Anna Crystal

Digital communications editor at the Center for Biological Diversity; freelance writer & editor; conservationist, activist & animal lover 🐞🦌🐴🦋🦂🐱🐶🐨🐺🐜

[Anna Crystal @annacmirocha]

@CenterForBioDiv

[Russ McSpadden @PeccaryNotPig]

Former AZ Gov. Ducey wasted > 200 million dollars ramming shipping containers along the AZ/Mex border. This blocked a critical watershed & jaguar critical habitat. We beat it back and the wall was removed. Now the containers are being put to some good use. https://t.co/kvdWeB6NIh

[Anna Crystal @annacmirocha]

@CenterForBioDiv #ISwimWithWhiteGladis

[Anna Crystal @annacmirocha]

@CenterForBioDiv Bats are some of the best flyers: incredibly acrobatic and more aerodynamically efficient than birds. Flying in the dark is no problem when you can echolocate. And Brazilian free-tailed bats are the fastest flying animal—they can go 100 mph. (They're also so cool looking!)

[Anna Crystal @annacmirocha]

@JoeMelisi You rule, Joe! Thank you so much.

[Anna Crystal @annacmirocha]

@CenterForBioDiv @WhiteHouse @EPA @CenterForBioDiv filed a formal legal petition urging @EPA to cancel the registration of the Seresto flea and tick collar linked to the deaths of nearly 1,700 pets. (Of cats too!)

[Russ McSpadden @PeccaryNotPig]

Behold the endangered California condor courtship ritual (Marvin Gaye Remix). The female (tag 9) looks upon her longtime travel partner & mate (tag J3) as he sways with a slow, sultry wings-out NSFW dance.

📽️Zion National Park

[David Gardner @byDavidGardner]

"I'm here live. I'm not a cat."

A lawyer logged into the 394th Judicial District with a cat filter on and couldn't turn it off.

This may be the funniest video I've seen this year.

[Jean Su 蘇安君 @ajeansu]

We stand side by side with @Mvmnt4BlkLives and demand the immediate moratorium on all utility shutoffs and rent cancellation for our commmunities. #NoShutOffs #DefendBlackLives #DefundThePolice #RentReliefNow #BlackLivesMatter

[Movement 4 Black Lives @Mvmnt4BlkLives]

We demand long-term economic solutions like Universal Basic Income, rent cancellations, moratoriums on utility shutoff, and cancellation of debts that tear apart communities.
#DefendBlackLife and #DefundPolice.

[Anna Crystal @annacmirocha]

Play this game now! You need it in your life. #SqueakingTruthtoPower

[Maya Golden-Krasner @Maya4EJ]

'Pikas Vs. Trump' – The Video Game – Out Now. Fun for the whole family! https://t.co/Qh0twIGVx2

[Anna Crystal @annacmirocha]

I just swooned over bro-ishness! Thank goodness it was displayed by a desert spiny lizard and not a human.

[Russ McSpadden @PeccaryNotPig]

Warning: Desert spiny lizard thread begins now. First off, the males are flamboyant and prone to bro-ishness. Here's one getting push-up swole to warn rival males that "the rock is mine" while perhaps alerting potential mates that he doesn’t suffer reptile dysfunction. Sound! 1/

[Russ McSpadden @PeccaryNotPig]

For two years I watched a borderlands black bear cub grow up on four of my remote wildlife cameras. I named the cub Monsoon after watching videos of it relishing swims in monsoon rains. Monsoon is know roaming solo, beefed up and beautiful. The borderlands are wild and wonderful.