slipped away forever'

• December 21 - IFLScience: Mystery Orbs, Tree-Dwelling Shrimp, And Moon-Worshiping Hammerhead Sharks: The Rich Tapestry Of 2023’s Animal News

• December 14 - Daily News-Record: Portugal Missing Spider

• December 14 - Metro: Get ready for nightmares – a tap dancing spider has come back from the dead

• December 14 - NewScientist: Tap-dancing spider rediscovered after disappearing for 92 years

• December 14 - IFLScience: Tap Dancing Spider Lost To Science For 92 Years Rediscovered In Portugal

• December 11 - Geographical: Redonda island successfully restored to biodiversity hotspot

• December 09 - ABC News: Back from the brink

• December 08 - World at Large: Organization’s ’25 Most Wanted’ is Leading to a Species Rediscovered Every 6 Months

• December 08 - BNN: Colombia Announces 61st National Protected Area: Serranía de Manacacías National Park

• December 08 - The Messenger: Leonardo DiCaprio Helps Environmental Organization Raise More Than $9 Million During Art Basel Event

• December 07 - Scientific American: Golden Mole That Swims through Sand Rediscovered after 86 Years

• December 05 - The Conversation Canada: Golden mole that swims through sand is rediscovered in South Africa after 86 years

• December 04 - CBC: 'A story of hope': Scientists find elusive golden mole for the 1st time in 87 years

• December 04 - Smithsonian Magazine: Scientists Uncover a Golden Mole Species Thought to Be ‘Possibly Extinct’

• December 03 - Washington Post: A blind but elusive critter that was presumed extinct is rediscovered

• December 01 - NBC News: Endangered blind sand mole rediscovered in South Africa after 87 years

• December 01 - CNN: A blind mole that swims through sand has been rediscovered after nearly 100 years

November

• November 30 - ABC News: Still alive! Golden mole not seen for 80 years and presumed extinct is found again in South Africa

• November 30 - NPR: Holy Mole-y: A sniffer dog helps rediscover a rare mole

• November 30 - The Guardian: Back from the brink: sand-swimming golden mole, feared extinct, rediscovered after 86 years

• November 29 - Mongabay: Track-a-mole: Sniffer dog and eDNA help ‘rediscover’ South African golden mole

• November 29 - CBS News: Blind golden mole that "swims" in sand detected in South Africa for first time in 87 years

• November 29 - Newsweek: Rare Animal Thought to Be Extinct Suddenly Found by Dog on Beach

• November 29 - Euronews: ‘More precious than gold’: How a long lost mole was rediscovered with the help of a border collie

• November 28 - Mongabay: Panama copper mine to close after Supreme Court rules concession unconstitutional

• November 28 - The Telegraph: Shimmering mole spotted for the first time in nearly 100 years

• November 28 - IFLScience: Golden Mole "Lost" Since 1936 Found Swimming Through Sand Dunes In South Africa

• November 20 - Mongabay: Study shows dire outlook for amphibians: 40% threatened with extinction

• November 05 - Caribbean Financials: Local, international environmentalists combine to save Jamaican Blackbird

OCTOBER

• October 24 - Allure: 11 Climate Activists on How They Make Their Beauty Routines More Sustainable

• October 16 - Fauna & Flora: Leap in the dark – On a mission to rescue the Caribbean’s biggest frog

• October 15 - The Guardian: Dominica’s mountain chicken frog faces disappearance in ‘fastest track to extinction ever recorded’

• October 14 - The Guardian: The lost world: Venezuela’s unique tepui frogs face new perils

• October 05 - Mongabay: Frogs in the pot: Two in five amphibian species at risk amid climate crisis

• October 04 - The Canberra Times: Aussie frogs in hot water from climate, other threats

• October 04 - The Times of India: Of 426 amphibian species assessed in India, 139 found to be threatened

• October 04 - TIME: Amphibians Are The World’s Most Vulnerable Species And Threats Are Increasing

