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Resident in a walk-through enclosure of Monarto Zoo, north of Adelaide. Regarded as near-threatened, these marsupials occur in limited areas of w. NSW, e. S.A. and isolated portions of QLD. Breeding programs are attempting to return them to viable populations.
The kākā is an endangered parrot of New Zealand's North and South islands. A medium sized bird, it frequents the lowland and mid-altitude forest, seeking a wide range of food, from fruit, flowers and tree-sap to insects and small vertebrates. It is a relative of the Kea and is visually similar. This pair was in the Wellington Botanical Gardens which support a sizeable flock, re-establishing the species.
Zana is the proud mom of two litters of pups.
The male in the photo was born in April 2016 and 3 months old in this photo.
Mexican Gray Wolf
Brookfield Zoo
Illinois USA
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This beautiful Snow Leopard is one from WHF in Kent, a short set from there, as off to Venice for the Carnival on Friday....then when back home will start to arrange a trip back to these big cats in Kent..-
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Breeding season for the Alpha pair, and the three 9 mo old "pups" are getting their first lesson.
Mexican Gray Wolf Pack
Brookfield Zoo
Sit down and get comfy. Iguana tell you a little story about conservation. The San Diego Zoo has the most successful breeding colony of endangered Fiji iguanas outside their native home, with over 110 hatches to date. Meet one of their newest additions!
We are incredibly proud to manage this population with our partners at the National Trust of Fiji. Read more at: bit.ly/FijiIguanas
African primate ... Australian trees.
Chimpanzee community in an enclosure in the Monarto Safari Park as a part of a breeding program to aid the conservation of these creatures which are human's closest living relative.
Senior keeper Debbie Marlow carefully held a 2-week-old California condor egg up to a warm, bright light during a process known as candling this morning at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. This egg, laid on Feb. 13, is one of two California condor eggs laid this year, marking the start of the breeding season for the highly endangered species.
After removing the egg from an incubator, staff carefully placed the egg on a scale to measure the weight. The egg weighed 249 grams this morning, and staff was pleased to see a 14-percent weight loss for the egg from the previous weight check, which means the fluids inside the egg are decreasing and the chick is growing and developing at a healthy rate. Once weighed, staff will hold the egg up to the warm light to candle the egg and check the air cell, the position of the embryo, and monitor the growth and development of blood vessels.
In the 1980s, there were only 22 condors left in the world. The Safari Park has now hatched 185 chicks and released more than 80 birds into the wild.
Sit down and get comfy. Iguana tell you a little story about conservation. The San Diego Zoo has the most successful breeding colony of endangered Fiji iguanas outside their native home, with over 110 hatches to date. Meet one of their newest additions!
We are incredibly proud to manage this population with our partners at the National Trust of Fiji. Read more at: bit.ly/FijiIguanas
Sit down and get comfy. Iguana tell you a little story about conservation. The San Diego Zoo has the most successful breeding colony of endangered Fiji iguanas outside their native home, with over 110 hatches to date. Meet one of their newest additions!
We are incredibly proud to manage this population with our partners at the National Trust of Fiji. Read more at: bit.ly/FijiIguanas
Apache is the new male Mexican Gray Wolf brought to Brookfield Zoo to become the alpha male with Ela, the zoo's
2 1/2 yr old female.
Crossing paws that they buddy up for this coming breeding season.
Mexican Gray Wolf
Brookfield Zoo
Wolf Woods
Illinois, USA
A New Zealand kākā emerges from a flowering shrub in the Wellington Botanical Gardens. The kākā is an endangered parrot of New Zealand's North and South islands. A medium sized bird, it frequents the lowland and mid-altitude forest, seeking a wide range of food, from fruit, flowers and tree-sap to insects and small vertebrates. It is a relative of the Kea and is visually similar. This undercover-feeder was in the Wellington Botanical Gardens which support a sizeable flock, re-establishing the species.
It was a great day to view the wolves. Got to the zoo just before feeding time. The wolves were waiting, then pacing, then running. Oops! Here comes the keeper with FOOD!
5 Mexican Gray Wolves born 22Apr17. They are almost as big as the adults now.
Mexican Gray Wolf
Canis lupus baileyi
Brookfield Zoo
Chicago Zoological Society
Wolf Woods
Illinois, USA
One of the three tiger cubs at the Palm Beach Zoo found this huge Buffo frog to stalk and play with... just a couple of seconds later he caught up with it (see below) and licked it! After alerting the caretakers, I watched as the little tiger began spitting out the toxins, and make some terrible faces, then run for a drink of water. Fortunately. he must not have gotten much since there weren't any other after effects. It did make for a couple of cute pics, tho'! The lighting was really bad, but the shots were too cute not to share! Explored Sept. 3, 2011, highest position #230.
