From my bed, I have an uninterrupted view of the roof opposite. Every morning, just after sunrise, a small colony of feral pigeons stirs, emerging from behind the solar panels. All but one are pure white, stark against the slate. The outlier, a single male with mottled black-and-white plumage, struts along the ridge tiles with […]
Guga hunt tradition returns after licence granted. 500 gannets were killed for their meat during an annual hunt on Sula Sgeir
A licence for Scotland’s last surviving hunt of young seabirds has been granted for the first time since 2021. For centuries, thousands of gannets were killed for their meat during an annual hunt on Sula Sgeir, a small rocky island 40 miles (64km) north of Ness on the Isle of Lewis. The tradition, called a […]
Kansas Poaching Ring Exposed After Mass Killing of Trophy Deer
A sprawling multi-state investigation has exposed a brazen poaching scheme that targeted Kansas’s famed whitetail deer, underscoring why strong protections for wildlife and habitat still matter. According to AGWeb’s Chris Bennett, “Operation Cimarron” unraveled an outlaw network that illegally killed at least 119 trophy bucks, trafficked antlers across state lines, and used sham permits to […]
VOTE for the Best Photo of the Month September 2025
Welcome to the “Best Photo of the Month” competition showcasing and celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. Voting is easy and lots of fun. By popular request the number of images to be selected has been increased to six. First click an image and the slideshow will start automatically. Select the SIX images you like best […]
Mountain gorillas are back from the brink. But what happens if they run out of room?
It is sunrise on mount Muhabura, an inactive volcano on the Ugandan-Rwandan border, and Dr Benard Ssebide is in a rush to find a family of mountain gorillas before the tourists arrive. A mass of ferns, vines and thistles encroaches on the path, and the guides hack through brambles with machetes. Above, the forest whistles […]
Big Cat Handler Linked To ‘Tiger King’ Star Joe Exotic Mauled To Death
Ryan Easley died at Growler Pines Tiger Preserve on Saturday, Sept. 20, the southeastern Oklahoma facility said in a Facebook post. He ran ShowMe Tigers and had worked with animals from Joe Exotic and Bhagavan “Doc” Antle. Easley was performing “an act with the tiger when something went wrong, resulting in him being attacked,” Choctaw […]
How to smuggle a wild Galápagos iguana? Pretend it was bred in Africa
At least 60 wild iguanas have been captured, sold and exported from the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador under permits that shouldn’t have been recognized since Ecuador doesn’t allow the export of live iguanas, Mongabay’s Ana Cristina Alvarado reported. Researchers behind a recent study found that traffickers smuggle the iguanas out of the archipelago, then declare […]
Mozambican reserve harbors largest documented breeding population of rare falcon
A new study reports that the Niassa Special Reserve, a 4-million-hectare (10-million-acre) wilderness in northern Mozambique, harbors the largest documented breeding population of Taita falcons. A survey that focused on 35 of the reserve’s towering granite inselbergs found 14 pairs of the birds. The study authors estimate the entire reserve could harbor up to 76 […]