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2 Breeding of wild and some domestic animals at regional zoological institutions in 2013 3 РЫБЫ P I S C E S ВОББЕЛОНГООБРАЗНЫЕ ORECTOLOBIFORMES Сем. Азиатские кошачьи акулы (Бамбуковые акулы) – Hemiscyllidae Коричневополосая бамбуковая акула – Chiloscyllium punctatum Brownbanded bambooshark IUCN (NT) Sevastopol 20 ХВОСТОКОЛООБРАЗНЫЕ DASYATIFORMES Сем. Речные хвостоколы – Potamotrygonidae Глазчатый хвостокол (Моторо) – Potamotrygon motoro IUCN (DD) Ocellate river stingray Sevastopol - ? КАРПООБРАЗНЫЕ CYPRINIFORMES Сем. Цитариновые – Citharinidae Серебристый дистиход – Distichodusaffinis (noboli) Silver distichodus Novosibirsk 40 Сем. Пираньевые – Serrasalmidae Серебристый метиннис – Metynnis argenteus Silver dollar Yaroslavl 10 Обыкновенный метиннис – Metynnis schreitmuelleri (hypsauchen) Plainsilver dollar Nikolaev 4; Novosibirsk 100; Kharkov 20 Пятнистый метиннис – Metynnis maculatus Spotted metynnis Novosibirsk 50 Пиранья Наттерера – Serrasalmus nattereri Red piranha Novosibirsk 80; Kharkov 30 4 Сем. Харацидовые – Characidae Красноплавничный афиохаракс – Aphyocharax anisitsi (rubripinnis) Bloodfin tetra Киев 5; Perm 10 Парагвайский афиохаракс – Aphyocharax paraquayensis Whitespot tetra Perm 11 Рубиновый афиохаракс Рэтбина – Aphyocharax rathbuni Redflank bloodfin Perm 10 Эквадорская тетра – Astyanax sp. Tetra Perm 17 Слепая рыбка – Astyanax fasciatus mexicanus (Anoptichthys jordani) Mexican tetra Kharkov 10 Рублик-монетка – Ctenobrycon spilurus (+ С. spilurusvar. albino) Silver tetra Kharkov 20 Тернеция (Траурная тетра) – Gymnocorymbus -
The Jungle Times Issue 25: February 2011 Independent Newsletter of Danau Girang Field Centre, Established 2008
The Jungle Times Issue 25: February 2011 Independent Newsletter of Danau Girang Field Centre, Established 2008 INSIDE THIS ISSUE... Masters students on page 2 2 – Masters students arrive at DGFC Primate 3 – Primate surveys along the survey Kinabatangan on page 3 4 – Exclusive interview with manager Mark Meet Mark on page 4 5 – Guess the animal appendages Animal appendages 6 – Photo Album on page 5 Page 2 February 2011 TheThe MastersMasters comecome toto rule...rule... This month we welcome the arrival of volunteers Luke and Sarah from Cardiff University, they will be spending the following 6 months at DG to carry out their masters projects. Sarah will be looking at the diversity of frogs in over 70 different sites along the area of the Kinabatangan and comparing different habitats. Assisting Sarah for the first few days of her project was herpetologist Graeme Gillespie, who previous position was as Director of Conservation for Zoos Victoria. Luke, on the other hand, will be looking at one of our most enigmatic animals, the salt water crocodile. He will be carrying out a survey along a 100km stretch of the Kinabatangan, recording crocodile density and estimate body sizes, as well as analysing their surrounding habitat. Picture by Luke Evans Page 3 February 2011 StarkStark strikesstrikes againagain Primatologist Danica Stark has carried out an extensive primate survey along the Kinabatangan river bank, focusing primarily on proboscis monkeys and their group compositions. The survey has been successful, finding 6 of the 8 diurnal primates species that exist along the Kinabatangan, including orangutans, red leaf and silver leaf monkeys and numerous proboscis monkey groups. -
Checklist of the Birds of Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Checklist of the Birds of Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands Christmas Island Emerald Dove feathers R.E. Johnstone and J.C. Darnell Collections and Research, Western Australian Museum, Kew Street, Welshpool, WA 6106 †June 2021 ____________________________________ This checklist covers Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the tropical eastern Indian Ocean and their surrounding seas. Christmas Island lies 290 km south of Java (Indonesia) and 1,400 km north-west of Western Australia. It is a small uplifted volcanic island (137 km² in area) and is administered by Western Australia as an External Territory of Australia. