カテゴリー: Wildlife
A three-yearly environmental update issues stark warning over biodiversity – and reports air pollution has improved in some areasA major new report on New Zealand’s environment has revealed a worrying outlook for its unique species and highlighted decl…
Made up of blobby tissue and living deep in the ocean, the distinctive species beat the longfin eel and pygmy pipehorse in the annual contestIt was once crowned the “world’s ugliest animal” and now the disgruntled-looking gelatinous blobfish has a new …
Velvet worms have rows of pudgy legs, skin speckled like a galaxy and dissolve their prey with sticky goo An ancient gummy-looking worm-like creature with a vicious hunting method that involves projecting sticky goo from its head has been crowned New Z…
A wave of incidents threatens the survival of the species in the country, say conservationistsInside the Pakistan Museum of Natural History, in Islamabad, two taxidermists work on a leopard skin. They scrape away at the remaining flesh and sprinkle the…
Energy minister says monkey ‘came into contact with grid transformer’, causing hours-long outage in sweltering heatA countrywide power outage in Sri Lanka has been blamed on a monkey that clambered into a power station south of Colombo.The blackout, wh…
The mass death of once-endangered olive ridley turtles in January has prompted an increase in wildlife patrols and a crackdown on fishing boatsMore than 1,100 dead olive ridley sea turtles have washed ashore on the beaches of Tamil Nadu state in southe…
Authorities are hoping to to slow population growth and curb conflict with humansThailand will begin giving birth control to a small number of wild female elephants this year, as the country struggles with the growing problem of human-elephant conflict…
Twenty-five newborn panda cubs from the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP) and the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province made their first public appearance together on 23 January. The event f…
Authorities relax laws to make it easier for hunters to carry out ‘emergency shootings’ when bears are spotted in populated areasJapan is to relax its strict hunting laws to make it easier to shoot bears, amid a rise in dangerous encounters with the an…
Sparse and precise, this meditative film immerses the viewer in the world of lepidopterist Mansi Mungee and her assistant as they survey hawk mothsThis extremely slow, meditative documentary about a scientist and her assistant studying moths in the eas…
Authorities in Akita prefecture had struggled to locate the animal, which attacked a man and has eaten large quantities of meat A bear that attacked a supermarket employee in northern Japan at the weekend before apparently holing up inside for three da…
‘Very bad precedent’: China and Russia team up to undermine krill fishing restrictions in Antarctica
Conservationists warn actions and ambitions of two super powers could lead to overexploitation of vital food source for whales, penguins and sealsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news …
For over a century the villagers of Barekuri, north-east India’s biodiversity hotspot, have coexisted with the country’s only ape species, the hoolock gibbon. But this harmony stands in fragile ecological balance. Mohit Chutia, a 55-year-old farmer and…
For over a century the villagers of Barekuri, north-east India’s biodiversity hotspot, have coexisted with the country’s only ape species, the hoolock gibbon. But this harmony stands in fragile ecological balance. Mohit Chutia, a 55-year-old farmer and…
Documentary charts historic case of a community who sued arm of World Bank over a power plant’s impact on their livesEarly on in The Fisherman and the Banker, Ibrahim Saliman Manjalia, a charismatic fisher originally from Badreshwar, tells those gather…