A shark bit a female diver on the head off a South Australia beach, causing schoolchildren to flee the bloodied waters in terror. The woman, 32, had been diving near a reef at around 1:20 pm near the Port Noarlunga Jetty, to the south of Adelaide, when the shark attacked, the South Australia Ambulance Service […]
Ecologists help migratory birds adapt to climate change
A team of scientists drives across northern Europe under the cloak of darkness in a white van full of carefully caged songbirds. They’re on their way from the Netherlands to Sweden, where winter weather will linger for two weeks longer. The birds in the van are European pied flycatchers who arrived in the Netherlands earlier […]
Pablo Escobar’s “Cocaine” Hippos are Being Sterilized
To manage the burgeoning population of hippos descended from animals imported by notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, Colombia has initiated a sterilization program. On Tuesday, environmental authorities sterilized two male and one female hippopotamus, marking the beginning of a broader government campaign to address the more than 100 hippos freely roaming some […]
Hippo crushes to death ranger who dedicated his life to protecting the animals from poachers in South Africa: Colleagues are forced to kill the animal in doomed bid to save him
A brave bush ranger was crushed to death in the jaws of a rampaging hippo, after it ambushed a dawn patrol along a riverbank in a nature reserve in South Africa. Experienced patroller Sphamandla Mthembu, 31, was with three fellow rangers at the Mkhuze Game Reserve 180 miles north of Durban shortly after sunrise, protecting […]
‘It was desolation’: why did 700 shags disappear from an island overnight?
For decades, as dusk drew in every evening, up to 700 shags would fly from their foraging grounds near Fife to the Isle of May to roost for the night. Some of the birds had been doing this trip twice a day for 20 years, returning to the same cliff ledge, squabbling over who sat […]
Endangered Key Deer Threatened by Rising Seas
Off the southern tip of Florida lies a unique archipelago. The Florida Keys were created during the last period of global warming, as ice melted and sea levels rose. This effectively cut the keys off from the larger landmass of North America. This led to the isolation of many species. One of these species is […]
Backpacker Aged 25 Killed by Suspected Deadly Brown Snake Bite
A tourist has been killed by a snake bite in Australia, dying days after being bitten by the venomous reptile. The 25-year-old French backpacker was bitten by the snake, possibly a brown snake, while harvesting grain in the town of Nullawil in Australia, around 200 miles northwest of Melbourne. The unfortunate traveler was airlifted to […]
Looking After an Injured Animal – A Guide
Seeing an animal injured or stressed is upsetting to the best of humanity, and wanting to help them feels like second nature. Sometimes, no matter how hard someone tries, it can be really easy to do the wrong thing while trying to do the right thing, especially when it comes to wildlife. As winter is […]