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Rhino horns fitted with GPS trackers
Source:CNN Watch BY:Robyn Curnow
Mafikeng, South Africa - Across the South African bushveld a small white helicopter chased a rhino, one of Africa's most endangered animals. Eventually, over the din of the chopper blades, we heard a pop from the dart gun aimed at the rhino's rear. The dart immobilized the animal and a small group of khaki-wearing game farmers, vets and others rushed in on small vehicles to blindfold the confused, stumbling animal. They told us that covering the rhino's eyes and ears would lessen the trauma of what was to happen next.
The group of conservationists then began monitoring the rhino as someone drilled into the rhino's horn, using an electric drill powered by a generator sitting on the back of a pick-up truck. They burrowed an eight centimeter hole, about an inch wide. Inside they embedded a silver canister and then plugged up the incision with putty and wrapped some masking tape over the rhino horn, like a make-shift bush bandage. This radical surgery is an experiment that many in South Africa hope will help to curtail the massive surge in rhino poaching. More than 250 rhinos have been slaughtered for their horns this year, a huge increase compared to previous years. The hope is that the technology inside the silver canister will deter and even help to catch rhino poachers red-handed... Click Here To Read The Article And View Video |
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Sri Lanka turns rebel hideout into wildlife sanctuary
Source: Sri Lanka News
COLOMBO - Sri Lanka is to turn a vast jungle area that was a base for the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels into a wildlife sanctuary, 18 months after the end of island’s bloody civil war, the government said Tuesday. The jungles of Mullaittivu, from where the rebels launched attacks for decades until they were defeated by government troops last year, has been declared a safe haven for wild animals, the information department said.
"The wildlife sanctuary would be a solution for the conflict between the humans and elephants in the surrounding areas," it said in a statement, adding the sanctuary would be about 100,000 acres (40,500 hectares). Spreading human settlement has left elephants short of habitat in Sri Lanka, with the animals often entering villages and farms looking for food. Sri Lanka's elephant population has dwindled to about 4,000 from about 12,000 in 1900, according to wildlife officials... Click Here To Read The Article At Source |
2 more rare red foxes confirmed in Sierra Nevada
Source:Deseret News By:Scott Sonner AP
RENO, Nev. - Federal wildlife biologists have confirmed sightings of two more Sierra Nevada red foxes that once were thought to be extinct. Scientists believe the foxes are related to another that was photographed this summer near Yosemite National Park. More importantly, they say, DNA samples show enough diversity in the Sierra Nevada red foxes to suggest a "fairly strong population" of the animals may secretly be doing quite well in the rugged mountains about 90 miles south of Reno.
The first confirmed sighting of the subspecies in two decades came in August when a remote camera captured the image of a female fox in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest near Sonora Pass. Forest Service officials confirmed Friday that two more foxes, one male and one female, were photographed in September in the neighboring Stanislaus National Forest, about 4 miles from the original. That indicates there is the "continued persistence of a genetically unique population of Sierra Nevada red fox in the southern Sierra Nevada, rather than a single individual," the agency said. The DNA samples were obtained from fox feces, or scat, collected at the sites where the two most recent animals were spotted. They were caught on film by motion-activated cameras triggered when the bait, in this case, a sock full of chicken was disturbed. "There's enough diversity in the DNA that we think there is a fairly strong population there after not showing up in this isolated area for years and years," Forest Service wildlife biologist Diane Macfarlane said Friday... Click To Read The Entire Article |
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