Recent expeditions by the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute of Zoology to the Yunnan Province of China have uncovered the existence of a new species of long-horned beetle. This newly discovered beetle has a beautifully colored blue-green body with short, slender, and distinctively blue legs according to a new article in Zookeys. There are over […]
Horror of Namibia’s Seal Cull
Earthrace Conservation today (Thursday 4th July) released graphic footage captured by covert filming of the annual seal cull on one of Namibia’s highest security beaches, Atlas Bay, a lucrative diamond mining area. The footage shows dozens of seal pups being driven across the beach to be clubbed to death by a team wielding what appear […]
Eastern Towhee
I always hear towhees before I see them. In spring, males sit conspicuously in treetops singing what birdwatchers think sounds like: “Drink your teeeeeeee!” The first note is sharp and the last is a musical trill. Click here to watch and listen to a towhee singing the famous towhee song. Or I hear them scratching […]
Into Macro
Afgelopen weken een paar keer op pad geweest om macro-foto’s te maken op een meer creatievere manier dan ik normaal meestal produceer. De eerste keer met Trui Alink (kijk ook eens op haar website www.thebeautyofnature.nl). Deze dag heeft Trui me een aantal technieken/creatieve inzichten proberen mee te geven om mijn foto’s wat minder registrerend te […]
World’s top dolphin scientists urge NZ government to act now or Maui’s will be extinct in 20 years
Some of the world’s leading whale, dolphin and porpoise scientists have expressed their ‘extreme concern’ about the survival of New Zealand’s Maui’s dolphin, urging the government to take immediate action to ensure ‘full protection of Maui’s in all areas throughout their habitat’. The Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) acknowledged in its 2013 […]
Beaten and captured orangutan dies in Indonesia’s Aceh Province
An orangutan in Indonesia’s Aceh province died last Thursday after being beaten by residents of a local village attempting to capture the animal. The case casts a tragic spotlight on what is becoming an increasingly serious problem in the region, as habitat decline and weak law enforcement leave wild orangutans at risk of being killed […]
Pilgrimsfalk, ringmärkning
Då var det dax att ringmärka pilgrimsfalksunge (tyvärr bara ett av 4 ägg kläckt), detta paret har lämnat många okläckta ägg efter sig genom åren, men stammen växer och fler falkar kommer ut på vingar för varje år.
Nightingales’ tags reveal habitat change on migratory routes
The decline of the nightingale in the UK could be due to changes in its habitat along its migratory route to Africa, a study has shown. Last year Anglian Water and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) fitted 10 birds at Grafham Water in Cambridgeshire with tracking devices. Seven birds have come back with data […]