#GLADYS PORTER ZOO BEAR UPDATE#

In 1999, he was brought to Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas. Fish and Wildlife Department because he was being kept as a pet. One bright spot is the mountain gorilla, a subspecies of the eastern gorilla whose population is not decreasing largely due to ecotourism in the Democractic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda, WWF’s Hemley says.Cameron Park Zoo is mourning the death of two of its senior citizens, Balou, the North American black bear and Shamfa, the eldest African lion.īalou was confiscated by the U.S. “When we lose plants, we lose irreplaceable cultural treasures,” says Matt Keir, a member of the IUCN’s Hawaiian Plant Specialist Group. The report also highlighted 'devastating impacts of invasive species'-87 percent of the 415 plants native to Hawaii are threatened with extinction, according to the Red List. “It has tended to be the neglected ape in Africa, despite being the largest ape in the world.” “Critical endangered status will raise the profile of this gorilla subspecies and bring attention to its plight,” Andrew Plumptre, lead author of the revised Grauer’s listing and senior conservationist in the Uganda Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society, said in a statement. Hunting is the biggest problem for the Grauer’s gorilla, a subspecies that has fallen from nearly 17,000 in 1994 to fewer than 4,000 in 2015. 'In fact, 'suitable' or quality panda habitat is in fact decreasing from ongoing fragmentation from highway construction, active tourism development in Sichuan Province, and other human economic activities.' Great Apes In Trouble there is no justifiable reason to downgrade the listing from endangered to threatened,' he says.

'While the Chinese government deserves credit and support for recent progress in management of both captive and wild giant pandas. However, Marc Brody, senior adviser for conservation and sustainable development at China’s Wolong Nature Reserve, says 'it is too early to conclude that pandas are actually increasing in the wild-perhaps we are simply getting better at counting wild pandas.' “The Chinese government has put in 30 years of hard work in pandas- not going to let the panda go extinct.” Sanjayan, senior scientist at the nonprofit Conservation International. The mountain species is now listed as near-threatened, according to the Red List. She also noted that the Tibetan antelope, an endangered species slaughtered in past decades for its fine fur, is also recovering. Unauthorized use is prohibited.Ĭhina now has 67 panda reserves, which are similar to U.S. (Also read “ Pandas Get to Know Their Wild Side.”) Success for the giant panda, endangered since 1990, is thanks to two factors: A marked decrease in poaching, which was rampant in the 1980s and a huge expansion of the animal’s protected habitat. “It’s a good day to be a panda,” said Ginette Hemley, senior vice president for wildlife conservation at WWF, a nonprofit whose logo is the giant panda. That’s up from the last census of 1,600 animals in 2003. Giant panda populations in the wild have risen steadily by 17 percent in the decade up to 2014, when a nationwide census found 1,850 giant pandas in the wild in China. (Also see “ 20,000 Species Are Near Extinction: Is it Time to Rethink How We Decide Which to Save?”)

#GLADYS PORTER ZOO BEAR UPDATE#

The newest update to the list includes 82,954 species, 23,928 of which are threatened with extinction. Native to Chinese bamboo forests, the panda was upgraded from endangered to vulnerable on the Red List of Threatened Species, managed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

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