Peter Jackson, the filmmaker behind The Lord of the Rings, is now venturing into something even more fantastical—reviving an extinct bird. According to AP News, Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh have poured $15 million into a project by Colossal Biosciences to genetically engineer birds that resemble the South Island giant moa, a 12-foot-tall flightless […]
Category: Wildlife
‘Europe’s Joe Exotic’ torn to shreds and eaten by lions as cops find just traces of body
Cops were only able to find parts of the body of a zoo owner who was torn to shreds by his own lions while he tried to feed them. Jozef B, 56, who is better known as Europe’s Joe Exotic, was slaughtered by his lions on Tuesday (May 16) after attempting to feed the beasts […]
Police disclose shocking details after 12-year-old girl is attacked by ‘monster’ alligator: ‘The injuries sustained were serious’
A 12-year-old girl in North Carolina endured a terrifying alligator attack. The incident shook the community, highlighting the critical importance of human-wildlife coexistence. What happened? According to People Magazine, children were playing last month in Lake Waccamaw when the little girl screamed, “Something bit me!” The water was four feet deep where the alligator emerged, […]
Suspicions surround international legal trade in Galápagos iguanas
In 2013, when Sandra Altherr, co-founder of the German NGO Pro Wildlife, began looking into the reptile trade in Europe, she wondered why people paid thousands of euros for little-known reptiles whose trade wasn’t regulated by CITES, the international agreement on wildlife trade. On investigating further, she found many of the expensive reptiles sold were […]
Netflix’s Shark Whisperer Makes Waves for Shark Conservation
Netflix’s latest nature documentary, Shark Whisperer, dives deep into one of the planet’s most misunderstood predators—and the woman trying to save them. According to Lisa Respers France at CNN, the film follows free-diving conservationist Ocean Ramsey as she swims—literally and figuratively—into the heart of shark Conservation. Directed by Oscar-winner James Reed (My Octopus Teacher), Shark […]
A Cuban Crocodile Gallops Like a Horse in Pursuit of a Man in a Florida Theme Park
Just a few weeks ago, an image of a handbag made of crocodile skin on exhibit at the London Zoo drew the attention of many on social media. Instead of a live Siamese crocodile inside the glass enclosure, the zoo has chosen to display the handbag with a placard that reads: “This bag used to […]
Illegal shark product trade evident in Australia and New Zealand
Research from the University of Adelaide’s School of Biological Sciences and Wildlife Crime Research Hub has highlighted evidence of shark products entering both Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, including clear patterns in flows between the two countries. According to the study, published in Pacific Conservation Biology, the products identified were carried in personal luggage and postage, […]
Endangered Andean cat is imperiled by climate change and its solutions
Many conservationists dedicated to protecting the endangered Andean cat have never seen one in the wild, with the species known to science by just a few photos until the late 1990s. And it took Juan Reppucci, leader of the Andean Cat Alliance’s In the Field 24/7 program, nine years to spot one of these elusive […]