Paddleboarders in close brush with hammerhead shark off Florida coast
Gabriel Barajas and Malea Tribble thought ‘it was all over for us’ – but marine expert suggests shark was merely being ‘inquisitive’ A pair of...
Category : Wildlife
Massive strike pits African fishers against ‘superprofitable’ EU firms
About 2,000 crew members withdrew labour over pay and conditions, as well as citing serious breaches of overfishing rules by Spanish and French companies The...
Baby dead and 23 people missing after hippo collides with boat in Malawi
Police in Nsanje say canoe was carrying 37 people across the Shire River when incident took place A baby has died and 23 people are...
Avian flu outbreak in the Gambia threatens birds on East Atlantic Flyway
Hundreds of dead birds found in past three weeks as conservationists call for international funding to help stop the disease spreading on migration routes An...
Scientists discover pristine deep-sea Galápagos reef ‘teeming with life’
Diving to 600m, researchers find reefs full of octopus, lobster and fish, raising hopes for corals’ survival amid rising sea temperatures Scientists operating a submersible...
Calls for action on Colombia’s hippo scourge after animal dies in road crash
Dead creature was one of 150 descendants of four hippos imported by drug baron Pablo Escobar in 1980s Colombia has logged its first hippopotamus-caused road...
Snake on a plane forces South African pilot to make emergency landing
Rudolph Erasmus praised for ‘great airmanship’ after discovery of deadly cobra in cockpit of private plane A South African pilot was forced to make an...
World’s biggest single eradication operation aims to remove mice from island
Invasive house mice threaten endangered seabirds and wildlife on Marion Island in Indian Ocean Non-native house mice are to be removed from Marion Island in...
Parasitic fungus that infects and kills spiders discovered in Brazil
Exclusive: rare purple organism preys on trapdoor spider in behaviour reminiscent of its ‘zombie’ relatives that feature in apocalyptic TV show The Last of Us...
Florence and her cubs give hope that west African lion can come roaring back
National park in Senegal shows off three surprise new recruits in fight to save critically endangered species from extinction A lioness in one of the...
