Earlier this year, researchers in the Bahamas wanted to get a better look at the ocean floor—and decided the best way to do that was to strap cameras to a bunch of sharks. At the time, the scientists were looking for new patches of seagrass, a type of ocean vegetation that many species rely on [...]
What makes an animal worth saving? Are certain species more deserving of protection just because we find them cute? That’s the question posed by a new bill that’s currently making its way through Congress. Called the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, the legislation would provide funding to animals most in need of conservation—not just the ones [...]
There’s been a lot of public lands news in the media this week, but the latest announcement deserves some special attention. Last Thursday, the Biden administration proposed a new rule that could change the way the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) stewards its 245 million acres of land. If approved, the rule could change the [...]
Experts are mystified by a series of dolphin beachings that has killed several of the mammals and appears to have injured or weakened many others. About 40 melon-headed whale dolphins washed up on shores east of Tokyo over the last few days, and that’s just the most recent incident. This school of dolphins did get [...]
An orangutan named Zoe in a Virginia zoo named has been taking lessons in mothering from the human zookeepers who care for her. Zoe wasn’t able to nurse her first child, so, when her youngest baby was born recently, staff came up with an idea: Why not have a zookeeper who also happened to be [...]
Ever wanted to own your very own thundering herd of rhinoceroses? If you’ve got $10 million to spare, it could be your lucky day. David Hume, a South African conservationist and entrepreneur, has announced plans to auction off his rhinoceros farm, which he founded 14 years ago to help combat poaching. He started the farm [...]
Hanging on fence, outside the bald eagle enclosure at Missouri’s World Bird Sanctuary, there’s a sign that’s worth a double-take. It reads: “If you see an eagle lying down in the back left corner under a perch, that’s Murphy! Murphy is not hurt, sick, or otherwise in distress. He has built a nest on the [...]
In a few years time, tourists might be visiting London not to see Big Ben but to see—beavers? Thanks to new rewilding projects intended to bring nature back to the Big Smoke, Greater London could soon be getting an influx of beaver families reacquainting themselves with ancestral grounds they haven’t roamed for 400 years. Last [...]
All around the world, small communities are struggling to stay afloat as their young people grow up and move away for the allure of big cities. The villages in northern India are no different. But now, some of them have come up with a unique solution to harness the power of nature to save their [...]
A mother jackal has done the impossible: When an eagle kidnapped her baby, she pressured it into dropping the pup back down to her. At least, that’s how it looks from the image published last week by Africa Geographic. The shot managed to capture both the desperation of the mother jackal and the terror of [...]