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands lie 970 km west of Christmas Island and 2,100 km north-west of Western Australia. They comprise two low-lying atolls, a large southern atoll (Cocos) consisting of about 26 islands around a horseshoe-shaped lagoon and a smaller North Keeling Island lying 25 km to the north. They cover a land area of about 14 km² and are also administered by Western Australia as an External Territory of Australia. The main aim of this work is to provide an up-to-date checklist of the birds of this region to include the large number of additional species that have been recorded on these islands since the publication of the Annotated Checklists of Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands in 2004 (Johnstone and Darnell Appendix A and B in: Handbook of Western Australian Birds Volume II) and the more recent review of the birds of Christmas Island (James and McAllan 2014 Australian Field Ornithology Suppl. 31). Criterion for inclusion of a species or subspecies on the list is, in most cases, supported by tangible evidence i.e. -
Protected Area Update
PROTECTED AREA UPDATE News and Information from protected areas in India and South Asia No. 45 October 2003 LIST OF CONTENTS Jharkhand 9 News Item Pg. No Katha manufacture threatens Palamau Radio collars EDITORIAL 2 for tigers and elephants to track their movement The National Board for Wildlife? Karnataka 9 NEWS FROM INDIAN STATES Science city adjoining Bannerghatta to cut off forest Andhra Pradesh 3 corridor Uranium mine near Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam TR Rumble strips planned for national highway through Dam construction inside Venkateswara WLS Bandipur TR to prevent animal deaths Assam 4 700 sq. kms national park in Kodagu likely Deepor Beel to be the venue for water sports during Severe water scarcity in Bandipur NP National Games 2005 Madhya Pradesh 11 Large scale timber trafficking in Tinsukia; source of State takes selective action against encroachments in timber suspected to be Dibru-Saikhowa NP Pachmarhi WLS State submits Rs. 150 cr schemes for forests, PAs Maharashtra 11 Special steps mooted for Manas NP HC orders removal of encroachments from Sanjay Meeting of the Manas Biosphere Conservation Gandhi NP Forum Divisional meeting of Special Tiger Cell held in Rhino habitat in Kaziranga decreasing Amravati WPSI petition before CEC regarding encroachments Ghatghar hydro power project impacting Kalsubai- in six additions to Kaziranga NP Harishchandragad WLS Tunnels, overhead passages proposed to protect Meghalaya 12 wildlife fleeing from floods in Kaziranga Stronger punishment urged against poachers Kaziranga to open for tourists -
Rediscovery, Biology, Vocalisations and Taxonomy of Fish Owls in Turkey
Rediscovery, biology, vocalisations and taxonomy of fish owls in Turkey Arnoud B van den Berg, Soner Bekir, Peter de Knijff & The Sound Approach n the Western Palearctic (WP) region, Brown Distribution and traditional taxonomy IFish Owl Bubo zeylonensis is one of the rarest Until recently, fish owls were grouped under the and least-known birds. The species’ range is huge, genus Ketupa. However, recent DNA research has from the Mediterranean east to Indochina, but it is shown that for reasons of paraphyly it is better to probably only in India and Sri Lanka that it is include this genus together with Scotopelia and regularly observed. In the 19th and 20th century, Nyctea in Bubo. Former Ketupa species, Brown a total of c 15 documented records became known Fish Owl, Tawny Fish Owl B flavipes and Buffy of the westernmost and palest taxon, semenowi, Fish Owl B ketupu cluster as close relatives of and no definite breeding was described for the Asian Bubo species like Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl WP. These records included just one for Turkey in B nipalensis and Barred Eagle-Owl B sumatranus the 20th century, in 1990. However, while the (König et al 1999, Sangster et al 2003, Knox 2008, species appears to be extinct in other WP coun- Wink et al 2008, Redactie Dutch Birding 2010). tries, several pairs have been found in southern Based on external morphology and geography, Turkey since 2004. New findings in 2009-10 cre- four subspecies of Brown Fish Owl are tradition- ated a rapid increase in our understanding of the ally recognized. -
Tc & Forward & Owls-I-IX
