by Sandra Kyle | Apr 22, 2022 | wildlife
New Zealand’s only living World War 1 “veteran” is a tortoise, who it is estimated could be 200 years old. ‘Torty’ survived being run over by a French gun carriage, and was brought back to New Zealand in 1918 by her rescuer, stretcher...
by Sandra Kyle | Apr 6, 2022 | Species extinction, wildlife
End Animal Slaughter contributor Matt Ellerbeck campaigns for turtles, whose survival depends on people changing their habits. Turtles have been on this Earth for well over 200 million years. Now, however, the turtle is facing a grim future. Over half of the...
by Sandra Kyle | Mar 31, 2022 | Science, wildlife
Spiders may lack ‘ears’ but researchers at Binghamton University in New York have discovered that orb-weaving spiders can detect sound through minute vibrations on their web. Read the Metro article here
by Sandra Kyle | Mar 10, 2022 | Uncategorised, wildlife
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, founded in 1965, is an annual international showcase of the best nature photography. In 2021 the contest attracted more than 50,000 entries from 95 countries. Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and...
by Sandra Kyle | Feb 28, 2022 | ocean, Science, wildlife
A new study by researchers led by Masanori Kohda, a biologist at the Graduate School of Science in Osaka City University, shows fishes may have self awareness potentially on a par with animals such as chimpanzees and orangutans. For more details, read the...
by Sandra Kyle | Oct 26, 2021 | Activism, ocean, wildlife
A deeply poignant account of witnessing the death of a mighty whale, by Captain Paul Watson, conservationist and environmentalist and founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Read the article on EcoWatch ...
