Capturing everything on the camera has become almost a way of life in the modern world. If you can do it you’ve got to photograph it...
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Protecting Congo’s mountain gorillas has cost the lives of 180 park rangers
Recently it’s been reported that five park rangers and a driver have been ambushed and killed while they were protecting endangered mountain gorillas in Africa’s oldest...
Continue reading...New England moose can have 50,000 blood sucking ticks on them at any one time
NEWS AND COMMENT: I’m astonished to learn that within a few months of being born a moose living in New England, USA, can acquire 50,000 ticks....
Continue reading...China improves conservation of the white dolphin despite the building of a bridge
China has mitigated the impact on the conservation of the white dolphin when building a bridge across the estuary of the Pearl River. China has hailed...
Continue reading...Is the gerenuk endangered? Yes, because of human activity.
Here are two wonderful photographs of the gerenuk. As you can guess from the photographs, this interesting species of antelope is also known as the giraffe...
Continue reading...Suggestion to rename Jim Corbett National Park
India’s Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Environment, Forests and Climate Change (wow, what a title!), Ashwini Kumar Choubey, wants to...
Continue reading...Animals are mentioned less in novels than before mid-19th century reflecting a disconnect with nature
It is a troubling picture: a gradual decrease in awareness of nature and biodiversity since about the middle of the 19th century. It indicates a gradual...
Continue reading...Hedgehogs are victims of killer robot lawnmowers
Robot lawnmowers operating day or night are severely injuring hedgehogs. The head of an animal welfare society in Hamburg, Vanessa Haloui, said that she has taken...
Continue reading...Carrie Johnson’s plans to fly 13 elephants to Kenya are unjustifiably criticised
Carrie Johnson is both the wife of the Prime Minister of the UK and the head of public relations for the Aspinall Foundation. She issued a...
Continue reading...Rolls-Royce Phantom retrofitted with illegal crocodile skin is seized
NEWS AND COMMENT: This is just a short note but the story is unusual and quite interesting and therefore worth sharing. It concerns a Rolls-Royce Phantom...
Continue reading...Robotic lawnmowers cannot see hedgehogs and so they kill them
Research indicates that robotic lawnmowers kill hedgehogs because they cannot see them despite sometimes being able to see other objects. Scientists, in a study, evaluated 18...
Continue reading...Zimbabwe grants 500 elephant hunting permits
NEWS AND NEWS-ZIMBABWE: Zimbabwe’s parks authority has granted 500 elephant hunting permits. They are being auctioned to help pay for the upkeep of national parks. They...
Continue reading...Residents seek vigilante tree feller of Elmbridge
NEWS AND VIEWS – Weybridge, Walton on Thames and Cobham, UK: This is a very disturbing story which directly impacts wildlife because trees are the homes...
Continue reading...Rupert Grint upsets residents with plan to turn barn into 3 houses
Rupert Grint, the Harry Potter star, wants to develop a barn on his estate into three new three-bedroom homes. He withdrew a previous application to North...
Continue reading...Freshwater fish suffer catastrophic decline due to dams
Because of dam building, freshwater fish are in catasrophic decline. It is more black nature news. David Attenborough recently said that we should try and present...
Continue reading...Two thirds of Kruger National Park’s rhinos have been lost to poaching in 10 years
COMMENT AND NEWS: The information is shocking. It is a severe indictment of the lack of commitment to conservation by the South African government. The Times...
Continue reading...Stoat traps in Orkney sabotaged
Orkney police are investigating a number of incidents in which stoat traps have been sabotaged. They were destroyed or stolen ostensibly because they have been killing...
Continue reading...Acid seas makes the shells of mussels weaker
A study titled: Shell mineralogy of a foundational marine species, Mytilus californianus, over half a century in a changing ocean, researched the effect, over a long...
Continue reading...War in Congo between conservationists and commercial exploiters
There is a war raging in the Virunga National Park between rangers who are protecting wildlife and those commercial enterprises who wish to exploit this two...
Continue reading...Classic story of wildlife conservation versus destruction of habitat for commercial reasons in Australia
NEWS AND COMMENT: This story from Australia highlights the battle between the conservation of native wild species on that continent and commerce which often wants to...
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