USDA Forest Service 1997 General Technical Report NC-190 Biology and Conservation of Owls of the Northern Hemisphere Second International Symposium February 5-9, 1997 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Editors: James R. Duncan, Zoologist, Manitoba Conservation Data Centre Wildlife Branch, Manitoba Department of Natural Resources Box 24, 200 Saulteaux Crescent Winnipeg, MB CANADA R3J 3W3 <[email protected]> David H. Johnson, Wildlife Ecologist Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife 600 Capitol Way North Olympia, WA, USA 98501-1091 <[email protected]> Thomas H. Nicholls, retired formerly Project Leader and Research Plant Pathologist and Wildlife Biologist USDA Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station 1992 Folwell Avenue St. Paul, MN, USA 55108-6148 <[email protected]> I 2nd Owl Symposium SPONSORS: (Listing of all symposium and publication sponsors, e.g., those donating $$) 1987 International Owl Symposium Fund; Jack Israel Schrieber Memorial Trust c/o Zoological Society of Manitoba; Lady Grayl Fund; Manitoba Hydro; Manitoba Natural Resources; Manitoba Naturalists Society; Manitoba Critical Wildlife Habitat Program; Metro Propane Ltd.; Pine Falls Paper Company; Raptor Research Foundation; Raptor Education Group, Inc.; Raptor Research Center of Boise State University, Boise, Idaho; Repap Manitoba; Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada; USDI Bureau of Land Management; USDI Fish and Wildlife Service; USDA Forest Service, including the North Central Forest Experiment Station; Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife; The Wildlife Society - Washington Chapter; Wildlife Habitat Canada; Robert Bateman; Lawrence Blus; Nancy Claflin; Richard Clark; James Duncan; Bob Gehlert; Marge Gibson; Mary Houston; Stuart Houston; Edgar Jones; Katherine McKeever; Robert Nero; Glenn Proudfoot; Catherine Rich; Spencer Sealy; Mark Sobchuk; Tom Sproat; Peter Stacey; and Catherine Thexton. -
Buffy Fish Owl Ketupa Ketupu Breeding in Sundarbans Tiger Reserve, India Manoj Sharma, Soma Jha & Atul Jain
SHARMA ET. AL.: Buffy Fish Owl 27 Photos: Praveen ES 26. Short-tailed Shearwater in flight. 27. Wedge-tailed Shearwater. Though it is considered to be a vagrant in India, there are of these birds. We are grateful to Nameer P. O., College of Forestry, Kerala Agricultural reports of regular sightings of these birds off the western coasts University, for his support, and Social Forestry, Kerala Forest Department, for organising of the Malayan peninsula (Giri et al. 2013). This sighting from the trip. We wish to thank participants from the College of Forestry, Kerala Agricultural the Arabian Sea, first off the Kerala coast, together with the ones University; Sree Sankaracharya University, Kalady; Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Pookode; and Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi. mentioned earlier, suggests that some birds drift off from their normal course of migration, in the western Pacific, to cross the Indian Ocean during their spring migration. References On our return journey we photographed a Wedge-tailed BirdLife International. 2014. BirdLife International Species factsheet: Puffinus tenuirostris. Shearwater A. pacifica [27], which had been earlier recorded Website: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/home. [Accessed on 10 June 2014.] from the seas off Kannur, in Kerala, in May 2011(Praveen et al. Giri, P., Dey, A., & Sen, S. K., 2013. Short-tailed Shearwater Ardenna tenuirostris from 2013). This is the second photographic record of this species Namkhana, West Bengal: A first record for India. Indian BIRDS 8 (5): 131. from India. Praveen J., Jayapal, R., Pittie, A., 2013. Notes on Indian rarities—1: Seabirds. Indian BIRDS 8 (5): 113–125. -
Asian Ibas & Ramsar Sites Cover
