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UK Daily Mail runs story about Myrtle Beach Safari
From a UK Daily Mail article this summer, Doc Antle is quoted as saying "it's a natural friendship". The unlikely friendship Doc is being asked about is the close bond between Vali, a 20-month-old chimpanzee and his best friend Sutra, a 9-week-old lynx cub. "Vali (baby chimp) gives Sutra (lynx cub) the ability to have so much more adventure. He lives with him around the clock".
View more amazing photos of Vali and Sutra here!
As we saw with the video of Bubbles and Bella in our last newsletter, you will always find unbelievable animal friendships while touring the T.I.G.E.R.S. Preserve in Myrtle Beach, SC. What? You missed the video of a 4 ton elephant and a black lab?
Bubbles and Bella: friendship in its finest form
Learn more about conservation efforts for chimpanzees, lynx, elephants, tigers, ligers, orangutans, gibbons, apes and more through the Rare Species Fund. To see these amazing species up close and personal, visit www.myrtlebeachsafari.com/signup to get started on your own interactive tour!
Rare Species Fund Supports Niassa Lion Project
The Rare Species Fund (RSF) is supporting the Niassa Lion Project, a critically important protection and research effort being conducted in Mozambique's Niassa National Reserve. An estimated 800 to 1,000 lions live in the Reserve, as well as populations of leopards and wild dogs. The Niassa National Preserve holds nearly a third of Mozambique's lion population. The great cats are at high risk of inadvertent killing by snares and poison, as well as retaliatory killing for human / lion conflict.
Dr. Bhagavan Antle believes the Niassa Lion Project offers sensible solutions that combine research, monitoring, outreach, education, mentoring and training, and says, "The RSF began working with the Project in 2011, and granted additional support in 2012, because the Niassa Lion Project conserves lion, leopard, spotted hyena and African wild dog by promoting coexistence between carnivores and people, and directly mitigating threats". The Niassa Lion Project disperses toolkits with practical solutions to reduce lion / human conflicts. It has tested innovative living fences of Commiphora Africana, which protects livestock from predation. The Project seeks to increase domestic meat sources and alternative incomes for local hunters to reduce reliance on bushmeat snaring.
Lions are found only in parts of southern and eastern Africa and in the southern part of the Sahara desert. Recent population estimates count as few as 23,000 to 40,000 of the big cats, potentially less than half the lion population of the 1950's. To learn more about the Rare Species Fund and the help it provides to conservation groups around the globe, click here!
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