Beavers return to Scotland after 400 years

Beavers have been reintroduced into the wild in Argyll, Scotland, after 400 years of being absent. Eleven beavers are part of a reintroduction program brought from Norway to study whether beavers can survive again...

Rare cheetah caught on camera and rare crab sighted in Britain

An incredibly rare cheeta has been photographed in the Algerian Sahara by scientists from the Zoological Society of London, while over in Britain, an incredibly rare crab has been sighted for the third time in...

Eco credit crunch Earth, 2030 two planets needed to keep up life

Eco credit crunch 2030 The financial crisis should be a warning to us. If we continue to live on the Earth Ecological credit, we need 2030 the equivalent of 2 planet resources to keep up our lifestyle. The way out...

Zoo Animals Try Online Dating

A koala bear in Australia, Killarney, is moving into the Web 2.0 age, and trying her hand at some online dating."Undaunted, Killarney's friends keep updating her online profile in the hope of finding her Mr....

Golden retriever adopts tiger cubs at Kansas zoo

My last animal post was about a pitbull attacking a boy. I would like to redeem myself and post on a positive animal story.This story reminds me of The Lion King when Simba wandered off and Timone and Pumba had to...

Heartbreak over cub confiscation

A tribal man in India rescued an abandoned bear cub for his daughter to help her overcome her mother's death, but has now had the cub taken away from him by forestry officials because he is breaking the...

Up to 1/3 of World's Wildlife Wiped Out Since 1970

These statistics are almost impossible to believe. We've lost more than a quarter, and possibly up to a third, of the world's wildlife in the past 40 years alone. At a current extinction rate of 1% per year, that...

London Zoo celebrates its 180th birthday

I remember my first trip to London Zoo.I was about 9 and  my mum promised my brother and I she would take us one day when we were off school. So when that day finally came, I was so excited. I had never seen...

New bird species found in Togian islands

"Bogor (ANTARA News) - A new bird species named Kacamata Togian or Togian white-eye (Zosterops somadikartai) has been discovered in the Togian Islands, Gulf of Tomini in Central Sulawesi, a University of Indonesia...

Prince Akishino visits LIPI zoological museum

""As a zoologist, the prince is so keenly interested in the collection of animals, especially fishes and birds, especially free-range chickens. He spent some time in the DNA lab of our chickens, trying to...

Coelacanths Surfacing: Zanzibar Fishermen Catch Dino-Fish

Off the coast of Tanzania, fisherman have landed a coelacanth, just the latest in a string of ever-more-frequent encounters with these holdouts of oceans past."Fishermen in Zanzibar have caught a coelacanth, an...

Queen of the Jungle

SINGAPORE (Digital Dementia News Services) – The Singapore Zoological Society has filed a lawsuit against the San Francisco Zoo alleging the sale of damaged goods and fraudulent misrepresentation.   At...

Beauty Sleep

"Unmindful of visitors strolling past, this rhinoceros was merrily snoring away enjoying his beauty sleep. Unlike other zoos, the Nehru Zoological Park at Hyderabad we visited last weekend had several positives; Expansive, unartificial containing healthy animals that were...

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