• October 04 - NPR: Scientists looked at nearly every known amphibian type. They're not doing great

• October 04 - USAToday: 'Climate captives': Frogs, salamanders and toads dying rapidly as Earth warms, study says

• October 04 - RFI: Climate change primary driver of amphibian decline: study

• October 04 - ScienceNews: A global report finds amphibians are still in peril. But it’s not all bad news

• October 04 - ABC News: Amphibians are in widespread decline, and climate change is to blame, study says

• October 04 - Popular Science: How we can help the most endangered class of animals survive climate change

• October 04 - NBC News: More than 2,000 species of amphibians are threatened by extinction

• October 04 - Reuters: Amphibian crisis: 41% of species deemed threatened with extinction

• October 04 - South China Morning Post: Earth’s amphibians ‘are sliding towards extinction’; Chinese populations remain threatened, major study finds

• October 04 - The Washington Post: Climate change is driving many amphibians toward extinction

• October 04 - ScienceNews: A global report finds amphibians are still in peril. But it’s not all bad news

• October 04 - The Messenger: Almost Half of an Entire Class of Animal Is Threatened With Extinction

• October 04 - The Associated Press: Amphibians are the world’s most vulnerable species and threats are increasing

• October 03 - Good News Network: Holly Tree Presumed Extinct for 200 Years Discovered After Placement on Most Wanted List: ‘Nature surprises us’

• October 01 - BBC News: Redonda: Tiny Caribbean island’s transformation to wildlife haven

SEPTEMBER

• September 29 - CNN: A Caribbean island once ruled by rats is now a wildlife haven

• September 27 - Mongabay: From rat-ridden to reserve, Redonda is an island restoration role model

• September 26 - IFLScience: Holly Tree Lost For Nearly Two Centuries Rediscovered In Forests Of Brazil

• September 21 - Mongabay: ‘Lost’ Brazilian holly tree species found again after nearly 200 years

• September 21 - Newsweek: Tree Thought Extinct Discovered After 2 Centuries in 'Incredible' Find

• September 20 - New Scientist: Holly tree species not seen by scientists in 200 years reappears

• September 20 - Phys.org: Scientists rediscover small Brazil tree, 185 years on

• September 11 - IFLScience: Barren “Moonscape” Becomes A Wildlife Haven In Island Rewilding Win

JULY

• July 25 - Mongabay: Should species be named after people? It’s up for debate.

• July 21 - teenVOGUE: Re:wild Your Campus Wants to Turn College Campuses Into Climate-Resilient Green Spaces

• July 6 - Insider: Leonardo DiCaprio is the most trusted authority on the climate crisis

June

• June 30 - Variety: Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos Help Launch $200 Million Fund to Protect the Amazon

• June 26 - The Associated Press: A scientist’s 4-decade quest to save the biggest monkey in the Americas

• June 21 - REDFIN: Feathering the Nest: Expert Tips For Creating a Backyard Bird Sanctuary

• June 1 - National Geographic: This mysterious cat is threatened. A deceptively simple plan could save it. (subscription required)

MAY

• May 30 - Audubon Magazine: Seeking Auwo: Inside the Search to Find a Secretive Tropical Bird Lost to Science

• May 20 - NewScientist: The hunt for the South Island kōkako, New Zealand’s long-lost bird (subscription required)

• May 20 - NewScientist: A bird in the hand

• May 18 - IFLScience: First Rewilded Tasmanian Devil In Mainland Australia Has Three Adorable Babies

• May 17 - People: Endangered Tasmanian Devil Released into Wild by Chris Hemsworth Gives Birth to Triplets

• May 5 - Mongabay: Snares don’t discriminate: A problem for wild cats, both big and small

• May 3 - Haiti National Trust: New Project for Grand Bois National Park Approved, Boosting Haiti’s Fight Against Climate Change!

