カテゴリー: Wildlife
Officials claim there are no tigers in Goa. But the poisoning of a mother and three cubs has forced the issue into the openAs a child living in the Vagheri hills at the foot of the Western Ghats, Rajendra Kerkar would often hear the majestic roar of ti…
Our nation has been in a biodiversity crisis for more than 100 years, but the climate crisis could push our at-risk animals to the brinkAs world leaders debate how to curb emissions to shape a better tomorrow, for New Zealand’s iconic wildlife the real…
Hundreds of votes were cast in Russia, but organisers say the email addresses appeared to be legitimateIt’s an election that has spawned meme wars, full-size billboards, trash talking between rival campaigns, and now, accusations of Russian electoral f…
A distinctly two-tone mouse deer has been captured on film foraging for food by camera traps set up in a Vietnamese forest. The pictures of the rabbit-sized animal, also known as the silver-backed chevrotain, are the first to be taken in the wild and c…
Discovery comes days after six elephants fell to their deaths in the same spotWildlife officials in Thailand have discovered the carcasses of five more wild elephants downstream from a waterfall where the bodies of six other elephants were found last w…
Six wild elephants died while apparently trying to save each other after falling into a waterfall at Khao Yai national park in Thailand. Two others were saved during the incident on Saturday at Haew Narok waterfall in the north-eastern province of…
Wildlife officials in Thailand have discovered the carcasses of five more wild elephants downstream from a waterfall where the bodies of six other elephants were found on Saturday. The animals were originally thought to have died while t…
Inbreeding blamed as only 61 of 147 big cats survive after removal from tourist attractionMore than half of the 147 tigers confiscated from a Thai temple have died, park officials have said, blaming genetic problems linked to inbreeding at the once mon…
Fishermen report seeing ‘snouts in the dark’ on Malacca Strait, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanesA mystical Malaysian island is grappling with a “sea-borne invasion” of wild boar, which some believe are swimming kilometres across one of the wor…
Choice of Borneo for £27bn project raises fears of forest destruction and pollutionIndonesia has announced plans to move its capital from the climate-threatened megalopolis of Jakarta to the sparsely populated island of Borneo, which is home to some of…
Shipment found at Hanoi airport is one of the biggest wildlife trafficking cases in south-east AsiaMore than 125kg of smuggled rhino horns have been seized in Vietnam in one of the biggest wildlife trafficking cases ever seen in south-east Asia.The hor…
Mobile phone video of incident goes viral as one of nine people attacked dies of injuriesIndian police have arrested four people after a mob of villagers brutally beat to death a tigress that had attacked local people.Mobile phone footage of the incide…
The flightless birds were found huddling near the grills under the shop, where it was warm“Waddling vagrants” in the form of two little blue penguins have been released by police after they were detained for setting up home under a Wellington sushi out…