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					<title>The conservation population of Australia’s endangered eastern quoll welcomes joeys</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/the-conservation-population-of-australias-endangered-eastern-quoll-welcomes-joeys/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Aug 2026 12:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Paul Harvey]]>
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						<![CDATA[Yenni Kwok]]>
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							<![CDATA[Australia, Global, and Oceania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Biology, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Cute, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Mammals, Marsupials, Research, Science, Solutions, Species, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[SYDNEY — The endangered eastern quoll, one of Australia’s species of quoll, is a nocturnal carnivorous marsupial that is small in stature with a ferret-like pointed face and a bushy tail. The mammal has two primary color variants: Light fawn and blackish-brown, with white spots on the body. Once so widespread along the eastern coastal [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[SYDNEY — The endangered eastern quoll, one of Australia’s species of quoll, is a nocturnal carnivorous marsupial that is small in stature with a ferret-like pointed face and a bushy tail. The mammal has two primary color variants: Light fawn and blackish-brown, with white spots on the body. Once so widespread along the eastern coastal fringe of Australia, the eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus) was described as being in “plague abundance” and was occasionally kept as a pet and prized by farmers for its skills in hunting rodents. It was even called a native cat in the 1800s due to its resemblance in both size and hunting behavior to the domestic feline, brought by settlers from Europe.  Despite its onetime abundance on the Australian mainland, by the 1960s the last known remaining eastern quoll population was lost. Disease, habitat loss, car strikes and predation by cats, dogs and invasive foxes led to the demise of the species.  However, a taxidermied specimen of an eastern quoll emerged in 2016, purportedly originally picked up as roadkill in the Barrington Tops, northwest of Sydney, in 1989 and handed over to the National Parks and Wildlife Service nearly three decades later. This could mean that the species survived for decades longer than official records suggest.  Although now considered extinct in the wild on the mainland, the eastern quoll has not been lost entirely. The southern Australian island of Tasmania, free of the predatory invasive foxes, is home to a number of wild populations of eastern&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/the-conservation-population-of-australias-endangered-eastern-quoll-welcomes-joeys/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-327711</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Meme-face Pallas’s cat traverses a complex conservation landscape</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/meme-face-pallass-cat-traverses-a-complex-conservation-landscape/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Jul 2026 17:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia and Central Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Cats, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Cute, Ecosystems, Environment, Habitat, Mammals, Small Cats, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Many already know Zelenogorsk — a manul, or Pallas’s cat, from Russia’s Novosibirsk Zoo — who became an internet sensation in 2022 after a video of him warming his paws on his tail was posted on YouTube. That clip has garnered more than 14 million views. Many of the world’s 30-plus small cat species are [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Many already know Zelenogorsk — a manul, or Pallas’s cat, from Russia’s Novosibirsk Zoo — who became an internet sensation in 2022 after a video of him warming his paws on his tail was posted on YouTube. That clip has garnered more than 14 million views. Many of the world’s 30-plus small cat species are relatively unknown, but thanks to its online fame as the world’s grumpiest cat, the manul bucks this trend. “Pallas’s cats are known for being these really cranky-looking animals,” said Jan Janecka, a professor of biology at Duquesne University in the U.S. “It&#8217;s almost like a meme, how the facial expression they have is just really unique and funny.” But while the manul’s oft-miffed visage is well known, perhaps less so is the complex conservation picture it faces rangewide. Its “least concern” status on the IUCN Red List somewhat obscures troubling declines at the national level. It inhabits a huge expanse of territory across South and Central Asia, including the Himalayas and on into the Caucasus and Caspian Sea region. Some countries — such as Mongolia and China — are considered strongholds, with healthy, if patchy, populations. But in the south and west, little is known about them. “A lot of what we know is focused on these strongholds,” said Katarzyna Ruta, conservation manager at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and coordinator with the Pallas’s Cat International Conservation Alliance (PICA). Elsewhere in their range, populations are often small, isolated and “very clearly understudied,” she added.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/meme-face-pallass-cat-traverses-a-complex-conservation-landscape/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-322829</doi>				</item>
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					<title>The forest guardians along Nepal-India border leading red panda conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/the-forest-guardians-along-nepal-india-border-leading-red-panda-conservation/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Jul 2025 13:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Deepak Adhikari]]>
