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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 9d

As climate change pummels coral reefs, scientists are looking at a new way to restore reefs.

Although some think it's a waste of effort and $$$ – believing these coral reefs are already doomed, because, you know, climate change.

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Mauritius rethinks coral restoration as reefs suffer from another mass bleaching

PORT LOUIS, Mauritius — Seeing coral reefs can color one’s monochrome view of the ocean forever. In the pink of health — and red, blue, green and purple — corals resemble underwater fireworks, forming...

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 13d

"It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar."

www.butlernature.com/2025/10/24/r...

Requiem for the Christmas Island Shrew

The Cry That Faded It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, moving through the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean...

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 16d

I don't think so. She's based in the SE Asia though. As you know paying for journalists to get on the ground is really difficult in these times – though Mongabay does cover a lot of travel around the world, but can't for most stories.

Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 16d

C'mon

Christmas Island shrew officially declared extinct: IUCN

The Christmas Island shrew, a tiny mammal once found only on the Australian island of the same name, has been declared officially extinct. It’s at least the fourth small mammal species to be wiped out...

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · 19d

Here's the question: is the Asian unicorn still out there?

To track a unicorn: Laos team goes all out to find the last saolas

Few people have the opportunity to meet near-mythical beasts in real life — but Rob Timmins has. He’s one of the few biologists ever to spend time with a saola, a wild ox once known as the “Asian unic...

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Oct 6

More proof that humans ate the Pleistocene megafauna to extinction!

Early humans dined on giant sloths and other Ice Age giants, archaeologists find

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Oct 3

Also the day I edited this interview was the day my wife and I found out we were having our kid!

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Oct 3

One of the highlights of my career was interviewing Jane Goodall in 2010.

Yes, she was one of the greatest scientists of all time, but it was her kindness that always got me.

We need more of that in the world! And I miss her.

Here's the interview:

news.mongabay.com/2010/04/jane...

Jane Goodall renews her faith in nature and humanity during the “Gombe 50” anniversary, An interview with Dr. Jane Goodall

Celebrating 50 years of pioneering research and sharing an inspiring vision for our future, world-renowned primatologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall renews her faith in nature and humanity du...

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Oct 2

If you read one article on Jane Goodall, read @mongabay.com's eulogy of her life and her hope!

Jane Goodall (1934–2025): primatologist, conservationist, and messenger of hope

Jane Goodall, who revealed the intimate lives of chimpanzees and gave the modern world a language of hope, has died at the age of 91. Over the course of six decades, she moved from an unlikely young r...

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Oct 1

Climate change.

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Oct 1

I'm in denial. And I'm going to stay there a bit.

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Sep 29

Biologists: any record of this in the past?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Labrador visitor gets front row seat to fight between black bear and polar bear | CBC News

A photo of a fight between a black bear and polar bear on the northern tip of Labrador is making the rounds on social media — something many are saying they've never seen before.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · Sep 24

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Sep 26

So happy to have appeared on Wild Green Streams for Ecological Fiends to talk all things Sumatran rhinos!

open.spotify.com/episode/1zX8...

A rhino poo clue could bring new zoo breakthrough: if it's true blue

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Sep 24

In January, scientists are headed to Antarctica to study whether or not we could put a giant curtain to stop the Doomsday glacier from breaking down. #climate #Geoengineering

Great piece by @gloriadickie.bsky.social for @mongabay.com.

news.mongabay.com/2025/09/scie...

Scientists weigh giant sea curtain to shield ‘Doomsday Glacier’ from melting

Thwaites Glacier rises above the Amundsen Sea in the Antarctic, a towering white cliff abutting cerulean waters. Roughly the size of Great Britain and spanning 120 kilometers (80 miles) across, Thwait...

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Sep 22

There is a debate going on about how much storage is actually available for CO2. This matters because we will need A LOT of storage to stave off the worst of the #ClimateCrisis (given that enormity of the problem). From @mongabay.com

news.mongabay.com/2025/09/glob...

Global CO2 storage capacity may be drastically overstated, study finds

A new analysis suggests that the “prudent” storage available for carbon dioxide to head off further global warming is more limited than other recent estimates. Accounting for the risks associated with...

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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · Sep 19

The Samoa Conservation Society has a fundraising page set up to help their team *find the last of the little dodos*

They believe Samoa's iconic & critically endangered "manumea" are still among its rich rainforests & folks who love #birds or #birding can go here to send $upport:

Save Samoa's National Bird- the Manumea- to save Samoa's Natural Heritage!

Saving the Manumea will save Samoa's threatened biodiversity and increase community resilience to climate change and other threats.

givealittle.co.nz

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Sep 19

One of my favorite species, the little dodo (or manumea), has gone missing! This weird pigeon looks and acts more like a parrot – an evolutionary marvel.

This is a species that DESPERATELY needs support & funding to try and rediscover it. @mongabay.com #birds

news.mongabay.com/2025/09/fund...

Funding is needed to save Samoa’s ‘little dodo’ from extinction (commentary)

It’s early August 2025. Deep in the rainforests of Upolu, on the island of Samoa, Moeumu “Moe” Uili and I have paused our hike, counting the seconds between coo calls from an unseen pigeon hidden in t...

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Sep 5

I got a chance to talk all things Rhinos on Sea Change Radio.

Sumatran rhinos, Javan rhinos, and the poaching trade that's putting these species and other rhinos in deep peril.

Check it out here: www.cchange.net

Sea Change Radio

A nationally syndicated weekly radio show and podcast covering the shift to social, environmental, and economic sustainability.

www.cchange.net

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Sep 4

If only he could have done something about it...

Trump’s second presidency is ‘most dangerous period’ since second world war, Mitch McConnell says

Former Senate leader likens administration’s fixation with tariffs to isolationist policies of the US in the 1930s

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Aug 29

A project that is bringing back megafauna to help fight fires in Spain.

My latest for @mongabay.com !

Rewilding project aims to restore resilience to fire-prone Spain via wildlife

Some 30,000 years ago, Stone Age people decorated a cave, today known as Cueva de los Casares, in central Spain with pictures of mating humans (most famously), geometric shapes, and animals. The most ...

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Aug 28

Cool, cool, cool, cool.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

www.theguardian.com

Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Aug 28

Awesome to see @peoplemag.bsky.social paying attention to our work on Sumatran rhinos for @mongabay.com!

More of this please – wildlife stories need more coverage if we're going to avoid biodiversity collapse.

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Trained Scent-Detection Dogs May Have Found a Lost and ‘Critically Endangered’ Rhino Population

Dogs sniffing for signs of the ‘critically endangered’ Sumatran rhinos may have found the elusive wild animals. According to a report from conservation news outlet Mongabay, the dogs ‘have discovered ...

people.com

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Aug 21

Can Namibia's wildlife survive a hotter and drier world? Petro Kotze reports for @mongabay.com

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Climate change tests the resilience of people and desert-adapted wildlife in Namibia

SESFONTEIN, Namibia — “I want my children to see a rhino with their own eyes — not only in Etosha [National Park],” says Sofia /Nuas, a member of the Sesfontein Conservancy Committee, located in Na...

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Jeremy Hance @jeremyhance.bsky.social · Aug 20

The IUCN puts out rhino population numbers ever 3 years. This time the numbers for the two most endangered rhinos aren't great.

Javan numbers down by a third, Sumatran rhinos stable, but on the edge of total extinction.

My latest for @mongabay.com:

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Javan rhino numbers plunge; Sumatran rhinos remain near extinction: Report

A new report by the IUCN finds that two of the world’s most endangered species are still perilously close to extinction. Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus) numbers have dropped by a third, from 76 ani...

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