ZOO EXPANSION UPDATE
The huge NC Zoo in Asheboro will be expanding with a big Asia Continent area this year, likely this summer. They will not commit to a date, despite me calling every day.
🐅 The tiger exhibit will be in two sections with a connecting tiger walkway OVER the visitor walkway. How about a tiger watching you hungrily from above?
🦦 See also: White-cheeked gibbons, Komodo dragons, Chinese alligators, king cobras, Asian small-clawed otters👏, and Chinese giant salamanders.
✔️ More (including video): https://www.nczoo.org/visit/asia
✔️ Conservation Efforts: https://www.nczoo.org/saving-wildlife
✔️ Zoo Map: https://www.nczoo.org/sites/default/files/2025-04/2025.Map_.pdf
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'Harry Potter' owl gains global protected status
In Finland, the snowy owl is classified as critically endangered.
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📰 New California Condors Nest
The YUROK TRIBE in the Pacific Northwest has reintroduced a pair of California Condors, who have established a nest.
🔭 Biologists with the Northern California Condor Restoration Program (NCCRP) determined that the female condor, known by her Yurok name Ney-gem’ Ne-chween-kah (“She carries our prayers”), likely laid an egg inside a hollow in an old-growth redwood tree.
🧑💼 This rare event did not come easy. The tribe spent nearly two decades conducting studies, evaluating contaminant risks, and building partnerships before releasing the first cohort of four condors in May 2022.
https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/california-condors-nesting-pacific-northwest/
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📰 Big Data Is Protecting Birds
Massive database, compiled by cooperating organizations, allows a rare, critical, wide-ranging multi-species synthesis to inform conservation across flyways.
🐦⬛ The information from electronic tags is combined with survey and community science data to create a rich picture of where shorebirds are and where they are going.
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-shorebird-science-big-birds.html
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New research from the Shorebird Science and Conservation Collective at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI), published in the journal Conservation Biology, provides a model for big data to inform conservation. To better protect shorebirds, the Smithsonian scientists coalesced 7.1 million observations from 36 species contributed by 75 organizations and are analyzing those data to deliver actionable information to decision makers.
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