Scientists from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok and the Natural History Museum, London recently discovered three new species of carnivorous snails in northern Thailand. However, the celebration of these discoveries is tainted by the fact that the new snails are already threatened with extinction due to the destruction of their limestone habitat. The new snail species named […]
Britain’s rarest bees in steep decline – in pictures
Many of the UK’s 250 bee species are in trouble, according to a report from the University of Reading and Friends of the Earth, with intensive farming, urban sprawl and coastal development blamed as well as pesticides. This article was written by Damian Carrington for The Guardian and re-posted on Focusing on Wildlife.
Rhinos moved from South Africa to Botswana for safekeeping
A private safari company has moved six white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum) from their home in South Africa to Botswana in a bid to save them from an out-of-control poaching crisis in their native land. Currently, around two rhinos are killed everyday in South Africa for their horns, which are then smuggled to East Asia. This […]
Hedgehogs are disappearing fast – gardeners to the rescue
Hedgehogs are disappearing as fast as the tiger. And if the latter was roaming our countryside it might have more of a fighting chance: I wouldn’t find two dead tigers squashed on the road within a mile of each other like the little prickly carcasses I saw last weekend. Tigers are also getting plenty of […]
India’s hornbill conservator is awarded the ‘Green Oscar’
The Whitley Awards is a prestigious international prize awarded annually to individuals working in nature conservation at a grassroots level. They were first awarded in 1994 and over the past two decades, the Whitley fund for nature has given almost £10 million to conservation and recognized 160 conservation leaders in more than 70 countries. These […]
Pictures: Top 10 new wildlife species of 2012
A glow-in-the-dark cockroach, an insect described from a photo posted on Flickr, a monkey that has been likened to Jesus, a carnivorous sea sponge, and the world’s tiniest frog are among the “top 10” species discovered during 2012, according to global committee of taxonomists. The list, now in its sixth year, is based on a […]
Chimachima (Yellow-headed caracara)
El Viernes pasado me fui al aeropuerto después de mucho tiempo, hacía bastante que no fotografiaba pájaros de aluminio pero como no puedo con mi genio le dediqué unos clicks a los pájaros de verdad, se estaban realizando las tareas previas para el festival aéreo de este fin de semana y una máquina estaba rompiendo […]