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					<title>Conservation shouldn’t gamble with nonnative species introductions (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/conservation-shouldnt-gamble-with-nonnative-species-introductions-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Jul 2026 19:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Charles FoleyKenneth Coe]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Biodiversity, Commentary, Conservation, Reintroductions, Ungulates, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Introducing animals outside their natural ranges is a practice fraught with risk, one that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) — the recognized global authority on the natural world — explicitly discourages. The IUCN&#8217;s guidelines for responsible wildlife translocation classify the importation of nonnative wildlife as a “critical risk” to be carried out [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Introducing animals outside their natural ranges is a practice fraught with risk, one that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) — the recognized global authority on the natural world — explicitly discourages. The IUCN&#8217;s guidelines for responsible wildlife translocation classify the importation of nonnative wildlife as a “critical risk” to be carried out only under a very narrow set of exceptional circumstances. There are very good reasons for these precautions. The natural world is awash with examples of species that were released outside their natural ranges becoming invasive, with devastating consequences. Even if species released outside their natural ranges don’t become invasive, they may still drastically disrupt the ecological dynamics of a community. For decades, translocations of animals within their former ranges have been used as a helpful tool in conservation. Reintroduction of species for conservation purposes such as bolstering an existing population, reestablishing a population that has gone extinct in the wild, and maintaining genetic diversity all rely on translocations. Such movement of animals may also help enhance tourism by offering greater numbers or a more diverse array of local species. Moving animals outside their natural range (an introduction rather than a reintroduction), however, is a fundamentally different and a potentially problematic proposition. The outcomes of these “conservation introduction” cases are often binary: the animals struggle mightily, if not die off, or the animals manage to acclimate to the unfamiliar surroundings and proceed to compete for resources with the native species, potentially inflicting harm in the process. And while&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/conservation-shouldnt-gamble-with-nonnative-species-introductions-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-324805</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Nepal’s plan to release blackbucks into tiger country raises red flags</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/nepals-plan-to-release-blackbucks-into-tiger-country-raises-red-flags/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/nepals-plan-to-release-blackbucks-into-tiger-country-raises-red-flags/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>18 May 2026 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Bibek Bhandari]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Nandithachandraprakash]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Nepal, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Predators, Protected Areas, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATHMANDU — Nepal is preparing to relocate blackbucks from protected areas in the country’s west to the south-central lowlands, in an effort to expand the species’ population beyond its current range. But conservationists have raised questions about the suitability of the new site, including the increased risk of predation. Under the plan, the Department of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATHMANDU — Nepal is preparing to relocate blackbucks from protected areas in the country’s west to the south-central lowlands, in an effort to expand the species’ population beyond its current range. But conservationists have raised questions about the suitability of the new site, including the increased risk of predation. Under the plan, the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) will release 18 blackbucks (Antilope cervicapra) in Tikauli, a corridor forest area near Chitwan National Park. The animals, six males and 12 females, will be translocated from Shuklaphanta National Park and Blackbuck Conservation Area, located in Nepal’s far-western and southwestern regions, respectively. “We will be translocating them as soon as possible,” said Haribhadra Acharya, senior ecologist at DNPWC who has planned the translocation for nearly five years now. “It will be a mix of young and subadult individuals. The main objective of this translocation is to revive the blackbuck population in a different geographic location and habitat area, so if they’re impacted by disease or disaster in one area, there will be an alternate secure population.” Blackbucks are an antelope species native to the Indian subcontinent, and were once widely distributed across the region. Today, India has the largest population of blackbucks, while the species occurs in small, fragmented pockets in Nepal, considered the northernmost extent of its range. Although the species as a whole isn’t considered in danger of extinction on the IUCN Red List, within Nepal it’s classified as critically endangered, and in Bangladesh and Pakistan has&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/nepals-plan-to-release-blackbucks-into-tiger-country-raises-red-flags/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-319637</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Farmers in Nepal and India see red as blue bulls raid their crops</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/farmers-in-nepal-and-india-see-red-as-blue-bulls-raid-their-crops/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Mar 2025 16:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mukesh Pokhrel]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhaya Raj Joshi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, India, Nepal, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Antelope, Biodiversity, Conservation, Farming, Human Migration, Human-wildlife Conflict, Mammals, Overpopulation, and Top Predators]]>
