200
It’s the 19th primate posting of Monkey Month and iWild’s 200th daily Endangered All-Star of 2010. Not a cause for celebration, alas, but a small milestone to mark what we’ve lost forever, to honor the fantastic living creatures (including many of our fellow-primates) who could disappear, and to renew our devotion to wildlife conservation and rewilding our wounded planet. In this spirit, check out Mongabay.com’s inspiring story about the first photograph ever of Sri Lanka’s Horton Plains Slender Loris, thought to be extinct by researchers for six decades. It’s another sign of how little we really know about our rarest biological treasures, of how much we still have to learn, and of how high the stakes are for preserving and protecting habitat and biodiversity.
Ecosystems of the World
(via scipsy) A beautiful infographic poster….
(via theanimalblog)
