Should we be organising mass culls of foxes and crows in the UK in order to save the plummeting numbers of curlews? That is the argument put forward by certain bird conservation groups. The curlew, one of Britain’s most charismatic birds, with its curved beaks and distinctive call, has been disappearing from the countryside, declining […]
Florida authorities have agreed to review the issuing of special permits allowing companies to capture endangered creatures to sell, after an outcry over the netting of a huge manta ray for an aquarium in Abu Dhabi. The review comes after a viral video released on 12 July showed a boat crew capturing a giant manta […]
An Aussie crocodile expert is calling on an American influencer to be deported after he chased and wrestled two juvenile crocodiles and posted the footage to his millions of online followers. Mike Holston, who calls himself ‘The Real Tarzann’ online, shared footage that showed him running after a small freshwater crocodile near Cape York over […]
Park rangers have been extremely busy lately. Not only are many parks experiencing a peak in visitors, but due to a staffing shortage affecting almost all protected areas, working for the NPS has become quite challenging. Crater Lake National Park is now operating with just over half its staff, and Fort Barrancas at Naval Air […]
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If anything sums up the disgraceful ‘normalisation’ of killing birds in England, it’s surely the ‘raffle’ that shooting lobbyists BASC (the British Association for Shooting and Conservation) are holding to “win two days’ guided wildfowling for you and a friend at Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve.” BASC notes in its sickening promotion that “Lindisfarne is renowned […]
No one knows why Reggie, the solitary-sociable bottlenose dolphin, has chosen to linger alone in Lyme Bay, away from his pod or family group. Lone cetaceans are rare in UK waters – Reggie is believed to be the 16th in 35 years – but young males do sometimes break away to live alone, probably explained […]
The Indian River Lagoon, a long braid of brackish mangroves and shifting islands, runs along Florida’s Atlantic coast. It is home to 4,300 species, including many of the state’s remaining manatees, whose large, paddle-tailed bodies graze slowly through the shallows. For decades, the lagoon has also been a destination for Florida’s municipal sewage. State law […]