Shannon Noelle Rivera

Find me on bsky instead🦋 @ | Conservation researcher w @UNODC, @USFWSIntl, @SCBOceania | IWT, Gender, Evidence, Crime

[Shannon Noelle Rivera @_ShannonRivera]

⚠️: Please find me on b sky 🦋

[Shannon Noelle Rivera @_ShannonRivera]

📍 #DYK In Peru, USAID helped include wildlife trafficking in the organized crime framework for the country - allowing more resources to fund much-needed state sanctioned environmental prosecutors.

#Peru is now able to prosecute wildlife crimes more effectively.

[Shannon Noelle Rivera @_ShannonRivera]

📍 #DYK In Kenya, USAID supported 1,100 community scouts patrolling 7.3M hectares of habitat for critically important wildlife — that’s like having community patrols protect an area nearly the size of the state of Maine.

#kenya #CommunityBuilding #wildlife

[Shannon Noelle Rivera @_ShannonRivera]

Add Antarctic tidepooling to your list🤘🏽
This echinoderm needs to survive in temperatures as low as -1.8°C (28.8°F) using antifreeze proteins, plus it’s cute.

#antarctica #seastar #starfish

[Shannon Noelle Rivera @_ShannonRivera]

A sooty albatross at Cape Horn 🥹

[That Bird Guy! @JeffreyMWard]

What was your first bird of 2025?

[Shannon Noelle Rivera @_ShannonRivera]

We were the first humans to have ever kayaked this uncharted glacial lake in South Georgia.

It just so happened to have a rather undocumented king penguin colony on its edge. Probably over 100,000 birds

Definitely not aspiring for a normal life. #antarctica #penguins #Christmas

[Shannon Noelle Rivera @_ShannonRivera]

Checkin out the locals at the beach☀️

Magellanic penguins looking adorb at Gypsy Cove in the Falkland Islands today. Interestingly, this area was the last of the Falklands to be cleared of landmines

Now we get to visit & see this amazing colony in all its sub Antarctic glory🐧

[Shannon Noelle Rivera @_ShannonRivera]

They call this place El Fin del Mundo
The World's End...but it's been my launching point to see so much more of the world than I ever thought possible.

Sailing into my 3rd season on the #Antarctic Peninsula 🇦🇶 Will share highlights from the bottom of the world! #womeninstem

[Shannon Noelle Rivera @_ShannonRivera]

🇺🇾 In Montevideo for a quick work pitstop and, as always, hyper-fixating on stats about where I am, so in case you didn’t know:

#Uruguay is a global leader in renewable energy, with 98% of its electricity coming from renewable sources. ☀️💨🌊

They also have pretty 8PM sunsets

[Shannon Noelle Rivera @_ShannonRivera]

I live for Wisdom updates 🥹

[USFWS Pacific @USFWSPacific]

One extra Wisdom scene for all her fans 🖤🩶💛

Wisdom, the legendary Laysan albatross or mōlī, left with red leg tag, stands to interact with her new mate prior to laying an egg at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Nov. 26, 2024.

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project."

Read that again: **116** times.

Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
https://t.co/lu9t3zExEe

[Shannon Noelle Rivera @_ShannonRivera]

You lived only 3 weeks, 30,000 years ago, but you were here. Your species was here.

This broke me.

#sabretoothcub #homotherium

[Christiana Garros @chrissygarros]

'You were here'

Homotherium latidens
Watercolor pencils on paper