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...
Category : Wildlife
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...
Canadian minister calls for emergency order to save country’s last spotted owls
Steven Guilbeault wants to block logging of critical old-growth forest to prevent owls from going extinct in British Columbia Canada’s environment minister plans to use...
Bird flu: 11-year-old girl in Cambodia dies after being infected
Case is the country’s first known human infection with H5N1 strain since 2014, health minister says An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died after being...
Human activity and drought ‘degrading more than a third of Amazon rainforest’
Fires, land conversion, logging and water shortages have weakened resilience of 2.5m sq km of forest, says study Human activity and drought may have degraded...
Sint Maarten approves plan to cull entire population of vervet monkeys
The Caribbean territory plans to exterminate at least 450 of the invasive primates – but critics disagree with the proposal The government of Sint Maarten...
Kenya declares war on millions of birds after they raid crops
Toxic pesticides used to eradicate grain-eating quelea may harm the country’s endangered raptors, say conservationists A drive by the Kenyan government to kill up to...
