Although it is the combination of an admirable rewilding programme, three CFZ expeditions to neighbouring Tajikistan have gained a lot of of evidence for the continued existence of the indigenous Caspian Tiger population. What happens to them now? If these new introductions are a success then they will be diluted into the wider tiger population. Is this a good thing? A bad thing? Or just a thing? I truly don’t know JD
Cambodia wants to bring back tigers, but should it? – The Japan Times
The Japan Times
So he is “not happy” about a plan to reintroduce the big cats, a decade after they were declared extinct in Cambodia. “I saw the tiger take him with
This is particularly bad news for the relatively newly discovered Tapanuli orangutan, and has severe connotations for a sum of the worlds had prothesis but undiscovered ape species, such as the orange pendek thatalso lives on Sumatra. JD
Iranian cheetah
War on Iran disrupts efforts to save the Asiatic cheetah, world’s rarest big cat – MR Online
MR Online
The Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) is the world’s most endangered big cat, and the number counted in the wild rose to 27. Bagher Nezami,
A news story which has been disseminated today, may have provided an answer to a mild cryptological mystery which has intrigued me for many years. The provenance of the so-called “Indian lions“ of the Gir forest in Western India has been thrown into doubt by a book called Exotic Aliens by Valmik Thapar et al, but nobody has ever claimed that lions have been found east of the subcontinent. However, animals described as “lion dogs“ have been a major part of Chinese iconography for many years, and when I was a child in Hong Kong, I was told fairy stories about them. Indeed, there is a locally famous landmark in Hong Kong known as “lion rock“, which suggests that the people of the Orient were familiar with lions at some time.
An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, conservation authorities and an NGO said Friday.
Flat-headed cats are among the world’s most threatened wild felines, with the International Union for Conservation of Nature estimating that just 2,500 adults exist in the wild. The rare animals are about the size of a domestic cat and have distinctive, round, close-set eyes.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3334200/bull-shark-found-stranded-hong-kong-mudflats-residents-return-it-sea
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Orang Pendek: New Sumatran Primate or Just Another Cryptid?