By Herp News A study published last week in Science showed that most of the ivory being trafficked today comes from two areas in Africa: savanna elephant ivory from southeast Tanzania in East Africa and forest elephant ivory from the meeting point of Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Cameroon, and Central African Republic. Go to […]
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Jun 30
Jun 30
Using DNA evidence to pinpoint poaching zones
By Herp News A study published last week in Science showed that most of the ivory being trafficked today comes from two areas in Africa: savanna elephant ivory from southeast Tanzania in East Africa and forest elephant ivory from the meeting point of Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Cameroon, and Central African Republic. Go to […]
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Taking technology out in the cold: working to conserve snow leopards
By Herp News Conservation work is important not just in tropical rainforests, but also in snow-covered peaks and steep slopes, the home of snow leopards and a number of unusual ungulates, including blue sheep and Asiatic ibex. When these and other native prey are scarce, snow leopards may resort to eating more livestock, which turns […]
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U.S. to remove extinct cougar from Endangered Species Act
By Herp News The U.S. government has declared the Eastern cougar extinct more than 80 years after its a believed a hunter in Maine wiped out the last individual. Scientists still dispute whether the Eastern cougar was a distinct subspecies, but either way officials believe the original population that roamed much of the Eastern U.S. […]
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The alligator snapper trio
In 2014, what once was one became three. The venerable alligator snapping turtle, Macrochelys temminckii once ranged in 3 apparently non-contiguous basically riverine populations westward from the northern peninsula of Florida and southern Georgia, to southeastern Kansas and eastern Texas. The range extended northward in the Mississippi Valley to central Iowa and Illinois. The southeasternmost […]
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Frog deaths in Lake Titicaca an ominous warning
A massive frog die-off is the latest sign of extreme pollution in Lake Titicaca which threatens wildlife and humans. From Fox News: As human and industrial waste from nearby cities increasingly contaminate the famed lake that straddles the border between Bolivian and Peru, the native Aymara people who rely on it for food and income […]
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Herp Photo of the Day: Box Turtle
This adoreable Box Turtle begins it’s new life in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user norristhenut! Be sure to tell norristhenut you liked it here! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and you could see them featured here! …read more Read more here: King Snake No products […]
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