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							<![CDATA[LUMBINI, Nepal — Three years ago, Ram Chandra Kurmi, a farmer from the village of Gaidahawa in south-western Nepal, abandoned his small vegetable plot . The 39-year-old, who once supported his family of five through farming, now struggles to make a stable income. The culprit, he says, is the uncontrolled proliferation of nilgais, or blue [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[LUMBINI, Nepal — Three years ago, Ram Chandra Kurmi, a farmer from the village of Gaidahawa in south-western Nepal, abandoned his small vegetable plot . The 39-year-old, who once supported his family of five through farming, now struggles to make a stable income. The culprit, he says, is the uncontrolled proliferation of nilgais, or blue bulls (Boselaphus tragocamelus), a large antelope species native to this region. “Nilgais come at night when no one’s around to shoo them away and munch on the vegetables,” he said. “I couldn’t do anything about it, so I had to quit farming altogether.” Kurmi’s story is echoed across the Indo-Gangetic plains that straddle the Nepal-India border region, where marginalized farming communities complain of government inaction to address the problem. The nilgai, whose return to neighboring Bangladesh after nearly a century was celebrated there, is typically found at elevations ranging from 75-300 meters (about 300-1,000 ft). It’s been described as having the body of a horse and head of an antelope. Making it even more distinctive is the fact that adult males are iron-blue to light gray in color, hence the name nilgai (“blue cow”). It’s also been said to have the “appetite of a cow, the speed of a horse, and the alertness of a dog.” Nepal’s government lacks official data on nilgais outside the country’s national parks, but a 2018 Ministry of Forests and Environment assessment estimated 300-350 individuals across several border districts, such as Rupandehi (where the town of Gaidahawa is located), Kapilvastu,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/farmers-in-nepal-and-india-see-red-as-blue-bulls-raid-their-crops/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Comeback on the cards for Asian antelope declared extinct in Bangladesh</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/comeback-on-the-cards-for-asian-antelope-declared-extinct-in-bangladesh/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Mar 2024 11:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rafiqul Islam]]>
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						<![CDATA[Abu Siddique]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Extinction, Habitat Loss, Human-wildlife Conflict, Hunting, Mammals, Over-hunting, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Ungulates, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[DHAKA — On Jan. 7, 2024, in a rural area of northwestern Bangladesh, a nilgai, the largest species of Asian antelope, crossed the border from India. It never crossed back. When villagers in Ranisankail subdistrict, Thakurgaon district, found out about the nilgai, also known as the blue bull, “they chased the animal and caught it,” [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[DHAKA — On Jan. 7, 2024, in a rural area of northwestern Bangladesh, a nilgai, the largest species of Asian antelope, crossed the border from India. It never crossed back. When villagers in Ranisankail subdistrict, Thakurgaon district, found out about the nilgai, also known as the blue bull, “they chased the animal and caught it,” villager Raihan Alam Chowdhury told Mongabay. “When the news spread, excited villagers flocked to the site and slaughtered the blue bull. Later, the villagers shared the meat of the animal and consumed it,” he added. Several weeks earlier, another nilgai narrowly escaped a similar fate. It, too, had meandered over from the Indian side of the border, on Nov. 23, 2023. Fortunately for this individual, though, it was spotted by Bangladesh border guards, who caught it with the help of locals. “Later, the nilgai was handed over to the Forest Department,” said Nur Mohammad, a resident of Baliadangi, also in Thakurgaon district. The presence of the two nilgais in Bangladesh paints a hopeful picture for the species Boselaphus tragocamelus, despite their mixed fates. The nilgai isn’t considered threatened on the IUCN Red List, given its abundant populations in India, Nepal and Pakistan (and introduced populations in the U.S. and Mexico). But in Bangladesh, the blue bull was declared extinct in the 1930s, nearly a century ago. In a 2023 study, researchers in Bangladesh scoured media reports to identify 13 instances of nilgais entering the country’s northwest — mostly from India but also from Nepal —&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/comeback-on-the-cards-for-asian-antelope-declared-extinct-in-bangladesh/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-280091</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Hunters &#038; habitat loss are key threats to red serow populations in Bangladesh</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/hunters-habitat-loss-are-key-threats-to-red-serow-populations-in-bangladesh/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Nov 2023 13:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rafiqul Islam]]>
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						<![CDATA[Abu Siddique]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Hunting, Mammals, Poaching, Ungulates, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[DHAKA — Even a few decades back, the red serow, a type of goat-antelope locally known in Bangladesh as bon chagol, was found in the hilly forests of Chattogram in the southeast and Sylhet in the east, but the animal is now hardly found due to indiscriminate hunting and destruction of its habitat. On Jan. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[DHAKA — Even a few decades back, the red serow, a type of goat-antelope locally known in Bangladesh as bon chagol, was found in the hilly forests of Chattogram in the southeast and Sylhet in the east, but the animal is now hardly found due to indiscriminate hunting and destruction of its habitat. On Jan. 25, 2020, the Bangladesh Forest Department rescued a red serow calf from Ali Kadam Upazila in the remote southeastern Bandarban hill district. Since then, there has been no official record of the red serow in the Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT, previously known as Chittagong). A.B.M. Sarowar Alam, project manager at IUCN Bangladesh, said there was a deficiency of data on the current status of the red serow (Capricornis rubidus) in Bangladesh. However, conservationists have said they believe the strange creature is still found in some areas of the country. The red serow was widely distributed across the mixed evergreen forests of Bangladesh&#8217;s southeast and northeast and the forests in the north of Greater Mymensingh. The population has declined rapidly due to hunting for meat and habitat loss; at least 50% of its habitat has been severely degraded over the last decade. