New Trip Reports – Tunisia & Panama
A couple of new reports today First, a great report from Steve Morgan who went to Tunisia and saw a couple of Sand Cats plus plus 18 other species in 10 days, including Fennec Fox,
New Trip Report – Svalbaard
Spitzerbergen, 2013: Pieter-Jan D’Hondt’s great photos and account of 5 months in Svalbaard, with species including Narwhal and Polar Bear. Pieter’s trip was one
There’s a Snow Leopard on the roof
Wow .. if facebook is to be believed… then wow A snow leopard cub climbed up a Ger, a traditional nomad-tent, in Western Mongolia. It was attracted to a bag of meat stored aw
Cheetahs’ Iranian revival cheers conservationists
Asiatic cheetahs, a subspecies of the fastest animal on earth, are extinct everywhere except in Iran, where they are considered to be critically endangered. But marking a rare succ
Infrared technology for small mammal photography
Here’s a nice article from Karl Van Ginderdeuren on high speed flash photography of bats and rats. This first appeared on his blog. cheers Jon
Kazakhstan – RFI
Hi all, I will be in Kazakhstan next month for work (Almaty, in the SE corner near Kyrgyzstan). Its a lousy time for most mammals I imagine but I’d like to spend a day or two
How Spain Saved the Lynx & How Scotland Might Lose the Wildcat
<a href="ttp://focusingonwildlife.com/news/how-spain-saved-the-lynx/“>How Spain Saved the Lynx and Extinction by stealth: how long can the Scottish wildcat survive
Beaked Whales off of the UK and Ireland
True’s Beaked Whales spotted off of Ireland and a Sowerby’s Beaked Whale strands in the Scottish Hebrides Jon
Hungary, 2013 Trip Reports
I had a lovely few days in Hungary in 2010 and returned in late May 2013 for a weekend. Ballads Szigetiwas, from ecotours.hu was busy, so he fixed me up with Sandor Boldogh who
Black Snub-nosed monkey population recovering in Yunnan
The number of black snub-nosed monkeys in southwestern China has increased by more than 50 percent since the 1990′s due to conservation efforts, reports Chinese state media. A su