After eight years of planning, Australia’s Royal National Park will have a population of platypus for the first time in 50 years.

The shooting death of the grizzly bear comes at a sensitive time as the government recently proposed delisting them as an endangered species.

If you ever spend significant time in England, or are visiting for the coronation, you might notice that bringing up the subject of swans will almost inevitably inspire one of the following two responses: “Swans will break your arm, you know,” or “Did you know the Queen [or King] owns them?” It’s true. When Charles, [...]

It’s been 53 years since the very first Earth Day in 1970. Since then, we’ve seen impressive feats, such as the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the creation of the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and the Endangered Species Act.  To celebrate Earth Day, we collected 10 interesting and amazing facts [...]

In the Scottish Highlands, you can find a unique landscape: Caledonian pinewoods that are direct descendants of trees dating all the way back to the last ice age, but these forests are in grave danger. The main culprit? Deer. The solution? It’s complicated. A new study published by Trees for Life, which is working to regenerate [...]

The United States government has launched an initiative to protect wildlife sanctity. This pilot program will install corridors for animals along busy roads. State and local governments, as well as several Native American tribes are set to use $350 million from the infrastructure fund to construct these corridors. Wildlife signs will be installed to notify [...]

An Australian man has been charged with kidnapping a platypus and showing it off around town. The 26-year-old, whose name has not been released, is accused of capturing a platypus in the state of Queensland, taking it on a train in Brisbane, and then toting it around a shopping center to show it off. “According [...]

Earlier this year, researchers in the Bahamas wanted to get a better look at the ocean floor—and decided the best way to do that was to strap cameras to a bunch of sharks.  At the time, the scientists were looking for new patches of seagrass, a type of ocean vegetation that many species rely on [...]

What makes an animal worth saving? Are certain species more deserving of protection just because we find them cute? That’s the question posed by a new bill that’s currently making its way through Congress. Called the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, the legislation would provide funding to animals most in need of conservation—not just the ones [...]

There’s been a lot of public lands news in the media this week, but the latest announcement deserves some special attention. Last Thursday, the Biden administration proposed a new rule that could change the way the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) stewards its 245 million acres of land. If approved, the rule could change the [...]