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Posted by As we head into the Chinese Year of the Tiger (starting on February 14), here’s a bit of encouraging news: All 13 tiger-range countries have pledged to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger. NGS stock photo by Michael Nichols Populations of wild tigers have declined to…
Rare Glimpse of Sumatran Wild Tiger Family
Posted by Ford Cochran on January 12, 2010 National Geographic Conservation Trust grantee Barney Long, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Senior Program Officer for Asian Species, visited Society headquarters yesterday to discuss the plight of Asia’s wild tigers, and to share rare, newly-captured close-up video of a wild female Sumatran tiger and her young. WWF researchers obtained the footage from a video camera trap…
Video camera traps set up by the WWF in Sumatra have documented what has become a rarity in the Indonesia wilderness: a mother tiger and cubs. The video of the elusive big cats was recorded in a wildlife corridor connecting two protected areas, proving the importance of linking tiger habitat. Tiger cubs sniff WWF camera…
Female orangutans are forced to copulate against their will more frequently than has been observed in any other mammal. Scientists have generally believed that this is because females spurn mating with inferior “unflanged” males. Rejected males have no chance to mate unless they use coercion–or so it was thought. But new studies, using the first…
Dozens of skins of various species, including Sumatran tigers, were seized and suspects were arrested in the latest raids on illegal wildlife traders by Indonesian authorities, the Wildlife Conservation Society said today. Photo courtesy Wildlife Conservation Society The most recent raid took place in Jakarta on August 7 and recovered two complete tiger skins and…
© David Hall/seaphotos.com This newly discovered species of frogfish doesn’t so much swim as hop, bouncing like a ball along the seafloor, scientists said this week. “Each time they strike the seafloor they use their fins to push off and they expel water from tiny gill openings on their sides to jettison themselves forward. With…
TRAFFIC photo by Chris R Shepherd Unregulated trade — at 10 to 100 times legal levels — has caused Southeast Asian Box Turtles almost to vanish from parts of Indonesia, where once they were common, according to a report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. “The turtles are used for meat and in traditional…
Four years after the tsunami, corals are thriving in this transplant site on Achech, Indonesia. Photo courtesy WCS Coral reefs in areas of Indonesia devastated by the tsunami in the Indian Ocean four years ago today have made a rapid recovery, a team of scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) reports. The…
Rock art photos and map courtesy Jack Pettigrew, University of Queensland Rock art painted in an Australian cave many thousands of years ago depicts flying foxes not found in modern Australia, scientists report in the December issue of the journal Antiquity. Fossilized remains of a wasp nest overlying the art tested to be 17,500 years…
