Renewed Partnership Supports Kakapos Until 2020

Rio Tinto Alcan NZ, the New Zealand Department of Conservation and Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society have signed up to renew a partnership program that will support kakapo conservation until 2020. The goal of the group is to have the kakapos downlisted from “critically endangered” to “endangered” by 2020. The partnership is committed to [...]

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There May Be Hope For the Devil

Is it possible to save the devil? It just may be, thanks to the research of Dr. Greg Woods, associate professor of immunology at Menzies Research Institute in Hobart (the capital of Tasmania). The Tasmanian devils were first diagnosed in 1996 with devil facial tumor disease (DFTD), an infectious cancer that acts more like an [...]

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Hey Bungalow Bill, What Did You Kill?

So today’s blog post is going to be a biggie. I stumbled across this article about elephant poaching. It turns out, elephants are being poached for their tusks at a great rate today than they were before the international ban was established by CITES in 1989. In the decade before the ivory ban, 7.4% of [...]

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