conservation

News on WWF and reports of human rights abuses such as torture, killings and disappearances of civilian and indigenous peoples in the Cameroon, Central African Republic and the Congo:

Very good news, two Javan rhino calves have been spotted in Ujung Kulon National Park: Two new Javan rhino calves spotted in the species’ last holdout This apparently brings the total known population of the species to 73 individuals.

The tenth and final poll on EDGE bird species: This time it is a contest between two vultures that have faced sharp and worrying declines in recent : The Egyptian vulture and the red headed vulture. Both species are threatened with extinction due to deliberate poisoning, poaching and the...

Eighth poll on EDGE bird species: This time it is a contest between two dinosaurian denizens of the South-East Asian rainforests : the Philippine eagle and the helmeted eagle. One is a carnivore and the other largely a frugivore, however, both of these birds are charismatic and both are listed...

A great BBC Future article on fishing cat conservation and its challenges in India : The fight to save India's most elusive cat

Interesting article on the conservation plight of the Guatemalan beaded lizard : Guatemalans battle traffickers, superstition to protect endangered lizard - La Prensa Latina Media

This was a really interesting article in Atlas Obscura written by environmental / science writer Elizabeth Kolbert (who wrote the brilliant book "The sixth extinction") that I read and thought I would share. The article is about the work of the Australian NGO "Arid recovery" (Home - Arid...

Interesting article by the Guardian on how dwindling numbers of the regent honeyeater are affecting the social behaviour of the species and particularly it's singing: How an endangered Australian songbird is forgetting its love songs And another on the BBC on the same topic : Regent...

I was thinking about this question the other day, and wanted to get the opinion of zoochatters on the issue. Which country has achieved more in the conservation of biodiversity (both species and ecosystem conservation and in-situ and ex--situ) over the past half a century, Australia or New...

I was thinking about the invasive coqui frogs in hawaii, and how it became an extrem demage to the native wildlife there. I got a idea then. Hawaii like many other isolated islands have no native amphibians. So what if we release the fungus that corses Chytridiomycosis in effected areas there ...

Interesting article in the Relevator about the Asian song bird trade in South-East Asia and the complex challenges of conserving these beautiful passerines : I Know Why the Caged Songbird Goes Extinct • The Revelator

I was wondering how zoos teach and encourage visitors to actually act for conservation. Education e.g. from a zoo in Europe about destruction of wildlife in Africa can be pointless, because European city dwellers agree its horrible, but their knowledge changes nothing on the ground. How zoos...

Recently, 28 beached Long-finned pilot whales were successfully returned to the sea in New Zealand. Unfortunately, a further 15 have died as a result of the stranding and those who have been saved have stayed relatively near to the shore, indicating that they could strand themselves again...

Do garden eels breed in aquaria?

I think that Cleveland, Pittsburgh, San Diego, and St louis have some of the best ones

Another poll in a series for zoochatters to vote for one of two EDGE mammal species. This time it is the saiga antelope and the saola. Both are critically endangered bovids, one from the windswept freezing Russian steppes and the other from the humid verdant jungles of Indochina, both are...

A good short documentary (30 mins) by the Guardian about the conflict between hunters and conservationists regarding the conservation of the grey wolf in Norway:

ZCWP (Zoological Conservation Wildlife Park) North America exhibit

A series of interesting talks given on the future of zoos at the "ISHAR Future of Zoos symposium" (in 2012) in the USA. I think this is quite an interesting set of talks so could of interest to zoochatters. Zoos as resources for scientific research: The future shape and sizes of zoos...

I'm doing an AZA approved research project on the genetics of spot-patterns of Masai giraffe and I very much need to get some photos of Mulberry who was at the Louisville Zoo from 1982-2004 and sired a large number of giraffe. I've exhaustively searched Flicker and other websites but have come...