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r/conservation

A community for sharing and discussing Conservation Biology. The scientific study of the nature and status of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from extinction. Founded 2009 · 91.8K members

92K members. The best post we have captured here reached 8K upvotes, which works out to 87 per 1,000 members.

87peak upvotes per 1,000 members
92Kmembers
8Kbest post
315most comments
493posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

61% 23% 11%
Link 61% Text 23% Question 11% Video 5%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Biden restores species protections dropped by Trump

↑ 8K 💬 210 link 2024

I got a “Stop Work” order on a federal grant we won last year because we used the phrase “‘diverse’ plant communities”.

↑ 7.3K 💬 231 text 2025

Trump Admin Targets Five of Oregon’s Seven Wonders for Destruction

↑ 5.2K 💬 174 link 2026

Trump Admin “Deliberately” Tanking Morale to Get Parks Staff to Quit, Official Says in Leaked Tape

↑ 3.7K 💬 32 link 2026

Spotted hyena found in Egypt for 1st time in 5,000 years — then trackers killed it with a pickup truck

↑ 3.6K 💬 53 link 2025

California Sues ExxonMobil for Promoting the Lie That All Plastics Are Recyclable | Only about 5% of plastic in the U.S. actually gets recycled.

↑ 3.6K 💬 15 link 2024

‘Huge moment’: Northern California’s first condor egg in 100 years reported in redwood tree

↑ 3.3K 💬 20 link 2026

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. (Gift Article)

↑ 3.2K 💬 10 link 2025

Firefly species may blink out as US seeks to list it as endangered for first time

↑ 2.7K 💬 25 link 2024

Engineers blew up 4 dams on a dying river. Now the salmon population is exploding.

↑ 2.4K 💬 26 link 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/conservation, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/conservation?
r/conservation describes itself this way: A community for sharing and discussing Conservation Biology. The scientific study of the nature and status of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from extinction. It was founded in 2009 and has 91.8K members.
How many members does r/conservation have?
r/conservation has about 92K members. ViralHunt has tracked 493 of its posts; the biggest reached 8K upvotes, which is 87 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/conservation?
"Biden restores species protections dropped by Trump" reached 8K upvotes and 210 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/conservation.
What subreddits are similar to r/conservation?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/conservation?
Of the posts we hold, 61% are link posts and 23% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/conservation?
Across 493 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 12:00 UTC (2.8K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 12:00 UTC (1.8K avg upvotes), Monday at 16:00 UTC (1.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/conservation?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/conservation has 2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 75 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/conservation, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.