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Among the Bori, tigers aren’t just animals, they’re relatives. Spirits in an ancestral forest.Julee is one of our Catmos...
09/04/2026

Among the Bori, tigers aren’t just animals, they’re relatives. Spirits in an ancestral forest.

Julee is one of our Catmosphere with Conservation Nation Fellows and the first person from her Bori community to pursue an interdisciplinary PhD. Her work bridges science and tradition — protecting both a culture and the biodiversity that shaped it.
Julee is bringing rigorous science home to research the animals her community has called relatives for generations.

Her focus: how the migration from rural to urban life is reshaping the relationship between Indigenous communities, wildlife, and the forests they share.
This will be the first in-depth tiger study conducted within Julee’s community’s homeland.

Learn more about our fellows and how we are supporting their work by visiting our website: https://conservationnation.org/

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Did you know - Parrot edition 🦜Did you know that parrot’s endemic to the DR’s biggest threat is that people like them to...
09/02/2026

Did you know - Parrot edition 🦜

Did you know that parrot’s endemic to the DR’s biggest threat is that people like them too much?

The Hispaniolan amazon and Hispaniolan parakeet are found only on Hispaniola — and both are in trouble. Once widespread, they now survive in just a few remaining locations. The IUCN lists them as Vulnerable; the Dominican Republic's National Red List calls them Endangered. In Haiti, they may already be disappearing.

🦜 Hispaniolan amazon — beloved across the DR, but that love has a dark side: their popularity has fueled illegal capture for the pet trade. Highly intelligent, they can mimic sounds — including human speech.

🦜 Hispaniolan parakeet — vanishing from forests, but thriving somewhere unexpected: cities.

Catmosphere with Conservation Nation Fellow Andrea Thomen is working to make sure both species have a future — in the forest and beyond it.

Learn more about our fellows and how we are supporting their work by visiting our website (link in bio.)

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The dugong is disappearing. One of the Philippines' most threatened marine mammals, it depends entirely on one thing to ...
09/01/2026

The dugong is disappearing. One of the Philippines' most threatened marine mammals, it depends entirely on one thing to survive: seagrass. Lose the meadow, lose the species.

But seagrass isn't just a dugong's dinner table — it's the foundation an entire coastline stands on. It feeds local fisheries. It locks away carbon at rates that rival a rainforest. It holds together the whole marine food web, from the smallest fish to the fishing families who depend on them. Protect the seagrass, and you protect a way of life.

Meet our new Conservation Nation Somaha Biodiversity Fellow, Jessa Marie Caabay.

That's the fight has chosen. An environmental scientist in the Philippines, she works where science meets trust — alongside fisherfolk, youth, women, and local government — building the kind of stewardship that doesn't disappear when the funding does.

Thanks to our partnership with the Somaha Foundation, conservation leaders like Jessa are receiving the support they need to protect the communities and ecosystems they call home.

Follow us for future funding opportunities and to support our growing community of conservation leaders.

We're always looking for new ways to invest in conservation leaders and can't wait to share what's next.

Fellow, Andrea Thomen's conservation career started at the age of five, with an environmental art contest that sent her ...
08/31/2026

Fellow, Andrea Thomen's conservation career started at the age of five, with an environmental art contest that sent her into the Costa Rican jungle. Today she's a Catmosphere with Conservation Nation Fellow working to protect Hispaniolan parrots - two species found only in her home country, the Dominican Republic.

Her approach: collaborative planning and social marketing, bringing communities and institutions together to change the story for these birds before it's too late. Recently, her work has been featured on . If you've seen a parakeet on the tail of a jet, that's Andrea's work!

Swipe to explore more facts about Andrea and follow along to learn more about our Fellows.

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A single hectare of healthy mangrove forest can lock away carbon at up to 10 times the rate of a tropical rainforest. Fr...
08/26/2026

A single hectare of healthy mangrove forest can lock away carbon at up to 10 times the rate of a tropical rainforest. Fredrick Kioko Kilonzo has planted over 103,000 of these trees.

Fredrick is the founder of Naturehub Collective in Kenya, and a returning Conservation Nation grantee — a distinction earned by results. His first grant supported the Kidongo Mangrove Restoration Initiative at Mtwapa Creek, where more than 103,000 seedlings were planted with a remarkable 97% survival rate. The project also helped 15 women in the Mangrove Gold beekeeping enterprise increase their daily income from $3 to $15.

"When the plants leave, the animals follow, and when the animals leave, we follow." Fredrick learned that from his grandmother, walking the savanna as a boy in Kajiado County. It's guided every mangrove he's planted since.

