Weekly Club Meeting: CANCELLED
Fri, Apr 3rd 2020 at 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Speaker: Dr Lorraine Scotson “Saving a Unicorn - the remarkable story of the Saola”
Dr Scotson is a wildlife biologist based in Dumfries & Galloway, specialising in conservstion research in South East Asia.
At present she works with the IUCN Saola Working Group, a conservation group tasked with saving one of the world's rarest and largest mammals from extinction - the Saola. The Saola known as the Asian Unicorn, is one of the most beautiful and unusual Asian cattle species, discovered in 1992 and already on the brink of extinction.
Almost no one has heard of the Saola. No western biologist has seen one in the wild. Less than 100 are thought to remain. None exist in captivity. The Saola Working Group are attempting to locate and capture the few remaining Saola in Lao and Vietnam to start a captive breeding programme to save it from extinction. A crucial element of the programme is raising global awareness of the plight of the Saola, lest it disappear before much of the world even knows it exists.
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