I captured this image of these Mountain Bongos at the Dubbo Western Plains Zoo in the mid west of NSW, Australia. An amazing zoo to visit if you are in NSW, Australia. I chose to post this image due to its endangered species.
The Mountain Bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci) is a critically endangered, large forest antelope native only to Kenya's highland forests. With fewer than 100 individuals estimated in the wild, they are among Africa's rarest mammals, characterized by a vibrant reddish-brown coat with white stripes, large ears, and spiral horns.
Gentle #endangered giants, only <1,500 Bornean Pygmy #Elephants 🐘💔 still live in #Borneo. They're surrounded by #palmoil #deforestation and #poaching. Fight for them when you shop 👏☮️ and #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🚫#Boycott4Wildlife every day! @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/19/bornean-pygmy-elephant-elephas-maximus-borneensis/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
A night time camera trap image, showing part of a wooden building to the side, with an endangered Eastern Quoll to the front of the image. The quoll is looking at the camera, and has a dark fur with multiple white spots, with an all black tail.
Sketchbook page of 6 Slow Loris drawings in pink pen. The top of the page has the text Slow Loris and 6/9/25. The top left animal is holding on to a branch. To the right is a slow loris eating something and the word Yum next to it. Below that is a slow loris reaching out. Below that is a large slow loris holding onto a branch. To the bottom left is another slow loris crouching on a branch with a heart above it. To the bottom left is the face of a slow loris with its tongue sticking out and the word Blep.
🐢🏠 #Conservation biologist Maurice Rodrigues co-founded the Turtle Conservancy's #NewJersey sanctuary that cares for hundreds of illegally trafficked #turtles confiscated annually at JFK Airport.
Known as ‘Chasma Bandar’ for their beautiful spectacled eyes 👓🐵🐒 Phayre’s leaf monkeys are a distinctive #monkey in #India 🇮🇳 #Bangladesh 🇧🇩, #endangered by #palmoil #deforestation 🌴🔥🚫 Fight for them! #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-95q?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
i have photo'd 50 species of hummingbird but for #Fotomontag#PhotoMonday i'd like to address the issue of how sometimes you can only get a bad photo
like this guy, we had ONE place where we could see Royal Sunangel but birb didn't show up until the glare of high noon with pollen on the head (not a gold crown)
with rare birds sometimes a bad photo is better than no photo tho ...
A very deep blue longish-tailed hummingbird who is currently not shimmering in iridescence at all because of the harsh light is photo'd in 2 images-- one on a bare branch, the other on a sugar feeder. In both photos, there is a large yellow spot on the birb's head. This is pollen. The background is the blurred out green of the forest vegetation beyond. Species is Royal Sunangel. Northwest Peru. Photo by Peachfront. November 2024.
Scientists are standing by to rescue rare manatee sighted in cold New England (U.S.) waters.
@AssociatedPress reports: "The threatened species, which makes its habitat in warmer southern Gulf waters in places like Florida, was first seen July 26 off the southwestern coast of Cape Cod."
Caught in mid flight, an endangered rusty patched bumblebee worker closes in on the flowering spire of a Culver’s root plant to feed. A blur of wings carries the profile of a bumblebee with a mostly black abdomen with a rusty colored final segment next to the thorax. A large yellow orange pollen clump rides on the leg at the back end of the thorax and partially blocks the view of the middle of the bee. The bumblebee is about to land on a stack of white flowers whose golden anthers seem to reach out to touch the incoming pollinator.
#Bumblebee#Bombus#ruderarius is widespread throughout Europe, but is threatened by habitat loss due to agriculture, thus is labeled #endangered on the #IUCNRedList. It prefers open areas, where its #nest houses up to 100 workers.
M. Terzo et al. (2005) found the secretions of #labialglands of B. ruderarius and closely related B. #sylvarum differing only in their relative concentration.
Sketchbook page of 6 Slow Loris drawings in pink pen. The top of the page has the text Slow Loris and 6/9/25. The top left animal is holding on to a branch. To the right is a slow loris eating something and the word Yum next to it. Below that is a slow loris reaching out. Below that is a large slow loris holding onto a branch. To the bottom left is another slow loris crouching on a branch with a heart above it. To the bottom left is the face of a slow loris with its tongue sticking out and the word Blep.