𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥... 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐈𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐲𝐧𝐱 A stunning reminder that conservation works, and that every wild cat counts. ✨ 💚 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: a rare and breathtaking moment in wild cat conservation: a photographer in southern Spain captured the 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝’𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞-(𝐥𝐞𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜) 𝐈𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐲𝐧𝐱 — a vivid sign of hope for a species that w

Inside the museum at The Bison Range, Stephanie Gillin, a wildlife biologist for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT), points out bison hide used for clothes, bison hair used for rope, even a bison bladder used as a drinking bottle. As Gillin demonstrates, Native Americans “used the whole buffalo,” as the expression goes, for thousands of years, until settlers all but eradicated them from the landscape. A key principle undergirding conservation efforts by the CSKT is reciprocity—do