Greater sage grouse occupied more than 460,000 square miles across 13 Western states, including Montana, and three Canadian provinces before European settlement in the 1800s. But since that time, sagebrush ecosystems have been destroyed, fragmented, and degraded. Now there are so few pristine and intact sagebrush ecosystems their population has been in a continuous and […]
Category: Wildlife
Birdwatch: a rare winter sighting of the short-eared owl
An owl? Or just a gatepost? In my experience, it’s usually a gatepost. So as I drove home across the Somerset Levels, returning from my first starling murmuration of the year, I was convinced that the owl-shaped lump a few yards away was just that. It was also dark brown, unlike the barn owls I […]
Results of the Best Photo of the Month January 2026
We are delighted to announce the results of our latest photo competition. Jess Findlay and Candy McManiman share First Prize with their outstanding images  ‘Barred Owl’ and ‘One Of Them Is Mine‘. Third Prize goes to Jess Findlay with ‘Male Anna Hummingbird’. Please give kudos to the photographers by leaving comments at the bottom of […]
Giant Sperm Whale Washes Onto Nantucket Beach in a Rare and Sobering Event
A massive sperm whale that washed onto a Nantucket beach is drawing national attention as scientists and local officials work to understand what happened and how to manage the remains. According to CBS Boston, the fifty foot male whale weighs an incredible fifty two tons, making it impossible for crews to remove from the shoreline. […]
‘Extinct’ Graceful Oryx Thriving in the Saharan Wilds Thanks to Decades of Captive Breeding
Even as the final scimitar-horned oryx was felled for meat and leather on the Saharan dunes, a network of zoos, hunting reserves, and even a royal menagerie, guaranteed they would live on in captivity. Now, 9 years after these graceful antelope were first introduced back into the lands they once roamed, they have become one […]
A Troubling Rise in the Grisly Trade of a Spectacular African Bird
In late August the Nigeria Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society received photos of primate and bird parts recently seized by the Nigerian Customs Service in Oron, a small port city in southeastern Nigeria, some 20 miles from the border with Cameroon. The images showed 11 blackened ape heads — a gorilla and 10 chimpanzees […]
Hundreds of sharks filmed in bait fish feeding frenzy near Byron Bay
An abundance of baitfish has drawn in hundreds of sharks to feed in the shallows around Byron Bay, creating dramatic scenes at one of Australia’s most popular holiday destinations. The multi-day event was captured by many Byron locals, who shared footage of the sharks, including black tip whalers, dusky whalers and bull sharks, as they […]
Rhino review – Tom Hardy channels David Attenborough in mission to save Kenya’s rhinos
Here is a rare wildlife success story. The world’s black rhino population has plummeted to just over 6,000 as rhinos are pushed to the brink of extinction by habitat loss and poaching. But conservation efforts have resulted in a rhino comeback in Kenya, where numbers are growing in fenced-off sanctuaries known as conservancies that employ […]