Australians warned to leave real-life ‘Moby Dick’ alone
Australia has placed an exclusion zone around a unique white humpback whale following its return to the continent’s waters for the first time in several years. Read More »
Stolen cats saved from sale as soup meat in daring raid
Chinese animal activists have rescued 300 stolen cats from a dealer who planned to sell the animals as soup meat, according to one of the participants in the raids. Read More »
Exotic sharks facing critical risk of extinction
Some of the world’s rarest sharks are at serious risk of extinction because of overfishing, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has warned in its most comprehensive study of the creatures to date. Read More »
Beatle’s back garden now a haven for beetles
Wildlife experts have discovered four rare species of beetle living in the back garden of former Beatle John Lennon’s childhood Liverpool home. Read More »
Roaming sea lion hitches lift on Californian Interstate
A sea lion pup had to be rescued by Californian police afte waddling out to the central reservation of the busy Interstate 880 highway in Oakland. Read More »
Great white shark the ‘psycho killer’ of the seas
Nature’s deadliest creature — the great white shark — shares many behavioural traits with serial killers when it comes to planning its attacks, researchers have shown by borrowing methods used to hunt psychopathic murderers. Read More »
Dog-walking woman trampled to death by cows
A woman in Yorkshire, northern England, has been trampled to death by a herd of cows while out walking her two dogs. Read More »
Tigers ‘could be extinct within a decade’
The World Bank has thrown its support behind conservation efforts to save the tiger amid fears the big cats could be extinct in the wild within 10 years. Read More »