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Aurex Constructors is proud to support Wildlife ACT's work to conserve African Wild Dogs. We are thrilled to learn that both the alpha female (Mhlophe) and beta female (Sheni) of the Munywaneni pack that we sponsor were pregnant this year and collectively have given birth to 5 pups. They chose den sites in a low lion density area in Hluhluwe, a smart move as it's shown to increase denning success. What's truly remarkable is that the sisters are denning together, a rare behaviour driven by their strong bond. Typically, the alpha female would isolate any other pregnant female, the unity of the sisters is heartwarming. The pack's strength has grown with the successful raising of last year's pups, ensuring the best start for the upcoming litter. Currently, with a population of fewer than 600 African Wild Dogs in the country, each new litter of pups represents significant strides towards a brighter, more promising future.    We would like to encourage others to join us in supporting Wildlife ACT and helping to conserve African Wild Dogs and other animals that are endangered and risk extinction.   Learn more about Wildlife ACT's work: https://lnkd.in/d84VN3dR  Donate to support Wildlife ACT: https://lnkd.in/dNQZcEvh #AurexConstructors #Aurex #WildlifeAct #AfricanWildDogs #AnimalConservation #SaveTheAfricanWildDogs #SupportTheCause #CorporateSocialResponsibility #CSR

Three weeks ago, I received another wonderful opportunity to collaborate on an article with the National Wildlife Refuge Association's Communications Manager, Eden Taylor. Together, we wrote and vocalized the urgent fight to save the Red Wolves population, one of the world's critically endangered species. The published article highlights the red wolf species and its history of becoming one of the most endangered species to date. Today, the species is nearly extinct with less than twenty-five total red wolves remaining. The fight to save this species is crucial and time is running out to protect them. If you are able, the National Wildlife Refuge Association would greatly appreciate the support of their "Refuges for Recovery" campaign. This campaign is directed to the national wildlife refuges (NWR) that are tirelessly working to protect and increase the lands dedicated to the red wolf populations, as well as other species listed under the Endangered Species Act. The red wolf species' overall survival is dependent on the protected lands that allow them to thrive, breed, and roam without threats. Many of the lands protecting the few red wolves include the St Vincent NWR in Florida and the Alligator River and Pocosin Lakes NWRs in North Carolina. Follow the article link below to learn more about this highly intelligent but declining species, and or if you'd like to support the "Refuges for Recovery" campaign. Any help is greatly appreciated. https://lnkd.in/eBY-haT4

Let's celebrate two iconic Australian species, the kangaroo and the emu, which have great significance to Aboriginal peoples. The kangaroo has always been a very important animal for Aboriginal Australians, often the subject of important Dreaming stories and ceremonies. Nine out of ten animal collisions in Australia involve kangaroos. Take care when driving through rural or semi-rural areas, be aware of "kangaroo crossing" road signs. If you come across an injured animal, call your local wildlife rescue service and if you find a deceased female check the pouch in case there is an orphaned joey, which will need rehabilitation with a wildlife sanctuary. The emu has a prominent place in Aboriginal culture, featuring in numerous Dreaming stories told across a number of Aboriginal groups. Many Aboriginal language groups have a tradition that the dark dust lanes in the Milky Way represents an emu in the sky. Emus were only granted formal protection in the 1970s. The isolated emu population of the New South Wales North Coast Bioregion and Port Stephens is currently listed as endangered. Threats faced by emus include loss of habitat, deliberate slaughter, entanglement, collisions with vehicles and predation of the eggs and young by invasive species. If you discover an injured or entangled emu, be cautious, emus have a strong kick, sharp claws and may be dangerous. Do not approach the emu or attempt to touch it. The emu may panic or try to escape as you approach and injure itself further. Emus caught in nets or otherwise entangled will be highly distressed and need to be carefully untangled by someone with experience. Try to throw a blanket, towel or other material over the emu to calm it down. Remember emus may feel stressed or threatened by your presence - stay calm, speak softly, move slowly. Call your local wildlife rescue service who can provide assistance and rehabilitation. Photo Credits: Emu by Matthias Appel Kangaroo by CazzJj #kangaroo #emu #AustralianWildlifeSociety #WildlifeConservation #AustralianWildlife #conservation #wildlife #Australia