■ INDIA RAMSAR CONVENTION CAME INTO FORCE 1982 RAMSAR DESIGNATION IS: NUMBER OF RAMSAR SITES DESIGNATED (at 31 August 2005) 19 Complete in 11 IBAs AREA OF RAMSAR SITES DESIGNATED (at 31 August 2005) 648,507 ha Partial in 5 IBAs ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY FOR RAMSAR CONVENTION Special Secretary, Lacking in 159 IBAs Conservation Division, Ministry of Environment and Forests India is a large, biologically diverse and densely populated pressures on wetlands from human usage, India has had some country. The wetlands on the Indo-Gangetic plains in the north major success stories in wetland conservation; for example, of the country support huge numbers of breeding and wintering Nalabana Bird Sanctuary (Chilika Lake) (IBA 312) was listed waterbirds, including high proportions of the global populations on the Montreux Record in 1993 due to sedimentation problem, of the threatened Pallas’s Fish-eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus, Sarus but following successful rehabilitation it was removed from the Crane Grus antigone and Indian Skimmer Rynchops albicollis. Record and received the Ramsar Wetland Conservation Award The Assam plains in north-east India retain many extensive in 2002. wetlands (and associated grasslands and forests) with large Nineteen Ramsar Sites have been designated in India, of which populations of many wetland-dependent bird species; this part 16 overlap with IBAs, and an additional 159 potential Ramsar of India is the global stronghold of the threatened Greater Sites have been identified in the country. Designated and potential Adjutant Leptoptilos dubius, and supports important populations Ramsar Sites are particularly concentrated in the following major of the threatened Spot-billed Pelican Pelecanus philippensis, Lesser wetland regions: in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, two designated Adjutant Leptoptilos javanicus, White-winged Duck Cairina Ramsar Sites overlap with IBAs and there are six potential scutulata and wintering Baer’s Pochard Aythya baeri. -
Indonesia Highlights of Western Indonesia (Flores, Komodo, Bali, Java & Sumatra) 15Th to 28Th July 2019 (14 Days)
Indonesia Highlights of Western Indonesia (Flores, Komodo, Bali, Java & Sumatra) 15th to 28th July 2019 (14 days) Trip Report Javan Banded Pitta by Glen Valentine Trip report compiled by Tour Leader: Glen Valentine Top 10 list as voted for by the tour participants: 1. Javan Trogon 2. Red-crowned Barbet 3. Green Broadbill 4. Javan Frogmouth 5. Buffy Fish Owl 6. Pygmy Cupwing 7. Rufous-collared Kingfisher 8. Javan Banded Pitta 9. Red-bearded Bee-eater 10. Bali Myna Bali Myna (Starling) by Dennis Braddy Tour Summary… This short but extremely productive and varied tour, covering a fine selection of hand-picked “top birding sites and destinations” throughout Western Indonesia was an immense success, once again and was an absolute joy to lead due to our enthusiastic, fun and very good-natured group. Our quick-fire, two-week tour of western Indonesia, kicked off in Denpasar, on the island of Bali where we all met up at the Harris Hotel for an introductory dinner and flight the following morning to the island of Flores, situated in Nusa Tenggara (The Lesser Sundas), a chain of islands running mostly east/west to the east of Wallace’s line, therefore having a distinctly Australasian flair about their avifauna. After arriving in the large, coastal town of Labuan Bajo, the gateway to the popular and famous Komodo Island, we boarded our minibus and began the windy drive east, up into the hills, towards our first biding locality of the tour, the forest reserve of Puarlolo. This small reserve was initially set aside to protect the endemic and highly threatened Flores Monarch that was only discovered from this area as recently as 1971 and is still only known from a few scattered localities in the sub-montane forest on Flores. -
National Parks in India (State Wise)
National Parks in India (State Wise) Andaman and Nicobar Islands Rani Jhansi Marine National Park Campbell Bay National Park Galathea National Park Middle Button Island National Park Mount Harriet National Park South Button Island National Park Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park North Button Island National ParkSaddle Peak National Park Andhra Pradesh Papikonda National Park Sri Venkateswara National Park Arunachal Pradesh Mouling National Park Namdapha National Park Assam Dibru-Saikhowa National Park Orang National Park Manas National Park (UNESCO World Heritage Centre) Nameri National Park Kaziranga National Park (Famous for Indian Rhinoceros, UNESCO World Heritage Centre) Bihar Valmiki National Park Chhattisgarh Kanger Ghati National Park Guru Ghasidas (Sanjay) National Park