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						<![CDATA[Abhaya Raj Joshi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Himalayas, Nepal, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Cute, Environmental Heroes, Indigenous Peoples, Mammals, Pandas, Reforestation, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[TAPLEJUNG, Nepal — In the misty hills of eastern Nepal near the border with India, 48-year-old farmer Surya Bhattarai patrols the steep slopes of Sudap Community Forest in Taplejung district. Braving remoteness, treacherous terrain and wild animals, he is tracking red pandas, an elusive and endangered species native to the eastern Himalayas. Trained in field [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[TAPLEJUNG, Nepal — In the misty hills of eastern Nepal near the border with India, 48-year-old farmer Surya Bhattarai patrols the steep slopes of Sudap Community Forest in Taplejung district. Braving remoteness, treacherous terrain and wild animals, he is tracking red pandas, an elusive and endangered species native to the eastern Himalayas. Trained in field data collection, Bhattarai, one of 128 Forest Guardians, carries a GPS tracker, a mobile phone, a notebook, a pen, a measuring tape and a vernier scale to document signs of the animal. Forty-four Forest Guardians operate within the Panchthar–Ilam–Taplejung (PIT) Corridor, a vital 11,500-square-kilometer (4,440-square-mile) habitat that shelters roughly a quarter of Nepal’s red panda (Ailurus fulgens) population. In Taplejung, Bhattarai monitors designated forest blocks, walking transects to look for scat, claw marks or other signs of red panda. Monitoring takes place four times a year — in February, May, August and November — timed around key stages in the red panda’s life cycle, like breeding and mating seasons. Patrolling during the summer months also helps deter poaching, says Bhattarai. Globally, fewer than 10,000 red pandas remain across India, Bhutan, China and Nepal, which hosts between 500 and 1,000 in its temperate bamboo forests across 25 districts. The shy, elusive species is quietly slipping toward extinction due to rapid development like road building and hydropower expansion and habitat degradation from human activities that are fragmenting the bamboo forests they depend on. Red panda photographed on a tree in eastern Nepal. Image courtesy of Fabian Muehlberger/&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/the-forest-guardians-along-nepal-india-border-leading-red-panda-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-301922</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Adorbs: scientists capture first photos of African golden cat kittens</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/01/adorbs-scientists-capture-first-photos-of-african-golden-cat-kittens/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jan 2015 15:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Uganda]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Bushmeat, Camera Trapping, Carnivores, Cats, Conservation, Cryptic Species, Cute, Environment, Green, Mammals, Photos, Predators, Rainforests, and Snares]]>
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							<![CDATA[Elusive, little-known cats are &#8216;just unbelievably sneaky&#8217; The African golden cat is arguably the continent&#8217;s least known feline, inhabiting dense tropical forests, almost never seen, and, of course, long-upstaged by Africa&#8217;s famous felines: lions, cheetahs, and leopards. But a few intrepid scientists are beginning to uncover the long-unknown lives of these wild cats, which are [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Elusive, little-known cats are &#8216;just unbelievably sneaky&#8217; The African golden cat is arguably the continent&#8217;s least known feline, inhabiting dense tropical forests, almost never seen, and, of course, long-upstaged by Africa&#8217;s famous felines: lions, cheetahs, and leopards. But a few intrepid scientists are beginning to uncover the long-unknown lives of these wild cats, which are about double the size of a domestic cat. Most recently, researchers working in Uganda&#8217;s Kibale National Park have captured remarkable photos of African golden cats&#8230;with kittens. &#8220;Since 2010, we have conducted seven camera surveys and accumulated nearly 300 independent golden cat captures in over 18,000 trap days,&#8221; David Mills with the Wildlife Conservation Society Uganda and Panthera told mongabay.com. Still, the cats are so secretive that it took the project three years to capture photos of African golden cat kittens, which Mills believe are the first verifiable photos of this jungle cat&#8217;s young. But the rare photos of the kittens are already telling scientists something new about this species. &#8220;Our camera trap photographs have shown that golden cat color phases are roughly equally represented and do not show sex bias, so we assumed that mothers of each color produce kittens of different colors as well. These photographs show that indeed grey and red phase mothers produce grey kittens. Another photograph that is less clear also suggests a red adult with red juvenile,&#8221; David Mills noted. The research on African golden cats in Kibale National Park has been complimented by similar research in Gabon. Currently, the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/01/adorbs-scientists-capture-first-photos-of-african-golden-cat-kittens/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24168</doi>				</item>
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					<title>A Turtle&#8217;s Tale: researchers discover baby turtles&#8217; kindergarten (photos)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/03/a-turtles-tale-researchers-discover-baby-turtles-kindergarten-photos/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Mar 2014 14:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Tanya Dimitrova]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Cute, Endangered Species, Environment, Fellows, Green, Herps, Marine, Marine Animals, Oceans, Photos, Reptiles, Science, Sea Turtles, Strange, Technology, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#160; Young loggerhead sea turtle with satellite tag released in the Gulf Stream off the coast of southeast Florida. Photo by: Jim Abernethy. Kate Mansfield, at her lab in the University of Central Florida, is holding a baby loggerhead turtle, smaller than her palm, painting manicure acrylic on its shell. When the base coat dries [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[&nbsp; Young loggerhead sea turtle with satellite tag released in the Gulf Stream off the coast of southeast Florida. Photo by: Jim Abernethy. Kate Mansfield, at her lab in the University of Central Florida, is holding a baby loggerhead turtle, smaller than her palm, painting manicure acrylic on its shell. When the base coat dries out, she glues on top a neoprene patch from an old wetsuit with hair extensions adhesive. Finally, she attaches a satellite tracker on top, the size of a two &#8220;party cheese&#8221; cubes, with flexible aquarium silicone, powered by a tiny solar battery. Now the little turtle is ready to be released back into the ocean. &#8220;The tags transmit location and temperature to overhead satellites that in turn relay this information to land-based stations and they send it to me in an email!