From wolves to California Condors, a battle of survival is going on to help wildlife being constantly threatened & frequently brutally wounded by humans. But there’s also some very caring humans taking a stand to help rescue wildlife from the treachery of bad humans and bad human politics. Chief among these wildlife experts & enthusiasts are conservationists that happen to be pilots. Leagues of caring souls with wings. Wings helping winged wildlife and wolves and other animals hurt by poachers and those that just like killing things. It’s not easy dotting from sanctuary to sanctuary but volunteer pilots are the living links to sustain rescue missions. Condors for example, remain critically endangered but efforts since the mid-1980s have helped with the recovery of the population. Occasionally individual birds are moved between the participating facilities to be matched with potential mates to help preserve the genetic diversity of the population. LightHawk flights provide an efficient way to transport condors between facilities, which reduces stress on the animal compared with other modes of transport. This flight aided in the relocation of a female condor from Boise, Idaho back to Los Angeles, California. Idaho has a satellite condor sanctuary to help with dispersal rewilding efforts but it’s also a state that’s currently and very actively on a mission to trap, snare, hunt and poison it’s remaining wolf populations on state lands.So it’s through efforts by #ConservationPilots and #roughdetectionteams that many wolf pups wounded or orphaned by overzealous hunters are rescued and condors by #LighthawkPilots transported to safer havens. Please help us keep our volunteer pilots flying high and helping wildlife. Here’s way to donate or volunteer. See #LeagueOfConservationPilots & LightHawk.org Keep’em Flyin! National Geographic UCLA #sanctuarylife #insidenatgeo #RelistWolves

Leaping YOU into #ScienceFriday facts: Did you know the U.S. wildlife refuge system is the world’s largest and most diverse network of conservation lands. These lands are home to many iconic carnivore species — from wolves and bears to mountain lions, bobcats and foxes — who depend on wildlife refuges to survive. Think of each predator species being a major muscle or artery in your body. When they are impacted so is the entire body of a ecosystem. It’s no surprise that carnivores are vital for healthy and balanced ecosystems. And yet, each year across the national wildlife refuge system, thousands of carnivores are cruelly killed at the behest of the livestock industry and hunters. We can’t let carnivores continue to be killed in a place that’s meant to give them refuge. Please help us #RelistWolves in the Rocky Mountain states of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Wolves and other native predator species are being killed by state wildlife mandates that also have collateral damage on other wildlife species and their shared habitats. It’s your kids and grandchildren’s habitat heritage too! You can help: 👉 https://biodiv.us/3T1Lg4j or sign the petition to demand action from Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland leap into keeping campaign promises! 🐾www.RelistWolves.org 🙏 Thanks to Robert Martinez And ReWilding #wildlifeaddicts Team for some leapin field shots National Geographic Society Misk Global #insidenatgeoexplorer #wildliferescue #sanctuarylife #leagueofconservationpikots #natgeo

Posted @worldanimalnews_ Hopeful news as the Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act was reintroduced last week in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill would prohibit the use of archaic body-gripping traps within the National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS), with limited exceptions. Body-gripping traps include: steel-jaw leghold traps, conibear traps, and snares. The use of cruel body-gripping traps on NWRS lands is a threat to the safety of wildlife, humans, and pets. The purpose of these protected lands is clear: to be a refuge where native wildlife can thrive and all Americans can enjoy our great outdoors. The NWRS contains one of the most diverse collections of fish and wildlife habitats in the world and provides a home for more than 380 endangered species. Yet, nearly half of all refuges allow trapping. 💔 READ MORE: 🌍👉 WorldAnimalNews.com (LINK IN OUR BIO)👆@worldanimalnews_ @peace_4animals #WorldAnimalNews #wildlife #pets #animalwelfare

