Month: November 2014

This video is about a goose driving away a pony in Gouderak, the Netherlands.

Hans Pols made the video.

Related articles

• Mushroom, new for the Netherlands, discovered
• Yellow-billed loon in the Netherlands
• First Dutch wildcat’s electronic tagging
• Purple heron winters in the Netherlands
• New mushroom species discovery in the Netherlands
• White-winged black terns in the Netherlands
• New Dutch insects discoveries
• White-winged black terns dive-bomb coot, video
• Don’t kill wigeons, Dutch judge says

• The Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) Conference of the Parties (COP) agreed to adopt a Central Asia Migratory Mammal Initiative

• Central Asia contains some of the last great migratory spectacles of large mammals including Mongolian gazelles, saiga antelope, Tibetan antelope and other species

• New Initiative protects 15 large mammal species

• Central Asia’s landscapes are under increasing threat from development pressures

• Linear infrastructure –roads, fences, and other structures – act as barriers to movement of migratory mammals

QUITO, ECUADOR (November 7, 2014) – The Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), at their 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) in Quito, Ecuador, agreed today to adopt a Central Asia Migratory Mammal Initiative to protect wildlife in the region from increasing development threats, WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) reports.

Said Peter Zahler…

Volunteer At A Rehabilitation Centre Treating Injured & Sick Sea Turtles From The Great Barrier Reef & Cape York Peninsula In Australia. Click To Know More

Source: oceans2earth.org

GR:  Here’s a chance to see the Great Barrier Reef and northern Australian coast while learning about and working with turtles.

The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong is designing projects to preserve biodiversity and create protection corridors around sensitive ecosystems in need of conservation as part of its biodiversity action plan for 2015-2020.

Source: www.talkvietnam.com

GR:  Good news.  More please.

This video is about white and black rhinos in Africa.

By Blake Deppe in the USA:

Saving the rhino

Tuesday 4th November 2014

Greed is behind this animal’s decline, says BLAKE DEPPE

THE extremely rare northern white rhino, a subspecies of white rhino, may soon disappear.

One of the last males, a 34-year-old rhino named Suni, died from natural causes on October 17 at a nature reserve in Kenya, leaving just six northern whites — only one of them male — remaining worldwide.

Its close cousin, the southern white, is also severely threatened. The low numbers are themselves largely a product of the relentless rhino poaching that occurs across Africa, and which has driven the animals as a whole to the brink of extinction. And the problem is getting worse.

Back in 2009, Suni was one of eight of its species at the Kenyan Ol Pejeta Conservancy as part of…

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