Numbers Up!

It has been reported that there has been a significant and steady increase in the numbers of Capercaillie located in woodland managed by Forestry Commission Scotland. To read the full BBC article please click here.

Photograph: Nick Dixon, extInked Ambassador and the Western Capercaillie tattoo.

Kent Wildlife Park welcomes an exciting new arrival!

Kent Wildlife Park are extremely excited to welcome the birth of a critically-endangered black rhino, the three-week-old calf, who is still unnamed at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, near Hythe, is likely to be moved to an outside enclosure next week.

Keepers said the birth brought the number of critically-endangered black rhinos housed by The Aspinall Foundation to 19.

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The Sunda Clouded Leopard X 2

Scientists have confirmed that there are two distinct forms of the Sunda Clouded Leopard,

one living in Sumatra, the other on Borneo.

To Read the BBC news report click here.

Project: Frozen Ark

Nottingham University are working with a network of conservationists, vets and scientists from all over the world to collect and freeze cells from endangered species with the hope that one day we can create our very own Jurassic Park!

Dr Ann Clarke, one of the Frozen Ark's founders, comments: "Like Dolly the sheep, although scientists do not like to talk too much about this, there is a very real possibility that we might be able to one day bring back an extinct or a very endangered species."

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