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Tierra Curry @savelifeonearth.bsky.social · 7d

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-...

Sounds Wild | iHeart

Sounds Wild is a Center for Biological Diversity podcast focusing on endangered wildlife, the extinction crisis, and saving life on Earth. Hosted by Mike Stark and Vanessa Barchfield, Sounds Wild feat...

www.iheart.com

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Tierra Curry @savelifeonearth.bsky.social · 19d

May your afternoon be as nice as Jack’s

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Tierra Curry @savelifeonearth.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · Aug 1

"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.

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Tierra Curry @savelifeonearth.bsky.social · Jul 25

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!

Stitch Missouri’s Wildlife: MDC Launches Ozark Needlers Embroidery Series - Ozark Radio News

West Plains, MO — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is excited to announce a year-long embroidery class series called Ozark Needlers, designed to combine creative stitching with learning a...

www.ozarkradionews.com

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John R. Platt @johnrplatt.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

Freedom of Voice: Learn From History’s Most Effective Protesters • The Revelator

Our continuing newcomer’s guide to protesting looks at the foundational movements that shape our current and future efforts.

therevelator.org

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · Jul 9

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". ⬇️

Planetary Thinking: Hellbenders as Emissaries of Appalachia

Hellbenders are prehistoric salamanders that have thrived in cold rivers since before the continents divided. Once found throughout Appalachian watersheds, due to exploitation and habitat degradation ...

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Tierra Curry @savelifeonearth.bsky.social · Jul 7

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

Planetary Thinking: Hellbenders as Emissaries of Appalachia

Hellbenders are prehistoric salamanders that have thrived in cold rivers since before the continents divided. Once found throughout Appalachian watersheds, due to exploitation and habitat degradation ...

mds.marshall.edu

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Tierra Curry @savelifeonearth.bsky.social · Jul 1

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 . . .

Floods, droughts, then fires: Hydroclimate whiplash is speeding up globally

New research links intensifying wet and dry swings to the atmosphere’s sponge-like ability to drop and absorb water.

newsroom.ucla.edu

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Tierra Curry @savelifeonearth.bsky.social · Jun 22

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

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Tierra Curry @savelifeonearth.bsky.social · Jun 8

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.

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Tierra Curry @savelifeonearth.bsky.social · May 12

Not a scientist? Anyone can submit a comment through this link: act.biologicaldiversity.org/z0VvP2_CV0Cd...

Save the Endangered Species Act

By changing the meaning of a single word, the Trump administration could gut habitat protections for all endangered species. Speak up now to protect endangered species and their habitat — and the Enda...

act.biologicaldiversity.org

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Tierra Curry @savelifeonearth.bsky.social · May 12

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...

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Tierra Curry @savelifeonearth.bsky.social · May 8

Furry little brown bird at the feeder today

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Tierra Curry @savelifeonearth.bsky.social · May 8

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.

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Tierra Curry @savelifeonearth.bsky.social · May 6

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.

Scientists' Letter in Opposition to Rescinding the Regulatory Definition of “Harm” in Endangered Species Act Regulations

May 19, 2025 Submitted via: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0034-0001 Public Comments Processing Attn: FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0034 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, MS: PRB/3W 5275 Leesbu...

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Tierra Curry @savelifeonearth.bsky.social · May 5

Rewilding axolotls! 💗#SaveSalamanders

Captive-bred axolotls thrive in Mexican wetlands, researchers find

The cartoonish-looking salamanders have faced an uncertain future in the wild. But researchers hope that breeding axolotls in captivity and releasing them in the wild can help their numbers.

www.npr.org

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · May 1

“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.