By Herp News Sonny Fernandez and volunteers put Lefty, a loggerhead sea turtle, in a pool at the new Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Surf City last Thursday. The new building is 16-times larger than the old facility used since 1996. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No […]
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Nov 12
Nov 12
Asia’s ‘unicorn’ photographed in Vietnam
By Herp News In 1992, scientists made a spectacular discovery: a large, land mammal (200 pounds) that had somehow eluded science even as humans visited the moon and split the atom. Its discoverers, with WWF and Vietnam’s Ministry of Forestry, dubbed the species the saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis). Found in the Annamite Mountains in Laos and […]
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Alligator found at O'Hare Airport recovering in care of local herp society
The Chicago Herpetological Society is caring for a two-foot alligator found under an escalator at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. From the Chicago Tribune: The group has about 500 members, including about 30 in the Chicago area who open their homes, bathtubs and backyards to reptiles and amphibians who need a place to stay or recover. While […]
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Kids’ stories and new stoves protect the golden snub-nosed monkey in China
By Herp News Puppet shows, posters and children’s activities that draw from local traditions are helping to save an endangered monkey in China. The activities, which encourage villagers—children and adults alike—to protect their forests and adopt fuel-efficient cooking stoves, have worked, according to a report published in Conservation Evidence. Local Chinese researchers, supported by the […]
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