The Weekly Recap

Hello and welcome back to the weekly recap!

The past couple weeks have seen some great trip reports, the first of which was this Pygmy Hippo expedition to Côte d’Ivoire with Royle Safaris. Not only were they successful with the Pygmy Hippos, but they also found 33 other species including Water Chevrotain, Red River Hogs and African Bush-tailed Porcupines. 

The Javan Wildlife Institute spent a few hours one night looking for the elusive Javan Slow Loris – to find out whether or not they were successful, read the report here!

Paul Collins has posted this report from Abruzzo, Italy, where he searched for Apennine Wolves (and even saw some cubs playing, I’m very jealous), Apennine Chamois and even found a Hazel Dormouse. The report also includes some gorgeous photos, so definitely check it out! 

Finally, Pieter Van Eijk’s trip to La Fortuna, Panama saw a cute Cacomistle, a Northern Black-eared Opossum and not one but two Talamancan Deer Mice. 

In exciting news, the Scimitar Horned Oryx has been reintroduced to Africa, and so far it’s going well – the species has gone from being officially considered extinct in the wild to now being endangered! You can read about the process here if you’re interested. 

Someone is looking for advice for their trip to Thailand this winter about where best to see the Sunda Slow Loris, and also small species such as Tupaia Glis Treehsrew. And don’t forget to check out the join a trip page if you’re interested in going on a mammal trip of your own soon. Not that I’d personally endorse it.  

Bruno Kovacs Gomez has posted asking if anyone knows of any small mammal trapping or mammal conservation projects in the UK. Let him know if you have any leads!

If you’re looking to buy a new thermal scope, you might be interested in this review of the Zeiss DTI6/40.

Finally, my dad and Charles Foley have published a piece for Mongabay about how mammalwatching can be used to help conservation. Despite my dad’s over-optimistic use of the word cool to describe his “hobby”, I think the rest of it is very interesting. If middle-aged fathers desperately trying to seem cool to their kids is what will end up saving the planet, then I suppose I can find it within my heart to play along… Just so long as I’m not made to admit it in public. 

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Thanks for reading:) 

Katy

Cover photo: Paul Collins 

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