Lake Eyre floods again - Photos
For a so-called ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’, Lake Eyre has flooded again for the fourth year in a row.
Latest wildlife news
- Two Tigers, a Leopard and a Golden cat found in Bangkok freezer
- Lake Eyre floods again - Photos
- 130,000 wild animals seized in China raids
- Utah wants to kill coyotes – Usual rubbish logic applied
- Saola may be slipping to extinction unnoticed
- 65% tiger reserves have inadequate protection
- Scottish Natural Heritage objects to windfarm plans
- 2.8 million birds trapped in Cyprus in 2011 – Highest ever
- Wildlife and bird tourism worth billions every year
- Loggers invade Brazilian tribal lands
- Second Critically Endangered Sumatran elephant poisoned
- Wet weather delaying and confusing butterflies
- Leucistic fallow deer near Dunkeld
- The white kite of Gigrin Farm
- Indian Supreme Court rejects cheetah reintroduction plan
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- Avocets breed at Slimbridge for the first time in recent history
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- Planet Earth Live - What is the point?
- Young leopard dies in snare in Iran
- Sea Shepherd boss arrested in Germany
- New species of lizard discovered in central African minefield
- Zimbabwe conservancy needs help to protect wildlife
- Motorists warned of risk of deer on roads – Especially in Scotland
- Orangutan has arm amputated after being released from snare
- New Mediterranean Bluefin tuna regulations launched
- Wild cranes feeding at Slimbridge
- Elephant massacre was conducted from a helicopter - Official
- Just 1 pair of Hen harriers nesting in England
Indian Supreme Court rejects cheetah reintroduction planThe Indian Supreme Court has halted the planned reintroduction of cheetahs into India. The court rejected the plan after the state of Gujarat objected to the plan, Project Cheetah.
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Planet Earth Live - What is the point?BBC is considered the best in the world at making wildlife programmes, and rightly so. They have set the standard with pioneering techniques, the best presenters and innovation. Planet Earth Live has none of these qualities, and there appears to be little live about it either.
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Modern male single parent tiger bringing up cubsAfter a tigress died, leaving two small cubs, their father, the dominant male of the area, was spotted out on his regular territorial walk with the small orphaned cubs. Nothing like this had ever been recorded before. A male tiger, taking on a the role of a mother - and from such a tender age.
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Another Goshawk nest destroyed in the Derwent ValleyThe crime is the latest in a long-running series of attacks on birds of prey in the Peak District. It leaves only one active goshawk nest in the entire Derwent Valley, which previously has held six pairs of these birds of prey.
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IUCN quotasThere is much ado about the illegal wildlife trade, but there is also a huge amount of legal trade in wildlife products, some very rare indeed, that is permitted by CITES. Elephant tusks, rhino horn, chameleons, leopard tortoises, and cheetah, lion, & leopard hunting trophies all had CITES export quotas the 2011.
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Eating shark fin soup makes you stupidShark fin soup is seen as a luxury and prestigious dish and is often served at weddings and banquets. Although it has no taste, it is desired for its texture - somewhat sinewy apparently. Shark fin soup was much prized by Chinese emperors, but as there were so few of these, it never threatened shark populations until many many more people became able to afford it.
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White killer whale observed off Russia - Images and videoIn the North Pacific, east of the Kamchatka Peninsula near the Commander Islands, the first-ever adult all-white, probably albino, orca bull has been observed.
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WWF President number 2 – Let's kill more wolves because we want to kill the elkWWF has many presidents, but some of their choices are beginning to look questionable. Although, as an organisation they do not oppose all hunting, or even trophy hunting, (UK WWF president Prince Charles and ex-President Prince Phillip are known for their love of shooting), WWF Sweden do strongly oppose hunting wolves in Sweden. However their president, King Gustaf, wants to “cull the wolf population”.
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