Biologists help endangered penguins find true love (Treehugger)

• “Once a match has been approved, the couple is moved to a more intimate setting downstairs. “Candlelight and romance,” Hume calls it. If the penguins hit it off — and they usually do, according to staffers — that is where they hatch and raise chicks.”

Peru’s Lake Titicaca Frogs Are Still Made Into Soup, But They’re Making a Comeback (Planet Green)

• “The critically endangered Lake Titicaca Frog recently made a major leap forward. Frogs in captivity in their native country of Peru have laid fertile eggs for the first time ever.”

Rhino horn price matches cocaine (Mongabay)

• “As a rhino poaching epidemic continues throughout Africa and Asia, the price of rhino horn has matched cocaine, according to the UK’s Daily Mirror. The price of illegal powdered rhino horn—obtained by killing wild rhinos and sawing off their horns—has hit £31,000 per kilo or nearly $50,000 per kilo. The price has already topped that of gold.”

Simple changes in fishing gear can save tens of thousands of endangered marine turtles in the Coral Triangle (WWF)

• “Thousands of endangered marine turtles could be saved in the Coral Triangle region if the fishing industry started using innovative and responsible fishing gear, a WWF analysis shows.”
• “Circle Hooks are simple yet innovative fishing gear that are sharply curved back in a circular shape and have demonstrated a significant reduction in the hooking rate of marine turtles in longline fisheries by as much as 80 percent compared to traditional hooks.”

$127 million in new funding from governments to support tiger conservation (WWF)

• There are as a few as 3,000 tigers left in the world.