Today, we're recognizing imperiled wildlife & supporting efforts to conserve & expand their habitat. If you'd like to contribute to our work restoring endangered ecosystems, please consider making a gift below & liking & reposting this post to spread the word.

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Species like Monarch Butterflies in the Palouse Prairie of Washington state or Ring-tailed Lemurs in Ivohiboro, Madagascar face local extinction and are threatened across their range. Other species have already been lost.

You can learn more about our ecosystem restoration mission (and support it financially if you're able) at our website.

www.PhoenixConservancy.org/donate

Watch our latest video on YouTube to learn more about this project and how it supports lemur conservation and rainforest restoration!

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We're so grateful for the collaborations that drive Ivohiboro's conservation forward, including the generous donors that keep these programs thriving.

If you'd like to join us, you can give here: www.PhoenixConservancy.org/donate

We hired hundreds of people across 4 new communities to help us protect imperiled, isolated patches of habitat for Ivohiboro's endangered and unique lemurs, as well as countless other species.

These efforts would not have been possible without our partners at MICET, who oversaw the implementation.

From the #GreatPlains pictured above to the #PalousePrairie of the inland Northwest to the forests of #Madagascar. Today, we hope you'll join us in recognizing and celebrating the numerous, diverse communities who have called this continent (and others) home since time immemorial.

Above: Yu-mos-tos, also known as Steptoe Butte, rises above the rolling hills of the Palouse Prairie as seen from the forested north slope of Kamiak Butte.

We're right there with you 😭

We'll clean the seeds and grow a portion of them out to mature plants, returning them and the remainder of the seeds to South Dakota to be planted. Every single seed and plant will make it possible for others to grow, helping biodiversity and people thrive in the Plains.

Surprisingly, the main barrier to prairie restoration in the Great Plains isn't land availability - there's plenty of that. Instead, access to native seeds is rare, meaning anyone who wants to restore prairie is limited by low seed supplies.