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San Diego Zoo Global conservationists, in partnership with the U.S.

Just in time for World Giraffe Day (June 21, 2018), San Diego Zoo Global’s Wildwatch Kenya citizen science project has achieved a major conservation milestone. Researchers announced that after just one year of the project, the over 11,000 volunteers who have joined wildwatchkenya.org have identified and retired more than 500,000 individual images from motion-activated trail cameras in Kenya¬—completing almost five years’ worth of giraffe conservation work.

Conservationists Use “Active Translocation” Method to Jumpstart a New Colony

Human hunting of large Amazon rain forest animals—such as spider monkeys, capuchin monkeys, tapirs and white-lipped peccaries, as well as some bird species such as guans and trumpeters—is having an impact on the spatial distribution of seeds needed to produce future generations of trees, a new study shows. Ultimately, this could affect the capacity of these forests to serve as “carbon sinks” that absorb global carbon dioxide emissions.