Animal Planet… Mexican edition
4 July 2009
The new “Soil Conservation Brigade” of Mexico City’s Environmental Police was introduced to the public this week. From the photo, it looks like they’ll also be providing free organic fertilizer:
Photo by Ricardo Castelan (cuartoscuro.com)
Rare babies…
Two Scimitar oryx calves were born at Chapultepec Zoo last month. Extinct in the wild, there is an international effort to return oryx to their native north Africa, although the success of efforts in Morocco and Tunisia depend on captive breeding programs like that at Chapultepec, which has one of the most active breeding programs for rare and endangered animals in the world.
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