How far can a polar bear swim?
Evolution is an amazing thing and perhaps one day people will look back on these studies to demonstrate just how astonishing it can be.
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Legalising The Trade of Rhino Horns
This increasing demand has further increased poaching in South Africa, home to around 90% of the world’s remaining white rhino population. The level of killing is now reaching record levels.
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Tracking Turtles with Telemetry
A new model has been created that can forecast the location of critically endangered Eastern Pacific leatherback turtles along the coast of Central and South America. This will aid efforts to decrease bycatch mortality.
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D is for Dragonfly
Dragonflies still have the air of monsters from another age: spectacular, intricate hunting machines with powerful complex eyes and powers of flight almost unrivalled anywhere else in the animal kingdom.
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Animal Welfare & Conservation: An Inevitable Conflict of Interests?
When I talk of being a conservationist, one of the most common assumptions is that I am also somewhat of an ecological hippy.
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J is for July Highflyer
Nature in the UK is not so much flying high as sinking fast, whether moths or otherwise.
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