Not Another Dodo: The Success of Saving the World’s Most Endangered Parrot

In the late 1980s, the Mauritian Parakeet (Psittacula eques), also called the Echo Parakeet, was considered the most endangered parrot on earth.  By that time, researchers, who had become really good at finding them, could only account for four or Continue Reading

IUCN Species of the Day: Kitti’s Hog-Nose Bat

  Photo credit: Merlin D. Tuttle   Kitti’s Hog-nosed Bat, Craseonycteris thonglongyai, is listed as ‘VULNERABLE’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. Also known as the Bumblebee Bat, this tiny species from west-central Thailand and south-east Myanmar, is Continue Reading

IUCN Species of the Day: Trapdoor Spider

  Photo credit: Les Oates   The Trapdoor Spider, Stasimopus robertsi, has not yet been officially assessed for the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM; however, it has a potential classification of ‘ENDANGERED’. It is endemic to South Africa and Continue Reading

Photo of the Day

  “What the Sifaka is THAT?!” Photo credit: Andy Kammer

Tattoo of the Day

  Tattoo by Jason Goldberg.