&#8221; said Mansfield. The scientist&#8217;s mission is to find out where loggerhead turtle babies hang out—a question none has been able to answer until now. Many have tried though. In the seventies, some researchers attempted tracking newly hatched turtles acoustically but that was only possible for a few hours after they entered the water. One scientist even tried swimming after them but in a few miles he would inevitably loose the babies&#8217; tracks in the water. Turtle researchers know that the adult loggerheads spend a lot of their time in the ocean around the Azores, Madeira and Cap Verde, before returning to the East Coast U.S. to lay their eggs. But where the turtles&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/03/a-turtles-tale-researchers-discover-baby-turtles-kindergarten-photos/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25544</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Feral crèches: parenting in wild India</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/01/feral-creches-parenting-in-wild-india/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jan 2014 13:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Arjun Srivathsa]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Asia, and India]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Camera Trapping, Carnivores, Cats, Cute, Environment, Green, Mammals, Photos, Predators, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Wildlife Conservation Society-India has been camera trapping wild animals for over 20 years in the Western Ghats. The results reveal the most intimate, fascinating and sometimes comical insights into animal behavior and ecology. These mammals generally become secretive and protective during parenting, and therefore we seldom get to see little ones in the wild. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Wildlife Conservation Society-India has been camera trapping wild animals for over 20 years in the Western Ghats. The results reveal the most intimate, fascinating and sometimes comical insights into animal behavior and ecology. These mammals generally become secretive and protective during parenting, and therefore we seldom get to see little ones in the wild. But discretely placed camera traps have not only caught glimpses of these adorable wild babies, but also produced wonderful family albums! Baby monkeys such as the Hanuman langur and bonnet macaque are typically singletons attached to their mothers till they are almost two years old. The mothers manage to run, eat, jump and even hop across trees, all with the little ones tightly clutched to them. Both these species are frequently seen in troops, living aside people in rural and urban areas. Hanuman langur and infants. Photo by: Ullas Karanth/WCS. Bonnet macaque and infant. Photo by: Ullas Karanth/WCS. Mammals such as the chital live in large herds. Sometimes, they tend to lose their fawns within their herds! Chital mom and fawn. Photo by: Ullas Karanth/WCS. But elephants on the other hand, are extremely protective and keep a close eye on their calves. The little calves develop strong bonds with the every member of the elephant herd, which is usually an extended family. Asian elephant with calf. Photo by: Ullas Karanth/WCS. And then there are elusive, nocturnal animals like the porcupine, whose secretive lives we know very little about. While not much has been studied about&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/01/feral-creches-parenting-in-wild-india/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25773</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/top-10-happy-environmental-stories-of-2013/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Dec 2013 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Asia, Botswana, Central America, China, Costa Rica, Europe, Indonesia, Latin America, Malaysia, South America, Southeast Asia, and Vietnam]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Bees, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Critically Endangered Species, Cute, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Energy, Environment, Fish, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Hunting, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Logging, Mammals, Marine, Marine Animals, Oceans, Pesticides, Politics, Pollinators, Pollution, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Sea Turtles, Sharks, Solutions, Species Discovery, Strange, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Also see our Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013. The discovery of a new tapir species is number seven in our first ever Top 10 List of Happy Environmental Stories. Pictured here is a pair of Kobomani tapirs caught on camera trap. The individual on the left is a female and on the right a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Also see our Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013. The discovery of a new tapir species is number seven in our first ever Top 10 List of Happy Environmental Stories. Pictured here is a pair of Kobomani tapirs caught on camera trap. The individual on the left is a female and on the right a male. Females of the new species are characterized by a light patch on lower head and neck. Photo courtesy of Fabrício R. Santos. 