By Herp News Eight months after a lecturer at an Indonesian university posted to Facebook about hunting and killing a pair of black macaques for his Christmas dinner, advocates for the critically endangered primates are wondering why the case, which was reported to the police, has yet to be processed. They fear that if the […]
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Aug 21
Aug 21
Harsh treatment for indigenous Botswanans ousted from Kalahari wildlife reserve
By Herp News [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 1997, the government of Botswana began evicting San and Bakgalagadi people from their homelands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve out of concern that the groups’ hunter-gatherer way of life was harming wildlife. Since then, local and international advocacy groups have been engaged in an arduous struggle to enable the groups […]
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Bizarre bat with longest tongue discovered in Bolivian park
By Herp News A groundbreaking Bolivian scientific expedition, Identidad Madidi, has found a bizarre bat along with a new species of big-headed or robber frog (Oreobates sp. nov.) from the Craugastoridae family in Madidi National Park. Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products found. Amazon Auto Links
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Frankie Tortoise Tails – Bucket Buddies
It’s ten ‘o’clock in the morning, I’m sitting on the couch doing some writing and Frankie is at the backdoor his nose pushed into the glass and his eyes peering into the window wondering when I am going to open the door because it’s 84º F and he is getting a little warm. Warm, Frankie, […]
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Herp Photo of the Day: Hognose
What a week! Don’t play dead like this hoggie in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user zmarchetti ! Go out and find some beauty this weekend and share it with us! Be sure to tell zmarchetti you liked it here! Upload your own reptile and amphibian photos photos at gallery.kingsnake.com, and […]
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Norway’s wealth fund expels POSCO, Daewoo Int’l over palm oil holdings
By Herp News Norway’s central bank is divesting the country’s $870 billion pension fund of its holdings in four Asian multinationals over rainforest destruction for palm oil in Southeast Asia, the bank announced yesterday. Two of the companies, steelmaker POSCO and its subsidiary Daewoo International Corp., are headquartered in South Korea. The others, Genting Bhd. […]
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How can conservationists match high-tech design with on-the-ground realities?
By Herp News Wildlife poaching has grown in recent years to unprecedented levels and now threatens the existence of several iconic and ecological valuable species in Africa. Of these, the endangered white and black rhinos are perhaps under the greatest threat. Wildlife rangers charged with protecting these animals are typically outgunned by poaching gangs that […]
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A diamond in the marsh: Saving the Lake Alaotra Gentle Lemur
By Herp News [dropcap type=”5″]C[/dropcap]limb into a canoe at dawn, paddle into the reed beds of Madagascar’s largest wetland, and with luck you could see a unique primate: the Alaotra Gentle Lemur (Hapalemur alaotrensis). Known locally as the bandro and described by Gerald Durrell as a “honey-coloured teddy bear”, these lemurs spend their entire lives […]
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