Photo credit: Ruben Barquez
The Golden Vizcacha Rat, Pipanacoctomys aureus, is listed as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED‘ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Continue reading
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IUCN Species of the Day: Golden Vizcacha Rat
Posted in IUCN Species of the Day, South America with tags animal blog, animal blogs, Animal Rights, Animals, animals blog, Argentina, Biodiversity., Catamarca, Community, Conservation, conservation action, critically endangered, critically endangered rodents, Current Events, Education, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Golden Vizcacha Rat, habitat loss, halophytic, halophytic plant habitat, halophytic plants, illegal, killing, Nature, olive plantations, Pipanacoctomys aureus, poaching, rodents, Society, South America, wildlife, wildlife blog, wildlife blogs, wildlife conservation, wildlife conservation blog on September 20, 2011 by Tracy BurnleyIUCN Species of the Day: Atlantic Sturgeon
Posted in Europe, IUCN Species of the Day, Oceans with tags Acipenser sturio, animal blog, animal blogs, Animal Rights, Animal Trafficking, Animals, animals blog, Anti Poaching, Atlantic Sturgeon, Biodiversity., captive breeding programme, caviar, channelization, CITES, Conservation, critically endangered, critically endangered fish, Current Events, Development, Dordogne Basin, Education, endangered fish, Endangered Species, Environment, erosion, Europe, European coastline, European fish, Extinction, fish, France, Garonne Basin, Gironde, Gironde basin, habitat degradation, habitat loss, illegal, Illegal Animal Trade, illegal fishing, illegal hunting, Illegal Wildlife Trade, killing, natal rivers, Nature, News, overfishing, overharvesting, poaching, pollution, river bank erosion, river channelization, river development, river systems, riverine habitat, sedimentation, silt, Society, spawning grounds, stop poaching, sturgeon caviar, sturgeon nursery haitat, sturgeon spawning grounds, sturgeons, vulnerable to overfishing, wildlife, wildlife blog, wildlife blogs, wildlife conservation, wildlife conservation blog, world's most threatened animal group on September 15, 2011 by Bush Warriors
Photo credit: Jean-Francois Hellio and Nicholas Van Ingen
The Atlantic Sturgeon, Acipenser sturio, is listed as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED‘ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Continue reading
IUCN Species of the Day: Giant Armadillo
Posted in IUCN Species of the Day, South America with tags Andes Mountains, animal blog, animal blogs, Animal Rights, Animal Trafficking, Animals, animals blog, Anti Poaching, Argentina, armadillo trade, armadillos, Brazil, bushmeat, China, CITES, Community, Conservation, Culture, Current Events, deforestation, Education, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, forest loss, French Guiana, Giant Armadillo, Guianas, habitat loss, illegal, Illegal Animal Trade, illegal hunting, Illegal Wildlife Trade, killing, Nature, News, pangolins, Paraguay, poaching, Priodontes maximus, Society, South America, stop poaching, Venezuela, wildlife, wildlife blog, wildlife blogs, wildlife conservation, wildlife conservation blog on September 12, 2011 by Bush Warriors
Photo credit: Carly Vynne
The Giant Armadillo, Priodontes maximus, is listed as ‘VULNERABLE’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Continue reading
IUCN Species of the Day: Burnup’s Hunter Slug
Posted in IUCN Species of the Day with tags Africa, agriculture, animal blog, animal blogs, Animal Rights, Animals, animals blog, Biodiversity., Burnup's Hunter Slug, Chlamydephorus burnupi, Community, Conservation, Current Events, deforestation, Drakensberg, Drakensberg foothills, Education, Endangered Species, endemic invertebrates, endemic slugs, endemic species, Environment, Extinction, forest habitat, forest invertebrates, forests, garden pests, habitat degradation, habitat loss, illegal, illegal timber harvesting, invasive plants, invasive species, killing, KwaZulu-Natal, leaf litter dweller, livestock, midlands, mist-belt Podocarpus forests, montane Podocarpus forests, Nature, overgrazing, pill millipedes, poaching, predatory slug, slugs, Society, South Africa, South African forests, threatened invertebrates, threatened slugs, timber extraction, vulnerable, wild fire, wildfire, wildlife, wildlife blog, wildlife blogs, wildlife conservation, wildlife conservation blog on September 9, 2011 by Bush Warriors
Photo credit: Dai Hurbert
Burnup’s Hunter Slug, Chlamydephorus burnupi, is listed as ‘VULNERABLE’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Continue reading
IUCN Species of the Day: Social Wrasse
