This news article showcases a variety of captivating wildlife moments and highlights the crucial work being done to protect endangered species. From a toque macaque cradling its baby in Sri Lanka to rare black wolves captured on film in Poland, the article takes readers on a journey through diverse ecosystems and animal encounters. It also sheds light on conservation initiatives, such as the release of yellow-spotted river turtles into the Amazon and the efforts to rehabilitate injured wildlife.
A toque macaque carries her baby in Habarana, Sri Lanka. Photograph: Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock Rangers at the Margalla Wildlife Rescue Center in Islamabad prepare to feed Neelo and Sultan, leopard cubs whose mother was killed. Researchers from the World Wildlife Fund are warning of a drastic population decline.
While leopards are sometimes killed for their valuable pelts, they say, most cases are acts of retaliation – triggered by attacks on people or, more frequently, their farm animals. Just a few of the 4,900 yellow-spotted river turtles that were released into the Igapó-Açu river, a tributary of the Amazon, Brazil, this month. The Federal University of Amazonas, which is leading the protection programme, has returned more than 70,000 turtles to the wild in a decade. A crane strikes a timeless pose on a water buffalo near the meeting of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Basra, Iraq, who were trapped in early January by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. The big cats were caught after they were spotted near Kingussie, and were taken into quarantine at Edinburgh Zoo, where one sadly died soon after. The remaining three are said to be doing well. A fox in the box … a Leyton fan stages a pitch invasion before the English FA Cup fourth round match between Leyton Orient and Manchester City at Gaughan Group Stadium, Brisbane Road, London, UK. A couple of white-tailed eagles fight off the coast near Vladivostok in Russia’s far east, near the border with North Korea. Home from home … Dicle, a stork that was treated after injury at the Dicle Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Diyarbakır, Turkey, has decided to stick around despite being released into the wild. The stork is now adapting to its new nest, specially built on a pole in the centre’s garden by veterinarians and students. Last Sunday has been blamed on a monkey that clambered into a power station south of Colombo, leaving Sri Lankans sweltering in 30C heat as they stole a march on the state in creating a planned wetland before excavators got the green light. “It’s full service,” said a Czech conservationist. “Beavers are absolutely fantastic and when they are in an area where they can’t cause damage, they do a brilliant job”. Two rare black wolves have been spotted on camera crossing a stream in a Polish forest. The footage was taken last year, but only reviewed recently. Their black pelt is due to a melanistic mutation. A mandarin duck at the water’s edge in Dublin’s National Botanic Gardens, Ireland. Native to east Asia, mandarins were brought to Britain and Ireland from China in the middle of the 18th century. Some of them escaped or were released from wildfowl collections during the 1930s.
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