endangered species

Buy Fish by JZX, Singapore. 18/09/2025.

so this year has been a big year for me! I finally got to work with an endangered species and learn all about them: The black-footed ferret!! Did you know?: There are only approximately 400 black-footed ferrets in the wild now September 26 is National Black-footed ferret rediscovery day! A...

Hello, I submit you a footage of a canid family that has been spotted and filmed in a Chinese reserve in Yunnan. Jackal family spotted in nature reserve in China's Yunnan They have been labelled as "Jackals" but for me they look more like Dholes (I presume that there have been an error of...

The post of TeaLovingDave made me think. There are, surprisingly, animals which live in the very rich and well researched Europe and North Amrica, are endangered, but receive very little attention of zoos and conservation. One example are the big endemic lizards from Canary islands, below...

Hi, This is another take of a modern children zoo. This children zoo upholds the aim of a modern zoo - it focuses of keeping wild, and mostly endangered species. Still, these animals can be allowed to interact with children. The exhibit is also strongly educative - at the level of children...

Introduction Several threads discussed that zoos lack space for breeding programs, and proposed planned extinction of many animal species in European zoos. There are diverse alternatives, for example lobbying for an exemption in laws for zoos to allow limited import of founder animals. Another...

My question is more to people familiar with the European trade and veterinary bureaucracy. To my understanding, most rare animals, and many common ones, cannot be imported because of CITES. Others, like ungulates, cannot be imported because of veterinary directives like BALAI. Still others...

I read this article today which I thought I'd share as it is a very interesting and different topic from the usual stories involving endangered species and the often predictable reasons for their endangerment. This is a piece about the Colorado river toad and the capture / poaching of this...

Seventh poll on EDGE bird species: This time a contest between little and large: The Somali ostrich vs the straw headed bulbul. Despite the size difference both species share the IUCN conservation status of "vulnerable" due to overexploitation by humans (for the songbird pet trade in the case...

News on the volcanic erruption on Saint Vincent in the Caribbean and the danger this poses to the endemic Saint Vincent Amazon parrot : https://www.birdscaribbean.org/2021/04/an-appeal-for-relief-and-rescue-as-the-la-soufriere-volcano-eruptions-threaten-the-st-vincent-parrot/#:~:text=Vincent...

Second poll on EDGE bird species: This time a bit of an avian horror show with ghost vs gore: The "gory" bleeding heart dove and the "phantasmagorical" kagu. Both of these visually striking species are insular endemics native to forest habitat of the islands of the Asia and Pacific region and...

Another poll in a series for zoochatters to vote for one of two EDGE mammal species. This time it is a contest of a species traditionally considered "cute / cuddly" and one typically seen as "weird / spooky": the aye-aye vs the red panda. Both are arboreal mammals, both are classified as...

Another poll in a series for zoochatters to vote for one of two EDGE mammal species. This time the giant panda and the greater bamboo lemur. Both are the only mammals with feeding ecologies as obligate specialists of bamboo ,both are threatened by habitat destruction and climate change and...

Just a question for zoochatters regarding something I am curious about. Which European zoos have the most diverse collections of Callitrichid species ?

I looked at the IUCN Red List updates and many familiar zoo animals became threatened species in the recent years. For example, pygmy marmoset is split into two species, both are vulnerable. Golden-bellied mangabey is now endangered (phase-out species in european zoos). Grey‐cheeked mangabey...

This is a bit of a thought experiment that I'd like to try out on this forum. The ring tailed lemur is one of the most ubiquitious animals kept ex-situ by many zoos worldwide and has become one of those standard "ABC species" to be seen at the local zoo. It is obviously a very popular animal...

I thought it would be interesting to create yet another poll in a series for zoochatters to vote for one of two small mammal EDGE species. This time these animals have some commonalities being that they are miniatures of their close relatives, exceedingly rare in captivity and "little brown...

A new book has been written by top environmental journalist Jeremy Hance about his travels around the world to write stories on the environmental crisis and specifically biodiversity loss. Hance often writes superb articles for the award winning environmental news site Mongabay. He has covered...

Saw this article on the guardian and thought it was quite an interesting concept. Enjoy :) (not quite the right word given the depressing subject but whatever) Tales of love and loss: people from Oceania share their 'extinction stories'

The orangutan baby was born. Bornean Orangutan Born at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo