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Neil D' Cruze / James Sawyer / W / EPA
A handout photo provided by Neil D' Cruze and James Sawyer of the World Society for the Protection of Animals shows a Visayan Spotted Deer caught by a remote camera traps in central Negros island on April 5, 2012. Two endangered mammal species made their public debut as the Negros Interior Biodiversity Expedition 2012 (NIBE) captured the animals' first ever wild images.
Neil D' Cruze / James Sawyer
Visayan Warty Pig
The Telegraph reports: Two of the world’s most endangered mammals living in the wild, the Visayan Warty Pig and Spotted Deer, have been photographed for the first time.
A team of British scientists used specialist photography to capture the species in the almost impenetrable, dense forests on the island of Negros, central Philippines.
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Thank goodness then that part of Negros is impenetrable. So much rainforest is gone, it's almost impossible to find any! And every population in these areas is exploding like crazy, so there's little chance for what is left of the land area. Nothing against any particular area, but we really need these plants and animals for our own needs.
Why? Found a use for a spotted deer or warty pig lately?
Do we really need to revisit the case of the Tasmanian Tiger?? I still find it flatour amazing that out of all the space man has to live in that these specific cultures find a way to drive something into extinction like they are uneducated and dont understand that what is gone is gone forever and it does have an impact.
Yeah so impenetrable that they have remote cameras stuck on trees. It's only a matter of time before they destroy that to.
Is the visayan warty pig' indigenous to this island?
Looks like a game cam......any hunter in the USA has 5 or 6 on there lease.
Wow, what a detailed and captivating article...
Remember when you were a kid, and thought - "There's nothing left to be discovered!"
The rate the population is growing in the Philippines, it is just a matter of time, this forest will be gone and encroached by other more dominant mammal, homo sapiens or the modern man. We need to control the world population, but when government put a program to address this, the church get involved. Its about time the government take away the non-profit tax free status of churches who put their weight to mingle in government policies. Taxes collected from them will help feed millions of impoverish children born in poverty.
Yeah, what they said.
This is COOL. Thanks for letting us see~~