The forests of northwestern Papua New Guinea are home to a group of wide-eyed and reclusive marsupials known as tree kangaroos. As their name suggests, they spend a lot of their lives in the canopy and depend on the forest for survival. For more than a decade,
Back in 2016, during the peak of the African rhino poaching war, field rangers throughout Kruger National Park, South Africa saw sobering scenes day after day. The field reports showed just how bleak the situation was. With one log entry described discovery of “an adult female white
We have all been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact is not confined to the human world. During the spring of 2020 the pandemic was gripping the United States. This was bad timing for one of the world’s most endangered species. It is the beginning
We interview Martin Royle about the vision behind his ecotour company Royle Safaris. We talk about how much work has gone into designing tours that actually see (rather than search for) Javan Rhinos and Siberian Tigers, plus the cascading conservation benefits that come from small scale ecotourism.
There has been recent successes in the huge archipelago of Indonesian in terms of tiger conservation as officials recently confiscated three tiger skins from a man in Sumatra. These skins are believed to be connected to a much larger wildlife trafficking ring. News from Banda Aceh in
Most people are familiar with the world’s “big cats”: Lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, snow leopards, pumas, and cheetahs. But far fewer people know about the much larger number of small cat species, which range from the ancestors of domesticated house cats to the flat-headed cat to the
There are many species of gibbon in South and South-East Asia, and nearly all are endangered to some extent of another. Gibbons are a wonderful group of primates, often pictured and seen swinging lithely from branch to branch high up in the forest canopy they are in
Camera trap surveys in a remote national park in Cambodia (Virachey National Park) which is located in the northeast of Cambodia have recorded the country’s first sightings of a critically endangered large-antlered muntjac (Muntiacus vuquangensis). The species, also known as the giant muntjac, was first described nearly
Camera traps often hold the key to conserving remote and wild places, they offer a glimpse into the secret and hidden world of the forest and nature untouched by people. In Vietnam they are helping to protect some of the best remaining tracts of tropical forest. A
For the last few years there has been advanced planning on increasing the number of sanctuaries set up for the rescue of and the captive breeding of Sumatran rhinos in Indonesia. For many years the solitary Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary (SRS) in Way Kambas National Park was the
Pangolins are the world’s only scaly mammal and even though there are 8 species of Pangolin found in Africa and tropical Asia all are endangered from being hunted for their scales and meat. They are seen as delicacies in parts of Asia and Africa and have the
Mounir Abi-Said is a conservation biologist and striped hyena expert at the Lebanese University in Beirut, and whilst conducting his PhD research, he developed a specialist trap that, in the dead of night, as he waited a short distance away, caused a dangling red light to shake