Mexican Gray Wolves (Lobo mexicano) captive breeding program at Brookfield Zoo. A mark of success, the first baby wolves were born in May of 2016.
This "little" rhino-calf is the new addition to the Rhino-family in safaripark the Beekse Bergen.
This calf is extra special since the park coordinates the European breedingprogram.
The goal is to ensure a strong and lasting population of Rhino's in animalparks.
The kākā is an endangered parrot of New Zealand's North and South islands. A medium sized bird, it frequents the lowland and mid-altitude forest, seeking a wide range of food, from fruit, flowers and tree-sap to insects and small vertebrates. It is a relative of the Kea and is visually similar. This ground-feeder was in the Wellington Botanical Gardens which support a sizeable flock, re-establishing the species.
Mexican Gray Wolf
canis lupus baileyi
One of the wolf pack of ten at Brookfield Zoo. Brookfield Zoo is an active participant in the cross fostering program into the wilds in New Mexico with USFWS. There have been 3 litters born at the zoo since 2015. Currently there are the alpha pair, 3 yearlings born in 2016 and five born April 2017.
It was truly breathtaking watching all ten wolves interact yesterday in the beautiful sunny autumn Thanksgiving Day at the zoo.
Update, 31 October 2019: the Giant Panda cubs will be staying at the Calgary Zoo a little bit longer! They are now expected to depart in early 2020.
The two Giant Panda cubs that have been staying, with their parents, at the Calgary Zoo for the last few years. have either just left or are about to leave our Zoo to go to China. Part of the agreement is that all pandas that are born outside of China have to go back to China when they are four years old to participate in the breeding program. It has been a true delight to have these wonderful animals to enjoy and appreciate. I can't tell which Panda is which, so I'm not sure if the one in this video is an adult or a cub.
"The twins' mother, Er Shun, and an adult male panda, Dao Mao, will stay in the Panda Passage at the zoo until 2023.
There may be more pandas at the zoo in the years to come as Er Shun is being monitored in the hopes that she was successfully artificial inseminated in early April through a joint effort between the Calgary Zoo and the Chengdu Research Base.
According to the International Union for Conversation of Nature, giant pandas are no longer considered endangered but are still labelled as vulnerable."
"In 2012 an agreement was signed between the Chinese and Canadian governments for a 10-year breeding loan of giant pandas. Er Shun and Da Mao arrived in Canada on March 25, 2013 to the Toronto Zoo. After being successfully artificially inseminated, Er Shun delivered her cubs, Jia Panpan and Jia Yueyue on October 13, 2015. These were the first giant pandas to be born in Canada.
With fewer than 1,800 giant pandas left in the wild, caring for these four giant pandas is important to ongoing conservation. Habitat destruction remains one of the biggest threats to pandas in the wild, much in the same way boreal forests and evergreen trees in Canada are a concern for wildlife in our country. More than half of giant panda habitat has been lost in the last fifty years." From Calgary Zoo website.
An extremely rare monitor lizard is now making its home at the San Diego Zoo. The lizard, a year-old Gray’s monitor, hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo through a conservation breeding program before arriving in San Diego earlier this year. The monitor’s parents were from a group of lizards confiscated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from the illegal pet trade. Only a handful of accredited zoos in the United States currently house this species, and the San Diego Zoo is only one of two institutions that received an offspring from the Los Angeles Zoo’s breeding program.
Details: bit.ly/SDZMonitor
An extremely rare monitor lizard is now making its home at the San Diego Zoo. The lizard, a year-old Gray’s monitor, hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo through a conservation breeding program before arriving in San Diego earlier this year. The monitor’s parents were from a group of lizards confiscated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from the illegal pet trade. Only a handful of accredited zoos in the United States currently house this species, and the San Diego Zoo is only one of two institutions that received an offspring from the Los Angeles Zoo’s breeding program.
Details: bit.ly/SDZMonitor
There is a modern day problem with the great clydesdales. The breed has been weakened, almost to the point of extinction, by inter-breeding. An international program aims to diversify the genes of local stocks everywhere.
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Western Lowland Gorilla at Sydney's Taronga Zoo shows a deep interest in the stream running through its enclosure.
