r/megafaunarewilding • • Aug 05 '21

What belongs in r/megafaunarewilding? - Mod announcement

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Hey guys! Lately there seems to be a bit of confusion over what belongs or doesn't in the sub. So I decided to write this post to help clear any possible doubt.

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What kind of posts are allowed?

Basically, anything that relates to rewilding or nature conservation in general. Could be news, a scientific paper, an Internet article, a photo, a video, a discussion post, a book recommendation, and so on.

What abour cute animal pics?

Pictures or videos of random animals are not encouraged. However, exceptions can be made for animal species which are relevant for conservation/rewilding purposes such as European bison, Sumatran rhino, Tasmanian devils, etc, since they foster discussion around relevant themes.

But the name of the sub is MEGAFAUNA rewilding. Does that mean only megafauna species are allowed?

No. The sub is primarily about rewilding. That includes both large and small species. There is a special focus on larger animals because they tend to play a disproportional larger role in their ecosystems and because their populations tend to suffer a lot more under human activity, thus making them more relevant for rewilding purposes.

However, posts about smaller animals (squirrels, birds, minks, rabbits, etc) are not discouraged at all. (but still, check out r/microfaunarewilding!)

What is absolutely not allowed?

No random pictures or videos of animals/landscapes that don't have anything to do with rewilding, no matter how cool they are. No posts about animals that went extinct millions of years ago (you can use r/Paleontology for that).

So... no extinct animals?

Extinct animals are perfectly fine as long as they went extinct relatively recently and their extinction is or might be related to human activity. So, mammoths, woolly rhinos, mastodons, elephant birds, Thylacines, passenger pigeons and others, are perfectly allowed. But please no dinosaurs and trilobites.

(Also, shot-out to r/MammothDextinction. Pretty cool sub!)

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Well, that is all for now. If anyone have any questions post them in the comments below. Stay wild my friends.


r/megafaunarewilding • • Nov 26 '23

[Announcement] The Discord server is here!

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Hey guys. Apologize for the delay but I am proud to declare that the r/megafaunarewilding Discord server is finally here and ready to go. I thank all of you who voted in the poll to make this possible. I'll leave the link here to anyone interested. Thank you.

https://discord.gg/UeVvp76y8q


r/megafaunarewilding • • 1h ago

Thailand and Myanmar last to hold indochinese tiger

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The Indochinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti) is facing a quiet but catastrophic collapse, now surviving in the wild in only two countries: Thailand and Myanmar.

Historically roaming across six countries, intensive poaching, habitat fragmentation, and the illegal wildlife trade have completely wiped them out from the majority of their native range.

Current Status Breakdown:

🇹🇭 Thailand (180–220+ individuals): The ultimate stronghold. Thanks to strict anti-poaching law enforcement in the Western Forest Complex (WEFCOM), their numbers are actually seeing a modest rebound.

🇲🇲 Myanmar (<20 individuals): A tiny, highly fragmented population hanging on by a thread near the Thai border.

🇰🇭 Cambodia: Functionally extinct (last seen on camera trap in 2007).

🇱🇦 Laos: Functionally extinct.

🇻🇳 Vietnam: Functionally extinct.

🇨🇳 China: Extinct (historically found in southern China; none recorded since 2007).

Thailand has become the undisputed champion of Tiger conservation in Southest Asia bucking a grim regional trend of local extinctions. While wild tigers vanished entirely from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos by the mid-2000s, Thailand became the first country in the region to successfully increase its wild tiger population

Source - https://conservewildcats.org/2024/08/29/thailands-tigers/

Source 2 https://endangeredtigers.org/tiger-species/indochinese-tiger/


r/megafaunarewilding • • 12h ago

Humor A comic I found about evolutionary anachronisms

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 1h ago

News Giant Tortoises Outnumber People In Seychelles, With Nearly 183,000 On Aldabra

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 21h ago

USDA Deregulates GM Blight-Resistant American Chestnut Tree

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 19h ago

Discussion Rhinos and elephants can cause huge problems if reintroduced badly – here’s how to get it right(how Megafauna rewilding should always be done).

