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Wildlife photo of the week is a snow leopard caught by a camera trap in the Indian Himalayas. It is also shortlisted for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year at the Natural History Museum.
Wildlife photo of the week is an Anatolian leopard. The cat species, assumed in 1974 to be extinct due to large-scale poaching, has been confirmed to be present in two regions of Turkey.
Wildlife photo of the week: the elusive Andean cat, the most endangered cat in the Americas. Found to be living on the outskirts of Chile’s capital, Santiago, after being caught on camera close to the city.
Bangladesh has created a new marine protected area to safeguard waters around Saint Martin’s Island. The area is home to the country’s only coral reef, the threatened Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins, and whale sharks.
The Republic of Congo now has a fifth national park, with the creation today of the Ogooué-Leketi National Park. With support from
@TheWCS
@USAIDAfrica
@USFWS
A rare jaguar was spotted on trail cameras in southern Arizona, suggesting that the endangered species could be slowly re-establishing its population in the US.
There are estimated to be over 40,000 rangers in Africa, and they are the guardians of natural ecosystems that are critical to the health of our planet. It’s vital to recognise that dedication on
#WorldRangerDay
Namibia has banned hunters from posting trophy shots on social media, to stop them tarnishing the country’s image. Presumably a ban on trophy hunting would be another way to achieve the same objective?
Good news for mountain gorillas, as a new census of one of the two populations living in eastern Africa saw the total for the subspecies jump to 1,069 gorillas.
A wolf has been recorded on Belgian soil for the first time in at least 100 years, another sign that the predator is making a comeback across the continent.
#rewilding
Good call by the woman whose dog was recently killed by a mountain lion. She doesn’t want the animal destroyed - saying 'humans continue to push them out of their space, continuing to build houses in their territory’.
More than three million years of evolutionary history have already been lost on Madagascar, according to a new study. The researchers are calling for urgent conservation action to prevent another wave of extinctions.
A dog unit is hunting down poachers in Kenya’s Maasai Mara reserve. The unit includes both trackers dogs and specialist sniffer dogs trained to find
#ivory
and guns.
New research has brought new hope for the güiña, the smallest cat in the Americas. Known variously as the little tiger cat, little spotted cat or Chilean cat, its habitat is under threat from agricultural expansion.
An Indonesian court has been told that a single gang of poachers are thought to have killed around 10% of Javan rhinos since 2019. Proof that one or two small groups of well-organised criminals can have a huge impact on a species.
The red kite reintroduction scheme may be the 'biggest species success story in UK conservation history'. From a few dozen in 1990, there are now over 10,000.
Namibia is turning to dogs in the fight against wildlife crime, deploying four German Shepherds that can detect ivory, rhino horn, and pangolin scales.
The story of Yellowstone’s ‘most famous wolf’ reminds us how wolf reintroduction changed and improved the landscape in ways that even the biologists didn’t anticipate.
Wildlife photo of the week: five California mountain lions seen together on surveillance video footage taken on the edge of the El Dorado national forest, east of Sacramento, California.
Humpback
#whales
are now being spotted in significant numbers in New York Harbor for the first time in a century, and could be all down to one small fish.
Wildlife photo of the week: Golden snub-nosed monkeys in Shennongjia, Hubei province, whose numbers have jumped from 500 in the mid-80s to more than 1,300 now.
A survey has found an astonishing diversity of species in Cambodia's mangrove forests, despite the fact that these coastal areas face huge threats nationally and globally.
Clouded leopards are thriving in a national park in NE India, but researchers say more work is needed to gather comprehensive data on clouded leopard status, distribution and population trends to ensure the long-term protection of the species.
The top ten wildlife success stories of 2019 include the 25,000 humpback whales that are now found in the south Atlantic between South America and Antarctica. Numbers fell to 440 in the 1950s, before recovering after commercial whaling was banned in 1986.
Extensive conservation action across beaches and an awareness program among local people have seen turtle egg numbers increase by over 50% in Bangladesh, according to conservationists. The study monitored olive ridley turtle eggs in the Bay of Bengal.
Great to see the
@WCS_Nigeria
photos of a group of Cross River gorillas with multiple babies in Nigeria’s Mbe mountains. Proof that the subspecies is reproducing amid protection efforts.
Chile announces the 'Route of Parks’, a string of 17 parks that will span more than 1,500 miles across the country, stretching from Puerto Montt to Cape Horn.
Fishing cats are coming into conflict with local people in the wetlands of Bangladesh. This is just another example of how fragile wildlife populations come under pressure as humans increasingly encroach on their habitat.