Although this gorilla species is the most numerous and wide-spread in its natural habitat, its status is regarded as critically endangered.
Female Ela, is the one wolf who remained behind of the pack of ten wolves at Brookfield Zoo. She will hopefully become the alpha female as she is scheduled to be paired with a male coming from another facility. Ela was part of the second litter of pups born at the zoo in April 2016. Because of her unique long fur coat, and petite stature, she became a zoo favorite rather quickly.
Mexican Gray Wolf
Canis lupus baileyi
Critically endangered
Brookfield Zoo
Chicago Zoological Society
Wolf Woods
Illinois USA
Here's one of the new Cheetah Cubs at Chester Zoo. Apart from Light Paintings and Weddings, Wildlife is where my first love of photography came from.
Chester Zoo are doing a fantastic job with their conservation and breeding programs. It goes to show as this is the second litter from the Mother in the last couple of years.
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According to Wikipedia, back in the early 1990s the Galapagos Land Iguana was the subject of an active reintroduction campaign on Baltra Island. The Land Iguana became extinct on Baltra by 1954, allegedly wiped out by soldiers stationed there who shot the iguanas for amusement. However, a couple of decades earlier, William Randolph Hearst had translocated a population of Land Iguanas from Baltra to North Seymour Island, a smaller island just a few hundred meters north of Baltra because he could not understand why no iguanas were present there. The Hearst's translocated iguanas survived, and became the breeding stock for the Charles Darwin Research Station captive breeding program which has successfully reintroduced the species to Baltra and a number of other areas. So the Land Iguana whose picture you see here is probably a descendent one of those translocated by William Randolph Hearst back in the 1930s.
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Land Iguana in Some Foliage at North Seymour, Galapagos Islands
The sun shining on an endangered species.
Meal time today was Quales legs, the otters tucked in well, a wonderful experience to see them albeit in captivity.
There is some warmth gained in knowing that not everyone is trying to exploit what is our children's and there children's inheritance
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This large Vancouver Island Marmot wanted to stay inside, so I wasn't able to get a good shot. The sunlight just reached his nose : ) However, I felt it was important to show it, as this is Canada's most endangered species. Seen on a special visit to the Calgary Zoo Ranch, also called the Devonian Wildlife Conservation Centre, on 25 September. This location, south of the city, spreads over 128 hectares of land and includes a large pond often used by migrating birds.
"When a species comes to the brink of extinction, it takes the dedicated and combined effort of many individuals and institutions to rescue it. In total, 65 Vancouver Island marmot pups were born this year at four partnering facilities across Canada including the Calgary Zoo, the Toronto Zoo, Mountain View Conservation & Breeding Centre in Langley, B.C. and the Tony Barrett Mt. Washington Recovery Centre on Vancouver Island.
The Vancouver Island marmot is listed as endangered under the Species at Risk Act (SARA) and the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) as well as a Priority 1 Species under the British Columbia Framework. Found only on Vancouver Island, their population remains too small and fragmented to recover without intervention and assistance from captive breeding programs.
Reported June 30th, 2009: "From a population low of less than 30 wild Vancouver Island Marmots in 2003, the population is expected to reach over 200 marmots in the wild by the end of
this summer."
An IMAS on-farm trial in Kwale, a coastal county in Kenya is carried out in collaboration with the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute in Mtwapa.
Photo credit: T. Kosgei/CIMMYT
Mid-elevation testers are used in breeding programs in East and Southern Africa.
Photo Credit: F. Sipalla/CIMMYT
Sorry I've been MIA lately....
Very sad stuff going on in my life, and hopefully the worst is over. It was time to take a short road trip to Bloomington, Illinois to visit the Miller Park Zoo.
This is the male Red Wolf of the breeding pair that produced four male pups in April 2017. He is a handsome lad. Got a few peeks at the pups who mostly were sleeping in the den and out of the sun and way at the far end of the exhibit.
Red Wolf
Canis lupus rufus
Canis rufus
Critically Endangered
Miller Park Zoo
Bloomington, Illinois
USA
Red wolf - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_wolf
"Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1) Database entry includes justification for why this species is critically endangered. The red wolf (Canis rufus/Canis lupus rufus), also known as the Florida wolf or Mississippi Valley wolf, is a canid of unresolved taxonomic identity native to the eastern United States."