Indravati National Park Goa Mollem National Park Gujarat Marine National Park, Gulf of Kutch Vansda National Park Blackbuck National Park, Velavadar Gir Forest National Park Haryana WWW.BANKINGSHORTCUTS.COM WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/BANKINGSHORTCUTS 1 National Parks in India (State Wise) Kalesar National Park Sultanpur National Park Himachal Pradesh Inderkilla National Park Khirganga National Park Simbalbara National Park Pin Valley National Park Great Himalayan National Park Jammu and Kashmir Salim Ali National Park Dachigam National Park Hemis National Park Kishtwar National Park Jharkhand Hazaribagh National Park Karnataka Rajiv Gandhi (Rameswaram) National Park Nagarhole National Park Kudremukh National Park Bannerghatta National Park (Bannerghatta Biological Park) -
Views That Abuse: the Rise of Fake “Animal Rescue” Videos on Youtube Views That Abuse: the Rise of Fake “Animal Contents Rescue” Videos on Youtube
Views that abuse: The rise of fake “animal rescue” videos on YouTube Views that abuse: the rise of fake “animal Contents rescue” videos on YouTube World Animal Protection is registered Foreword 03 with the Charity Commission as a charity and with Companies House as a company limited by guarantee. World Animal Summary 04 Protection is governed by its Articles of Association. Introduction 05 Charity registration number 1081849 Company registration number 4029540 Methods 06 Registered office 222 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8HB Results 07 Main findings 12 Animal welfare 13 Conservation concern 13 How to spot a fake animal rescue 14 YouTube policy 15 Call to action 15 References 16 2 Views that abuse: the rise of fake “animal rescue” videos on YouTube Image: A Lar gibbon desperately tries to break free from the grip of a Reticulated python in footage from a fake “animal rescue” video posted on YouTube. The Endangered Lar gibbon is just one of many species of high conservation concern being targeted in these videos. The use of these species, even in small numbers, could have damaging impacts on the survival of remaining populations. Foreword Social media is ubiquitous. There were an estimated 3.6 warn its users about the harm of taking irresponsible photos billion social media users worldwide in 2020 representing including those with captive wild animals, after hundreds of approximately half of the world’s population. thousands of people urged for the social media giant to act. Hundreds of hours of video content are being uploaded to This new report is timely. -
WTI Brochure Latest Lowres-1.Pdf
Our Mission To conserve wildlife and its habitat and to work for the welfare of individual wild animals in partnership with communities and governments Indiscriminate slaughter of bull elephants has created absurdly skewed sex ratios that can have serious The Need demographic and genetic implications for the species. Even more worrying is the rampant destruction and fragmentation of elephant habitats, especially the impairment of traditional migratory corridors which is A land of striking contrasts, India is home to rich bringing elephants into increasing conflict with humans. biodiversity and wildlife. Although the country’s three Equally endangered are the musk deer and the snow flagship species – the Royal Bengal tiger, the greater leopard that face poaching and habitat loss in the alpine one-horned rhinoceros and the Asian elephant – Himalayas. Several magnificent birds such as the western dominate the spotlight, India is home to 423 mammal tragopan, the greater adjutant stork, the sarus crane, species, 1233 bird species, 526 reptile species, 342 the great Indian bustard and the Bengal florican require amphibian species, 3022 fish species, over 80,000 immediate attention. The pygmy hog, hispid hare, invertebrate species, and more than 50,000 plant species. hoolock gibbon, Malabar civet, Ganges river dolphin, The Indian wilderness also contains four of the world’s 35 gharial, olive Ridley turtle and whale shark are but a few biodiversity hotspots, 26 of the world’s most important examples of native and migrant species that are caught wetlands as defined by the Ramsar Convention, and in a crisis situation. seven natural World Heritage Sites as defined by UNESCO.