Critter News
OCTOBER 5, 2009
Actor Benicio del Toro has written a letter to the governor of Puerto Rico opposing a new monkey breeding facility. The Puerto Rican actor has penned a letter to the governor of Puerto Rico urging him to halt the construction plans for Bioculture's massive monkey-breeding facility.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
And they were the ones who, at the end of the conference, decided to get together and talk about the possibility of breeding Peregrines in captivity as a way of at least saving the species from extinction.” Feature photo of Tom Cade with Mauritius Kestrel by Carl Jones used by permission of The Peregrine Fund.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2014
With their strong flight and capability to disperse, parrots have managed to colonize almost every major island group from Tahiti to Mauritius to Dominica. There are nectar feeders, dedicated frugivores, specialized seed predators and more. There seems to be a parrot for almost any ecological situation.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
Pink pigeon near Le Pétrin, Mauritius by Michael Hanselmann, used under Creative Commons license. A bit of background: Pink Pigeons are medium-sized, pink/gray/ brown birds found on the island of Mauritius, Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. He is the Harvey Weinstein of Pink Pigeons). More about the Dodo in a minute.)
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
But you can take solace in the results at the end of the breeding year, when loafing around the intertidal are a shiny new cohort of finely plumage grey youngsters, all ready to carry on Western Gull line into the future. Gerald Durrell relates one story in trying to save the endemic herpetofauna of Round Island in Mauritius.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2011
It worked, and the translocated birds were soon breeding. In both cases the situation actually got worse before it got better, particularly in the case of the Black Robin, which declined to single figures and a single breeding female, the indomitable Old Blue. Today the species is secure on a large number of islands and reserves.
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