Caracals are creatures that cultivate anonymity. A sleek and mysterious wild cat, is known for its striking appearance and agile hunting skills. What is a caracal? A caracal is a medium-sized beautiful wild cat with a sandy coat and some freckling (often faint) on the belly and the insides of the legs. It has large, […]
Tag: Antelope
“For one agonising moment, we huddled and dangled at their mercy…”
Four white rhinos, each weighing over two tonnes and with a shoulder height of up to six feet, stood shoulder to shoulder, huffing, stomping their front feet and kicking up clouds of dust. They were close enough that, though they have notoriously bad eyesight, even they could have read the trainee name tags on our […]
“He stopped, looked at me, snorted – and charged. I turned and ran, but was unceremoniously catapulted by the irate beast”
What’s the most dangerous animal in China? The internet tells me it’s the Chinese cobra, but my own rather hair-raising research suggests that it is a seldom seen and poorly known species known as the takin, says Jonathan Eames. It all started in the Qinling Mountains in the north-west of the country, where I was […]
“The Mass Mortality Event was devastating. In a few short weeks, something strange wiped out more than 60% of the species’ global population”
In May 2015, more than 200,000 seemingly healthy saiga antelopes in the central steppes of Kazakhstan suddenly dropped dead. For the animals, and those charged with their conservation, the Mass Mortality Event was devastating. In the space of a few short weeks, something wiped out more than 60 per cent of the species’ global population, and more than 80 per cent of […]
California solar project threatens Mojave wildlife corridor, scientists say
The Mojave Desert may look like a flat, brown stretch of nothing between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. But threading through its rocky mountain ranges is an intricate network of wildlife movement that has sustained desert species for thousands of years. Now, scientists and advocates say a solar project approved by the state of California […]
Wyoming’s Failure Looms Large In The Wake Of Cody Roberts
With the sentencing of Cody Roberts, his heinous “wolf whacking” incident near Daniel, Wyoming appears to be behind us, and with Wyoming Legislator’s subsequent passage of an “animal cruelty” law, we have to ask: what, if anything has changed? Unfortunately, not much. Anyone can still take their snowmobile and run down a wolf, a coyote, […]
Millionaire big-game hunter, 75, is trampled to death by herd of FIVE elephants while stalking antelope with shotgun
Armed with a shotgun and tracking a rare species of antelope, Ernie Dosio, 75, was killed after stumbling across the animals in dense vegetation in Gabon. The carcass collector had been moving through thick undergrowth with a professional hunter when the pair unknowingly walked into the herd. The animals were said to be so well […]
Amid conflict and poaching, tech helps boost mountain gorilla numbers
The population of the world’s last mountain gorillas has rebounded by 73% since 1989, allowing the subspecies to be reclassified from critically endangered — one step away from extinction — to endangered. But they remain imperiled, with about 1,063 left. They live in just one place: the Greater Virunga Landscape that straddles Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic […]