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Tenkile Conservation Alliance
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Tenkile Conservation Alliance
10-02-2009
This is a organisation mainly working with the conservation of the Tenkile (D. scottae) and Golden-Mantled (D. g. pulcherrimus) Tree Kangaroo in the Torricelli Mts of north-western Papua New Guinea, not far from the border with West Papua. The Torricell Mts must be the ultimate location if you intend to work with the conservation of Dendrolagus as these days this is the only place on earth where you can find three species of Tree Kangaroo in the same general area.
They operate two facilities at the moment in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Their main base (Lumi) is located just outside the town of Wewak while their other base (Sibilanga) is located up in the Torricelli Mts just in the middle of the distribution of three species of Dendrolagus (D. scottae, D. g. pulcherrimus and D. i. finschi). Golden-mantled Tree Kangaroo or Weimang (Dendrolagus goodfellowi pulcherrimus): They keep 1.1, both being rescued from local hunters. Only got their female in August 2008. Both individuals are still young and have not reached sexually maturity, but hopefully they will start to breed as they mature. Only place in the world keeping this subspecies of Dendrolagus goodfellowi, I believe no-one else has ever kept it either. Grizzled Tree Kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus finschi): They keep 1.3, and 1.2 out of these being rescued from local hunters. They have succesfully breed it once. If breeding kicks of it would be good, and maybe animals could be send to other institutions in Papua New Guinea to get some fresh blood into a old/inbreed population. All other Dendrolagus inustus kept in captivity in PNG is likely to represent the finschi subspecies. Tenkile Tree Kangaroo (Dendrolagus scottae): They recieved 0.1 from local hunters in early 2007, she was however released back into the wild in November 2007. With the current state of things it would probably have been better to have kept it in captivity, and aiming to create a captive population in the long-term. White-striped Dorcopsis (Dorcopsis hageni) New Guinea Pademelon (Thylogale browni) Black-spotted Cuscus (Spilocuscus rufoniger) Spotted Cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus) Ground Cuscus (Phalanger gymnotis) Northern Common Cuscus (Phalanger orientalis) Striped Possum (Dactylopsila trivirgata) Sugar Glider (Petaurus breviceps papuanus) Palm Cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus) Yellow-faced mynah (Mino dumonti) Lesser Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea minor) |
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#2
10-02-2009
Kiglezi,
Those other species listed at the bottom of your post, are they held by the Alliance or just species also found in the Torricellis?  Hix |
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#3
10-02-2009
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Thats more or less a complete list of species kept by the Tenkile Conservation Alliance at the moment. |
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#4
10-02-2009
I'd love to see a rufoniger. Spectacular looking animals (well, in photos at least!)
Hix |
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10-02-2009
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#6
18-10-2009
Stunning animal WOW
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#7
18-10-2009
And look at that traditional hunting tool
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#8
18-10-2009
Yes I saw that and it looks brand new
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#9
18-10-2009
The person holding looks brand new too.
 Hix |
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#10
20-10-2009
interesting that this photo is the same one that Sebbe has in his photobucket account......you know, the Sebbe that was always going on about New Guinea constantly.....
In fact the photo is actually posted from Sebbe's photobucket account! I've had my suspicions about kiglezi for a while, especially since he posted photos claimed to be from a zoo in Sulawesi! |
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#11
20-10-2009
He's back? again? really? tsk tsk tsk
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#12
20-10-2009
Isn't this an "old" thread? I seem to remember it anyway.
Seems a thread digger found it... |
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20-10-2009
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20-10-2009
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#15
21-10-2009
in other words, take the species list in the original post with a decent pinch of salt!
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