This is actually old news we haven’t shared with you yet. A year ago, ORC’s research team of ( Ken Stratford, John Mendelsohn, Florian Weise and Stéphane Périquet), were given the opportunity to take over from John Irish as the Editorial team of our very own Namibian scientific journal, the Namibian Journal of Environment (NJE). Publishing scientific articles can be a windy road, often taking months, sometimes years from first submission to final publication.

The two chimps are now hanging out in a building that serves as the welcome center for Chimp Haven, the largest chimpanzee sanctuary in the world and the official retirement home for research chimps owned or supported by the federal government.

The animals were born at the White Oak Conservation earlier this summer, according to a news release.

The Florida grasshopper sparrow captive breeding and release program achieved an important milestone: Researchers have detected captivereared sparrows breeding in the wild and some of these birds have already successfully fledged young.

A pair of endangered Florida panther kittens, whose mother was unable to care for them in the wild, have found their forever home at a wildlife conservation. The 7-month-old brothers, named Cypress and Pepper, arrived at White Oak Conservation in Yulee, Florida, on Jan. 22, the center announced in a statement on its website this week.

A pair of endangered Florida panther kittens are thriving after being adopted by an internationally respected Nassau County wildlife refuge when a mysterious neurological disorder left their mother unable to care for them in the wild.

A giraffe calf was born April 10 at the White Oak Conservation in Yulee, Florida, and this one is special. Even though she is one of six giraffes born at White Oak over the past 14 months, her mother, Swoozie, is 28 years old and one of the oldest giraffes in North America to give birth at that age.

They might need extra large baby booties, but a pair of rhino calves born recently at an internationally known wildlife refuge in Nassau County are thriving in a conservation milestone for their species, which are being slaughtered in the wild.

A veterinary team led by a University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine faculty member successfully performed a delicate surgery to save the eyesight of a young African animal that looks like a cross between a giraffe and a zebra.

Four cheetah cubs are beginning to explore their habitat at a wildlife refuge in northwest Florida.

Grasshopper and Hemlock don't know it, but the whooping crane parents of two chicks recently hatched at White Oak Conservation in Nassau County are ambassadors for their critically endangered species.