1. China begins to tackle pollution, carbon emissions: As China&#8217;s environmental crisis worsens, the government has begun to unveil a series of new initiatives to curb record pollution and cut greenhouse emissions. The world&#8217;s largest consumer of coal, China&#8217;s growth in emissions is finally slowing and some experts believe the nation&#8217;s emissions could peak within the decade. If China&#8217;s emissions begin to fall, so too could the world&#8217;s. 2. Zero deforestation pacts. Two major commodity producers in Asia announced zero deforestation pacts, while several buyers also established safeguards for commodity sourcing. Both Asia Pulp &amp; Paper, a paper products giant widely condemned by environmentalists for its destructive forest practices, and Wilmar, a Singapore-based agribusiness giant that accounts for 45 percent of global palm oil production, committed to progressive forest policies that exclude conversion of forests with more than 35 tons of above ground biomass, peatlands, and habitats with high conservation value. The moves are part of a broader shift among major commodity producers toward adopting social and environmental safeguards. The transition has&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/top-10-happy-environmental-stories-of-2013/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>New project works to raise the profile of the world&#8217;s littlest bear</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/new-project-works-to-raise-the-profile-of-the-worlds-littlest-bear/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Dec 2013 13:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world&#8217;s least-known bear also happens to be the smallest: sun bears (Helarctos malayanus), so called for the yellowish horseshoe mark on its chest, are found across Southeast Asia. But despite their telltale markings, super-long tongues, and endearing cuteness, sun bears remain little-studied and little-known compared to many of the region&#8217;s other large mammals. Now, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world&#8217;s least-known bear also happens to be the smallest: sun bears (Helarctos malayanus), so called for the yellowish horseshoe mark on its chest, are found across Southeast Asia. But despite their telltale markings, super-long tongues, and endearing cuteness, sun bears remain little-studied and little-known compared to many of the region&#8217;s other large mammals. Now, a new project is working to raise the profile of the sun bears of Borneo&#8212;Survival of the Sun Bears&#8212;which are a smaller subspecies of the mainland animals. &#8220;Bornean sun bears are endemic to the tropical forests of Borneo, which is one of the most biologically diverse areas on the planet. This makes sun bear survival intrinsically linked to the survival of thousands of other unique species as well,&#8221; says Jocelyn Stokes who is heading up the new organization. &#8220;With all of their natural charisma, sun bears have the potential to represent their forest home and bring a necessary awareness to the dire need for wildlife conservation in Borneo.&#8221; Working at the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center (BSBCC) in Malaysian Borneo, Stokes is filming sun bear rehabilitation efforts while studying the wild creatures. On the island, sun bears are hugely imperiled by deforestation, largely for palm oil plantations. While on mainland Southeast Asia, the bears are targeted by poachers for their body parts, which are used in Chinese traditional medicine. In a December interview with mongabay.com, Jocelyn Stokes talks about discovering sun bears, their vital role as ecosystem engineers, and her burgeoning efforts to raise the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/new-project-works-to-raise-the-profile-of-the-worlds-littlest-bear/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25992</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Meet the BABY olinguito</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/08/meet-the-baby-olinguito/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Aug 2013 14:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Andes, Colombia, Ecuador, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Carnivores, Cloud Forests, Conservation, Cute, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Photos, Rainforests, Saving Species From Extinction, Science, Solutions, and Species Discovery]]>
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							<![CDATA[Since its announcement on Thursday, the olinguito&#8212;the world&#8217;s newest mammal&#8212;has taken the world by storm. Hundreds of articles have been written about the new species, while its cuddly appearance has already been made the subject of cartoons. Now, conservationists have released the first photos of a baby olinguito. The new photos come from La Mesenia [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Since its announcement on Thursday, the olinguito&#8212;the world&#8217;s newest mammal&#8212;has taken the world by storm. Hundreds of articles have been written about the new species, while its cuddly appearance has already been made the subject of cartoons. Now, conservationists have released the first photos of a baby olinguito. The new photos come from La Mesenia Conservation Project in Colombia, an Andean cloud forest reserve that is a project area for the NGO SavingSpecies. Biologists and local people have known about the olinguito for decades, however the small mammal, which has been compared to a cross between a teddy bear and a cat, was confused with its lowland rainforest relatives, the olingos. The mistaken identity ran so deep, that zoos in the past tried to breed the newly-described species with olingos&#8212;unsuccessfully, of course. Now, new research appearing in ZooKeys has revealed why: the olinguito is not only a distinct species, but has been separated from its relatives by 3-4 million years. In fact, he olinguito is the smallest of the olingos with a distinct body shape and brighter-colored fur; in addition, it is the only olingo found in high cloud forests. These differences were first noted by lead author Kristofer Helgen, Director of Mammals at the Smithsonian Smithsonian Institution, when he was looking through olingo specimens in museums. When the news came out announcing the olinguito to the world, conservationists working