Posted in IUCN Species of the Day with tags animal blog, animal blogs, Animal Rights, Animals, animals blog, Belize, Belize tourism, Biodiversity., Central America, coastal development, Community, Conservation, conservation actions, coral reef habitat, coral reefs, critically endangered, critically endangered fish, Culture, Current Events, diving, Education, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, feeding grounds, fish, habitat destruction, habitat loss, Halichoeres socialis, killing, mainland Belize, mangrove fish, mangrove habitat, mangrove wetlands, mangroves, Nature, News, Pelican Cays, poaching, reef fish, social wrasse, Society, spawning grounds, stop poaching, tourism development, tourism industry, wildlife, wildlife blog, wildlife blogs, wildlife conservation, wildlife conservation blog, World Heritage Site, wrasse on September 6, 2011 by Bush Warriors
Photo credit: Dr. Luiz Rocha
The Social Wrasse, Halichoeres socialis, is listed as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED‘ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Continue reading
IUCN Species of the Day: Crau Plain Grasshopper
Posted in IUCN Species of the Day with tags agriculture, animal blog, animal blogs, Animal Rights, Animals, animals blog, Biodiversity., bugs, Conservation, Crau Plain Grasshopper, critically endangered, critically endangered insects, Culture, Current Events, Education, Endangered Species, entomology, Environment, Extinction, flightless grasshoppers, France, grasshopper research, grasshoppers, habitat degradation, habitat fragmentation, habitat loss, industrial development, insects, killing, La Crau, landscape conversion, Nature, News, poaching, population ecology, Prionotropis hystrix rhodanica, Society, southern France, translocation project, wildlife, wildlife blog, wildlife blogs, wildlife conservation, wildlife conservation blog, [ on September 5, 2011 by Bush Warriors
Photo credit: Laurent Tatin
The Crau Plain Grasshopper, Prionotropis hystrix rhodanica, has not yet been evaluated for the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. However, it has a provisional assessment of ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED’. Continue reading
Flying with Vultures – Path into the Future….
Posted in Africa: Birds of Prey, African Wildlife, Birds with tags Africa, animal blog, animal blogs, animals blog, Biodiversity., Cape Vulture, Conservation, Culture, Endangered Species, Environment, Flying with Vultures, Nature, poaching, vulture, vultures on September 3, 2011 by Dori GTwo weeks ago we brought you a clip of an extraordinary lady Kerri Wolter who is also know in some circle as the Vultures whisperer. We had a lots of feedback and many of you asked to learn more about about the Cape Vulture and what can be done to save this magnificent bird from extinction.
Vultures form an important ecological component of our natural environment, cleaning up dead carcasses, decreasing the spread of some diseases. Today in South Africa they face an unprecedented onslaught from modern mans developments, including electrocutions and collisions with electrical structures, poisonings, land-use changes, decrease in food availability as well as as Muti uses which are animals used for traditional healing.
Meet Vulture Conservation. A local South African conservation organization that has taken vultures under their wings. Their program approaches vulture conservation in a multidisciplinary and networked fashion, with the benefit accruing to both the vulture and society at large. By focusing actions on the vulture, positioned at the top of the food chain (literally) as an indicator of the health of the environment below it, this project is destined to not only influence but also impact on the well-being of South Africa’s natural environment.
Photo Credit – Green Renaissance
Cell-phone tracking devises are used to determine foraging and home ranges of a large number of vultures in Southern Africa. The output from such research allows for the monitoring capture-release of free-ranging vultures, the mapping of areas for further actions, such as community education and the safeguarding of vulture food through the monitoring of vulture feeding grounds.
With the many threats vultures are facing throughout southern Africa, vulture rehabilitation has become an essential part of the Vulture Programme. Collecting grounded, injured, poisoned and disabled vultures around South Africa, special emphasis within the Gauteng, North West and Limpopo Provinces, Vulture Conservation are able to save many vultures that would have met their untimely death.
To learn more about about this extraordinary organization and Kerri click here….
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