Over the past six weeks, Wildlife Victoria has recorded a staggering 312% increase in grey-headed flying fox cases when compared to the same period last year. Grey-headed flying foxes are listed as a vulnerable species under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, but with the increased effects of climate change, ongoing habitat destruction and the loss of food sources they are under increased threat. To lose this species, is to lose one of our most important long-range pollinators. Flying foxes spread seeds and pollinate eucalypt forests across long distances, ensuring genetic diversity and the health of our ecosystems. How you can help: 📱 Call Wildlife Victoria if you see injured or deceased adult flying foxes, as a pup may be nestled under mum’s wings, and if you see pups on their own during the day. Please avoid touching, picking up or moving grey-headed flying foxes. This species requires specialised wildlife training. 🦇 Make a donation to Wildlife Victoria to support our efforts and to ensure our Emergency Response Service remains fully staffed to manage the increased demand for our services.

Hot off the press - our latest edition of Wildlife Matters! 🔥 This edition is filled to the brim with exciting content, from conservation news and updates to fight wildlife crime, protect endangered species and engage local communities across Africa and Asia.     If you've signed up to our newsletter you’ll shortly be receiving your hard copy version in the post in the next few weeks. But if not, please do SIGN UP NOW to receive your very own magazine, bursting with gorgeous wildlife photography and news from the field!  Get your copy now at https://lnkd.in/eHn96gN8   In this edition, you’ll notice a strong focus on snaring, one of the biggest threats to wildlife. Snares are basic traps that are set by poachers in their hundreds across wildlife habitats to capture bushmeat, usually for trade. Due to their indiscriminate nature, snares often (unintentionally) catch endangered species like elephants, lions or pangolins.     Read more about snaring on page 6 of Wildlife Matters, and if you can, please donate to our snaring crisis appeal at https://lnkd.in/eazmYJS2 In the meantime, thank you for your continued support and for helping to turn the tide on extinction. We hope you enjoy reading all the latest stories and updates!  #FightProtectEngage #TheArtofSurvival #Rhino #RhinoConservation #ProtectRhinos #Conservation #WildlifeConservation #EndangeredSpecies #ProtectWildlife #WildlifeMagazine #WildlifeMatters 

Pine martens are usually an illusive species, so this is a wonderful sight! I've written essays before about accurate monitoring of pine martens - usually we need to rely on scat 💩 identification by an expert, sometimes we need to sequence DNA from that or hair samples to be certain - each method can be costly. Now wondering if I can go back and edit my essays to say "also... simply set up a children's swingset with a camera!" 😄📽 More info about pine martens for the curious: https://lnkd.in/eQxgU5aX #conservation

Congrats to Ted Stankowich for his work on the leadership team for the Wildlife Confiscations Network in Southern California, a pilot program just launched out of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' Wildlife Trafficking Alliance to provide a coordinated response for the care and well being of wildlife confiscated from illegal trade. “Trafficking of wildlife is a major problem all over the world, not just from a law enforcement perspective but also from a conservation perspective. Many of the animals illegally imported into the US are threatened or endangered species and fewer individuals in the wild means the outlook for their continued existence is that much dimmer.” - Dr. Stankowich Dr. Stankowich has been a major part of this conservation effort and has worked hard to make sure CSULB plays a role, as well, saying “As the sole university-based representative on the leadership team of the Southern California Wildlife Confiscations Network, and with CSULB being a member institution ourselves, we hope to not only continue to provide homes for animals confiscated in the future, but also encourage and make it easier for other universities with similar resources to do so as well.” Few live plants and animals can survive the traumatizing and dangerous journey from their natural environment, and those who do arrive without any suitable place to land. That’s where the Wildlife Confiscations Network in Southern California and CSULB come in: “US Fish and Wildlife has been tasked with finding immediate homes for all types of animals from marine snails and clams all the way to turtles, monkeys, and tigers. In the last 5 years, CSULB has accepted a variety of marine organisms and used them in the classroom and in outreach events with primary school students, summer camps, and the general public.” Learn more about AZA and the Wildlife Trafficking Alliance here: https://lnkd.in/g28SnNqM #GoBeach #BeachPride #MammalLab