A dingo that attacked two children and a man on the Queensland island of K’gari in recent weeks has been euthanised. Queensland’s Department of Environment, Science and Innovation said the dingo was humanely euthanised on Tuesday afternoon to protect the public. ‘The tagged dingo has displayed increasingly dangerous behaviour including two separate attacks in recent […]
100 Tiny Endangered Seahorses Released into Sydney Harbor with High Hopes
Australia continues to rehabilitate its populations of White’s seahorse, an “Australian icon” and the only such creature on the nation’s endangered list. In May, GNN reported that hundreds of White’s seahorses were released into the waters north of Newcastle into specially-made “hotels” as part of the largest release of captive-bred seahorses in history. Now, as […]
More Australian wildlife added to threatened species list in 2023 than ever before, conservationists say
More plants, animals and habitats were added to the national list of threatened wildlife in 2023 than in any year since the list was established, according to analysis by the Australian Conservation Foundation. A total of 144 animals, plants and ecological communities were added to the list, five times more than the yearly average and […]
More than a dozen swans found dead in rural Minnesota
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is asking for information from the public concerning the killing of more than a dozen swans in Stevens County. The agency says the killings happened between Dec. 16 and 17, 2023 in the west-central Minnesota county. Nearly all birds native to the United States, including their nests […]
Animal Rights Activists Call for Halt on Salmon Farm!
Animal rights campaigners are raising concerns over the construction of the UK’s first fully on-land salmon farm, urging Michael Gove to intervene and stop the project. The controversy stems from the claim that the planning permission granted by the North East Lincolnshire Council (NELC) was flawed, as it failed to conduct an environmental impact assessment […]
The Unseen Avian Flu Threatening Our World And Wildlife
In a scene reminiscent of a doomsday movie, the beaches of Valdes Peninsula in Argentina, once teeming with elephant seals, lay barren, littered with carcasses. This grim spectacle is a stark reminder of an unseen enemy: a powerful strain of avian influenza, now ravaging 320 bird and mammal species globally, including elephant seals. This avian […]
Western Canada: B.C. conservation officers killed a record number of bears last year. Did they have to?
Living alongside bears in British Columbia can be one of the most enchanting things about this province. But when one of the creatures ends up in someone’s garbage or takes to threatening humans, best practice calls for alerting a conservation officer. Some residents of Vancouver Island aren’t keen to do that again. Justine Hunter reports […]
In search of the buff-breasted buttonquail – the one Australian bird that has never been photographed
For 100 years, the night parrot was the undisputed mystery bird of Australian ornithology. Until the discovery and subsequent study of a tiny population in Queensland’s far west in 2013, two specimens found by the side of remote outback roads in 1990 and 2006, also in Queensland, were the only hard evidence of its continued […]