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Posts Tagged ‘Wildlife Preservation’
Wildlife & Flora, Sep 26th, 2010,
After a fire on Madeira island destroyed 65% of this year’s Zino’s Petrel chicks, conservationists rushed to restore their habitat and protect remaining populations. However, two more chicks have since died. Twenty years ago, one of the world’s rarest seabirds, which nest on only a few ledges on Madeira Island, was dangerously close to extinction. With only a few pairs of small Pterodroma madeira left in the world, an urgent effort by SPEA (BirdLife in Portugal), Freira Conservation Project, Fuchal Municipal Museum, and Parque Natural de Madeira (PNM) brought those numbers up to 80 breeding pairs.
Tags: Birdlife International, Madeira, Wildlife Preservation, Zino's Petrel
Nature, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Apr 10th, 2010,
At a former farm in the Arab emirate of Qatar, a nearly extinct species of Brazilian parrot is being bred in order to preserve and eventually repopulate the breed in its native habitat over 10,000 kilometers away. The Spix’s Macaw is a type of parrot native to the state of Bahia in northwest Brazil. The Spix’s has been considered extinct in the wild since 2000, after years of hunting, trapping and habitat destruction. Al Wabra Wildlife Preserve is privately funded by a Qatari sheik and cares for around 2,000 animals – including a large portion of the world’s remaining Spix’s…
Tags: Al Wabra, Brazilian, endangered, extinct, macaw, Nature, parrot, Qatar, sheik, species, Spix's, Wildlife Preservation
