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r/Environmentalism

A focus on environmentalist action.. A focus on environmentalist action is the goal but more general discussion about environmental degradation or preservation is also welcome. Founded 2010 · 82K members

83K members. The best post we have captured here reached 14.8K upvotes, which works out to 178 per 1,000 members.

178peak upvotes per 1,000 members
83Kmembers
14.8Kbest post
550most comments
489posts 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.

53% 20% 11% 10%
Link 53% Video 20% Image 11% Text 10% Question 3% Gallery 3%

What the ceiling looks like

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

An all-women ranger unit reduced elephant poaching by 90%

↑ 14.8K 💬 189 gallery 2025

Bitter Trump razes 40 weeping willow trees outside Kennedy Center commemorating assassinated president

↑ 12.7K 💬 380 link 2026

Organizing in non-capitalist politics is the single most environmentally friendly thing we can do!

↑ 12.4K 💬 120 image 2026

Please help the Lakota youth defend Pe’Sla (near Mt. Rushmore) from graphite/oil extraction! This is a sacred site to them, like Mt. Rushmore was bef…

↑ 12.3K 💬 93 video 2026

Trump quietly cuts down historic Washington DC cherry trees to make room for golf course

↑ 11K 💬 441 link 2026

Dr. Jane Goodall recorded this Netflix interview in March 2025, asking that it only be released after her death.

↑ 10.8K 💬 159 video 2025

Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie, whose $300 million superyacht was defaced by environmental activists, has a home in L.A. so vast that it alone g…

↑ 10.3K 💬 136 link 2025

This man planted a 3.2 km linear park in the heart of São Paulo

↑ 8.5K 💬 113 gallery 2025

Millionaire tech CEO opens tiny home village for homeless

↑ 8.1K 💬 149 gallery 2025

Trump administration authorizes use of cyanide bombs to kill off animals on public lands

↑ 7.9K 💬 333 link 2026

Communities its size

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

r/Environmentalism, in numbers

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

What is r/Environmentalism?
r/Environmentalism ("A focus on environmentalist action.") describes itself this way: A focus on environmentalist action is the goal but more general discussion about environmental degradation or preservation is also welcome. It was founded in 2010 and has 82K members.
How many members does r/Environmentalism have?
r/Environmentalism has about 83K members. ViralHunt has tracked 489 of its posts; the biggest reached 14.8K upvotes, which is 178 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Environmentalism?
"An all-women ranger unit reduced elephant poaching by 90%" reached 14.8K upvotes and 189 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Environmentalism.
What subreddits are similar to r/Environmentalism?
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/Environmentalism?
Of the posts we hold, 53% are link posts and 20% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Environmentalism?
Across 489 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 21:00 UTC (5.6K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 07:00 UTC (4.8K avg upvotes), Friday at 21:00 UTC (4.6K 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/Environmentalism?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Environmentalism has 5.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 55 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Environmentalism, 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.