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), currently, the red serow occurs mainly in the mixed evergreen forests of the Chattogram Hill Tracts and rarely in the forests of greater Sylhet, bordering Indian territories. Red serows were spotted in Baroiyadhala National Park although they frequently are being killed by hunters. Image&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/hunters-habitat-loss-are-key-threats-to-red-serow-populations-in-bangladesh/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-275232</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Biogas project offers lifelines to Kenyan community, forest, and rare species</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/biogas-project-offers-lifelines-to-kenyan-community-forest-and-rare-species/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Apr 2023 19:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Shadrack Omuka]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antelope, Community Development, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Endangered Species, Energy, Environment, Forest Recovery, Hunting, Logging, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Forest Management, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[EBURU, Kenya — The twin peaks of Mount Eburu are draped with 87 square kilometers, about 34 square miles, of montane forest. They’re home to more than 40 species of mammals, including the critically endangered mountain bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci). Like other forest reserves in central Kenya, Eburu has suffered degradation because it’s also a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[EBURU, Kenya — The twin peaks of Mount Eburu are draped with 87 square kilometers, about 34 square miles, of montane forest. They’re home to more than 40 species of mammals, including the critically endangered mountain bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci). Like other forest reserves in central Kenya, Eburu has suffered degradation because it’s also a source of food and fuel for surrounding communities. This could change, though, as a household biogas project aims to reduce demand for timber, firewood, and charcoal, by providing locals an alternative source of energy. Lydia Nyota heads one of 150 households in the village of Eburu that have begun using biogas for cooking and lighting their homes. Like most of her neighbors here, the 60-year-old used to rely on firewood and charcoal from the nearby Eburu Forest for fuel. “We value this forest because it gives us rain and it hosts critically endangered species,” Nyota told Mongabay. The Eburu Forest is home to more than 40 species of mammals, including the critically endangered mountain bongo. Image courtesy Tsavo National Park (Fair use.) Reserves of biodiversity Eburu is the easternmost of 22 protected forest blocks in central Kenya. Once part of the Mau Forest complex, an expanse of montane forest that’s a vital source of the water that feeds lakes and rivers across the Rift Valley region, Eburu is now an island of forest surrounded by agriculture and settlements. Despite decades of encroachment, Eburu’s various zones — shifting from acacia and lelechwa on the lower slopes,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/biogas-project-offers-lifelines-to-kenyan-community-forest-and-rare-species/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-267382</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Congo&#8217;s bongos are in danger, and curbs on trophy hunting could save them</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/congos-bongos-are-in-danger-and-curbs-on-trophy-hunting-could-save-them/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Sep 2021 10:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, and Republic of Congo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antelope, Conservation, Diseases, Endangered Species, Hunting, Logging, Over-hunting, Research, Species, Trophy Hunting, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[When the first bongo was reported dead by the Sangha River in the Republic of Congo in 1997, it was believed to have drowned. Several more turned up in the following weeks. Some were spotted tottering along open roads, unusual for a mostly nocturnal animal. Others appeared uncharacteristically fearless. All were emaciated. At least 17 bongos [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When the first bongo was reported dead by the Sangha River in the Republic of Congo in 1997, it was believed to have drowned. Several more turned up in the following weeks. Some were spotted tottering along open roads, unusual for a mostly nocturnal animal. Others appeared uncharacteristically fearless. All were emaciated. At least 17 bongos died that year after a catastrophic explosion of Stomoxys flies descended upon the ungulates, biting them, enfeebling them, and often killing them. It alerted researchers to the possibility that all was not well with the bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus). Now, a study conducted more than two decades later shows bloodsucking flies aren&#8217;t the only existential threat for this rare African antelope — unsustainable trophy hunting quotas are too. An allotment of 15 adult males a year could lead to their disappearance from the Republic of Congo’s Bonio hunting concession within 25 years, according to the survey led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), a U.S.-based NGO. The bongo&#8217;s bold stripes and striking horns make it a prized trophy, or, as one hunter put it, the &#8220;animal of a lifetime.