in the Colombia Andes wondered if their resident olingos were in fact the newly-described species, olinguitos. They e-mailed photos to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/08/meet-the-baby-olinguito/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-26520</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Loris champion: conserving the world&#8217;s most surprising primate family</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/loris-champion-conserving-the-worlds-most-surprising-primate-family/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Jun 2013 20:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Asia, India, Indonesia, Java, Southeast Asia, and Sri Lanka]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Animals, Conservation, Cute, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Heroes, Green, Habitat Loss, In-situ Conservation, Interviews, Islands, Mammals, Medicine, Pet Trade, Primates, Rainforests, Saving Species From Extinction, Slow Loris, Solutions, Traditional Medicine, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[The 2013 Zoos and Aquariums: Committing to Conservation (ZACC) conference runs from July 8th&#8212;July 12th in Des Moines, Iowa, hosted by the Blank Park Zoo. Ahead of the event, Mongabay.com is running a series of Q&#38;As with presenters. For more interviews, please see our ZACC feed. Close-up of Javan slow loris (Nycticebus javanicus), listed as [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The 2013 Zoos and Aquariums: Committing to Conservation (ZACC) conference runs from July 8th&#8212;July 12th in Des Moines, Iowa, hosted by the Blank Park Zoo. Ahead of the event, Mongabay.com is running a series of Q&amp;As with presenters. For more interviews, please see our ZACC feed. Close-up of Javan slow loris (Nycticebus javanicus), listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List. Photo courtesy of Little Fireface. Before Anna Nekaris began championing the cause of the world&#8217;s lorises, little was known about this cryptic family of large-eyed, nocturnal, insect-eating, venomous primates. Nekaris, with Oxford Brookes University and founder of the Little Fireface Project, has been instrumental in documenting rarely-seen loris behavior, establishing conservation programs, and identifying new species of these hugely-imperiled Asian primates. &#8220;I just fell in love with them. The slender lorises were like googly eyed bananas on stilts, and the slow lorises were like pumped up versions,&#8221; Nekaris told mongabay.com in an interview. &#8220;They always look so crafty when you spot one in the forest, as if they have been watching you for hours, while you have been searching for them. They were considered ugly, brown and boring by most primatologists. Second-rate citizens to the fabulous lemurs. But I found out they could race walk as fast as a squirrel could run, their home ranges were the size of 20 football pitches, they could decapitate noxious insects at a rate that would make a french revolutionary proud, and that they loved each other!&#8221; But loris species, some of which&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/loris-champion-conserving-the-worlds-most-surprising-primate-family/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-28896</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Scientists document baby giant armadillo for first time (photos)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/02/scientists-document-baby-giant-armadillo-for-first-time-photos/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Feb 2013 19:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, Pantanal, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Camera Trapping, Conservation, Cryptic Species, Cryptozoology, Cute, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, In-situ Conservation, Mammals, Megafauna, Photos, Rainforests, Strange, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mother giant armadillo with baby in Baia des Pedras. Photo by: The Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project. Despite weighing as much as full-grown human, almost nothing is known about the giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus) including its breeding and reproductive behaviors. How does mating occur? How long does pregnancy last? How many babes are typically born? Scientists [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mother giant armadillo with baby in Baia des Pedras. Photo by: The Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project. Despite weighing as much as full-grown human, almost nothing is known about the giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus) including its breeding and reproductive behaviors. How does mating occur? How long does pregnancy last? How many babes are typically born? Scientists are simply in the dark, but a ground-breaking study employing camera traps is beginning to change this. For the first time, scientists in the Brazilian Pantanal have documented giant armadillo breeding and the happy outcome: a baby giant armadillo (see video and more photos below). &#8220;Being part of this exclusive moment in the history of this species conservation and seeing the first picture of a baby giant armadillo was one of the most exciting moments of my career as a wildlife professional,&#8221; said Danilo Kluyber, a wildlife veterinarian with The Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project. Although by far the world&#8217;s biggest armadillo&#8212;weighing around 110 pounds(50 kilograms)&#8212;the giant armadillo&#8217;s rarity along with its nocturnal and burrowing lifestyle has meant it has long eluded the gaze of science. In fact in some parts of its range the giant armadillo is considered more myth than substance. The Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project, which began in 2010, however is slowly but surely bringing light to the massive mammal. Arnaud Desbiez and Danilo Kluyber looking at camera trap pictures. Photo by: The Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project. Following a female giant armadillo with remote camera traps, the project began noticing a male in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/02/scientists-document-baby-giant-armadillo-for-first-time-photos/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29548</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cute koalas have become &#8216;urban refugees&#8217;</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/01/cute-koalas-have-become-urban-refugees/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jan 2013 15:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Australia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Rights, Animals, Cities, Climate Change, Conservation, Cute, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Film, Fires, Green, Impact Of Climate Change, In-situ Conservation, Interviews, Invasive Species, Mammals, Marsupials, Photos, Roads, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Tropical Forests, Videos, Wildlife, and Wildlife Rescues]]>