APRIL

• April 21 - Mongabay: Camera trap images of rare gorillas with infants bring hope in DRC

• April 14 - Brut.: ReconAfrica versus the defenders of the Okavango Basin

• April 8 - AP News: In Africa’s Okavango, oil drilling disrupts locals, nature

• April 7 - International Business Times: Saving Earth With Earth: Rewilding May Be Answer To Curbing Climate Change

• April 3 - Mongabay: Guinea’s crab-fishing chimps are in good health, study shows, but threats loom

MARCH

• March 31 - Positive.News: The climate solution that not enough people are talking about

• March 31 - Forbes, India: Some animals could play a key role in fighting global warming

• March 31 - Mongabay: Ecuador court upholds ‘rights of nature,’ blocks Intag Valley copper mine

• March 30 - Bloomberg: Codelco Loses Environmental License for Ecuador Copper Project

• March 30 - Mongabay: Rewilding animals could be key for climate: Report

• March 27 - NewScientist: Restoring just nine groups of animals could help combat global warming

• March 27 - Grist: Want to sequester carbon? Save wild animals

• March 27 - Inside Climate News: ‘Rewilding’ Parts of the Planet Could Have Big Climate Benefits

• March 26 - Rolling Stone: Will an Oil Racket Destroy One of Africa’s Most Sacred Places?

• March 25 - CBS News: Volunteers restore 100,000 native plants in the Santa Monica Mountains

• March 12 - Page Six: Leo DiCaprio honors Brazil’s minister of Indigenous Peoples at Green Carpet Fashion Awards

• March 7 - Mongabay: Lost bird found: Dusky tetraka seen in Madagascar after 24-year absence

• March 6 - Mongabay: Multinational task force aims to save colorful rainforest frogs

• March 4 - HuffPost: Songbird Feared Extinct Found 'Hopping Around' Madagascar Rainforest

• March 1 - The Scientist Magazine: How Do Scientists Decide a Species Has Gone Extinct?

• March 1 - BirdWatching: Dusky Tetraka rediscovered in Madagascar

• March 1 - Barron's: Long Lost Madagascar Songbird Seen Again In Wild

• March 1 - NewScientist: Rare bird not seen for 24 years found alive in Madagascan forests

• March 1 - BBC: Dusky tetraka: Joy as bird feared extinct spotted in Madagascar

FEBRUARY

• February 27 - Forests News: Toucans, tapir and tortoises: Revealing the biological riches of southern Guyana

• February 13 - AIPT: Rediscover nature in 'The Search for Lost Species'

• February 10 - Happy Eco News: The Success of Organic Land Management

• February 8 - CIVIL EATS: The Field Report: Calls Grow for a Farm Bill that Serves ‘All of Us, Not Just Corporations’

• February 6 - Vancouver Sun: South Okanagan grasslands a beneficiary of beauty-backed nature conservancy initiative

• February 3 - Nature & Culture International: Historic Creation of the Tarímiat Pujutaí Nuṉka Reserve: Indigenous Nationalities and Provincial Government Agree to Protect Over 3 Million Acres in the Ecuadorian Amazon

JANUARY

• January 27 - Penticton Herald: The Nature Trust BC joins Canadian Launch of REWILD OUR EARTH

• January 9 - Mongabay: In Ecuador, communities protecting a 'terrestrial coral reef' face a mining giant

• January 2 - New York Times: It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Lush Lawns

DECEMBER

• December 29 - The Guardian: Lost and found: the rediscovery that became 'Leonardo DiCaprio's frog'

• December 28 - Treehugger: Colorful Gecko Has an Amazing Success Story in Caribbean

• December 14 - Outdoor Life: How to create a habitable planet within 10 years

• December 1 - Ecologist: Endangered gecko makes dramatic comeback

NOVEMBER

• November 30 - NewScientist: Critically endangered tiny gecko comes back from the brink

