For Endangered Species Day we have an amazing, rare sighting!🎉
Together with Tanjung Puting National Park, we recently recorded camera trap footage of a family of Endangered Bornean clouded leopards – a mother and two young infants.🐆
As a forest-dependent species, habitat loss from deforestation has reduced the population.
Camera trap research is carried out to assess species populations and distributions. Albeit rare, the clouded leopard has been recorded a few times in the National Park, but this is the first time we have seen a mother with two offspring. For the population to be reproducing is an incredibly encouraging sign.📷
Clouded leopards have a low recruitment rate, meaning that less adults than expected produce and raise offspring which live long enough to join the breeding population at two years old.🌳
It is important to protect the forest habitat so this family remains healthy, and the offspring can grow up safely to hopefully one day reproduce themselves.🌿
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