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The Map · 30 cards
Every circle is the generalized region a card carries, at least 25 km in radius and never an exact location. Open a species for its range in words, the organizations the card cites, and its one act.
Northern Gulf of California, Mexico
Regions: Northern Gulf of California · ~90 km
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Vaquita campaign
Ship-based patrols in the vaquita's refuge, working alongside Mexican authorities to find and remove illegal gillnets.
VaquitaCPR
International recovery consortium
A consortium of scientists and conservation organizations coordinating research and recovery work for the vaquita.
Temperate forests of the Russian Far East and northeast China
Regions: Russian Far East borderlands · ~130 km
WWF-UK
Adopt an Amur leopard
WWF’s species adoption programme, which funds its conservation work in the Amur leopard’s landscape.
The act: WWF-UK — Meet the leopard’s forest ↗
Predator-free island and fenced sanctuaries, New Zealand
Regions: Southern predator-free islands · ~80 km
NZ Department of Conservation
Kākāpō Recovery
The national programme, run with Ngāi Tahu, that monitors and manages every living kākāpō on predator-free sanctuaries.
The act: NZ Department of Conservation — Meet Kākāpō Recovery ↗
Canals of Xochimilco, southern Mexico City, Mexico
Regions: Xochimilco canals, southern Mexico City · ~25 km
The act: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance — Understand the water it needs ↗
North America, overwintering in central Mexico and coastal California
Regions: Overwintering forests, central Mexico · ~60 km · Western overwintering coast, California · ~150 km
Xerces Society
Monarch conservation
Regional milkweed and nectar-plant guides, overwintering-site protection, and community science for monarch recovery.
Monarch Watch
Tagging & waystations
University of Kansas programme for monarch tagging, research, and registering pollinator waystation habitat.
Ujung Kulon National Park, Java, Indonesia
Regions: Ujung Kulon National Park, Java · ~30 km
International Rhino Foundation
Rhino Protection Units
Funds trained anti-poaching units that intensively patrol Ujung Kulon National Park, the only place on Earth Javan rhinos survive.
Save the Rhino International
Ujung Kulon programme
Supports anti-poaching patrols, camera-trap monitoring of the whole population, and research toward a possible second site for the species.
The act: International Rhino Foundation — Meet the last Javan rhinos ↗
Virunga Massif and Bwindi, East-Central Africa
Regions: Virunga Massif · ~30 km · Bwindi Impenetrable National Park · ~25 km
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
Daily protection
Teams of more than a hundred expert trackers walk to the gorillas every day, directly protecting about half of Rwanda's mountain gorillas.
Gorilla Doctors
Wild veterinary care
The only veterinary team treating wild eastern gorillas, monitoring nearly 800 habituated gorillas and freeing snared animals with a 98% survival rate.
The act: WWF-UK — Read the recovery story ↗
Western North Atlantic, Florida to Canada
Regions: Gulf of Maine & Cape Cod Bay · ~200 km · Southeast calving grounds · ~150 km
New England Aquarium
Right Whale Catalog
Anderson Cabot Center scientists have photo-identified every known right whale since 1980, tracking each one's births, injuries, and health.
NOAA Fisheries
Vessel strike reduction
Requires large vessels to slow to ten knots in seasonal management areas and declares voluntary slow zones wherever right whales are detected.
High mountains of Central and South Asia
Regions: Himalaya & Tibetan Plateau · ~750 km · Altai & Tien Shan ranges · ~800 km
Snow Leopard Trust
Snow Leopard Enterprises
Over 400 herder women in 40 communities sell handmade wool goods, raising income up to 40% while their communities pledge to protect the cats.
Panthera
Snow Leopard Program
Surveys populations, trains national biologists, and builds predator-proof corrals that protect about 25 snow leopards a year in Ladakh.
The act: Snow Leopard Trust — Learn the cat's real numbers ↗
California, Arizona–Utah, and Baja California
Regions: Central California coast ranges · ~90 km · Grand Canyon & Vermilion Cliffs · ~120 km
Ventana Wildlife Society
Free non-lead ammunition
Has given central-California hunters and ranchers over 19,000 free boxes of non-lead ammunition since 2012, removing lead from the condor's food supply at its source.
The Peregrine Fund
Condor restoration
Breeds condors and has released them at Vermilion Cliffs since 1996 — more than a hundred now fly free over the Grand Canyon region.
Annamite Mountains, Vietnam–Laos border
Regions: Northern Annamite Mountains · ~200 km · Central Annamite Mountains · ~150 km
Saola Foundation
Save Saola
Searches for surviving saola in Laos and works toward a conservation breeding program for eventual return to the wild.
