Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Already, some conservation campaigns have taken on martial aspects. In some parts of Africa, rangers receive military training and equipment to defend animals (and themselves) from poachers in pursuit of elephants, rhinos, gorillas, and other endangered species. In Nicaragua, the army patrols beaches to protect sea turtle eggs.

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Central African Republic Protection Sea Turtles Rhinos 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

With the geese rediscovered, an intensive campaign to remove introduced foxes began, and many geese were relocated from Buldir Island to islands they formerly inhabited. The most notorious effect is that their eggshells become so thin that a parent bird will crush it’s eggs while attempting to incubate them.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 213

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Mt Bruce, since you ask, is the Department of Conservation’s premier endangered bird breeding centre. The centre now encompasses native bush into which some of these endangered species have been released. (It It also sounds like the area was discovered by Australian explorers.

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New Zealand Raised Rats Endangered Species 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

Each year tens of thousands of these gulls go to the islands and each pair will lay three eggs. Most of these clutches of eggs will hatch to produce three fluffy and adorable chicks. The initial solution in New Zealand was to move species to islands where mammals hadn’t reached.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 266