Nature & Wildlife
Want to win a nature vacation in the Galapagos Islands?? Don’t let Halloween pass without entering World Wildlife Fund’s Galapagos Getaway Sweepstakes! The deadline is Wednesday, Oct. 31st.
Nature & Wildlife
As conservation groups like WWF and others fight to protect a multitude of endangered species, it’s heartening to learn that new species are still being discovered —including previously unknown mammals like this cute creature below, which is a new kind of night monkey, though complete identification by biologists can often take several years.
Conservation
A recent article in the South African newspaper Times Live reported that two poachers were sentenced to 29 years each in prison for killing a rhino and its calf in Kruger National Park.
Nature & Wildlife
One of the features on the newly redesigned website of The World Wildlife Fund that I have enjoyed is the camera trap photo galleries from the Amazon, Russia, Nepal, and Ecuador. To obtain data on wildlife and their habitats, scientists install cameras with infrared triggers in wilderness areas.
Conservation
Elephants have had a bad year, especially in the Central African nation of Cameroon. Earlier in 2012, a band of heavily armed poachers invaded Bouba N’Djida National Park, killing more than 300 elephants for their ivory.
Nature & Wildlife
Only 30-35 Amur leopards remain in the wild. Through establishment of a new national park in the Russian Far East, The Land of the Leopard, the World Wildlife Fund and its partners have joined local and national governments and community groups in an urgent effort to save this magnificent species.
Conservation
On June 12, 2012, World Wildlife Fund Nepal successfully tested two drones designed to monitor animals and keep a lookout for poachers in Chitwan National Park. With a two-meter wingspan and a 25-km range, the drones can stay in the air for 45 minutes.
Conservation
Turtle tagging is not a slow version of the classic children’s game, but a satellite tracking program supported by the World Wildlife Fund to better understand the movements of green and black sea turtles in the eastern Pacific Ocean and their intersection with marine fisheries.
Conservation
It is a conflict as old as the hills: the predation of domestic livestock by a wild animal and subsequent eradication of the predator by the deprived herder. In this era of endangered species and declining natural habitat, such retaliation can hasten the extinction of an already imperiled animal.
Asia & The Pacific
Where: Deep in the rain forests of Central Borneo in the Tanjung Puting National Park. What’s there: A full-service research center where visitors can observe ex-captive orangutans that have been returned to the wild but are not entirely independent. In the 1970s and 1980s, Camp Leakey also served as a rehabilitation center.
Nature & Wildlife
“We have the means to save the mightiest cat on Earth, but do we have the will?” asks writer Caroline Alexander in an article titled “A Cry for the Tiger” in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. The question certainly gives us pause.
Conservation
Coke drinker? White is the new red – for the holidays, at any rate. If you’ve purchased Coke at your local supermarket recently, you may have discovered that there are lots of frosty white cans among the traditional Coca-Cola red.
