This year, there has been a noticeable increase in visitors making dangerous decisions in America’s national parks. Some incidents are harmless enough, while others—including a case where two park visitors narrowly avoided being gored by an angry bison—cross a line into genuinely dangerous territory that could cost someone their life. That’s exactly what happened in […]
Tag: Wolves
Alaska sued over hunting of bears from the air to protect caribou
Juneau, Alaska — Conservation groups sued Monday over a state program in Alaska that authorizes killing brown and black bears as a way to increase the size of a once-significant caribou herd in the southwest part of the state. The groups allege the program lacks a scientific basis and is unconstitutional. The lawsuit filed in […]
Durrell Trust finally ends blood sports tourism on its Scottish estate
The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (DWCT) has finally bowed to pressure from its supporters and ended pay-to-shoot deer stalking on the Dalnacardoch Estate in Scotland’s Cairngorms where the Trust runs a rewilding project. DWCT is a well-known Jersey-based conservation charity, founded by the popular late British author and naturalist Gerald Durrell. It has been involved […]
7 weirdest lizards on the planet: These reptiles are so strange they could be from a sci-fi movie – except every one of them is 100% real
Think lizards are boring sunbathers with scales? Think again. From colour-changing chameleons with swivelling eyes to a real-life ‘flying dragon‘ that glides through the air, these bizarre reptiles rewrite the rulebook on weird. One can even squirt toxic blood from its eyeballs with sniper-like precision. Dive into the world of lizards so strange they could […]
It took just 60 years for the red fox, one of Australia’s most devastating predators, to colonise the continent
To a newly arrived red fox, the abundant rolling grasslands and swamps of Wadawurrung Country, around what is now called Port Phillip Bay in Victoria, must have seemed like a predator’s paradise. This landscape was filled with small native marsupials and birds, and free of European wolves or bears that usually kept fox numbers in […]
Petition: Wyoming Must End Unlimited, Cruel Wolf Killings Now
A man in Wyoming became infamous for horrible abuse against a wild wolf he captured and later killed, yet at the time he was barely punished. Why? Because in most of Wyoming, killing wolves is completely legal – and hunters can use any method at all to do so. Sign the petition to demand Wyoming […]
Petition: Stop Montana’s Plan to Slaughter Hundreds of Wolves
Montana’s government has given hunters the go-ahead to slaughter as many as 558 wolves this season – the largest number in recent history. Even worse, it’s given permission to individual hunters to trap, shoot, or otherwise kill as many as 30 wolves per person. This government-approved permission to slaughter so many animals even impacts wolves […]
‘It proves this can be done’: Berlin the blueprint to bring goshawks to UK cities
Firing off rapid keck-keck-keck cries that rang out through a park in central Berlin, the goshawks soared high above the trees and circled before swooping down to chase off a ragtag bunch of crows that had begun to mob them from below. “It’s basically a flying Batman bringing law and order to the city,” said […]