Now the Conservation Nation Somaha Biodiversity Fellowship funds his next chapter: 50,000 new seedlings across 3 new coastal communities, 45 more women trained in beekeeping, and the open-source release of Mazingira360 — a free tool letting any coastal community on Earth track their own restoration work.

Thanks to our partnership with the Somaha Foundation, conservation leaders like Fredrick are receiving the support they need to protect the communities and ecosystems they call home.

Follow us for future funding opportunities and to support our growing community of conservation leaders.

We're always looking for new ways to invest in conservation leaders and can't wait to share what's next.

Hamna Hussain—co-founder of MIYARU, a nonprofit fighting to protect the endangered shark populations across the Maldives...
08/19/2026

Hamna Hussain—co-founder of MIYARU, a nonprofit fighting to protect the endangered shark populations across the Maldives has been named one of our Conservation Nation Somaha Biodiversity Fellows.

Through her Fellowship project, The Spot On Project, she's building the first national scientific baseline for the Endangered Indo-Pacific leopard shark. The species has lost more than half its global population since the 1960s, hunted for its fins, meat, and liver oil. Leopard sharks take eight years to reach reproductive maturity, so once a population collapses, it doesn't bounce back quickly. Without urgent action, entire regional populations could disappear for good.

Here's what makes Hamna's project powerful — the data she is using to help protect this species isn't coming from outside researchers alone. She's pairing underwater photo tracking with the knowledge of veteran Maldivian fishers, captains, and dive guides, turning decades of lived experience on the water into hard conservation data. The result: Maldivians leading the protection of their own waters.

Thanks to our partnership with the Somaha Foundation, conservation leaders like Hamna are receiving the support they need to protect the communities and ecosystems they call home.

Follow us for future funding opportunities and to support our growing community of conservation leaders.

We're always looking for new ways to invest in conservation leaders and can't wait to share what's next.

08/11/2026

"Fat and sassy." 😂🐘

That's how our team at Elephant Havens describes Skondi today.

Six months ago, he was too weak to stand. Now look at him.

He's named for Sekondomboro Village, the community that found him and called for help. Because rescuing an elephant is never one organization's story. It takes a whole community.

Including you.

If Skondi's story has moved you, the best way to honor it is to help us be ready for the next one. Donations to Elephant Havens fund the rescue operations, the specialist milk formula, the veterinary care, and the around-the-clock handler support that keep orphaned elephants alive.

Donate here to join his herd: https://bit.ly/4wuLGTi

Let's give the next one the same chance Skondi got!

08/10/2026

Meet Blondie and Dewie, two lion cubs growing up in the wild. They are being monitored by our Catmosphere with Conservation Nation Fellow, Nicorll Maenzanise, who is working to protect these lions and other lions in Zimbabwe.

Across Africa, lions face growing threats from habitat loss, poaching, and conflict with the communities that share their landscapes. Today, fewer than 24,000 lions remain in the wild and protecting the landscapes where they still roam is more important than ever.

Human-lion conflict is one of the major threats facing lions. Protecting them means finding ways for people and wildlife to safely coexist.

Nicorll Maenzanise is helping make that possible through her work with Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust. Using drones and monitoring collared lions, she tracks their movements and provides early alerts to local communities when lions are nearby—helping prevent human-lion conflict before it happens.

We’re celebrating not just lions on World Lion Day, but the conservationists working to ensure these iconic animals have a future in the wild.

Follow us to learn more about amazing conservationists working to save our planet's animals (visit our website through the link in our bio).

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Protecting wildlife starts with empowering the people protecting it.Around the world, conservationists are tackling some...
08/10/2026

Protecting wildlife starts with empowering the people protecting it.

Around the world, conservationists are tackling some of our planet's biggest challenges—from protecting endangered species and restoring habitats to advancing biodiversity and working alongside local communities.

But too often, the people doing this critical work don't have access to the funding they need.

That's where Conservation Nation comes in.

Conservation Nation invests in the conservationists and organizations protecting wildlife around the world—because lasting conservation starts with empowering the people doing the work.

Through grants, fellowships, education, and collaborative partnerships, we help conservation leaders turn bold ideas into lasting impact.

Elephant Havens is one of those partners.

By supporting organizations on the front lines of conservation, we're helping create a future where more wildlife—and the people dedicated to protecting it—can thrive.

Follow along to discover the conservationists creating change around the world.

🌿 Donate to our fundraiser to support another elephant: https://account.elephanthavens.org/page/SaveSkondi?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=EH%20newsletter&utm_campaign=Conservation%20Nation

🌿 Donate to empower people by visiting Conservation Nation → https://conservationnation.org/give/

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