I just got this blog post from Vanessa Woods, who’s at Lola Ya Bonobo Sanctuary near Kinshasa, DRC conducting behavioral research. have some sad news. Kindu was found dead in the forest. This flu epidemic is absolutely horrible. Claudine thinks it was the terrible virus that ran through Kinshasa. There is no fever. Antiobiotics don’t [...]
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This morning I’ve run across two stories that highlight that human apes do not learn from their mistakes, especially when it comes to wildlife. The first comes from Erik Marcus’ excellent blog at vegan.com about the return of Montecore, the tiger who attacked Roy of Siegfried and Roy. It seems these two jackasses brought the [...]
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The Lilongwe Wildlife Center released this video recently of a group of rescued baboons as they’re released back into the wild. I found myself a little teary-eyed watching the group leave the temporary shelter for their renewed lives in the wild. I hope they’ll be very successful and make lots of baboon babies! s.
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If you read my blog from time to time, then you know I’m a volunteer at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary. One of my volunteer colleagues, Deb, posted this video of the farm, narrated by a 5-year-old boy and filmed about two years ago. Enjoy. Moon bears, or Asiatic black bears, are also dear to my [...]
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One of my favorite blogs on Wildlife Direct is The Colobus Trust. They’re serious conservationists who also know how to have fun while saving a species from extinction. That’s a rare combination, believe me. They operate on a small budget and still have managed to build “colobridges” for colobus monkeys, and others, to cross above [...]
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It started yesterday, my apologies for the late post, and ends this Friday with Orange for Orangutan Day! I’m planning to hang flyers on all the various bulletin boards on all 11 floors of our building today. Please read the following information from the Orangutan Foundation and get everyone you know to wear orange on [...]
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**Update** Thanks to Helena of World Land Trust for her comment and providing a link so you can donate to buy this land: “For anyone interested in contributing to this vital appeal, you can make a donation at http://www.justgiving.com/worldlandtrustborneo” Following on my earlier post about the critical state of wildlife in Malaysia, I found news [...]
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A while back I wrote that Wildlife Poaching Will Be the Death of Us All. Now Dr. Richard Leakey, founder of Wildlife Direct speaks out about a proposal by the Centre of International Forestry Research to legalize killing wildlife for bushmeat. Poor people aren’t getting any benefit from bushmeat. They hunt the non-human animals and [...]
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Everyone is carrying this incredible story today! You can find it on MSNBC, CNN, Reuters, AP, NYTimes, and more. The The Times reports that a survey conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society claims to have found “more than 125,000 western lowland gorillas, a rare example of abundance in a world of rapidly vanishing primate populations.” [...]
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There just isn’t any good news of late; at least that’s how it seems. In my previous post about the ABC News special report about orangutans and deforestation, I found some great comments left by visitors. The first comment by Richard Zimmerman, director of Orangutan Outreach, invites us to visit the Web site and learn [...]
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