THREAD 🐢🐺🦒🦍🦏 Today is #EndangeredSpeciesDay 🦏🦍🦒🐺🐢 Here are some of favorite recent Inside Edition stories about the work conservationists are doing to save endangered animals around the world 🌍🌏🌎
The Fernandina tortoise, a species that was thought to be extinct for 113 years, was rediscovered on a Galapagos island in 2019. 🐢
“I believe she can become an icon of wildlife hope." – @ForrestGalante
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.@nywolforg in upstate New York, a team of veterinarians and volunteers "hunt" wolf pups in an effort to save the critically endangered Mexican gray wolf – according to the center, there are only 140 of these wolves in the wild. 🐺
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The @UN is working with organizations like @Save_Giraffe and @AWF_Official to protect endangered giraffes, whose population has dwindled across the African continent from over a million a century ago to about 110,000 today. 🦒
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According to @WWF, the endangered African mountain gorilla is feared to be vulnerable to COVID-19, as they are able to contract similar respiratory illnesses as humans. 🦍
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.@LynneMankwe is a doctor in South Africa whose mission is to stop rhino poaching. She and her team @RhinoEndangered worry the endangered species is under even more threat amid the pandemic, thanks in part to reduced staff due to park closures. 🦏
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