Mark Gately
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Worth celebrating? Nepal marked the 1,000th day of zero poaching of endangered one-horned rhinos last week.
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This shot of three snow leopards in Sanjiangyuan National Park, in northwest China’s Qinghai Province, has to be the wildlife photo of the week.
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Recent work in Madagascar shows the negative impact that stray dogs and cats are having on native wildlife, especially carnivores such as the fossa.
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The Giant River Otter was thought to be extinct in Argentina, but one has surfaced on the Bermejo River in the country’s north-eastern Chaco province.
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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.
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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
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'It surely counts as a good day at the office when you download images from a trail cam and find this…'
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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.
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Sanjiangyuan - the new national park in China that promises to be a haven for snow leopards.
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Photographer Stephane Granzotto captures incredible image of adult sperm whales sleeping.
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Mongolian government declares new mountain reserve for snow leopards.
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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
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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?
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Scientists in Nepal trying to better understand snow leopard diet, so that they can reduce conflict with livestock.
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Wildlife photo of the week: a kingfisher dives underwater to grab its prey in Ferrara, Italy.
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'Every country must criminalise the possession of wildlife illegally sourced.’
#WorldWildlifeDay
?
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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.
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The year's most spectacular wildlife photo? Photo by Justin Green, via
@HuffPostGreen
http://t.co/FyO3bBFTea
http://t.co/KVLtVCGHNo
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A major elephant poaching network has been dismantled in northern
#Congo
- congratulations to all involved.
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Snow leopard research team capture rare footage of cubs in a den.
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Botswana shows that a successful conservation strategy doesn’t have to include trophy hunting.
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Wildlife photo of the week: snow leopard in Russia, where camera traps are being used to conduct nationwide census.
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US gets its second jaguar as male cat spotted in Arizona’s Huachuca Mountains.
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Wildlife photo of the week: a leopard seen on Java island, where they had previously thought to have died out.
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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
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Bhutan's snow leopard numbers are increasing - a 'milestone achievement'!
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Another massive
#pangolin
shipment confiscated, with 13 tonnes found in a shipping container in Taiwan.
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Sergey Gorshkov gets my vote for Wildlife Photographer of the year, with this shot of an arctic fox.
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Reintroduction of
#lynx
to UK 'will control herbivore populations, promote forest growth & reinvigorate ecosystems.’
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Mexico’s government has created the largest ocean reserve in North America around a Pacific archipelago that’s a haven for whales and turtles.
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The government of the Seychelles has created two new marine protected areas, covering 81,000 square miles—an area about the size of Great Britain.
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Good news for big cats - the United Arab Emirates outlaws the ownership of wild animals as pets.
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Botswana has taken a stand against trophy hunting and ivory sales, and is now seeing the economic benefit in terms of tourism dollars.
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Prime Minister of Nepal announces launch of Snow Leopard Action Plan for the country.
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France is to allow its wolf population to grow from about 360 now to 500 by 2023, an increase of almost 40%.
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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’.
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The purple emperor butterfly is just one species flourishing on rewilded farmland in the UK.
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New report finds that trophy hunters “grossly” overstate economic benefits of big game hunting in Africa.
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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.
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Malaysian authorities arrest seven of the country’s 'most wanted' elephant poachers, along with a cache of weapons.
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UK announces marine special protected area to protect coastline that is home to more than 150,000 rare seabirds - and it’s all thanks to
#BluePlanet2
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Great to see Royal
#Turtle
nests being discovered on Cambodia’s Sre Ambel river system - ten years ago this species had all but disappeared locally.
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UK government backs creation of Antarctic wildlife reserve that will protect penguins, leopard seals, orca and blue whales.
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Scientists demand more protection for China’s
#pangolins
, with nature reserves set up in key mountain habitats.
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Outgoing President Obama 'has protected more natural habitat than any president in American history’.
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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.
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How an animal selfie turned the spotlight on the plight of Sulawesi’s black macaques.
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‘The Battle’ (white heron fighting a green snake), just one finalist from Bird Photographer of the Year 2017.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Namibia is turning to dogs in the fight against wildlife crime, deploying four German Shepherds that can detect ivory, rhino horn, and pangolin scales.
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Good news for snow leopards - new study identifies large areas that will serve as refuges as the climate changes.
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The recovery of Bongo antelope numbers in northern
#Congo
highlights how good science can result in conservation success.
@theWCS
@wcs_congo
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Tanzanian president tells security forces to pursue wildlife poachers.
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Gray wolves just won another battle to stay on the endangered species list.
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The Wildlife Photographer of the Year 'people's choice' winner 2018 highlights the cost of the bushmeat trade in Central Africa.
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'With all our concern for iconic African wildlife species – lions, cheetahs, rhinos – somehow we’ve forgotten the
#giraffes
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Research suggesting that there are actually three subspecies of snow leopard could be good news for conservation.
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A photo of Buka on
#WorldGorillaDay
- one of several thousand gorillas that are
#ProtectedByWCS
in northern Congo.
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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.
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Kenya has an impressive recent record fighting elephant poaching, says
@paulakahumbu
#DontLetThemDisappear
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As humans increasingly encroach on their habitat, more wild animals are moving into cities.
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Parrot smuggling network disrupted as wildlife raid in Indonesia uncovers 125 exotic birds squashed into pipes. Great work by
@TheWCS
and partners.
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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.
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Ministers from snow leopard range countries to meet to discuss progress in global effort to save the species.
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As elephants, rhinos, and tigers capture the spotlight, thousands of lesser known species are being traded into potential oblivion.
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Good news for wildlife as Uganda approves tougher penalties for poaching and wildlife trade.
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Wildlife photo of the week: rare sighting of a pod of pilot
#whales
off the Shetland Islands in Scotland, UK.
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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.
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Humpback
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'Illegal killing of elephants .. now at "critically high levels" in Africa'.
http://t.co/GfRq8PBeHu
http://t.co/YG9oTQLsq2
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The world’s first skydiving anti-poaching dog makes history.
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Federal judge temporarily blocks first grizzly bear hunts in Wyoming and Idaho in more than 40 years.
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Camera traps are playing a key role in snow leopard conservation in Russia.
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Air China bans shark fin cargo, reflecting dramatic shift in attitudes.
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Snow leopards showing up in places they’d never been seen before – thanks to an innovative conservation programme.
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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.
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A western lowland gorilla, seen in northern
#Congo
. Gorillas are threatened by Ebola and bushmeat hunting - but this one is
#ProtectedByWCS
.
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Camera trap captures rare snow leopard on the Russian-Mongolian border.
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The pygmy hog, the rarest & smallest pig in the world, makes 'wildlife photos of the week'.
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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.
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