http://wildlifenews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/snow-leopard.jpg – The Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have announced that their researchers have captured images of 3 different snow leopards on camera traps in the Tianshan Mountains. The first evidence of them in the region for over 10 years.
The images of three… – http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2015/03/snow-leopards-recorded-in-tianshan-mountains-after-10-years-absence/
Wattled Cranes, Botswana
We came across these beautiful Wattled Cranes on safari in the Okavango Delta region of Botswana. With a Conservation Status listing as “Vulnerable,” we were delighted to find a trio wading in a shallow pond.
The largest crane in Africa (and second tallest in the world to the Sarus Crane), Bugeranus carunculatus can be found in sub-Saharan Africa. They are named for the wattles, or fleshy appendages, that hang down from the throat. A five foot tall bird with a wingspan of eight feet, they have a commanding presence.
Wattled cranes prefer to eat aquatic tubers and rhizomes, as well as aquatic insects, snails and amphibians; and are consequently found in marsh-like settings. 90% of foraging is done in shallow waters where they dig vigorously with their long bill.
Our safari vehicle was quiet and solo when we came upon these cranes several hundred feet away. Although…
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http://wildlifenews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/vanquita.jpg – The vaquita is the world?s smallest porpoise and with less than 100 remaining its future may not be certain. Living only in the Upper Sea of Cortez the porpoise is threatened by the gillnets used by fishermen to catch the totoaba fish. With just 25 breeding females in the population any… – http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2015/02/mexico-commits-37-million-to-worlds-smallest-porpoise/
February 26, 2015
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Two sea turtles caught in fishing net were freed earlier this month by a Coast Guard rescue swimmer.
The Alert, a Coast Guard cutter homeported in Astoria, encountered the struggling turtles while on patrol Feb. 10 in the eastern Pacific, according to a statement from the guard.
The cutter’s bridge watch team flagged plastic containers used as buoys floating in the water and then saw the two entangled turtles.
“Jumping into the ocean to free a couple of sea turtles is not something you wake up in the morning…
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This video is about long-eared owls.
Vroege Vogels TV in the Netherlands reports that this year, more long-eared owls than ever have been counted in Friesland province. 1740 owls at 143 resting places. Last winter, there had only been 800 birds.
Extremely probably, this is because 2014 has been a good year for rodents. Other owl species have profited from this as well. 90-95% of long-eared owl food are common voles. In a bad rodent year, they eat some small birds as well.
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This video is called Birds of Panama – Episode 1.
And this video is the sequel.
From BirdLife:
Bay of Panama saved from destruction
By Martin Fowlie, Wed, 25/02/2015 – 10:25
“There’s no way we would have been able to get to that day by ourselves…” writes Rosabel Miró, Executive Director of Panama Audubon Society in an emotional written message to the rest of the BirdLife Partnership. “We need to heal our wounds and show to our friends that are going through similar situations like the ones we went through, that it is possible to achieve your goals. We found strength in unity.”
Panama Audubon Society (BirdLife in Panama) is celebrating after winning a hard-fought effort to reverse the Panama government’s 2012 decision to withdraw protected status for the Bay of Panama Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA), a site of international importance for migratory birds. Its protected status had been pulled because of short-term economic pressure for urban…
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This video says about itself:
First image record of a tiger family in inland China!
18 February 2015
This gives us great hope for tiger recovery in inland China!
WWF camera trap captured a video of a tiger family – a female tiger with 2 naughty sub adults – in Wangqing Nature Reserve. Wangqing Forestry Bureau is the first in-field working site of WWF-China on tiger conservation. WWF has been working there for 7 years on prey recovery, anti-poaching and local community development.
This gives us great hope for tiger recovery in inland China!
© Jilin Wangqing National Nature Reserve / WWF
See also here.
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Even true stories about wolves sound like fables.
Last October, an animal appearing to be a gray wolf showed up on the Kaibab Plateau in Arizona, just north of the Grand Canyon National Park. At first, no one was sure what, exactly, the “wolflike animal” was, but if, as suspected, it was a gray wolf that had migrated from the northern Rockies, it would have been the first time since the 1940s one had set foot in the Grand Canyon. Although there were once an estimated 2 million gray wolves across the continent, humans hunted and poisoned them to the point of oblivion. But thanks to federal protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), since the 1970s, gray wolf populations have slightly rebounded…
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A whale finds its way out to the open sea…
This video is about the young humpback whale, swimming in the Oosterschelde estuary in the Netherlands last weekend.
Translated from NOS TV in the Netherlands:
“Humpback swam back out to sea’
Yesterday, 22:09
The humpback whale seen this weekend in the Oosterschelde estuary is almost certainly back in the North Sea. Cyclists on the storm surge barrier have seen this afternoon that the animal swam out, says the foundation SOS Dolphin.
Earlier today things still looked bad for the whale. It swam in the east of the Oosterschelde and it was questionable whether it could find the “exit” again and whether it would dare. After 14:00, the animal was not seen.
But tonight, Jolanda Meerbeek of SOS Dolphin got a liberating phone call from a family who had cycled over the flood barrier. “At the first pillar they saw a meters long animal swimming out. It was…
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