• November 29 - Independent: ‘Gem-like’ gecko makes Caribbean comeback

• November 29 - Food Tank: Reimagine and Re:wild Your College Campus

• November 26 - Washington Post: Scientists ‘re-discover’ lost pigeon species in Papua New Guinea

• November 21 - The Guardian: ‘The ghost that haunts Monteverde’: how the climate crisis killed the golden toad

• November 21 - CBS NEWS: A rare, endangered bird hadn't been seen for 140 years — but was just caught on video, scientists say

• November 20 - IFLScience: Scientists Have Just Spotted A Bird That Has Not Been Seen Since 1882

• November 20 - USA TODAY: This bird hadn't been seen by researchers in over 140 years. They finally spotted it.

• November 19 - CNN: This bird hadn’t been documented by scientists since 1882. Then they captured video of it in Papua New Guinea

• November 18 - BBC News: Black-naped pheasant-pigeon sighted in PNG for first time in 140 years

• November 18 - Independent: Scientists rediscover lost bird that hadn’t been seen in 140 years

• November 17 - People Magazine: Rare Pigeon Species Rediscovered in Papua New Guinea After 140 Years

• November 17 - Cornell Chronicle: ‘Lost’ pigeon found after more than a century

• November 17 - Audubon: ‘Like Finding a Unicorn’: Researchers Rediscover the Black-Naped Pheasant-Pigeon, a Bird Lost to Science for 140 Years

• November 15 - Treehugger: Extinct in the Wild, Fish Return to Habitat in Mexico

• November 10 - Mongabay: Amid conflict and chaos, a reforestation project surges ahead in Haiti

• November 8 - Mongabay: Amid Mexico's Day of the Dead, a fish declared extinct comes back to life

OCTOBER

• October 31 - Newsweek: What Lula's Brazil Election Victory Means for the Amazon

• October 31 - BBC's The Untold: Quest for the Pink-Headed Duck

• October 27 - Neo.Life: The Unnatural Evolution of the Galápagos Islands

• October 27 - Mongabay: To save threatened Amazon primates in Brazil, turn them into the main attraction

• October 27 - The Guardian: Lost and found: stroke of luck that helped rediscover tiny ‘superhero’ fish

• October 14 - Let’s talk about the “F” word

SEPTEMBER

• September 27 - Daughter for Earth: Mackenzie Feldman: Eliminating Herbicides One Campus at a Time

• September 21 - Futurism: We Don't Need to Reinvent the Planet; We Need to Rewild It

• September 16 - Treehugger: Recently Identified Monkey Is One of World’s Most Endangered Primates

• September 16 - HELLO! Exclusive: 9-1-1's Oliver Stark opens up about vulnerability and why it's okay to cry

• September 9 - Mongabay: Tiny new tree frog species found in rewilded Costa Rican nature reserve

• September 9 - IFLScience podcast: How do we know when a species is extinct?

• September 3 - Vox: The race to find 2,100 missing species before they go extinct 

AUGUST

• August 31 - Modern Farmer: These College Students Want to Abolish Pesticides on Campus Grounds

• August 30 - IFLScience: Want To Hear Some Titi Monkeys Sing A Duet? Their Songs Could Soon Be Lost To Extinction

• August 23 - MauiNow: UH Maui student selected as fellow in Re:wild Your Campus conservation group

• August 24 - Field & Stream: Rewilding California’s Hotspot

• August 16 - Mongabay: An emerald-green hummingbird lost to science reemerges in Colombia

• August 11 - The Guardian: Can wildlife stage a comeback on Sombrero Island’s barren moonscape?

