An unlikely rescue story out of Utah is reminding people just how resilient wildlife can be. According to CBS News, a young great horned owl is on the road to recovery after workers at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab spent days carefully removing hardened concrete from his feathers. The bird had accidentally fallen […]
Petition: Stop the U.S. Plan to Kill Hundreds of Thousands of Owls
To save the northern spotted owl, the U.S. government is planning to… kill nearly 500,000 other owls? If you’re reading this headline and thinking to yourself, ‘that doesn’t make much sense to me,’ you’re right. It makes no sense at all. Sign now to tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: invest in humane owl […]
Birds Start to Show Signs of Recovery After Bee-Harming Pesticide Ban in the EU
The first large-scale study to investigate the impact on bird populations from the 2018 European Union ban on a universal insecticide has determined that birds have recovered as much as 3% since 2018. Given that 57 species of birds were included in the survey, the 3% rise suddenly seems a lot more meaningful, and the […]
Tiger experts hide camera traps in Sumatran jungle. What they capture is “critically important”
Camera traps installed in a jungle in northern Sumatra have recorded nearly three times more images of critically endangered Sumatran tigers than previous surveys. The work, which took place in the Leuser Ecosystem – a huge area of forest located in the provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra – shows that sustained conservation on the […]
‘Taking back the desert’: can Australia’s small marsupials learn how to live alongside their predator, the feral cat?
In the middle of the Australian outback’s arid deserts, many of the country’s distinctive small marsupials – the bilbies, bandicoots and quolls – have been missing for a century or more, wiped out by land clearing and the hunting prowess of feral cats. Felis catus – introduced by European invaders and settlers – was too […]
VOTE for the Best Photo of the Month January 2026
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 […]
Why don’t birds have weapons, like many other animals? Apart from lethal beaks and claws that is…
Birds lack arms in more ways than one. Avian equivalents of antlers, horns, tusks and canine teeth are few and far between. Only about two per cent of our feathered friends possess specialised weapons in the form of spurs on their legs and wings. If push comes to shove, claws and beaks are capable of […]