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06/05/2026

Deep in the Ecuadorian Andes, the Cloud Forest is home to more threatened species per square mile than almost anywhere else on Earth.

The Mindo Harlequin Toad hadn't been seen since 1989. Then, in 2019, five toads were rediscovered in the Arlequín Reserve.

While the Harlequin disappeared from every other known site, it has survived only here — in a stretch of pristine cloud forest untouched by development, where fragile species still have a chance.

But the forest is under threat. Deforestation and pollution are closing in — and protecting this land is critical not just for the Harlequin, but for the entire cloud forest ecosystem that depends on it.

Conservation Nation grantee Gabriela Sandoval () is a Ecuadorian biologist and Vice President of the Khamai Foundation (.bio), working to save these biodiverse forests, protect threatened species like the Harlequin Toad, and support the discovery of new species.

With the help of a Conservation Nation grant, Gaby and her team expanded the Arlequín Reserve — the Harlequin's only known home — and launched reforestation efforts to restore the cloud forest for the long term.

Learn more about this and other incredible work happening at .bio — and explore the work of Conservation Nation grantees around the world by visiting our website (link in bio).

📣 Are you a scientist or researcher looking for funding? Our 2026 grant application goes live in June.

Video produced for .bio by .

06/03/2026

Meet our Catmosphere with Conservation Nation Fellow, Nicorll Maenzanise, who is helping to save the lions in Zimbabwe.

Working with the Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust, Nicorll monitors collared lions to prevent conflicts with communities that can cost lions their lives.

But her work goes far beyond monitoring. Nicorll trains the community on wildlife coexistence strategies that will protect lions long-term.

We’re honored to support her work as a Catmosphere with Conservation Nation Fellow.

Free lesson. Real science. Zero prep. NGSS-aligned. And a lesson your students won’t forget.Our newest lesson, Sound Sci...
06/02/2026

Free lesson. Real science. Zero prep. NGSS-aligned. And a lesson your students won’t forget.

Our newest lesson, Sound Science: The Basics of Bioacoustics, is live — and it’s 100% free.

Here’s a glimpse of what’s inside:

🐋 Blue whales produce calls so powerful they travel hundreds of miles underwater — and scientists use those recordings to reroute shipping lanes and protect whale populations in real time.

🐘 Elephants don’t just hear their family’s calls — they feel them. Low-frequency vibrations travel through the ground and are detected through sensitive cells in their feet and trunks.

🌿 When a forest loses biodiversity, it goes quiet. Scientists can now detect ecosystem collapse just by listening — sound has become a health check for the entire natural world.

This is the kind of science that inspires learning.

🎬 Video lesson with a real wildlife scientist 📝 Built-in quizzes and activities ✅ Everything ready to go — just hit play

👩‍🏫 Teachers — grab it free at our website (link in bio) and get ready early for next year.

💚 Believe every student deserves access to real science? Help us keep building free lessons for classrooms everywhere. Donate by visiting our website (link in bio)

06/01/2026

Meet our Catmosphere with Conservation Nation Fellow, Julee Jerang, who is helping to save tigers in India.

What happens when young people leave their ancestral lands and lose their connection to wildlife, they once consider sacred?

That’s the question driving Julee’s work.

Her work is deeply personal - rooted in her own identity and community. Julee is from the Bori community in Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh, India - and she’s studying how cultural change and shifting human presence are influencing Bori connections to wildlife, including the long-revered tiger.

She’s the first from her community to pursue a Ph.D. And she learned about this fellowship through our past fellow, Deepshikha Sharma — a reminder of what it means when women in conservation lift each other up.

We’re honored to support her work as a Catmosphere with Conservation Nation Fellow.

✨ Look what our grantee Gabriela Sandoval () is up to ✨When the Mindo Harlequin Toad — once thought extinct — was redisc...
05/29/2026

✨ Look what our grantee Gabriela Sandoval () is up to ✨

When the Mindo Harlequin Toad — once thought extinct — was rediscovered in Ecuador’s cloud forests in 2019, only five toads were found.

Today, thanks to dedicated conservation efforts, that number has grown — and Conservation Nation grantee Gabriela Sandoval is working to make sure it keeps rising. 🐸

Through her work with .bio, Gabriela and her team have:

• Expanded the Arlequín Reserve — the Harlequin’s only known home — by purchasing critical land
• Launched reforestation efforts to restore the cloud forest ecosystem
• Continued monitoring and protecting the Mindo Harlequin Toad population

Preserving species like the Mindo Harlequin Toad means preserving entire ecosystems — and Gabriela is helping make that possible.

