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Tag: Jyrki Hokkanen

Most Popular and Widely-Read Articles in Feb 2013

Most Popular and Widely-Read Articles in Feb 2013

March 3, 2013January 11, 2020 Supertrooper 2 Comments

During February our global team of wildlife photographers and authors published 208 articles in promoting the cause of wildlife conservation. The purpose of this review is to highlight the past month’s most popular and widely-read articles. First prize goes to Adam Riley with Komodo and its Dragons, an article published in August last year and […]

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Catching Borneo’s Mysterious Wild Cats on Film by Jyrki Hokkanen

Catching Borneo’s Mysterious Wild Cats on Film by Jyrki Hokkanen

February 20, 2013December 22, 2019 Supertrooper 10 Comments

In my childhood’s biology books from the 50’s, the Australian marsupial tiger Thylacine is classified rare but alive. Today we know that the last thylacine died in a Tasmanian zoo 7th September, 1936, after a century of intensive hunting encouraged by bounties. The local government had finally introduced official protection 59 days before the last […]

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