Wild butterflies and bees face growing threats across Europe
A bumblebee (“Bombus pratorum”) and a meadow brown butterfly (“Maniola jurtina”) forage on flowers in Rennes, France, on…
‘Imagine how lost the poor thing is’
Japanese commuters were surprised to see a wild animal roaming a subway station. Scarlett (@scarlettcb_07) captured a video…
Australia’s only shrew declared extinct
Grey shrew, not a Christmas Island shrew, for which very few photos exist. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It’s…
Koala killed by a car on Appin Road after being hailed a conservation success story
About 5:30am on Friday, October 3, a fine spring morning, a service station attendant on his way to…
Killarney’s annual red deer rut watch takes place today
Close to 200 people have joined the Irish Deer Commission in Killarney today for the organisation’s annual red…
First Nature Reserve to Record 10,000 Species in UK–Thanks to Moth That Looks Like a Wasp
River at Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire, England By Naturenet CC BY-SA 3.0 A nature reserve has…
Mystery over unidentified animal sighting on the Isle of Wight
A ‘grey’-bodied animal with a ‘long black and white-striped tail’ was spotted on Watergate Road, Newport last night…
Experts thrilled as species thought to be extinct makes quiet comeback: ‘Unique’
A recent survey in Sri Lanka has given conservationists something to celebrate: The country’s most threatened deer species…
Yorkshire Dales endangered red squirrel colony is thriving
Julie Bailey/UKSA Sixteen red squirrels have been confirmed as part of the colony Conservationists have hailed the “super-exciting”…
Public condemns shooting of falcon in front of its owner, tourists
Many have expressed their outrage after a falcon was shot down in front of its owner and four…
Mole-Rats Could Hold the Key to Living Longer
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that lived long, played hard, crashed out,…
Shooting Times uses selective quote to shamelessly misrepresent my view on predator culls – Raptor Persecution UK
A couple of weeks ago, on 24 September, the Shooting Times published a news item in which it…