In her own words:

“Your contribution goes far beyond just funding… it was a light of hope that enabled us to secure the protection of this fragile ecosystem at Mindo and has given us a real boost to keep working for the survival of species like the Mindo Harlequin Toad. We are truly grateful to have you alongside us in this mission.” 💚

📣 Inspired by leaders like Gabriela?

📚Conservation Nation’s 2026 grant application opens this June — and we can’t wait to support the next generation of conservation changemakers.

🪴Help us support more people like Gabriela by following us or donating on our website (link in bio).

🌳Learn more about .bio and support the great work that Gaby and her team is doing in Ecuador.

05/28/2026

Meet our Catmosphere with Conservation Nation Fellow, , who is helping to protect Caribbean parrots in the Dominican Republic. 🦜🇩🇴

The Caribbean parrots are one of the most endangered bird groups on Earth. Now, as a with Fellow, Andrea is helping communities protect these parrots through science, education, and local action.

Because conservation doesn’t happen alone - it happens when people work together.

We’re honored to support her work as a Catmosphere with Conservation Nation Fellow.

We’re thrilled to announce that is partnering with us again to support three new Fellows working to protect wildlife ac...
05/26/2026

We’re thrilled to announce that is partnering with us again to support three new Fellows working to protect wildlife across three continents.

Congratulations to our three new fellows, Andrea Thomen, Julee Jerang, and Nicorll Maenzanise!

From the Caribbean to the Himalayas to southern Africa, these three women are leading conservation from within their own communities.

Andrea Thomen is working to save Hispaniolan parrots in the Dominican Republic, among the most vulnerable bird groups in the world.

Julee Jerang is studying how rural-to-urban migration among the Indigenous Bori people in Arunachal Pradesh, India is reshaping the community's relationship with tigers.

Nicorll Maenzanise is protecting lions in Zimbabwe through lion monitoring and meaningfully engaging the local community to promote wildlife coexistence.

We can't wait to share more of their stories and impact, so stay tuned!

Student, Charlotte from presented to students about her trip to Yellowstone where she got to track wolves with and di...
05/26/2026

Student, Charlotte from presented to students about her trip to Yellowstone where she got to track wolves with and did such an amazing job educating and inspiring her peers.

Students from both schools will join Conservation Nation and in Yellowstone to track wolves and experience outdoor learning in June. We can’t wait to help inspire more kids to become passionate about wildlife and conservation through experiencing nature firsthand.

Inspire awe. Create learning. Protect nature.

Through Catmosphere’s partnership with Conservation Nation, we helped support our two extraordinary fellows and their co...
05/25/2026

Through Catmosphere’s partnership with Conservation Nation, we helped support our two extraordinary fellows and their conservation work—Deepshikha Sharma and Yamat Lengai.

Deepshikha leads the Women for Snow Leopard initiative in the Himalayas, empowering local women to become monitors of snow leopard populations. Through the Catmosphere with Conservation Nation Fellowship, Deepshikha was able to train 30 women across 4 villages, tagging over 1 million snow leopard images, and monitoring 83 individual snow leopards.

Yamat traveled across northern Tanzania with African People & Wildlife, working to reduce human-wildlife conflict and build coexistence between communities and big cats. She trained herders, supported the installation of 50 Living Walls to protect livestock, and educated communities on the vital role lions play in healthy ecosystems.

Stay tuned — thanks to Catmosphere's continued support, we're thrilled to announce three new fellows.

05/18/2026

Some kids never stop loving animals. They just grow up and protect them.

As a little girl, Dr. Joanna Lambert could sit for hours just watching animals.

But she didn’t grow up knowing wildlife conservation was even a real career.

So she worked for it. Multiple jobs. Years of school.
Staying tenacious even when the path wasn’t easy.

Then one day, a professor told her: “You’ve paid your dues. Want to join my project in Africa?”
And there was no going back.

Today, Dr. Lambert studies the sounds of wildlife and helps protect species through bioacoustics—the science of listening to nature.

💬 What childhood passion has stayed with you into adulthood?

A reminder that the thing you loved as a kid might still be trying to tell you something.

Dr. Lambert is one of the scientists behind Sound Science: The Basics of Bioacoustics, our free-NGSS teacher-ready lesson.

Visit our website (link in bio) to learn more and discover how listening to nature can help protect wildlife.

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