&#8221; Fewer than 30,000 of the chestnut-colored ungulates remain today, found in a belt just south of the Sahara. Of the two known bongo subspecies, the eastern bongo (T. e. isaaci) faces a steeper uphill battle for survival: Only around 100 of these mountain-dwelling antelopes remain in Kenya&#8217;s mountains. The lowland bongo (T. e. eurycerus) is found in western and central African countries, its range straddling the Congo&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/congos-bongos-are-in-danger-and-curbs-on-trophy-hunting-could-save-them/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Camera trap photos confirm discovery of lowland bongo in Uganda for first time</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/camera-trap-photos-confirm-discovery-of-lowland-bongo-in-uganda-for-first-time/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Oct 2018 15:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Uganda]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Camera Trapping, Conservation, Environment, Mammals, National Parks, Photos, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Camera trap photos have confirmed the first-ever sighting of the world’s largest forest antelope in Uganda. Endemic to the tropical forests of Central and West Africa, the lowland bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus eurycerus) is known for its red-brown coat with white-yellow stripes and long, lightly spiraled horns. Adult male bongos can stand as tall as 1.3 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Camera trap photos have confirmed the first-ever sighting of the world’s largest forest antelope in Uganda. Endemic to the tropical forests of Central and West Africa, the lowland bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus eurycerus) is known for its red-brown coat with white-yellow stripes and long, lightly spiraled horns. Adult male bongos can stand as tall as 1.3 meters (or over 4 feet) at the shoulders and weigh as much as 800 pounds. Scientists with the UK-based Chester Zoo say that the mostly nocturnal ungulate was captured by motion-sensor camera traps in the lowland rainforests of Semuliki National Park in southwest Uganda, where the East African country borders the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The lowland rainforests of Semuliki are continuous with the Ituri rainforest of the DRC and, together, they are considered some of the oldest and most biodiverse forests in Africa, according to the Chester Zoo. Bongo in Semuliki National Park. Photo Credit: © Chester Zoo. “We were amazed that such a large, striking animal could go undetected for so long, but bongo are a notoriously shy and elusive species,” Chester Zoo’s Africa field program coordinator, Stuart Nixon, who is leading a camera trap survey of Semuliki National Park’s mammal biodiversity in partnership with the Uganda Wildlife Authority, said in a statement. “It could be that bongo and other species are moving between Virunga National park in DRC and Uganda, showing just how important it is to protect the rainforests, which still connect the two countries.” The western or lowland bongo,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/camera-trap-photos-confirm-discovery-of-lowland-bongo-in-uganda-for-first-time/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A saiga time bomb? Bad news for Central Asia’s beleaguered antelope</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/a-time-bomb-for-the-saiga-bad-news-central-asias-beleaguered-antelope/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Jan 2018 16:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Atlantic Forest, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Bacteria, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Diseases, Environment, Global Warming, Grasslands, Hunting, Mammals, Over-hunting, Poaching, Research, Saiga, Temperatures, Ungulates, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In May 2015, more than 200,000 saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) suddenly died. Entire herds perished, their bodies littering the steppe grasslands of central Kazakhstan as if dropped from the sky. Biologists were left stunned, baffled and very concerned. Already critically endangered, the mass die-off reduced the species by two-thirds globally. Only around 31,000 remained in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In May 2015, more than 200,000 saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) suddenly died. Entire herds perished, their bodies littering the steppe grasslands of central Kazakhstan as if dropped from the sky. Biologists were left stunned, baffled and very concerned. Already critically endangered, the mass die-off reduced the species by two-thirds globally. Only around 31,000 remained in Kazakhstan and 100,000 worldwide. Research indicated the saigas were likely killed by hemorrhagic septicemia caused by a type of bacteria called Pasteurella multocida. But P. multocida generally exists harmlessly in healthy saigas and other animals, so the question remained: Why did so many saigas become infected so suddenly and severely by a normally benign type of bacteria? Dead saigas litter the ground during at Torgai Betpak Dala, Kazakhstan, in May 2015. Photo by Photograph courtesy of the Joint saiga health monitoring team in Kazakhstan (Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity, Kazakhstan, Biosafety Institute, Gvardeskiy RK, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK) A newborn saiga calf nestles in the arms of a scientist of the joint health monitoring team. Scientists think the saiga&#8217;s distinctive nose helps filter out dust kicked up during summer migrations and warms up inhaled air in the winter. Photo by Photograph courtesy of the Joint saiga health monitoring team in Kazakhstan (Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity, Kazakhstan, Biosafety Institute, Gvardeskiy RK, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK) In 2016, disaster struck the saiga again. This time in Mongolia and from a known entity: a virus from domestic goats and sheep. Between December 2016&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/a-time-bomb-for-the-saiga-bad-news-central-asias-beleaguered-antelope/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>North America’s ash trees, Africa’s antelopes face heightened threat of extinction</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/09/north-americas-ash-trees-africas-antelopes-face-heightened-threat-of-extinction/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Sep 2017 12:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Extinction, Global Environmental Crisis, Habitat Loss, Impact Of Climate Change, Insects, Mammals, Mass Extinction, Poaching, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Trees, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The latest update to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, released today, finds that even species once considered so abundant as to be safe have been put at risk of extinction by human activities and their impacts on the environment. For instance, rising global temperatures have made [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The latest update to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, released today, finds that even species once considered so abundant as to be safe have been put at risk of extinction by human activities and their impacts on the environment. For instance, rising global temperatures have made it possible for the Emerald Ash Borer beetle to thrive in areas that were previously too cold for the species, which has had