Wildlife Blog

From Bangladesh to Brazil, experience what it’s like to rescue sea turtles off the coast of Mexico or trudge through tropical rainforests searching for the next emerging deadly disease. Wildlife Trust scientists give you a snapshot from the field and firsthand accounts of conservation projects like these from around the world.

Shanghai Surprise!

A long flight and a substantial layover in Tokyo have me jet-lagged and so tired as I arrived late in the city of Shanghai.

The Dating Game

This week, a colleague at the Senegal River Development Authority forwarded photos of a manatee mating herd in the Senegal River near the town of Dagana. Photos of manatees in Africa are rare enough, but to capture images of a mating herd is truly lucky!

Back to School

The following day we set out to locate an area where we could do our work near the temple ruins so we could efficiently process our samples.

Skeletons in the Closet

Today I visited the Zoology Department at Dakar University, where they have specimens of most of Senegal's species, including a partial manatee skeleton on display.

Stone Temple Pilots

In Bengali there are two words for bats. Badur is used to refer to the largest of the fruit bats, particularly Pteropus giganteus. Chamchika refers to all other types of smaller bats.

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