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							<![CDATA[The 3rd Annual New York Wildlife Conservation Film Festival (WFCC.org) runs from January 30 – February 2, 2013. Ahead of the event, Mongabay.com is running a series of Q&#38;As with filmmakers and presenters. For more interviews, please see our WCFF feed. Jimmy, an orphan whose mother was rundown by a car, is the star of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The 3rd Annual New York Wildlife Conservation Film Festival (WFCC.org) runs from January 30 – February 2, 2013. Ahead of the event, Mongabay.com is running a series of Q&amp;As with filmmakers and presenters. For more interviews, please see our WCFF feed. Jimmy, an orphan whose mother was rundown by a car, is the star of the documentary Koala Hospital. Image courtesy of Susan Kelly. According to Susan Kelly, koalas have become &#8220;urban refugees,&#8221; under siege by expanding cities that bring with them deforestation, dogs, traffic, and other ills for native wildlife. Director of Global Briefing, and writer, producer and director of the new documentary Koala Hospital, Kelly has spent 3 years working to understand the rising threats to one of the world&#8217;s most beloved marsupials. While Koala Hospital highlights the many perils facing koalas, including climate change due to record fires across Australia, it also looks at the efforts of individuals who work to save koalas one&#8212;by&#8212;one at Port Macquarie Koala Hospital, taking in patients who have been orphaned, hit by cars, scarred in fires, or attacked by dogs. Koala Hospital is making its New York City premiere Saturday, February 2 at the 3rd Annual New York Wildlife Conservation Film Festival. Ahead of its premiere, Kelly answered some questions from Mongabay.com about the film and her career. The film has already made waves in Australia where the government recently listed koalas as Vulnerable to extinction. AN INTERVIEW WITH SUSAN KELLY Mongabay.com: What is your background? Susan Kelly filming in the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/01/cute-koalas-have-become-urban-refugees/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29677</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cute animal picture of the day: white-cheeked gibbon baby</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/01/cute-animal-picture-of-the-day-white-cheeked-gibbon-baby/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Jan 2013 17:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[China and Vietnam]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Apes, Critically Endangered Species, Cute, Endangered Species, Environment, Gibbons, Green, Mammals, Photos, Picture Of The Day, Primates, and Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Northern white-cheeked gibbon infant born at the Bronx Zoo. Photo by: Julie Larsen Maher. A northern white-cheeked gibbon pair (Nomascus leucogenys) at the Wildlife Conservation Society&#8217;s (WCS) Bronx Zoo have given birth to a brand new infant. This is the mother gibbon&#8217;s 11th infant. Northern white-cheeked gibbons, which have recently been split from their southern [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Northern white-cheeked gibbon infant born at the Bronx Zoo. Photo by: Julie Larsen Maher. A northern white-cheeked gibbon pair (Nomascus leucogenys) at the Wildlife Conservation Society&#8217;s (WCS) Bronx Zoo have given birth to a brand new infant. This is the mother gibbon&#8217;s 11th infant. Northern white-cheeked gibbons, which have recently been split from their southern cousins (the southern white-cheeked gibbon), are found in Vietnam, Laos, and possibly China. They are considered Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List and are threatened by deforestation as well as poaching for food and traditional medicines. In 2011 a significant population of unknown northern white-cheeked gibbons were found in Vietnam. The population was estimated at about 450 individuals, providing a much needed boost for the vanishing species. A member of the ape family, gibbons differ from the so-called great apes by their smaller stature, in not making nests, and in other traits that make them appear like almost a cross between an ape and a monkey. Gibbons, many of which are imperiled, have also received less conservation attention than their larger ape relatives. The northern white-cheeked gibbon family at the Bronx Zoo. Photo by: Julie Larsen Maher.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/01/cute-animal-picture-of-the-day-white-cheeked-gibbon-baby/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29730</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cute animal picture of the day: baby walruses on the mend</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/cute-animal-picture-of-the-day-baby-walruses-on-the-mend/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Oct 2012 16:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arctic, Greenland, North America, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mitik, an orphaned male, will soon make his way from Alaska to New York City. Mitik is still having health problems. Photo courtesy of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Two walrus male calves were discovered over the summer near Barrow, Alaska, dehydrated and ill, after their separate mothers perished. The calves have been receiving care at [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mitik, an orphaned male, will