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r/conservation

90.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 8K upvotes, which works out to 88 per 1,000 members.

88peak upvotes per 1,000 members
90.5Kmembers
8Kbest post
301most comments
196posts 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.

72% 16% 9%
Link 72% Text 16% Question 9% Video 3% Image 1%

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.

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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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.