# @centerforbiodiv on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C3NycmGJ8Do
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11023612-centerforbiodiv-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/e436ba7735.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-02-11T17:23:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Center for Biological Diversity (@CenterForBioDiv) — https://gondola.cc/CenterForBioDiv

## Caption

It's Superb Owl Sunday, so we've got an adorable spotted owl chick to share with you, along with a little Center history. 

Over 30 years ago, beneath the ancient ponderosa pines of New Mexico's Gila wilderness, the Center's three founders met while surveying owls for the U.S. Forest Service.  When their surveys turned up a rare Mexican spotted owl nest in an old-growth tree, and they found out that same tree was part of a vast area slated to be razed in a massive timber sale, they took their findings to the local Forest Service manager. 

The Forest Service had been entrusted with shielding sensitive species from harm, but it soon became clear the agency was more invested in its relationship with big timber than in its commitment to the public to protect forest wildlife. The timber sale would go forward, in violation of the Service's own rules.

The three promptly went to work and in the end, that big old tree never fell to the chainsaws. Shortly after, the group that would later be known as the Center for Biological Diversity was formed. Since then, the Center has protected more than 750 species, and more than half a billion acres of habitat. ✨ 

#SuperbOwl #spottedowl #wildlifeconservation #owls

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## Tags

wildlifeconservation, spottedowl, owls, superbowl

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