soon make his way from Alaska to New York City. Mitik is still having health problems. Photo courtesy of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Two walrus male calves were discovered over the summer near Barrow, Alaska, dehydrated and ill, after their separate mothers perished. The calves have been receiving care at the Alaska SeaLife Center, but one will soon be moved to the Wildlife Conservation Society&#8217;s (WCS) New York Aquarium and the other to the Indianapolis Zoo. Found in the Arctic, walrus are the only species in the Odobenidae family. Despite being an easily recognizable big mammal, walrus are currently listed as Data Deficient by the IUCN Red List due to lack of research on how populations are coping with the rapid changes wrought by climate change. Some walrus populations depend on vanishing sea ice for food and birthing, and there is evidence that two of the three subspecies may be in decline, but more research is needed. Some indigenous populations in the Arctic heavily depend on walrus for subsistence. Mitik right and Patak left. Patak will soon be moving to Indianapolis. Photo courtesy of the Wildlife Conservation Society.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/cute-animal-picture-of-the-day-baby-walruses-on-the-mend/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30183</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cute animal picture of the day: red panda kits</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/cute-animal-picture-of-the-day-red-panda-kits/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Oct 2012 16:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Asia and Central Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Cute, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Green, Mammals, Mountains, Photos, Picture Of The Day, Temperate Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Twin red panda girls were recently born at the Zoological Society of London&#8217;s (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo. They have been named Ying and Yang. Photo by: ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. Although called red pandas, these Asian animals are neither pandas nor bears, and despite a resemblance to raccoons they are not closely related to them either. Red [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Twin red panda girls were recently born at the Zoological Society of London&#8217;s (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo. They have been named Ying and Yang. Photo by: ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. Although called red pandas, these Asian animals are neither pandas nor bears, and despite a resemblance to raccoons they are not closely related to them either. Red pandas (Ailurus fulgens) are actually now thought to be the sole living representative of the taxonomic family, Ailuridae. The rest of their near-relatives are extinct, making red pandas a very important species. Native to temperate Himalayan forests, the red panda can be found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal. It is listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN Red List, due to deforestation and poaching in some areas. The red panda eats largely bamboo but will eat insects and small animals. Senior zoo keeper Tessa Knox said of the red pandas: &#8216;Yin is more sedate while Yang seems to be quite feisty, mirroring the philosophies behind their names – opposites yet complementary forces.&#8217; Photo by: ZSL Whipsnade Zoo.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/cute-animal-picture-of-the-day-red-panda-kits/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30212</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cute animal picture of the day: new gorilla baby and mom</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/cute-animal-picture-of-the-day-new-gorilla-baby-and-mom/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Oct 2012 14:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[his the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust&#8217;s (DWCT) first gorilla baby in nine years. Keepers have yet to establish if its a male or female. Photo courtesy of DWCT. Click to enlarge. A baby western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) was born recently at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust&#8217;s (DWCT) to mother, Hlala Kahilli and first-time [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[his the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust&#8217;s (DWCT) first gorilla baby in nine years. Keepers have yet to establish if its a male or female. Photo courtesy of DWCT. Click to enlarge. A baby western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) was born recently at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust&#8217;s (DWCT) to mother, Hlala Kahilli and first-time father, Badongo. Western lowland gorillas are one of four subspecies in the two species (western and eastern) in the gorilla family. They are classified as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List. Found in parts of western and central Africa, the subspecies is imperiled by deforestation, bushmeat hunting, and the Ebola virus. Hopes for the species were raised in 2007 when the Wildlife Conservation Society announced discovering around 125,000 gorillas living in the Lake Télé Community Reserve, a new conservation area in the remote Republic of Congo. Mother and father with baby. Photo courtesy of DWCT. Mother with baby. Photo by: Will Bertram. Badongo with eyes open. Photo by: Will Bertram.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/cute-animal-picture-of-the-day-new-gorilla-baby-and-mom/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30218</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Picture of the day: baby Grevy&#8217;s zebra</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/09/picture-of-the-day-baby-grevys-zebra/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Sep 2012 13:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[East Africa, Ethiopia, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Cute, Endangered Species, Environment, Ex-situ Conservation, Green, Mammals, Photos, Picture Of The Day, Ungulates, Wildlife, and Zoos]]>
