‘Being so helpless is hard to describe’: can rescuers win the race against time to save an orphaned orca?
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by Leyland Cecco in Toronto
16h ago
Experts are trying everything from drums to whale calls to lure kʷiisaḥiʔis – or Brave Little Hunter – out of the Canadian lagoon she has been trapped in since the stranding death of her mother As a two-year-old orca calf circled a lagoon off the west coast of Canada on Monday, she heard a comforting sound resonating through the unfamiliar place in which she found herself: the clicks and chirps of her great-aunt. But the calf, named kʷiisaḥiʔis (pronounced kwee-sahay-is, which roughly translates as Brave Little Hunter) by local First Nations people, could not locate another whale in the shallo ..read more
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‘We’d like to shoot them all’: growing army of wolfdogs raises hackles across Europe
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by John Last
23h ago
Experts say the hybrids risk ‘polluting’ the genetic stock, but scientists disagree on how to deal with them. In Piedmont, Italy, the sight of a blond wolfdog signals the risk of another new litter Photographs by Alberto Olivero From the moment the rangers first saw him on their trail cameras, the problem was apparent. The wolf, spotted deep in the woods of Italy’s Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park, was not grey like his companion, but an unusual blond. His colouring indicated this was not a wolf at all, but a hybrid wolfdog – the first to be seen so far into Piedmont’s alpine region. And where ..read more
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Brown bear that attacked five people shot dead, says Slovakian minister
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by Guardian Staff
2d ago
Drone used to identify animal that went on rampage in northern Slovakia this month, says Tomáš Taraba A brown bear has been killed by an armed patrol after drone technology identified it as the animal that injured five people during a rampage in a town in northern Slovakia this month, the country’s environment ministry has said. The environment minister, Tomáš Taraba, said the bear, which left a 49-year-old woman and a 72-year old man needing hospital treatment and three other victims including a 10-year-old girl with cuts and bruises, was shot dead late on Tuesday ..read more
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Is it a hedgehog – or a hat bobble? It can be surprisingly difficult to tell the difference
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by Guardian Staff
2d ago
A woman rushed a pompom to a wildlife hospital, thinking it was an injured baby hedgehog. These cases of mistaken identity happen more often than you might think … Name: Baby hedgehog. Age: Unknown ..read more
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Northumberland’s Farne Islands reopen to tourists after bird flu outbreak
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by Mark Brown North of England correspondent
2d ago
Boats had been barred from landing since July 2022 owing to virus, which has ravaged populations of seabirds The puffins started arriving two weeks ago – and now there are thousands of them fizzing around in a mad frenzy. They have joined kittiwakes, guillemots, razorbills, fulmars and shags. Soon Arctic terns will arrive after their epic journey across the world from the Antarctic. This week humans arrived after a two-year ban from the Farne Islands in Northumberland, one of the UK’s most important sanctuaries for breeding seabirds ..read more
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‘Two brothers driven by nature’: family pays tribute to victims of cougar attack
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by Ramon Antonio Vargas
2d ago
Taylen Brooks, 21, was mauled to death and his brother Wyatt suffered serious injuries in big cat attack in California woods Relatives of a 21-year-old man who was mauled to death by a mountain lion that also wounded his younger brother over the weekend in California are grateful that they didn’t lose both siblings – but they are also heartbroken that the rare attack tore apart a pair who shared a remarkably tight bond, according to a family statement. Before respectively dying and being badly injured in what was California’s first fatal cougar-on-person attack in two decades, Taylen Robert Cl ..read more
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Yorkshire estate known as world’s first nature reserve gets Grade II listing
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by Mark Brown North of England correspondent
2d ago
Eccentric Victorian owner of Waterton Park, near Wakefield, made pioneering decisions to protect wildlife A Yorkshire parkland regarded as the world’s first nature reserve – which was created by an eccentric pioneering 19th-century environmentalist – has been given a Grade II listing. Historic England said Waterton Park, near Wakefield, was the earliest known example of a landscape designed specifically to attract and protect native wildlife ..read more
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Lizard peninsula recovery project aims to save ‘microhabitats’
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by Steven Morris
2d ago
Natural England-backed scheme at most southerly tip of UK will nurture lichens, liverworts and wildflowers The landscape at the most southerly tip of mainland Britain is expansive and grand: rolling heath and grasslands, spectacular cliffs, crashing waves. But a recovery project funded by Natural England is focusing on unique and vital “microhabitats” found in sometimes overlooked spots on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall ..read more
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New York’s Flaco the owl had fatal conditions before colliding into building
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by Oliver Milman
3d ago
Beloved zoo escapee had rat poison in its bloodstream and had contracted a serious disease from its diet of pigeon Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl who gained fame after living free in New York City after escaping from captivity, was weakened by rat poison and a pigeon virus to the extent he would have died even if he had not fatally collided with a building earlier this year, a postmortem has found. Flaco was 13 years old when he was found dead in the courtyard of a building on New York’s Upper West Side on 23 February, with trauma injuries that suggested he had flown directly into the structure ..read more
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California mountain lion attacks brothers, killing one and injuring other
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by Ramon Antonio Vargas and agencies
3d ago
It was the state’s first such fatal attack in 20 years and the animal that killed Taylen Robert Claude Brooks, 21, has been euthanized A mountain lion killed a 21-year-old man and badly wounded his younger brother before officials euthanized the animal on Saturday afternoon in a remote wooded area of northern California, according to authorities. It was the state’s first fatal mountain lion attack on a person in about 20 years, statistics from California wildlife officials show. The Associated Press contributed reporting ..read more
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