The seizure of dozens of live Western blue-tongued lizards, bearded dragons and spiny-tailed skinks covertly packed into popcorn bags, biscuit tins and women’s handbags have led to the longest prison sentence ever doled out to a wildlife smuggler in Australia. On February 13, a New South Wales District Court sentenced 61-year-old Neil Simpson to eight years […]
Category: Wildlife
“Hunger drives the lizard to make a second attempt.” Watch brutal BBC footage of an opossum fighting off a huge lizard to save her babies
In footage captured for the BBC TV film Komodo: The Deadly Bite, a monitor lizard tries to steal from an opossum nest Monitor lizards are the world’s second largest lizard (after the Komodo dragon). There are 50 species of monitor lizard and all but two are carnivorous. The lace monitor, also known as the tree […]
Do tigers get a taste for human flesh after a first bite?
Tigers are best admired at a distance. It’s far easier to appreciate these biggest of big cats when there’s no danger of being eaten by one. And the fact is that, while most tigers stick to a diet of deer, pigs and buffalo, they do sometimes kill and eat people. Between 2020 and 2024, tigers killed 378 people […]
Petition: Find Who Allegedly Killed a Protected Bald Eagle
Bald eagles are the national bird in the U.S., and have only recently recovered from being an endangered species. They are federally protected – meaning it is illegal to kill them. But that didn’t stop someone in the southern state of Louisiana from shooting and mortally wounding one of these majestic birds. Sign the petition […]
Forget gender wars! These bizarre birds have had equality sorted for some 44 million years – watch them in action
The strange-looking Picathartes have lived in the Congo for 44 million years. Bald-headed birds that mate for life and breed in the rainy season, they build their nests out of mud on the underside of overhanging rocks on a cliff or cave roof to stay dry. This has also earned them the alternative name of rockfowls. The ground-loving birds have intriguing ways of […]
Endangered Persian Leopards Mount Comeback in Central Asia’s Most Reclusive Nation
Last year, a broad network of camera traps in western Turkmenistan was broadened in the hopes of better understanding the populations of an Endangered leopard subspecies. Powered by a Washington, DC conservation financier, from a country whose citizens are rarely allowed to visit Turkmenistan, the survey produced positive results. There are now an estimated 60-80 […]
From the only venomous primate to creatures that can kill you when they’re dead – meet 8 of the world’s weirdest deadly animals
From an animal that’s not actually one animal, to the world’s only venomous primate, there are some unusual deadly animals in the world. Whether they inhabit the world’s oceans, jungles or rivers, there are plenty of deadly animals that are more unusual than average. From species that can inflict harm when they’re no longer living, […]
Germany moves to legalise wolf hunting in response to livestock ‘bloodlust’
Wolf hunting will be allowed in Germany under legislation passed by the lower house of parliament in response to a rapidly growing population and a sharp rise in attacks on livestock. The return and growth of the wolf population in the last three decades has emerged as a wedge issue in Germany, the land of […]