dire consequences for the ash trees of North America. The state of Michigan is believed to have been the first place in North America where the invasive Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis) landed after being brought over from Asia in the late 1990s in shipping pallets. Over the next two decades, the beetle spread quickly and drove down the numbers of five of the six most widespread and valuable ash tree species in North America so severely that they have now been entered onto the Red List as Critically Endangered, the last threat level before extinction in the wild. The sixth ash species, meanwhile, was entered on the list as Endangered. The Emerald Ash Borer has already destroyed tens of millions of ash trees throughout the United States and Canada, the IUCN reported, and has the potential to decimate as many as eight billion more as it continues to spread across the continent. According to Murphy Westwood, a member of the IUCN Global Tree Specialist Group who led the assessment of the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/09/north-americas-ash-trees-africas-antelopes-face-heightened-threat-of-extinction/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Conservationists appeal to donors after mystery kills 134,252 saiga</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/conservationists-appeal-to-donors-after-mystery-kills-134252-saiga/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/conservationists-appeal-to-donors-after-mystery-kills-134252-saiga/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>10 Jun 2015 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Asia, and Kazakhstan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Critically Endangered Species, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Mammals, Saiga, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Saiga perish by the thousands in the Betpak-Dala region of Kazakhstan. Photo by: Sergei Khomenko/FAO. The good news: conservationists believe that whatever killed off over a hundred thousand saiga in Kazakhstan in less than a month has abetted. The bad news: the final death tally is 134,252 saiga or around half the population of an [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Saiga perish by the thousands in the Betpak-Dala region of Kazakhstan. Photo by: Sergei Khomenko/FAO. The good news: conservationists believe that whatever killed off over a hundred thousand saiga in Kazakhstan in less than a month has abetted. The bad news: the final death tally is 134,252 saiga or around half the population of an animal already considered Critically Endangered. Given the dire situation, conservationists are now asking for emergency donations to the Saiga Conservation Alliance (SCA) to help keep the species from extinction (donors in the U.S. can give here). &#8220;It seems like the crisis is over now,&#8221; E.J. Milner-Gulland, saiga-expert and Chair of the SCA, told Mongabay. The government of Kazakhstan has submitted a report to the World Organization for Animal Health with the total number dead in Kazakhstan&#8217;s Betpak-Dala region. Male and female saiga. Photo by: Eugene Polonsky. Saiga are antelope with long, trunk-like noses. They once roamed the Central Asian plains in the millions, but decades of poaching, habitat loss and development projects in migration routes pushed the population down to 20,000 before conservationists helped the species recover partially over the last 15 years. Prior to the mass mortality event, conservationists estimated a total global population around 260,000. The Betpak-Dala population was among the largest until now. Still, researchers remain uncertain about what caused the mass mortality. &#8220;It seems like there was a mixture of factors, which is likely to include the females being weakened by calving, one or more latent infections which were present in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/conservationists-appeal-to-donors-after-mystery-kills-134252-saiga/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-23550</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Ever heard of the hirola? New survey shows world&#8217;s rarest antelope holding steady</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/06/ever-heard-of-the-hirola-new-survey-shows-worlds-rarest-antelope-holding-steady/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Jun 2014 14:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, Kenya, and Somalia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Ex-situ Conservation, Fellows, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, In-situ Conservation, Mammals, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, and Ungulates]]>
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							<![CDATA[An hirola in Tsavo East National Park. Photo by: James Probert. In 2008 and 2009, severe droughts killed numerous elephants, hippos and rhinos in Kenya&#8217;s Tsavo East National Park. But the tiny population of the Critically Endangered Hunter&#8217;s hartebeest or hirola (Beatragus hunteri) survived without any catastrophic consequences, a recent study has found. &#8220;Hirola are [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An hirola in Tsavo East National Park. Photo by: James Probert. In 2008 and 2009, severe droughts killed numerous elephants, hippos and rhinos in Kenya&#8217;s Tsavo East National Park. But the tiny population of the Critically Endangered Hunter&#8217;s hartebeest or hirola (Beatragus hunteri) survived without any catastrophic consequences, a recent study has found. &#8220;Hirola are native to very dry areas and have numerous physiological adaptations to survive in these environments,&#8221; said James Probert, currently an Assistant Conservation Officer at Chester Zoo in the UK, and lead author of the study published in Oryx. &#8220;So it&#8217;s not surprising that they were able to withstand the drought better than some of the other species in Tsavo.&#8221; The hirola is unique in many ways. It is the only surviving member of the mammalian genus Beatragus, occurring in a small area at the Kenya-Somalia border. It is also one of the most threatened and least known antelopes in the world. Since the 1970s, its population has crashed by more than 90 percent, with only between 350 and 500 individuals currently in the wild. To prevent complete extinction, a small population of about 20-30 hirola was moved to Tsavo in 1963, outside its natural range, in what was called &#8220;Operation Hunter&#8217;s.&#8221; This was followed by translocation of an additional 29 individuals in 1996. Surveys of hirola in 1995 and 2000 yielded estimates of 76 and 77 individuals respectively. The face of the hirola. Photo by: James Probert. In 2011, Probert set out to monitor the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/06/ever-heard-of-the-hirola-new-survey-shows-worlds-rarest-antelope-holding-steady/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25070</doi>				</item>
