This week, over 900 households in Sweetwater, Texas are getting handwritten letters from kids asking them to help stop the slaughter at their town's annual rattlesnake roundup. I was struck by this quote, which is 100% spot on. 1/6

Can you tell what this is? Answer is in next tweet. 📷 Marisa Ishimatsu

Meet the newest member of the Conservation Division and the Coordinator for Conservation Engagement at the Los Angeles Zoo ! #NewProfilePic #NewJob #NewMe

This nest definitely has 3 bedrooms, a game room, movie theatre, and hot tub. Possibly a bowling alley in the basement.

if you’re going to Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) conference and don’t have Friday evening plans, consider snagging a spot to this beat dinner hosted by National Parks Conservation Association Priya Nanjappa, Sammy Roth and I will be talking national parks and public lands

Pure brilliance

A teensy weensy slender mander

A juvenile intergrade between the Barred Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma mavortium mavortium) and the Arizona Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma mavortium nebulosum) from Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.

🧵May is #AAPIHeritageMonth and every day this month we are going to introduce you to the best #AAPI conservation leaders we know First up is American Progress's @taotaotasi, a leader in the #30x30 and #DecolonizeConservation discussion on the ocean #30x30AAPI americanprogress.org/article/5-ways…

Back from a few wonderful days in Channel Islands National Park. Lots of photos to come including some cool behavior but to start with; a simple photo of the park's most famous resident: The island fox (Urocyon littoralis). A dwarf fox species endemic to the islands.

11/ Priya Nanjappa is the VP of conservation programs at National Parks Conservation Association and the Public Lands co-lead with the America The Beautiful For All Coalition coalition sciandtell.org/episode/priya-…

Okay, let's review. Venomous = You GET BIT by something, you might get to ride in the weeewhoo wagon (🚑) Posionous = YOU BITE something, you might get to ride in the weeewhoo wagon (🚑) Hope this helps.

I had to work but instead I made this. #bird

Wow, things just keep getting weirder here. Anyway, enjoy this Great Basin Spadefoot (Spea intermontana) warming itself on a paved road just after sunset in Montezuma County, Colorado, USA.

On what would have been his 82nd birthday, the White House honors Emmett Till and his mother with a national monument. "We can't forget," said Alan Spears of National Parks Conservation Association who worked on the designation. Here's how the three sites tell his story and role in the civil rights movement.

I’ve had enough of this.

Divergent evolution in plague doctors. (I am nearly sure this idea has been done before, but I couldn’t resist the shoebill version.)

My new favourite osprey nest.

#ObamaDay