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

#DYK that regular population monitoring is vital to measure the effectiveness of efforts to conserve the critically endangered Bornean orangutans? Learn more about the three population monitoring methods – ground surveys, helicopters, and drone surveys – by watching this video. Discover how WWF-Malaysia is using artificial intelligence to enhance orangutan conservation efforts. Please help save our orangutans, visit wwf.org.my/orangutan2024 By conserving the Bornean orangutan, we are helping to

❤️🦧 We can always count on 3.5-year-old Bornean orangutan, Redd, to make us smile. As he crosses the O-Line with his mom, Batang, following closely behind, he reminds us to keep calm, carry on and just keep swinging. Thank you for your continued support. For more information on the Zoo’s #COVID19 response, visit our website: https://s.si.edu/2xIDkyV. | Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute