r/megafaunarewilding Mar 05 '26

Helping equip forest guards in Bandipur Tiger Reserve with life-saving night patrol gear

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Help Protect the People Who Protect Our Forests

For over 27 years, Adavi Alert Foundation has worked with one belief:

When front-line forest staff are protected, forests thrive.

Forest guards walk deep into dangerous terrain every single day so wildlife can survive. They patrol at night, face poachers and wild animals, manage human–wildlife conflict, and protect endangered species — often with limited resources and far from their families.

Right now, we are raising funds to provide high-power field flashlights and long-range thrower flashlights to front-line forest staff in the Gundre Range of Bandipur Tiger Reserve.

Why this matters:

Forest patrols don’t stop after sunset. In dense forest, visibility can mean the difference between safety and danger.

These flashlights are critical tools used during:

  • Night patrols
  • Anti-poaching operations
  • Human–wildlife conflict response
  • Emergency situations in dense terrain

This is a highly sensitive interstate forest boundary area with critical wildlife habitat. Proper lighting directly improves safety and operational effectiveness.

What your donation supports:

  • Improved visibility during night operations
  • Reduced risk for forest guards
  • Better protection for wildlife and local communities

Every flashlight funded makes the forest safer.

If you’d like to support or learn more about the campaign:

http://m-lp.co/forestfr-1?utm_medium=campaign_page_share&utm_source=copy

This also provides images of our previous support activities to forest department.

About our organization : https://adavialert.org/

Happy to answer any questions about the project, logistics, or transparency.

Thank you for reading


r/megafaunarewilding Dec 19 '25

Sign the Petition: End the mountain lion elimination study in Utah

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r/megafaunarewilding 4h ago

Latest Substack about the extinction of the Heath Hen and de-extinction efforts is now live!

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r/megafaunarewilding 3h ago

Discussion Drop your favorite rewilding media here 👇

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Can be Youtube channels, blogs, websites, podcasts, books, organizations, whatever. I'll start with a few.

Mossy Earth - focuses on restoring degraded landscapes and restoring natural processes. They have videos of restoring a wetland in Portugal, another in the Amazon rainforest, and so on.

Planet Wild - A bit like Mossy Earth. Focuses on restoring degraded areas, solving human-wildlife conflict and boosting biodiversity, with projects all over the world.

The Breeding-back blog - Most of the people here are likely already aware of this one. Focuses on breeding-back lost species, with special emphasis on the Aurochs. Closely documents Aurochs breeding-back projects such as Taur0s or Auerrind Project.


r/megafaunarewilding 1d ago

Humor Feral Pig solution for Texas

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r/megafaunarewilding 1d ago

Some Mammalian Fauna, Flora, and Pics of Badghyz and Karabil Semi-Desert

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r/megafaunarewilding 1d ago

MAGA conspiracy theorist pounced on by mountain lion reintroduction

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Facebook: RE NJ pine barrens deer over population issue on local “news” site

In New Jersey deer overpopulation spread spreads tick diseases plus the deer suffer and starve in the cold. Plus cause automobile crashes.

Hunting is the worst option here, obviously predators would be the answer. However, the fluffy bunny crowd adamantly oppose hunting.


r/megafaunarewilding 2d ago

Humor Coexistence, Never Heard Of It

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r/megafaunarewilding 2d ago

Image/Video Why Are There No Wild Cows?

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r/megafaunarewilding 3d ago

Article Gray Whales are suffering catastrophic population decline in The Pacific Ocean

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r/megafaunarewilding 3d ago

Article Beavers flourish in Tidal Habitats in The Pacific Northwest, study finds

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151 Upvotes

r/megafaunarewilding 4d ago

Image/Video Ngorongoro Crater: A Giant Bull Tusker and Three Massive Male Lions

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684 Upvotes

r/megafaunarewilding 4d ago

PORTUGAL’S LAST CIRCUS ELEPHANT ARRIVES AT EUROPE’S FIRST LARGE-SCALE SANCTUARY

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r/megafaunarewilding 4d ago

Coastal asiatic lions depend mainly on wild prey, study finds

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r/megafaunarewilding 4d ago

Image/Video Bison Roam Wild In Cumbria, England For The First Time In 6,000 Years

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r/megafaunarewilding 4d ago

Image/Video Preserving and Rewilding the Lost Ecosystem of the American South.

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In my opinion the Longleaf pine barrens of the American south is one of the most overlooked ecosystems in the United States, and also one of the most tragic. This continuous habitat of pine savanna once stretched as much as 92 million acres, but during the reconstruction era after the civil war it was discovered that the sap of Longleaf pine could readily be made into many industrial products like turpentine, pitch, tar, paint, varnishes, and even early plastics. For the impoverished south this meant an easy source of much needed cash, but for the many species that were endemic to Longleaf pine ecosystems, like the gopher tortoise, red-cockaded woodpecker, and indigo snake, it meant the loss of their home to the point many of them are now endangered or threatened.

This documentary goes over the ongoing efforts to rewild the species listed above, from physically relocating colonies of birds, to rescuing tortoises from construction sites, to breeding programs.

Side note: at there lowest point in the 1980’s Longleaf pine forest covered less than 3.8 million acres, but thanks to the work of various conservation organizations Longleaf pine’s have reclaimed roughly 2 million acres of their historic range in the last 30 years.


r/megafaunarewilding 5d ago

Image/Video Just a reminder that what we still have is truly amazing

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Also here is another


r/megafaunarewilding 5d ago

Image/Video An example of the top-down trophic cascade in action. BC cougar kills a moose which then feeds a wide array of carnivores and scavengers.

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r/megafaunarewilding 5d ago

Article ‘Beasts Of The East’ chronicles the unheralded restoration successes of America’s Eastern Sildlife

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r/megafaunarewilding 5d ago

How Chinese tourism fuels animal trafficking | On the Ground

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r/megafaunarewilding 5d ago

The population of Marsican Brown Bears in Central Italy is increasing

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I'm sharing this article (unfortunately only in Italian) published by the Abruzzo National Park in Central Italy on the results of the 2025 population estimate of the Marsican brown bear. This is encouraging news for an endemic species of the Apennines that is at risk of extinction.

The survey found that the number of Marsican brown bears in the Apennines has increased compared with the previous estimate conducted in 2015. Based onthe genetic sampling carried out by the Abruzzo National Park n 2025, the population is now estimated at 81 individuals within the national park and the surrounding areas (43 females and 38 males), with a confidence interval ranging from 73 to 88 bears. In 2015, the population was estimated at around 50 individuals.

THe most significant finding is that the bear’s range is expanding. The estimate shows that, within the national park, the bear population has remained essentially stable, with only a slight increase, while the growth outside the park has been much more substantial.


r/megafaunarewilding 5d ago

News South Africa's Free-Roaming Cheetahs In Steep Decline, First National Census Finds

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r/megafaunarewilding 5d ago

Image/Video BC tom feeding on its massive adult wild horse kill

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190 Upvotes

r/megafaunarewilding 5d ago

Article Saudi conservation program boosts endangered red-necked ostrich population

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r/megafaunarewilding 6d ago

Image/Video The Fauna Of Kiasar National Park, Iran

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811 Upvotes

Footage Credit: Amirhosein Gohardehi

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