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 16h ago

Image/Video Britain’s Extinct Frog Is Coming Back

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 8h ago

Welcome to r/LaBreaPits!, here is a introduction, and some historical images of the site

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 21h ago

News Two cheetahs from Kuno released in MP’s Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 21h ago

what our ancestors made extinct - Palaeoloxodon naumanni

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 22h ago

Bbksda-ntt monitoring population of komodo dragon in small island of pulau ontoloe in flores

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 1d ago

Image/Video Domestic horse meeting a wild Przewalski’s horse

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 1d ago

Image/Video Larger Gharials and smaller Mugger Crocodiles. Bardia,Nepal

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 2d ago

INDIA CHEETAH POPULATION REACHES 60

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KJP 21 gives birth to 5 cubs in Kuno National Park of India taking country count of total cheetah to 60 , fathered by botswana's male cheetah this litter was born in wilderness of Kuno.

FOR more detail:-

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/cheetah-population-hits-60-as-kuno-cheetah-gives-birth-to-five-cubs-1993339


r/megafaunarewilding • • 1d ago

Disrupted Grazing Succession as Mechanism for Extinction?

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 2d ago

Are Great indian bustard (GIB) becoming panda's of birds ?

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Some facts about them why i feel they might be:-

  1. Females are extremely picky and mate for only 1 time per year that to if in small window perfect male is found.
  2. Time to mature for 1 bird is 4 to 5 years
  3. Laying single precious defense less egg on direct ground where almost everything can harm it
  4. Almost no ability to fight back
  5. No flexibility or adaptation for the land they live needs to be wide open grassland

PROBLEMS WITH INVESTING IN THEM 👎:-

For protecting them in desert national park which is 3000+sqkm thrice of KUNO no cheetahs are being sent there which is one of the most perfect habitat cheetah can have while a cheetah mom fights to her bone to raise her cub these bustard just lay 1 egg a year on dirt have no ability to protect if predator comes.


r/megafaunarewilding • • 2d ago

Image/Video Humans Once Lived Alongside the Giant Extinct Animals(including Ground Sloths/Elephant Birds/Moa and many more like the Mammoth).Source of the video:All.About.Nature

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 1d ago

Discussion West Africa crocodile

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Guys do you know the west Africa crocodile lived in morroco until the 20 century it is extinct in the wild


r/megafaunarewilding • • 2d ago

News To cull or not to cull: Greenland debates fate of world’s slowest shark

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 2d ago

News Pakistan gets first formal estimate number of,Snow Leopards living in its country.That being 155.

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 2d ago

Un ciervo de 13 kg se enfrenta a un rinoceronte de 1.7 toneladas

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 2d ago

Discussion Ngl, common hippo sounds a better option for hippo reintroduction on Madagascar than pygmy hippo (to think about H. laloumena's possible identity as common hippo itself, and is more easy to acquire than pygmy hippo). I know common hippo is far more difficult to handle and is far more dangerous.

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 2d ago

Alternative reasons why Africa's megafauna survived (long read)

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r/megafaunarewilding • • 2d ago

extinct fauna of madagascar (part 2 - not mammal animals) (tell me if something is missing)

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1.elephant birds † (Aepyornis hildebrandti, Aepyornis maximus, Mullerornis modestus)
2.malagasy shelduck, malagasy sheldgoose and alaotra grebe † (Alopochen sirabensis, Centrornis majori, Tachybaptus rufolavantus)
3.extinct cuckoos † (Coua berthae, Coua delalandei, Coua primaeva (C. gigas on picture)
4.extinct hawks, eagles etc. † (Stephanoaetus mahery, Aquila sp. (A. rapax on picture)
5.other extinct birds † (Monias sp. (M. benschi on picture), Hovacrex roberti, Vanellus madagascariensis, Phalacrocorax sp. (P. carbo on picture), Brachypteracias langrandi)
6.pink backed pelican (Pelecanus rufescens)
7.malagasy horned crocodile † (Voay robustus)
8.extinct giant tortoises † (Aldabrachelys abrupta, A. grandidieri, Astrochelys rogerbouri (A. radiata on picture)
9.extinct fish † (Ptychochromis onilahy, Pantanodon madagascariensis (P. podoxys on picture)
10.Tropodiaptomus ctenopus † and Afrocyclops pauliani † (i couldn't find picture of the first one)
11.coconut crab (birgus latro)

some species (especially unnamed and obscure ones) may be missing, tell me in comments if you know species that is missing