One of the Whooping Cranes at the Calgary Zoo Ranch, seen when a group of us had the privilege of visiting two days ago. Tremendous work is being done there to breed several very endangered species, especially the fascinating Whooping Crane. These birds are kept in enclosures and any interaction with the staff is done using white "Crane costumes". The Whooping Crane's lifespan is estimated to be 22 to 24 years in the wild. Many thanks to Crane Keeper, Dwight Knapik for showing us around for the afternoon and filling us with interesting information.
In 1985, the Devonian Wildlife Conservation Centre (DWCC) opened. Known as the "Zoo Ranch," this land south of Calgary is home to the breeding facilities for the endangered Whooping Cranes, Vancouver Island Marmots, Przwalksi wild horses and Zebra.
"The only remaining flock of wild Whooping Cranes, the wintering population in coastal Texas, reached a low of 15 birds in the winter of 1941-42, and hovered between the low 20s and mid 30s over the next two decades. Efforts to locate the flock's breeding grounds intensified following World War II. Evidence of breeding was first reported in 1954, when several adults and pre-fledged juveniles were observed in Wood Buffalo National Park (WBNP) in Northwest Territories, Canada. Researchers were able to locate the first nests the following year. The inaccessibility of the breeding grounds, protection of the wintering grounds, and extensive public education campaigns have contributed to the population's increase to its current level."
www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/cranes/grusamer.htm
Much as I don't like seeing zoo "bars" in my photos, there is nothing I can do about it sometimes : ) This is one of the three beautiful, endangered Amur Tiger cubs, born March 30, 2012 at the Calgary Zoo. What a sad, sad day it would be if these majestic animals became extinct. Just occurred to me that this photo might give the impression that the cub is "depressed". Trust me, all three are such fun to watch because they are so active and playful and when Mum is there, too, they love to climb all over her, including when she is enjoying the small pool in that part of the enclosure.
Ha, when I opened this photo this morning, I can see why I had never posted it before - too blurry for my liking! Taken at the Calgary Zoo on 16 April 2013. Not sure which two tigers these are - maybe Mom and one of her three cubs? Born on March 30, 2012, the two male cubs were almost full grown when they were moved to the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg, on a recommendation from the Species Survival Plan (SSP), based on the genetics of these Endangered animals for future breeding.
"The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), also known as the Amur tiger, is a tiger subspecies inhabiting mainly the Sikhote Alin mountain region with a small population in southwest Primorye province in the Russian Far East. In 2005, there were 331–393 adult and subadult Amur tigers in this region, with a breeding adult population of about 250 individuals. The population had been stable for more than a decade due to intensive conservation efforts, but partial surveys conducted after 2005 indicate that the Russian tiger population is declining." From Wikipedia.
The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center is dedicated to preserving Alaska wildlife and, to that end, it worked toward reintroducing the once-extinct wood bison through a breeding program. Wood bison now roam free again in Alaska.
The Center is located at mile 79 on the Seward Highway in Girdwood, Alaska. It works to rehabilitate injured animals and reintroduce them into the wild.
One of the Whooping Cranes at the Calgary Zoo Ranch, south of the city, seen when a group of us had the privilege of visiting four days ago. Tremendous work is being done there to breed several very endangered species, especially the fascinating Whooping Crane. These birds are kept in enclosures and any interaction with the staff is done using white "Crane costumes". The Whooping Crane's lifespan is estimated to be 22 to 24 years in the wild. Many thanks to Crane Keeper, Dwight Knapik, for showing us around for the afternoon and filling us with interesting information. By the way, these birds don't stay still - they are constantly on the move and are a challenge to photograph : )
In 1985, the Devonian Wildlife Conservation Centre (DWCC) opened. Known as the "Zoo Ranch," this land south of Calgary is home to the breeding facilities for the endangered Whooping Cranes, Vancouver Island Marmots, Przwalksi wild horses and Zebra.
"The only remaining flock of wild Whooping Cranes, the wintering population in coastal Texas, reached a low of 15 birds in the winter of 1941-42, and hovered between the low 20s and mid 30s over the next two decades. Efforts to locate the flock's breeding grounds intensified following World War II. Evidence of breeding was first reported in 1954, when several adults and pre-fledged juveniles were observed in Wood Buffalo National Park (WBNP) in Northwest Territories, Canada. Researchers were able to locate the first nests the following year. The inaccessibility of the breeding grounds, protection of the wintering grounds, and extensive public education campaigns have contributed to the population's increase to its current level."
www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/cranes/grusamer.htm