Fat Bear Week 2024 drew to a close yesterday, with last year’s chonky champ taking the crown once again. For the second year in a row, enthusiastic viewers voted for the impressively rotund 128 Grazer to take all in the annual bracket-style contest live streamed from Alaska’s Katmai National Park. “Grazer’s fur-midable reign continues! Let […]
Herd of tauros to be released into Highlands to recreate aurochs effect
A herd of beefy, long-horned tauros are to be released into a Highlands rewilding project to replicate the ecological role of the aurochs, an extinct, huge herbivore that is the wild ancestor of cattle. The tauros have been bred in the Netherlands in recent years to fill the niche vacated by the aurochs, which once […]
Legal Battle Over Molly the Magpie Sparks Debate on Wildlife Protection
The ongoing saga of Molly the Magpie has taken a significant turn as a prominent legal team prepares to challenge the bird’s return to a Gold Coast couple in Australia’s Supreme Court. The case raises concerns about the country’s approach to wildlife protection, with parallels drawn to the United States, where wild animals like big […]
Bears have learned to open doors in California town
Owning a home in Southern California isn’t just a dream for humans. Apparently, the bears want in on the market too. Just ask residents and city officials in Sierra Madre, who in the last few years have seen their furry, four-legged neighbors amble out of the forest and barge into their cars, kitchens and living […]
Environment summit taking place in Sydney while greater glider habitat is logged is ‘bullshit’, advocates say
Forest campaigners have accused the federal government of hypocrisy for hosting a global nature-positive summit in Sydney while logging resumed in public forest 400km away in mid-north New South Wales. The NSW Forestry Corporation has started its harvesting operations in Bulga state forest, inland from Port Macquarie. The area is a stronghold for threatened species […]
New York City to Tackle Rat Population with Birth Control
New York City is taking a new approach to control its rat population. On Thursday, the City Council voted to implement a pilot program that will use birth control to reduce the number of rats in a specific area of the city. This initiative will begin 180 days after the bill’s passage and is set […]
“The ferocity of bears is real” – Fat Bear Week off to grizzly start after shocked viewers witness deadly battle in the wild
Eager viewers across the globe tuned in to watch brown bears fishing for salmon in Katmai National Park yesterday in the lead up to Fat Bear Week, but things took a grizzly turn when two bruins ended up in an on-screen battle to the death. Around 9:30 a.m. on Monday morning, the Kat River View […]
Pine martens return to Dartmoor after 150-year absence
Fifteen pine martens are darting through the woods of Dartmoor for the first time in 150 years after the rare but recovering species was reintroduced into south-west England. The nimble, tree-climbing mustelids were released last month at secret locations in the steep, tree-lined valleys of Devon in what conservationists are hailing as a historic step […]