Victorian scientists have discovered a new mammal, the hog-nosed rat, with features not been seen by science before. Hyorhinomys stuempkei was previously undocumented in any scientific collection. The rodent was found by a team of scientists from Museum Victoria, Louisiana State University and the Dutch Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense in a remote, mountainous forest of Mount […]
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POLL: Should hare coursing be banned in Ireland?
The Irish Council Against Blood Sports is calling on the Minister for Arts & Heritage, Heather Humphreys, to reject a licence application for a 2015-16 hare coursing season. A decision on whether or not to grant the licence is expected in the coming days. Minister Humphreys has been made aware of the ongoing injuries and […]
POLL: Should the slaughter of walrus in Alaska be stopped?
Federal agents are investigating a report this week of dozens of walruses being shot and killed, apparently for their ivory, along the coast of the Chukchi Sea in a Northwest Alaska refuge. Andrea Medeiros, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Alaska regional office, said law enforcement agents with the service received a […]
VOTE for the Best Photo of the Week 10 Oct 2015
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. […]
POLL: Should the grizzly bear be taken off the Endangered Species List?
Chris Servheen knows why grizzly bears matter. Like millions of others, he and his two teenage sons make a summer pilgrimage each year to Yellowstone National Park to catch glimpses of these symbols of the U.S. West. “We treasure seeing grizzlies, and often we speak of how bears make the places we visit so much […]
How to watch the great migration of animals from Serengeti
Every year a million wildebeest, half a million gazelle and 200,000 zebra make the perilous trek from the Serengeti park in Tanzania to the Maasai Mara reserve in Kenya in their search for water and grazing land. It is one of nature’s most spectacular sights – and one that few people are able to see […]
POLL: Should the Western Australian shark cull be stopped?
There is a simple populist action that would quickly see a reduction in the numbers of sharks, including great whites, off the north coast of New South Wales. It would definitely cut down on the number of shark attacks – so far there have been 13 attacks, including one death, in the area this year, […]
Can Anything Save the Sumatran Rhino From Extinction?
In 2008, a rhino wandered into an oil-palm plantation in Sabah, a state on the Malaysian island of Borneo. It was limping from a snare injury and, for a rhino, was unfamiliar looking: very small—and hairy. When Rasmus Gren Havmøller—a Danish Ph.D. student focused on conservation, ecology, and genetics at the University of Copenhagen—read about […]