• August 8 - Discover magazine: Defining the Line Between Missing and Extinct Species

• August 5 - IFLScience: One Of The Planet's Most Elusive "Lost Birds" Spotted In Colombia

• August 5 - The Guardian: Rare hummingbird last seen in 2010 rediscovered in Colombia

• August 1 - Vox: Why scientists are desperate to find a salamander that’s been missing for 71 years

JULY

• July 21 - EY: Winning AI models use technology to help locate and protect biodiversity

• July 21 - ZIM Morning Post: Zimbabwe specialist ranger units honoured in Rwanda

• July 7 - Science.org: ‘Myconauts’ aim to reveal the often hidden soil fungi that shape ecosystems

JUNE

• June 25 - The Guardian: Rewilding the Galápagos can be a model for a new way to coexist with nature

• June 23 - The Guardian: Appetite for frogs’ legs in France and Belgium ‘driving species to extinction’

• July  21 - U.S. News & World Report: To Combat Climate Anxiety, College Students Are Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands. Literally.

• June 4 - El Espectador: This was the expedition to look for the Sinú parakeet (en Español)

• June 3 - Sustainability: YSL to restore land in pledge to preserving biodiversity

MAY

• May 30 - El Universo: Íntag resistance rocket frog is the name of a newly discovered species in Ecuador (en Español)

• May 29 - MAO: 7 Tips For Using Tech to Support Your Well-Being Through Rewilding

• May 25 - Broadway World: ​​Sting, Black Eyed Peas, Pitbull, Stone Temple Pilots, Mod Sun & More to Participate in Atlantis Concert for Earth

• May 20 - Guinness World Records: Eight species that have been rediscovered after decades lost

APRIL

• April 26 - Postive.News: ‘A powerful antidote to despair’: the project that tracks down lost species

• April 26 - Cosmetics Business: YSL Beauty sets in motion major plans to rewild 4 biodiversity hotspots

• April 22 - Avocado Green Magazine: How Rewilding Redonda Island Saved Species From Extinction

• April 22 - Global Citizen: ​​How Coldplay Urged 6 Brazilian States to Protect the Amazon and Defend the Planet at ‘Global Citizen Live’

• April 22 - HipHopDX: 2 Chainz Hosting ‘Planet Rewild’ Show for Snapchat

• April 20 - Vogue Business: With key ingredients at risk, YSL Beauty expands biodiversity conservation

• April 20 - Avocado Green Magazine: The Baird’s Tapir Guardian

• April 20 - Beauty Packaging: YSL Beauty Launches New Sustainability Initiative in Partnership with Re:wild

• April 15 - Avocado Green Magazine: From Ridge to Reef: Rewilding the Galápagos

• April 8 - Avocado Green Magazine: How a Salamander Ignited a Search For Lost Species

• April 2 - The New Yorker: The Hunt for a Lost Bat

• April 1 - Earth.com: Conservation groups challenge mining that threatens an Ecuadorian toad

MARCH

• March 8 - Treehugger: 8 New Creatures Join Most Wanted Lost Species List

FEBRUARY

• February 22 - Science Daily: Wildlife camera trap surveys provide new insights into the occurrence of two threatened Annamite endemics in Viet Nam and Laos

• February 21 - PHYS.org: Camera trap surveys provide new insights into two threatened Annamite endemics in Viet Nam and Laos

• February 16 - Good News Network: Bird Scientists Need Some Help Finding Species – They’re Turning to Birdwatchers

• February 14 - Earth Touch News Network: Five 'lost species' that could use a little love this Valentine's Day

• February 14 - Washington Post KidsPost: ‘Most Wanted’ list leads to rediscovered species. Conservation group sets its sights on finding 8 more.

• February 11 - Earth.com: Searching for the 25 most wanted lost species

• February 10 - Ecowatch: 6 New Animals, One Fungus and a Tree Added to 25 Most Wanted Lost Species List, Following Rediscoveries

• February 9 - International Business Times: Help Scientists Find These 'Most Wanted' Lost Species, 'Lost Legends'

• February 9 - The Guardian: Wanted lost species: blind salamander, tap-dancing spider and ‘fat’ catfish

• February 9 - IFLScience: Fat Catfish And Tapdancing Spider Join Lost Species "25 Most Wanted"

JANUARY

• January 21 - Vox: This map may make you feel better about the state of the planet