Inside the Frozen Zoo, where scientists put disappearing species on ice: ‘It’s banking hope’
In a basement laboratory abutting an 1,800-acre wildlife park in San Diego, California, Marlys Houck looks up to see a uniformed man holding a blue insulated lunch bag filled with small pieces of eyes, trachea, feet and feathers.
More than 400,000 songbirds killed by organized crime in Cyprus
Organized crime networks use decoys and speakers playing birdsongs to lure these small birds–including garden favorites such as robins and sparrows–to land in bushes or orchards, where they catch them with “mist” nets or branches covered in glue.
France’s appetite for frogs’ legs is endangering species in Asia, say campaigners
France’s hunger for frogs’ legs is “destructive to nature” and endangering amphibians in Asia and south-east Europe, a group of scientists and vets have warned. More than 500 experts from research, veterinary and conservation groups have called on Emmanuel Macron, the French president, to “end the overexploitation of frogs” and afford the most traded species […]
Colorado could bring back wolverines in an unprecedented rewilding effort
A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers are proposing legislation to reintroduce wolverines, one of the country’s rarest carnivores, into a state primed with deep snow and high mountains. The unprecedented move would be the first wolverine reintroduction in North America, and is part of an ongoing effort by Coloradans to restore the state’s native species.
Wolves are thriving again across western Europe; is it time to bring them back to the U.K.?
Across the River Wolf and along several miles of muddy Devon lanes lies Derek Gow’s lair. Inside a crepuscular barn filled with a pungent aroma, an imposing, bearded Scot sits surrounded by his collection of animal skulls, stuffed beavers, taxidermied badgers and birds of prey. A distinctive stench wafts from the head of an ibex […]
Miami Seaquarium gets eviction notice several months after death of Lolita the orca
The Miami Seaquarium, an old-Florida style tourist attraction that was ‘home’ to Lolita, the beloved Orca who died last year, is being evicted from the waterfront property it leases from Miami-Dade County. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava cited a “long and troubling history of violations” in a lease termination notice sent to the chief […]
Christspiracy
For 5 years filmmakers Kip Andersen and Kameron Waters traveled around the world hopping from Rome to Jerusalem, Oxford to India—interviewing everyone from renowned theologians and archeologists to Christian farmers and Indigenous shamans—all to reveal a massive coverup, one that will transform history, forever.
Alaska’s Iditarod dogs get neon visibility harnesses after 5 were fatally hit while training
The Iditarod, the annual sled dog race celebrating Alaska’s official state sport, is set to get underway with a new focus on safety after five dogs died and eight were injured in collisions with snowmobiles while training on shared, multi-use trails.
‘Abhorrent’ scenes aboard live cattle export ship as it heads to Iraq
The scenes aboard a live cattle export ship that ignited public outrage after docking in Cape Town were “abhorrent,” says the National Council of SPCAs. The vessel, Al Kuwait, stopped in the city to load feed for about 19,000 cattle on a journey from Brazil to Iraq. The NSPCA said the incident was a stark […]
‘America is a factory farming nation’: key takeaways from U.S. agriculture census
Record numbers of U.S. farms are going out of business with small farms and Black farmers the hardest hit—again, according to the 2022 agriculture census, a comprehensive snapshot of the state of America’s farms and farmers published every five years by the Department of Agriculture (USDA). Yet industrial factory farms rearing thousands of livestock in […]
Nearly half of the world’s migratory species are in decline, U.N. report says
Many songbirds, sea turtles, whales, sharks, and other migratory animals move to different environments with changing seasons and are imperiled by habitat loss, illegal hunting and fishing, pollution and climate change. About 44% of migratory species worldwide are declining in population, the report found. More than a fifth of the nearly 1,200 species monitored by […]
‘You lied to us’: did the real-life saga behind Free Willy change the story for orcas in captivity?
Anyone who grew up in the 1990s may well remember this movie scene: a 3.6-tonne orca leaping to freedom over a harbor wall and swimming off into the sunset with his family. It was the closing scene of “Free Willy,” a film that captured the hearts of a generation, telling the story of an orphaned […]
