By Herp News Local researchers and wildlife guards say 17 armed elephant poachers have gained access to Dzanga Bai, a large waterhole and clearing where up to 200 forest elephants visit daily in the Central African Republic (CAR)’s Dzanga-Ndoki National Park. WWF, which works in the region but has recently evacuated due to rising violence, […]
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May 07
May 07
Featured video: camera trapping in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
By Herp News A new video highlights the work of Badru Mugerwa as he sets and monitors 60 remote camera traps in one of the most rugged tropical forests on Earth: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. Mugerwa is working with the TEAM Network, run by Conservation International, which monitors mammal and bird populations in […]
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A Tale of Two Elephants: celebrating the lives and mourning the deaths of Cirrocumulus and Ngampit
By Herp News On March 21st, the organization Save the Elephants posted on their Facebook page that two African elephants had been poached inside a nearby reserve: “Sad news from the north of Kenya. Usually the national reserves are safe havens for elephants, and they know it. But in the last two weeks two of […]
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Munching on marine plastic kills sperm whale
By Herp News What do children’s toys, balloons, mattresses and plastic bags have in common? They can, along with more non-biodegradable pollutants, be found in the belly of a sperm whale, the topic of a new study in the Marine Pollution Bulletin. The same whale that swallowed Jonah from the Bible, Geppetto from Collodi’s Pinocchio, […]
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Turtle Wax Wants People To Go Shirtless With Wax On, Shirt Off Campaign
By Herp News CHICAGO, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Turtle Wax® has had enough of the extended winter and cold spring blanketing the country. With warmer temperatures forecasted this week, Turtle Wax is responding with … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Pretty in Gray: The Berber Skink
I had never thought much about the color gray. I considered it a drab color, a color that I had come to associate with a few of the species that were not then very high on my herp “Iwannasee” list. But then I met a skink and I realized that beauty truly was in the […]
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Reptiles and amphibians threatened by decrease in winter snowfall
Have you been enjoying the increasingly mild winters across much of the United States, particularly the Midwest, in recent years? Wildlife, including some reptiles and amphibians like the wood frog, pictured right, definitely haven’t. From the University of Wisconsin: In a report published May 2 in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, a […]
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Herp Photo of the Day: Arrow Frogs!
<img width="250" src="http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/175850IMAG0009-2-med.jpg" alt=" Arrow Frogs, uploaded by kingsnake.com user stefan31″ /> This image of two Arrow Frogs, uploaded by kingsnake.com user stefan31, is our herp photo of the day! Arrow Frogs, uploaded by kingsnake.com user stefan31″ /> Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! […]
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