This year's United Nations World Wildlife Day (03 March) theme is: Connecting People and Planet: Exploring Digital Innovation in Wildlife Conservation. As a new charity, People For Wildlife has embraced digital innovation, using camera traps, audio arrays, drones, GPS trackers, satellite imagery, and a range of Apps to record data in the field. Using digital innovation is expanding our capacity to successfully conduct research and undertake conservation activities. @worldwildlifeday @cites @undp #wwd2024 #connectingpeopleandplanet #digitalinnovation #techforwildlife #conservation #peopleforwildlife

World Seagrass Day is celebrated annually to raise awareness of one of the most critical and unappreciated ecosystems on the planet. Seagrasses are critical for life underwater, but also provide wide-ranging benefits to people on land. Raising awareness about their importance for community well-being, whether through food security from fish production, improved quality of water filtered by seagrasses, protection of coasts from erosion, storms and floods, or carbon sequestration and storage will drive efforts around the world to conserve, better manage and restore these ecosystems. #worldseagrassday #fornature #generationrestoration #peopleforwildlife #seagrass #savetheplanet

These two male lesser black whip snakes (Demansia vestigiata) were filmed recently on the Apudthama Reserve in Cape York coiling around each other and performing a dance-like behavior as part of a mating ritual. Known as "male combat" or "male-male combat", the dance is a form of competition between males for access to females. This behavior can involve coiling around each other, pushing, and sometimes even wrestling to establish hierarchy and determine which one will have the opportunity to mate with a receptive female (who will likely be waiting nearby for the victor). . Moderately venomous, lesser black whip snakes are found in the northern parts of Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia, as well as in PNG. A fast slender snake with a fine tapering tail, whip snakes can usually be found in drier habitats where they feed chiefly on small vertebrates, especially lizards. The body is olive-brown to black above, sometimes flushed with red, and the scales have a dark edge. #WondersOfApudthama #Apudthama #snakes #CapeYork #ForNature

In #Apudthama at the tip of #CapeYork , cycas semota is a rare cycad only found in five known groves. This cycad species is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN, and is at risk from climate change and increased severity of bushfires. Click here to find out more and to help #PeopleForWildlife to protect important species like this. #ForNature #Conservation

#WorldWetlandsDay this week (2 Feb) is an timely reminder of the importance of these ecosystems globally, and on the #Apudthama Reserve in Australia's #CapeYork, we have 41,000 hectares of these landscapes. This year's #WWD theme is "Wetlands and human wellbeing". #PeopleForWildlife are committed to protecting and restoring biodiverse habitats around the globe, by creating nature-based economic opportunities for the communities that live in them. We use the best available science, work with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, and connect them to people and organisations wanting to invest in nature. #ForNature #conservation

Let's celebrate our iconic cockatoos on #nationalcockatooday Help #peopleforwildlife protect Australia's largest, the endangered #palmcockatoo in #capeyork #palmcockatooproject #Conservation #fornature #DeliveringConservationDifferently #GivingTuesday #birdsofaustralia

#PeopleForWildlife's partnership earlier this year with #LouisVuitton and the #ApudthamaLandTrust in Australia's #CapeYork is delivering conservation work across one million acres of Aboriginal freehold land. The Land Trust represents the Angkamuthi, Atampaya, and Gudang-Yadhakenu people. The #Apudthama Reserve is of high #biodiversity value and is home to more than 4,500 species of flora and fauna, many of which are not found anywhere else on earth. Louis Vuitton is taking action to achieve positive impacts on entire ecosystems as a contribution to LVMH target of restoring 12 million acres of flora and fauna habitat by 2030. Working closely with the #TraditionalOwners, we are conducting important ecological research, establishing #LandscapeRestoration and management strategies as well as establishing #NaturePositive , #NatureBased economic opportunities for #IndigenousPeoples and #LocalCommunities . It's good for wildlife, its good for people and its good for business. #DeliveringConservationDifferently #GenerationRestoration #ForNature #Conservation

PFW have been busy in the Apudthama Reserve at the tip of Cape York. We have tagged estuarine crocodiles with GPS trackers to better understand habitat and animal behaviour. #WondersOfApudthama #crocodiles #Conservation #DeliveringConservationDifferently