‘We cannot accept foxes as part of our landscape’: the plan to save Australia’s threatened wildlife
Wildlife | The Guardianby Nick Visser·1d ago
They dart across playgrounds on dainty paws, sneak into back yard coops to eat suburban chickens and kill more than a million native animals every day.
Tourism expansion v turtle nests: the dispute dividing communities in one Tobago resort
Wildlife | The Guardianby Jewel Fraser in Rocky Point, Tobago·1d ago
Visitors to Rocky Point in south-west Tobago are drawn to its sandy beach, fringed by coral reefs and dark rock formations and carpeted with the fruit-bearing trees found on Caribbean coastlines –...
Country diary: The house martins are gone, but not forgotten | Ed Douglas
Wildlife | The Guardianby Ed Douglas·2d ago
The sudden absence of something, even though you know it’s coming, can dent the heart a little. The Japanese, inevitably, have a phrase for it: mono no aware, the pathos of things – and by things...
Country diary: A passing osprey needs to eat – but the local terns won’t let it | Claire Stares
Wildlife | The Guardianby Claire Stares·3d ago
The autumnal sunlight gilded the sea as our boat drifted off Fowley Island, a small, uninhabited tidal saltmarsh between Thorney Island and Hayling Island.
Seychelles giant tortoise numbers hit record 180,000 in conservation triumph
Wildlife | The Guardianby South West News Service·3d ago
A survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has revealed that the once endangered species is thriving.
As monarch butterflies migrate for the fall, meet the Chicago woman trying to protect them
Wildlife | The Guardianby Thalia Juarez·3d ago
Along the concrete streets of Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, a vividly colored home stands out among the rest.
World’s largest penguin colony suffers ‘enormous population crash’
Wildlife | The Guardianby Jonathan Watts·4d ago
The world’s largest penguin colony has declined by two-thirds since 2011, most likely because of the climate crisis, a study has revealed.
‘He loved that little bat’: Richard Morecroft’s passion for wildlife rescue praised in tributes
Wildlife | The Guardianby Nick Visser·5d ago
“There’s a small, furry animal, wrapped up in a handkerchief, keeping warm inside my shirt.” So begins a 1989 documentary featuring the late ABC broadcaster Richard Morecroft, one of Australia’s...
Country diary: On the bluest of days, the plaintive call of a pipit | Mark Cocker
Wildlife | The Guardianby Mark Cocker·6d ago
The morning was sunlit and the sky the sort of deepest blue dome that makes your heart sing – and all the louder for being at the time of least natural sound.
Authorities issue shark warning over whale that swam 11km upstream in Clarence River and later died
Wildlife | The Guardianby Petra Stock·7d ago
While the case of a whale found 11km upstream in a New South Wales river this weekend was unusual, it was not unprecedented, experts say.
Country diary: Lave net fishing is a tradition in trouble | Gwyneth Lewis
Wildlife | The Guardianby Gwyneth Lewis·7d ago
Every time I cross the new Severn Bridge leaving Wales, I check the state of the tide, using a buoy in the middle of the channel.
Whales on Australia’s ‘humpback highway’ are at growing risk of injury from boat and propellor strikes
Wildlife | The Guardianby Graham Readfearn Climate and environment correspondent·8d ago
Gruesome images of adult and juvenile humpback whales along Australia’s east coast with slash and gouge injuries from boat and propeller strikes highlight what experts say is a growing problem, as...
Derek vs Derek review – farmers go head to head in rewilding rivalry with real bite
Wildlife | The Guardianby Leslie Felperin·10d ago
This ebulliently accessible but never tacky British documentary finds a delightfully sneaky way to explore debates around environmental damage, agriculture and the countryside without ever being...
Nature boys and girls – here’s your chance to get published in the Guardian
Wildlife | The Guardianby Guardian community team·10d ago
Once again, the Young Country Diary series is open for submissions! Every three months we ask you to send us an article written by a child aged 8-14.
Is tech the secret to a more analogue life? How gadgets, apps and tips could actually reduce your screen time
Wildlife | The Guardianby Hannah Rochell·12d ago
With the continued backlash against AI and growing concern about our reliance on screens, an analogue life has never looked so appealing.
Country diary: A tangle of butterflies and battle re-enactments | Paul Evans
Wildlife | The Guardianby Paul Evans·13d ago
I’m telling the story from a pub in the bailey opposite the ruins of Oswestry Castle. There in 1165, Henry II, the Angevin (Anglo-Norman) king of England, gathered troops from the Marcher Lords to...
Country diary: I’m virtually living in the woods now. Wildlife is everywhere | Kate Bradbury
Wildlife | The Guardianby Kate Bradbury·16d ago
I have made the woods my home, moving from Brighton to the outskirts of Lewes, where the garden backs on to the remains of an old oak wood.
I saw pedestrians swear at plovers when they swooped. But I admired the birds
Wildlife | The Guardianby Drew Rooke·16d ago
It was early September when the two spur-winged plover chicks hatched. They hit the ground running, literally.
A bumper year for bugs: as the world warms up, insects are moving northwards
Wildlife | The Guardianby Aisling Irwin·18d ago
It was a stifling evening in July and Matt Phelps was out for a stroll, when a piercing, whirring noise stopped him in his tracks.
Mass sardine die-off pits survival of South Africa’s penguins against fishers’ livelihoods
Wildlife | The Guardianby Nick Dall·18d ago
It began on 28 July, when fishers near Saldanha Bay on the west coast of South Africa reported seeing dead sardines (also known as pilchards) floating at sea.
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