Re:wild
Saola emergency response
With the EU and WWF-Viet Nam: eDNA and camera-trap searches, snare-free safe havens, and the first Annamites breeding center at Bach Ma National Park.
The act: Re:wild — Meet the Asian unicorn ↗
Northern Sumatra, chiefly the Leuser Ecosystem
Regions: Leuser Ecosystem · ~150 km · West Toba landscape · ~120 km
Sumatran Orangutan Society
Forest restoration & rescue
Has replanted over 2,000 hectares with more than two million trees and supports the rescue unit that has saved over 200 orangutans.
WWF-UK
Orangutan protection
Funds monitoring of wild orangutans and helps create protected areas of rainforest in Sumatra and Borneo.
The act: WWF-UK — Read the orangutan's case ↗
Tropical reefs of the Atlantic, Pacific & Indian Oceans
Regions: Caribbean reefs · ~900 km · Coral Triangle & northern Australia · ~1000 km
Sea Turtle Conservancy
Satellite tracking
Tags hawksbills and other sea turtles across the Caribbean and beyond, publishing live migration maps anyone can follow.
NOAA Fisheries
Recovery & bycatch reduction
Runs the US recovery plans, requires turtle excluder devices in trawls, and enforces the international trade ban on tortoiseshell.
Canada's boreal wetlands to the Texas Gulf coast
Regions: Wood Buffalo National Park · ~100 km · Aransas National Wildlife Refuge · ~40 km
International Crane Foundation
Texas Program
Protects the wintering grounds of the last natural flock, including the river flows that keep Aransas rich in blue crabs.
Texas Parks & Wildlife
Texas Whooper Watch
Community scientists log crane sightings to map stopover sites and hazards along the migration.
The act: International Crane Foundation — Read the crane's comeback ↗
Rivers of northern India and Nepal
Regions: National Chambal Sanctuary · ~120 km · Chitwan rivers, Nepal · ~60 km
WWF India
Gharial reintroduction
With Uttar Pradesh's forest department, has released 973 captive-reared gharials into the Ganga's rivers since 2009.
Madras Crocodile Bank Trust
Gharial Ecology Project
Runs the long-term research station on the Chambal River, home to about three-quarters of the world's adult gharials.
Southern Spain and Portugal
Regions: Sierra Morena highlands · ~45 km · Doñana · ~30 km
LIFE LynxConnect
One connected population
The EU project stitching six separate lynx nuclei into a single genetically connected metapopulation across Spain and Portugal.
Fundación CBD-Habitat
Lynx land stewardship
Works with private estates on rabbit recovery, habitat management, and hazard mitigation in lynx country.
Upper Midwest and eastern United States
Regions: Upper Midwest stronghold · ~400 km · Northeast remnants · ~400 km
Xerces Society and partners
Bumble Bee Watch
Community science: photograph any bumble bee, upload it, and experts verify the sighting to map what survives where.
Xerces Society
Bring Back the Pollinators
Four commitments anyone can sign: grow pollinator-friendly flowers, provide nest sites, avoid pesticides, spread the word.
The act: Xerces Society — Find native plants for your region ↗
Russian Far East and northeast China
Regions: Sikhote-Alin mountains · ~175 km · Southwest Primorye border forests · ~60 km
Wildlife Conservation Society
Tiger program
Monitors Sikhote-Alin tigers with camera traps running since 1992 and backs rangers with the intelligence that catches poachers and traffickers.
Amur Tiger Center
Russian tiger census & recovery
Runs Russia's tiger census, helps communities live alongside tigers, and coordinates the national recovery program.
The act: Smithsonian's National Zoo — Meet the largest cat ↗
Atlantic Forest of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil
Regions: São João River basin · ~40 km
Save the Golden Lion Tamarin
Grow Trees for GLTs
Local farmers grow native seedlings that are planted as forest corridors reconnecting the fragments tamarins live in.
Smithsonian's National Zoo
GLT Conservation Program
The Smithsonian-founded program behind the captive breeding and reintroduction, still active in research, education, and habitat restoration.
The act: Smithsonian's National Zoo — Read the rebuilding story ↗
Middle and lower Yangtze River, China
Regions: Middle Yangtze mainstem · ~80 km · Poyang Lake · ~50 km
WWF River Dolphin Rivers Initiative
Yangtze porpoise protection
Monitors the population, supports relocations to safe waters, and works with former fishers along the river.
