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A walk in the park for Sumatran tigress and her cubs
Welcome to the new look Fauna & Flora International (FFI) e-newsletter. With these monthly emails we’ll be keeping you up to date with the latest news and blogs from the FFI website, as well as highlighting various conservation programmes and species we work to protect.
There was encouraging news recently as a team led by the FFI-supported Tiger Conservation Protection Unit and rangers from the Jambi Rapid Response Forest Guard arrested a tiger poacher in Sumatra, Indonesia. FFI’s work to protect wildlife from poachers in Sumatra is crucial as there are fewer than 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild.
There was, however, more encouraging news for the Sumatran tiger. A few weeks later we posted camera trap footage to FFI’s YouTube channel of a Sumatran tigress and her cubs.
The footage, from Kerinci Seblat National Park (see below), was captured by forestry worker Iding Achmad Haidir – who had learned his skills thanks to the support of Fauna & Flora International and our donors.
A walk in the park for Sumatran tigress and her cubs
We hope you enjoy the pick of news, blogs and features below. Feel free to forward this email on to your friends and family. You can also become a fan of Fauna & Flora International on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter to be the first to hear about FFI related news.
 
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Top of the blogs
Why being a woman makes light of Aceh’s toughest men
Iep Diah is FFI’s Human Wildlife Conflict Coordinator in Aceh, Indonesia. To celebrate International Women’s Day on 8th March, she blogged about her job which involves working with some of Aceh’s toughest men; ex-combatants, loggers and poachers.
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EcoBoat prize
Environmental award for the floating school of Ha Long Bay
The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources & the Environment has awarded Ha Long Bay Management Department a national environmental award for its innovative floating school, the EcoBoat.
EcoBoat educates children through exploring caves and beaches and meeting local people living in the World Hertiage site Ha Long Bay.
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Focus On
University Capacity Building Project in Cambodia
Cambodia is biologically one of the richest yet least known countries in the world.
Dr Neil Furey explains how FFI helped the Royal University of Phnom Penh to establish an innovative project to arm a new generation of scientists with essential conservation knowledge.
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Fauna & Flora International
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www.fauna-flora.org
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Double trouble
Three new baby mountain gorillas in Rwanda are welcome news
Three mountain gorillas – including twins – were born early this month in Volcanoes National Park in northwestern Rwanda, bordering Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This is the first pair of twins for the Park since 2004, and only the fith recorded case of twins in over 40 years of gorilla monitoring in Rwanda.
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Baobab boost
Saving the wild baobabs of Madagascar
In Madagscar FFI and Madagasikara Voakajy and are working with Malagasy ‘tree monitors’ to protect the endangered Grandidier’s baobab in a project funded by the Global Trees Campaign.
The monitoring project allows scientists to understand the extent of deforestation and damage to the trees and how damaged trees can be saved.
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Species Profile
Cross River gorilla
FFI is working to protect the Africa’s most threatened great ape – only an estimated 280 individuals remain in the world.
FFI’s Programme Manager for Central Africa, is working with our partners Cameroon to establish a new Community Wildlife Sanctuary in the Bechati-Lebialem Forest.
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