Animal News (Except Bigcats)

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Good news:

UAE:
Earlier, the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) had reintroduced the Scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) to Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Game Reserve in Batha Region, Chad, and following its success, it decided to reintroduce more endangered species, starting with the critically endangered Addax (Addax nasomaculatus), while increasing the conservation efforts of one of the last wild populations of Dama gazelles (Nanger dama, formerly Gazella dama), offering a potential lifeline to these species from the brink of extinction: https://www.oryxreintroduction.org, https://wam.ae/en/details/1395302805981, https://www.thenational.ae/uae/environme...d-1.942355, https://www.thenational.ae/uae/environme...-1.1019300, https://www.afrik21.africa/en/chad-addax...-in-batha/

This month, the first wild-born addax antelope from an Abu Dhabi herd had been born in Chad, with a second calf being born two days later: https://www.abudhabienv.ae/news-58850.html, http://wam.ae/en/details/1395302855512, https://www.thenational.ae/uae/environme...-1.1050228, https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/5956...ld-in-Chad

Credit: EAD
   

Also, last month, an Olive Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) was found nesting in the UAE for first time, with a hatchling seen crawling towards the ocean in Sharjah: https://www.thenational.ae/uae/environme...-1.1034402, https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/5943...in-the-UAE, https://anba.com.br/en/olive-ridley-turt...irst-time/

Credit: The Environment and Protected Areas Authority in Sharjah
   

USA:
Roadkill rates of animals (including deer, pumas, bears, other wild animals, dogs, sheep and other domestic animals) fall dramatically by as much as 58%, as the lockdown forced traffic to fall by as much as 73%, during peak times in March and April: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/anima...n-traffic/ Reply