Scientists collected 49 spider webs in Australia; their DNA revealed 85 vertebrate species hiding nearby |
Spider webs may hold a surprising record of the animals living nearby. A study found that genetic traces…
In 2013, Leonardo DiCaprio’s foundation gave $3 million to Nepal’s tiger effort; the country’s count later climbed from 121 animals to 355 | World News
Leonardo DiCaprio on the left and a representative image of a tiger on the right. Image credits: Wikimedia…
In 1986, only 18 black-footed ferrets were known to survive; a captive-breeding programme built from those animals has helped restore about 400 to the wild
A species once feared lost forever is slowly finding its way back across the American plains. In 1986,…
Ugandan communities planted 4,053 trees beside one of Africa’s great rainforests; now the new forest is rebuilding a damaged wildlife buffer |
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Image Credit: Ron Van Oers/Wikipedia Communities living beside Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park have planted…
Yadav for sustained scientific intervention and govt support for vulture conservation | Chandigarh News
Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav and Haryana environment and forest minister Rao Ranbir Singh during an International Vulture…
In 2021, ‘Air Jaws’ photographer Chris Fallows bought a South African farm with his wildlife-art earnings and combined land formed a 3,200-acre nature reserve | World News
Portrait of the photographer Chris Fallows along with the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) with its jaws open.…
Australia’s endangered eastern quolls have welcomed new joeys; after vanishing from the mainland for 60 years, the species is now breeding again in a rare conservation comeback
A study released 20 captive-bred eastern quolls at Tasmania’s 6,500-hectare Silver Plains conservation property. (Photo: Booderee NP) The…
In 1999, a caretaker moved to an Australian island holding one of the world’s largest little penguin colonies; he stayed 25 years protecting its wildlife and lighthouse | World News
Gabo Island, Victoria, Australia. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons In 1999, Leo op den Brouw began what became a…
Once a hunter, now a protector: The dying animal that changed Anil Mistry’s life and led him to save 70 tigers
For years, the forest had been a source of survival for Anil Mistry. He had grown up in…
A Century of Photographing Lions in National Geographic
Male lions, for all their bluster and might, mostly depend on females to do the hunting. So when…
Feral Cats on Kerguelen Island: A Predatory Disaster for Wildlife | World News
A feral cat on Kerguelen Island near a wandering albatross chick. Credits – @SmartestYearEver/Youtube In 1951, two cats…
Rare family of Delacour’s langurs photographed in Vietnam as conservation efforts protect one of the world’s most endangered monkeys |
A rare glimpse of family life among one of Vietnam’s most endangered monkeys has emerged from the limestone…