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					<title>86 percent of big animals in the Sahara Desert are extinct or endangered</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/86-percent-of-big-animals-in-the-sahara-desert-are-extinct-or-endangered/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Dec 2013 21:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Chad, Niger, North Africa, and Sahara Desert]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Carnivores, Cats, Cheetahs, Climate Change, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Deserts, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Green, Hunting, Impact Of Climate Change, Lions, Mammals, Megafauna, Overconsumption, Poaching, Predators, Ungulates, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bigger than all of Brazil, among the harshest ecosystems on Earth, and largely undeveloped, one would expect that the Sahara desert would be a haven for desert wildlife. One would anticipate that big African animals&#8212;which are facing poaching and habitat loss in other parts of the world&#8212;would thrive in this vast wilderness. But a new [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bigger than all of Brazil, among the harshest ecosystems on Earth, and largely undeveloped, one would expect that the Sahara desert would be a haven for desert wildlife. One would anticipate that big African animals&#8212;which are facing poaching and habitat loss in other parts of the world&#8212;would thrive in this vast wilderness. But a new landmark study in Diversity and Distributions finds that the megafauna of the Sahara desert are on the verge of total collapse. &#8220;While global attention has been focused on [biodiversity] hotspots, the world’s largest tropical desert, the Sahara, has suffered a catastrophic decline in megafauna,&#8221; the researchers write. Looking at 14 large-bodied animals, the study found that 86 percent of them (ten of the species) were either extinct or endangered. Four of them (28 percent) are already extinct in the region. The Bubal hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus) is gone forever while the scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) is extinct in the wild, although there are efforts to re-introduce it. Meanwhile, two of the Sahara&#8217;s once top predators are gone: the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) and the African lion (Panthera leo). Herd of wild addax in Termit and Tin Toumma National Nature Reserve in Niger. Photo by: Copyright Thomas Rabeil and Sahara Conservation Fund. Megafauna that are still around aren&#8217;t doing much better. The dama gazelle (Nanger dama), the addax (Addax nasomaculatus), and the Saharan cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus hecki) are all on the razor-edge of extinction with each one listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/86-percent-of-big-animals-in-the-sahara-desert-are-extinct-or-endangered/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25980</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Working to save the mystery antelope that&#8217;s little bigger than a pet cat  (photos)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/working-to-save-the-mystery-antelope-thats-little-bigger-than-a-pet-cat-photos/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Apr 2013 15:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Lacey Avery]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, and Somalia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Conflict, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Hunting, In-situ Conservation, Mammals, Poaching, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Ungulates, War, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Little is known about the silver dik-dik (Madoqua piacentinii) population that roams the dense coastal bushlands of eastern Africa, but experts are working to learn more about the mysterious species. Weighing little more than a domestic cat, the small antelopes are found in a long, narrow coastal strip spreading across 250 kilometers (155 miles) from [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Little is known about the silver dik-dik (Madoqua piacentinii) population that roams the dense coastal bushlands of eastern Africa, but experts are working to learn more about the mysterious species. Weighing little more than a domestic cat, the small antelopes are found in a long, narrow coastal strip spreading across 250 kilometers (155 miles) from Somalia&#8217;s capital of Mogadishu north to the port town of Hobyo. This coastal strip is known as the Hobyo Grassland and Shrubland eco-region, according to the WWF. The eco-region features white and orange sand dunes and endemic species of birds, mammals and reptiles, but political instability has left this area largely unexplored by scientists. Of the four recognized dik-dik species scientists understand silver dik-diks the least. &#8220;We know very little about the actual silver dik-dik distribution in the Horn of Africa,&#8221; Giovanni G. Bellani told mongabay.com. As a natural scientist, Bellani studies the zoology and biodiversity of tropical ecosystems, particularly in Africa. &#8220;We do not know its ecology, its behavior or its biology.&#8221; Silver dik-dik (Madoqua piacentinii) male, found in Ogaden, Ethiopia. Photo by: Catrin Hammer for AWWP (Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation)/N.e.a.a.s.g. ( North East African subgroup of Antelope Specialist Group of IUCN). Initially thought to be the same species as the Salt&#8217;s dik-dik (Madoqua saltiana), silver dik-diks were classified as a separate species in 1978 based on its consistently smaller size, uniform silvery coat color and the length of the upper tooth row. Bellani and other scientists are analyzing the physical characteristics of silver&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/working-to-save-the-mystery-antelope-thats-little-bigger-than-a-pet-cat-photos/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Wolves, mole rats, and nyala: the struggle to conserve Ethiopia&#8217;s highlands</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/wolves-mole-rats-and-nyala-the-struggle-to-conserve-ethiopias-highlands/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Nov 2012 20:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Ethiopia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Birds, Carnivores, Cats, Community Development, Conservation, Developing Countries, Ecology, Ecosystem Services, Encroachment, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Services, Forests, Green, Habitat Loss, In-situ Conservation, Interviews, Lions, Mammals, Montane Forests, Mountains, Parks, Photos, Population, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Predators, Protected Areas, Rodents, Top Predators, Ungulates, Water, Wildlife, and Wolves]]>