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							<![CDATA[Three-week old Grevy&#8217;s zebra at the Zoological Society of London&#8217;s (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo. Photo by: ZSL. Not only is the Grevy&#8217;s zebra (Equus grevyi) the biggest of the three zebra species, it is also the world&#8217;s largest wild horse species. Once roaming throughout the horn of Africa, today the species is confined to a few [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Three-week old Grevy&#8217;s zebra at the Zoological Society of London&#8217;s (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo. Photo by: ZSL. Not only is the Grevy&#8217;s zebra (Equus grevyi) the biggest of the three zebra species, it is also the world&#8217;s largest wild horse species. Once roaming throughout the horn of Africa, today the species is confined to a few populations in Kenya and Ethiopia. Competing for water and food with livestock, loss of habitat, and hunting have all contributed to the species decline. Familiar worldwide for their stripes, scientists are still debating why zebras port their iconic stripes. Zebra patterns are wholly unique to the individual. For the record the zebra is a black animal with white stripes. The new zebra foal is not yet named. Photo by: ZSL. Mark Holden with the ZSL Whipsnade Zoo said that zebra mother,Henna, &#8216;is doing a great job of looking after her new arrival. It’s her first-born so she’s very protective but both of them are doing really well. The foal can often be seen up and running with the rest of the herd or having a rest with mum.&#8217; Photo by: ZSL. Grevy zebras have the thinnest stripes of the world&#8217;s zebra species. Photo by: ZSL.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/09/picture-of-the-day-baby-grevys-zebra/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30328</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cute animal pictures of the day: smooth-coated otter cubs</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/08/cute-animal-pictures-of-the-day-smooth-coated-otter-cubs/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Aug 2012 22:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Cute, Environment, Freshwater, Green, Mammals, Photos, Picture Of The Day, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Two male smooth-coated otter cubs were recently born at the Colchester Zoo. Photo by: Colchester Zoo. Smooth-coated otters (Lutrogale perspicillata) are found from India to Sumatra. They are listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN Red List due to destruction of wetlands for hydropower, agriculture, and other development. Widespread pollution and a decline in prey pose [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Two male smooth-coated otter cubs were recently born at the Colchester Zoo. Photo by: Colchester Zoo. Smooth-coated otters (Lutrogale perspicillata) are found from India to Sumatra. They are listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN Red List due to destruction of wetlands for hydropower, agriculture, and other development. Widespread pollution and a decline in prey pose other problems for the otters. In some places smooth-coated otters are actively killed as they are seen as competitors for fish and pests to aquaculture projects. Two male smooth-coated otter cubs were recently born at the Colchester Zoo. Photo by: Colchester Zoo. Two male smooth-coated otter cubs were recently born at the Colchester Zoo. Photo by: Colchester Zoo. Two male smooth-coated otter cubs were recently born at the Colchester Zoo. Photo by: Colchester Zoo. Smooth-coated otters face-off against a crocodile.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/08/cute-animal-pictures-of-the-day-smooth-coated-otter-cubs/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30467</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cute animal picture of the day: baby bamboo lemur</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/07/cute-animal-picture-of-the-day-baby-bamboo-lemur/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Jul 2012 15:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Madagascar]]>
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							<![CDATA[A newborn greater bamboo lemur baby at the Port Lympne Wild Animal Park. Photo by: Dave Rolfe. Greater bamboo lemurs (Prolemur simus) are one of over a hundred lemur species found only on the island of Madagascar. Listed as Critically Endangered, there are only around 150 individuals known in the wild, making them one of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A newborn greater bamboo lemur baby at the Port Lympne Wild Animal Park. Photo by: Dave Rolfe. Greater bamboo lemurs (Prolemur simus) are one of over a hundred lemur species found only on the island of Madagascar. Listed as Critically Endangered, there are only around 150 individuals known in the wild, making them one of the world&#8217;s most imperiled primate species. A new baby was recently born in captivity in the UK&#8217;s Port Lympne Wild Animal Park. &#8220;We are absolutely delighted that Manantena, or Belle, as we call her, and her partner, Zig have a new baby. They are a lovely family unit and Belle is a brilliant first time mum. These wonderful animals are critically endangered in the wild and there are only 22 in collections around the world and this is the third birth in captivity this year, so it’s very special,&#8221; Simon Jeffery, head primate keeper at the park, said in a press release. So rare, the greater bamboo lemur was believed to have been extinct for decades before its rediscovery in 1972. Today the lemur remains hugely imperiled by habitat loss and poaching for bushmeat. A recent assessment by the IUCN Red List found stunningly that 91 percent of the world&#8217;s lemurs are currently threatened with extinction, or 94 out of 103 lemur species. &#8220;The results of our review workshop this week have been quite a shock as they show that Madagascar has, by far, the highest proportion of threatened species of any primate habitat region&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/07/cute-animal-picture-of-the-day-baby-bamboo-lemur/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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