カテゴリー: Wildlife
Authorities hope rock’n’roll song will help people of Iwate prefecture stay safe as number of bear sightings risesCan rock’n’roll keep people safe from bear attacks? One Japanese region is hoping so, and has commissioned a cautionary anthem warning res…
Numbers of the country’s carrion-loving birds dropped by over 97% in the 1990s. Now, a successful breeding scheme is giving them a boostIn February, the doors of an aviary in West Bengal’s Buxa tiger reserve were flung open. Eight critically endangered…
Kiwi watchers have recorded the sound of the bird’s song at many sites that were silent just five years ago It’s a frigid, early-winter night, and across the forests and farmlands of Northland, people are crouching in the dark. They’ve timed this night…
A famous elephant herd wandering in south-west China is finally heading towards home.The herd of 14 wild Asian elephants crossed the Yuanjiang River in Yuxi City, Yunnan province, on Sunday night, a progress that the provincial government described as …
The birds exist in a pest-control grey area, with no agency taking the lead, allowing the population to boomThey are aggressive, territorial, noisy and excrete more than a kilogram of faeces a day. Now huge flocks of Canada geese have made parts of rur…
Orca cared for by hundreds of volunteers and experts in bitter cold after becoming separated from its pod two weeks agoAn orphaned baby orca that captured the hearts of people across New Zealand has been farewelled at a special ceremony and taken away …
Venomous snakebites cause tens of thousands of deaths each year. But homegrown apps are coming to the rescue – and protecting reptiles from reprisalsWhen 12-year-old Anay Sujith felt a sharp sting in his leg while asleep in his hut in a village in Kera…
The apex predators show preferences for certain individuals and avoid others, according to new research on sharks in FijiThey reach 3.5 metres long, weigh more than 200kg and are an apex predator. But even apex predators need friends. And, according to…
Authorities investigated after defanged and declawed animal was seen in TikTok videos in Phnom PenhCambodian authorities have confiscated a defanged and declawed pet lion that appeared in TikTok videos taken at a Phnom Penh villa.The 18-month-old male,…
A hungry elephant crashed through a kitchen wall looking for something to eat in the early hours of Saturday morning in southern Thailand. Ratchadawan Puengprasoppon was awoken by crashing and banging. When she went to find out what had happened, she d…
Woman finds hungry elephant rummaging for late-night snack – and it’s not the first time he’s stopped byRatchadawan Puengprasoppon was awoken in the early hours of Saturday morning by crashing and banging. When she went to find out what had happened, s…
We must find a way to embrace shipping, the ocean and our place in the world without shackling ourselves to unpayable foreign debtGrowing up in Sri Lanka in the 1990s, it was drilled into me from an early age that my island was destined to be a maritim…
Group of pachyderms that has been criss-crossing the countryside photographed lying down outside a village in Xiyang townshipChina’s famous herd of wandering elephants has stopped for a rest after a 15-month journey far out of their natural habitat, an…
A herd of 15 elephants have caused destruction in south-west China, including eating fields of corn and smashing up barns, after escaping from Xishuangbanna nature reserve in Yunnan province. On Tuesday, Yunnan authorities said the herd was 1…
Wild herd has wrecked barns and munched its way through fields of crops after absconding from nature reserve in AprilA herd of 15 elephants have caused destruction in south-western China, including eating whole fields of corn and smashing up barns, aft…