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							<![CDATA[Gaysay Grasslands in Bale Mountains National Park. Photo courtesy of the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS). There is a place in the world where wolves live almost entirely off mountain rodents, lions dwell in forests, and freshwater rolls downstream to 12 million people, but the place&#8212;Ethiopia&#8217;s Bale Mountains National Park&#8212;remains imperiled by a lack of legal [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Gaysay Grasslands in Bale Mountains National Park. Photo courtesy of the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS). There is a place in the world where wolves live almost entirely off mountain rodents, lions dwell in forests, and freshwater rolls downstream to 12 million people, but the place&#8212;Ethiopia&#8217;s Bale Mountains National Park&#8212;remains imperiled by a lack of legal boundaries and encroachment by a growing human population. &#8220;Much of the land in Africa above 3,000 meters has been altered or degraded to the point where it isn’t able to perform most of the ecosystem functions that it is designed to do. Bale, although under threat and already impacted to a degree by anthropogenic activities, is still able to perform its most important ecosystem functions, and as such ranks among only a handful of representative alpine ecosystems in Africa,&#8221; Thadaigh Baggallay, project leader of the Bale Mountains Conservation Project with the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), told mongabay.com in a recent interview. The Bale Mountains house a dozen mammals found no-where else&#8211;from mountain nyala (Tragelaphus buxtoni), a stunning antelope, to giant mole rats (Tachyoryctes macrocephalus), a big-toothed rodent. The mountains are also home to the enigmatic and endangered Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis), a rusty-colored canid that likely split from the gray wolf three to four million years ago. Found scattered across Ethiopian highlands, the bulk of the wolf population remains in the Bale Mountains, yet remains hugely imperiled by rabies. Here, also, are rare lion and African wild dog populations that roam forests instead of savanna.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/wolves-mole-rats-and-nyala-the-struggle-to-conserve-ethiopias-highlands/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In midst of rhino poaching epidemic, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy has happy problem: too many black rhinos</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/in-midst-of-rhino-poaching-epidemic-lewa-wildlife-conservancy-has-happy-problem-too-many-black-rhinos/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Oct 2012 18:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Community Development, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, In-situ Conservation, Interviews, Mammals, Parks, Photos, Poaching, Private Reserves, Protected Areas, Rhinos, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ungulates, Wildlife, Wildlife Rangers, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[An interview with CEO of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Mike Watson. Black rhinoceros in Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (LWC). Photo courtesy of LWC. So far this year, South Africa has lost 430 rhinos to poachers, more than one animal a day. The epidemic of rhino poaching, fueled by demand for black-market powdered rhino horn in Vietnam and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An interview with CEO of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Mike Watson. Black rhinoceros in Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (LWC). Photo courtesy of LWC. So far this year, South Africa has lost 430 rhinos to poachers, more than one animal a day. The epidemic of rhino poaching, fueled by demand for black-market powdered rhino horn in Vietnam and China, is decimating rhino species worldwide. In fact, last year saw the official extinction of two rhino subspecies: the Vietnamese rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus), a subspecies of the Javan, and the western black rhino (Diceros bicornis longipes), a subspecies of the black. However there is one place where rhinos still thrive. The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya has found itself with a unique, but happy, problem: they have so many black rhinos, which are considered Critically Endangered by the IUNC Red List, that they need to move some to stop rhino-fights. In other words, their rhino population has hit its limit for the 25,000 hectare (62,000 acre) nonprofit protected area. &#8220;Since 2000, Lewa’s black rhino population growth rate has averaged 10 percent, higher than the national target of 6 percent,&#8221; the CEO of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Mike Watson, told mongabay.com in a recent interview. &#8220;However, we are beginning to see signs that the Conservancy has reached its ecological carrying capacity of rhinos. Incidences of fighting between the male rhino for females and terrain are increasing, and younger males are attempting to knock down the perimeter fence lines in hopes of finding their own territory.&#8221; Mike&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/in-midst-of-rhino-poaching-epidemic-lewa-wildlife-conservancy-has-happy-problem-too-many-black-rhinos/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30217</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cute animal picture of the day: sitatunga calf</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/07/cute-animal-picture-of-the-day-sitatunga-calf/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Jul 2012 16:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, and Congo Basin]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Environment, Green, Mammals, Photos, Picture Of The Day, Rainforests, Ungulates, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[A baby sitatunga born recently at Zoological Society of London&#8217;s (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. The sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) is a swamp-dwelling antelope that makes its home in Central and Southern Africa, including the Congo Rainforest. They have waterproof coats and often take