At last weekend’s Birdfair 2017, an annual event held in Rutland, UK, the events tent was packed to capacity as the winners of the BPOTY 2017 – Bird Photographer of the Year competition were announced. Now in its second year, … Continued
Fighting Kauri Dieback Disease Next week (9 February 2017) sees the launch of a new Citizen Science project which aims to protect one of New Zealand’s iconic, native trees from a plant disease which threatens to decimate their numbers. … Continued
Author: Rick Simpson, Wader Quest Waders are everywhere – aren’t they? I mean, go to any estuary and you can see any number of them can’t you? So what exactly is the problem? The fact is that waders are … Continued
A paper published last week in ‘Suiform Soundings’, a newsletter published by the IUCN’s Pigs, Peccaries, and Hippos Specialist Group states that the hippopotamus (hippo/s) numbers in Virunga National Park and starting to recover. The paper follows recent research undertaken by … Continued
The extinction of the white-faced darter in Delamere, in 2003, meant that the forest lost both its flagship species and the forest’s emblem. So it was inevitable that a reintroduction would take place that not only assisted the species survival … Continued
In May last year an event, which should have shocked the world, went pretty much unnoticed outside a few conservation organisations. In just a few weeks 200,000 saiga antelope, over 60% of the global population, died! The incident quickly ramped … Continued
A study by Scientists from the Bishop Museum and NOAA published in the scientific journal ZooKeys on 6th September 2016 describes a brand new butterflyfish species. The discovery was made in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the remote North-western Hawaiian … Continued