Welcome to the “Best Photo of the Week” competition showcasing and celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. Voting is easy and lots of fun. First click an image and browse through the slideshow. Then select the three images you like best of all and click the VOTE button at the bottom of the page. […]
Author: Supertrooper
POLL: Should Diclofenac “the vulture killing drug” be banned?
Would you care if vultures were dying because of a man-made drug? Meet a man in Spain who really cares about vultures—so much so that he travels great distances and climbs rocks to feed them. The majority of Europe’s vultures live in Spain, and these vultures are in danger of being decimated, following the country’s […]
Video: Staring Down Angry Elephants (graphic scenes!)
Filmmakers and conservationists Dereck and Beverly Joubert come face-to-face with a herd of angry elephants. Their only option is to stare the elephants down. If they try to flee, it could provoke an attack. This video was first published by PBS.org on 14 Oct 2015.
POLL: Should Scotland be “rewilded” with wolves?
The last wolf in the UK was shot centuries ago, but now a “rewilding” process could see them return to Scotland. Adam Weymouth hiked across the Scottish Highlands in the footsteps of this lost species. In Glen Feshie there stand Scots Pines more than 300 years old, and in their youth they may have been […]
Petition: Don’t let Bayer overturn the ban on bee-killing pesticides
Wow. Bayer, BASF and Syngenta are suing the European Commission to overturn a ban on the pesticides that are killing millions of bees around the world. A huge public push won this landmark ban — and we can’t sit back and let Big Pesticide overturn it while the bees vanish. Last summer, 37 million bees […]
California bans captive breeding of SeaWorld killer whales
The California Coastal Commission on Thursday approved a $100 million expansion of the tanks SeaWorld uses to hold killer whales in San Diego — but it banned breeding of the captive orcas that would live in them. Animal rights activists praised the decision as a death blow to the use of killer whales at the […]
Suspected poachers ‘kill 14 elephants with cyanide’ in Zimbabwe
Suspected poachers used cyanide to kill 14 elephants in Zimbabwe’s western Hwange national park and in the north since Sept 26, the national wildlife agency said on Tuesday Hwange, home of Zimbabwe’s most famous lion Cecil who was killed by an American dentist in July, holds 53,000 elephants, twice the park’s carrying capacity, the park’s […]
Results of the Best Photo of the Week Ended 10 Oct 2015
We are delighted to announce the results of our latest photo competition. Myer Bornstein wins First Prize for his brilliant capture “Pair of Macaws”. Stuart Jamieson wins Second Prize for his outstanding composition “Polar Bear and Cub”. Third Place goes to Augusto Atturo for “Red-necked Phalarope”. See detailed results below: (click on thumbnails […]