to the water to help avoid predators. The [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A baby sitatunga born recently at Zoological Society of London&#8217;s (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. The sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) is a swamp-dwelling antelope that makes its home in Central and Southern Africa, including the Congo Rainforest. They have waterproof coats and often take to the water to help avoid predators. The sitatunga is listed as Least Concern by the IUCN Red List. Loss of habitat and wetlands are the primary threat to this species. A baby sitatunga born recently at Zoological Society of London&#8217;s (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. A baby sitatunga born recently at Zoological Society of London&#8217;s (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. A baby sitatunga born recently at Zoological Society of London&#8217;s (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. Sitatunga in the wild in Gabon. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/07/cute-animal-picture-of-the-day-sitatunga-calf/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30544</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Charting a new environmental course in China</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/05/charting-a-new-environmental-course-in-china/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 May 2012 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mark Szotek]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, China, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Climate Change, Climate Science, Consumption, Critically Endangered Species, Dams, Developing Countries, Development, Economics, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Fishing, Forests, Freshwater, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydroelectric Power, Impact Of Climate Change, Interviews, Mammals, Natural Resources, Parks, Politics, Pollution, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Protected Areas, Reforestation, Rivers, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Timber, Water, Water Scarcity, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[An interview with the Nature Conservancy&#8217;s China Program. TNC staff and volunteers repairing signage at Meili Snow Mountain National Park in northwest Yunnan. Community benefits and ecotourism are at the heart of TNC&#8217;s program to establish national parks in China. Photo by: Tang Ling. Founded in 1951, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) works in more than [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An interview with the Nature Conservancy&#8217;s China Program. TNC staff and volunteers repairing signage at Meili Snow Mountain National Park in northwest Yunnan. Community benefits and ecotourism are at the heart of TNC&#8217;s program to establish national parks in China. Photo by: Tang Ling. Founded in 1951, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) works in more than 30 countries and has projects in all 50 of the United States. The Conservancy has over one million members, and has protected more than 119 million acres of wild-lands and 5,000 miles of rivers worldwide. TNC has taken an active interest in China, the world&#8217;s most populated nation, and in many important ways, a critical center of global development. The following is an interview with multiple directors of The Nature Conservancy&#8217;s China Program. Mongabay: Please tell our readers about the background and history of The Nature Conservancy&#8217;s (TNC) work in China. Zhang Shuang, the Director of the TNC China Program. Zhang Shuang, Director of TNC China Program: Though TNC is a big international organization, we started small in China, in the critically important Northwest corner of the province of Yunnan. We were invited by the Yunnan provincial government to help them complete a regional conservation plan. That was in 1998. We still operate a number of projects in Yunnan but now have also expanded site work into Sichuan, Inner Mongolia, and the Yangtze River Basin. While the opportunities and need for addressing environmental challenges in China are enormous, we still try to focus our work&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/05/charting-a-new-environmental-course-in-china/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30895</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Animal picture of the day: a baby bongo</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/animal-picture-of-the-day-a-baby-bongo/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Mar 2012 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, Kenya, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Conservation, Environment, Ex-situ Conservation, Green, Mammals, Photos, Picture Of The Day, Ungulates, Wildlife, and Zoos]]>
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							<![CDATA[Baby bongo. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsande Zoo. A female bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus) was born at the Zoological Society of London&#8217;s Whipsnade Zoo last month. &#8220;The calf and her mum are happy to sit with other members of the group and the calf is not always found with mum&#8212;babysitting is common with the bongo,&#8221; Mark [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Baby bongo. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsande Zoo. A female bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus) was born at the Zoological Society of London&#8217;s Whipsnade Zoo last month. &#8220;The calf and her mum are happy to sit with other members of the group and the calf is not always found with mum&#8212;babysitting is common with the bongo,&#8221; Mark Holden, Africa section leader at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, said in a press release. Stunningly colored antelopes, bongos are found throughout West and Central Africa, preferring lowland, swampy habitats. They are listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN Red List and are imperiled by bushmeat hunting and habitat loss. However, a subspecies of the bongo is also found in Kenya; known as the mountain bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci, this subspecies is listed as Critically Endangered with its total population only around 75-140 animals. Baby bongo. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsande Zoo. Baby bongo. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsande Zoo.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/animal-picture-of-the-day-a-baby-bongo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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