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Poet's gift stitches Napa hills into a continuous wildlife corridor.
environment1 month ago

Poet's gift stitches Napa hills into a continuous wildlife corridor.

Mead Ranch, a 1,318-acre property donated through poet Jane Mead’s estate, has been added to a growing wildlife corridor in Napa County, linking it with Walt Ranch and Sutro Preserve along the valley’s eastern ridge. The conservation effort protects vernal-pool habitats and rare plants, including Mead’s Owl’s Clover and the endangered Navarretia leucocephala ssp. pauciflora, with broader hopes of future educational opportunities for children as the corridor continues to expand.

via Space Daily|
#conservation#endangered-species#environment
Rare cloud jaguar sighting in Honduran highlands boosts conservation optimism
world6 months ago

Rare cloud jaguar sighting in Honduran highlands boosts conservation optimism

Cameras captured a lone male jaguar, nicknamed the “cloud jaguar,” at about 2,200 meters in Honduras’ Sierra del Merendón—the first high-elevation jaguar sighting there in a decade. Conservationists say the sighting signals that habitat protection and wildlife corridors, like the Jaguar Corridor Initiative linking Honduras and Guatemala, may support big-cat recovery, though deforestation and prey loss remain ongoing threats. Honduras has protected cloud forests since 1987 and is expanding conservation efforts, including a planned Wildlife Refuge Guanales, as part of broader regional jaguar protection efforts that also saw a Mexico jaguar population increase and a new international framework to safeguard the species.

via CNN|
#cloud-jaguar#conservation#honduras