The Week In Carnivores #13

This is a weekly roundup of news items featuring the wild carnivores of the world. If you miss the news during the week, check our blog on Fridays!

Felidae

• New Jaguar Sanctuary Declared in Belize
• Is the tiger extinct in Cambodia?
• India’s leopards swiftly moving toward extinction- could be gone before tigers
• Endangered snow leopard clawing its way back – innovative project in Pakistan

Canidae

• Will the Mexican wolf be reclassified?
• Wolves return to French Pyrenees decades after extermination
• Coyotes and hiking safety
• Montana and Idaho are considering “research hunts” for wolves
• Expert stumped by recent coyote attacks on humans

Ursidae

• Grizzly bears pop up in Montana wheat fields
• In grizzly territory — running with an iPod on is not advised
• Inuit group fights to block oil & gas testing in Canada’s Arctic, citing concern for polar bears
• Attacks grab headlines, but no evidence of rising human-grizzly encounters
• Playing politics with facts about Alaskan polar bears
• Bear in high-wire motorbike stunt – example of China’s animal cruelty
• Polar bears, glaucous gulls most at risk from contaminants
• Scientist on mission to clone endangered pandas
• Bears in Colorado think that the crawl spaces of mobile homes are dens

Mustelidae

• Orphaned badger kits escape back to their habitat from release pen
• California sea otter population mysteriously disappearing

Hyenidae

• In Ethiopian city, ‘hyena man’ maintains truce between human and beast

Advertisements