This school year the teachers are in trouble– and the first bell hasn’t even rung! Canadian news is buzzing with warnings that many teachers using live organisms as teaching tools are wrongly disposing of their subjects afterward (read: letting them go outside) and that “many of the most popular species including [...]

Local officials in Western Australia are considering ending the ban on the killing of great white sharks. This comes after five swimmers were killed by the fish in the past 12 months. The Guardian quotes state minister of fisheries, Norman Moore, in the wake of the latest fatal attack in [...]

Royal Bengal tigers have faced decades of danger. They’ve been under threat from habitat destruction and the illegal trade of body parts. But these tiger cubs are now facing a new danger: Poachers. In a Dhaka zoo, Reuters reports that three frail tiger cubs are lying there in an iron [...]

As the fall hunting season approaches, wolves in the lower 48 face an uncertain future. More than 10,200 wolf hunting applications have already been submitted in Wisconsin, where the state will issue by lottery 2,000 licenses to effectively decimate its wolf population. The limit this hunting season, running from Oct. [...]

Just when you think you can’t stomach reading any more news stories and are getting ready to board up your windows and brace yourself for the coming storm, a guy like Don MacKenzie reminds us that the human spirit still shines bright out of the chaos of a violent world. [...]

If California’s fisher population, a rare, old-growth forest carnivore that looks something like its weasel cousin, had been allowed to vote in our 2010 elections, it almost certainly would have tipped the balance in favor of legalizing marijuana in the state. Researchers at UC Davis found a potent rodenticide used [...]

As a human mother, I can only celebrate the fact that my species has been so successful at feeding its children and keeping them alive to enjoy the beauty of this world and the wonder of Life itself. As a Mother, my heart breaks for the millions of other species’ [...]

Twitter was all a-twitter (groan!) the other day when this photo turned up of a great white trailing after a man in a single person kayak in Cape Cod. (Huffington Post) Sharks are more awesome than some people give them credit for, and I don’t mean as soup. Despite the [...]

Do you ever find yourself wondering, “What is the oldest living thing?” Is it an animal or plant; creature of the land or beast of the sea? Well read this post and you’ll wonder no more – you may even discover the secret to eternal life! Oldest Person (122 years) Unsurprisingly, [...]

Deer are beautiful and gentle creatures and it can be a delight to see them in the wild. However, if you are trying to grow your own fruit and vegetables in a garden and deer keep wandering in and eating all of your hard work, they can be seen as [...]