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tian'ezhou oxbow reserves
Ex-situ reserves in quiet oxbow lakes now hold more than 150 porpoises, with roughly ten calves born each year.
Luzon, Samar, Leyte, and Mindanao, the Philippines
Regions: Mindanao mountain forests · ~150 km · Luzon Sierra Madre · ~150 km
Philippine Eagle Foundation
Forest Guard Program
Forest guards from local and Indigenous communities patrol nesting forests — over 200 traps removed and 11,000 native trees planted.
Philippine Eagle Foundation
Adopt a Philippine Eagle
Funds food, veterinary care, and safe spaces for rescued and breeding eagles at the Philippine Eagle Center.
The act: Philippine Eagle Foundation — Meet the great forest eagle ↗
Afroalpine highlands of Ethiopia
Regions: Bale Mountains · ~45 km · Simien Mountains · ~30 km
Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme
One Health vaccination
Oral rabies vaccines hidden in meat for wolves, and over 3,000 village dogs vaccinated each year to stop spillover at its source.
WildCRU, University of Oxford
Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme
Founded in 1995: intensive monitoring, vaccination campaigns, community capacity building, and conservation translocations.
The act: Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme — Meet the mountain wolf ↗
Chukotka, Russia to the coasts of Southeast Asia
Regions: Chukotka breeding coast · ~300 km · Gulf of Mottama · ~100 km
WWT
Spoonie programme
Headstarting on the Chukotka tundra with Birds Russia, and the Slimbridge conservation-breeding ark.
EAAFP
Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force
Coordinates the species action plan along the whole flyway, from Russian breeding grounds to Southeast Asian mudflats.
The act: WWT — Meet the spoonie ↗
Mountain rivers of central and southern China
Regions: Qinling–Daba mountain streams · ~300 km · South-central China uplands · ~350 km
ZSL
Giant salamander conservation
Since 2010: the landmark range-wide surveys, farm and disease assessment, Chinese EDGE fellows, and the 2024 action plan.
London Zoo
Professor Lew, ambassador
A giant salamander rescued from the illegal wildlife trade by UK Border Force now speaks for his species at London Zoo.
The act: ZSL — Read the farm paradox ↗
Florida, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean
Regions: Florida Keys reef tract · ~140 km · Caribbean & Bahamas · ~1000 km
Coral Restoration Foundation
Coral Tree nurseries
Grows staghorn fragments on underwater trees and outplants them to the reef in same-genotype cohorts that fuse into thickets.
NOAA Fisheries
Mission: Iconic Reefs
Restoring seven Florida Keys reef sites toward 25% coral cover, with staghorn planted across the mission's phases.
Gulf of Mexico and the US Atlantic coast
Regions: Rancho Nuevo nesting beach · ~50 km · Gulf of Mexico foraging waters · ~600 km
National Park Service
Padre Island turtle recovery
The Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery guards the second nesting colony that the bi-national program built egg by egg.
NOAA Fisheries
Bi-national recovery plan
The US-Mexico recovery plan protects Rancho Nuevo, requires turtle excluder devices, and coordinates the species' management.
Albemarle Peninsula, eastern North Carolina
Regions: Albemarle Peninsula · ~60 km
North Carolina Zoo
Red Wolf SAFE breeding
Houses one of the world's largest breeding packs — 42 pups since 2016 — and fosters zoo-born pups into wild dens.
Red Wolf Coalition
Coexistence & education
Works from Columbia, North Carolina on education, advocacy, and compensation that helps landowners live alongside the wolves.
Hawaiʻi — bred in care, returning to Maui's forests
Regions: Kaʻū & Kona forests, Hawaiʻi Island · ~60 km · East Maui release forests · ~25 km
Hawaiʻi DLNR
The ʻAlalā Project
The state-led partnership returning the ʻalalā to the wild — the 2024 Maui release is its newest chapter.
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
ʻAlalā Recovery Program
Runs the Keauhou and Maui Bird Conservation Centers, where genetics-guided breeding grew the species from under twenty birds.
A secret canyon in Wollemi National Park, Australia
Regions: Wollemi National Park · ~60 km
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
Wollemi pine conservation project
Restricted access, translocated backup groves, a seed bank, and the living collection at Mount Annan.
Botanic Gardens of Sydney
Research & global meta-collection
Propagation science, the I Spy citizen survey of cultivated trees, and a genetically diverse collection shared with gardens worldwide.
The act: NSW National Parks — Read the dinosaur tree's story ↗
Ranges stay general on purpose. Witness never publishes a location that could help someone find an animal already under pressure.
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