A Virginia man has been sentenced after pleading guilty to killing multiple birds of prey, including a federally protected bald eagle. According to WTOP’s Kate Ryan, William Custis Smith of Hallwood used a banned neurotoxin to poison raptors near [...]

LEYNAR, FAROE ISLANDS – Sea Shepherd has confirmed the death toll from yesterday’s pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands (known as the Grindadráp, or “Grind”) has reached 246 individuals, far surpassing the whalers’ initial estimate of 100. Among [...]

At a zoo in Guatemala, an elephant intervened to save its fellow enclosure-mate in a startling interspecies display of kindness that delighted zoogoers. At the Aurora Zoo in Guatemala City, a gazelle fell into the watering hole inside its [...]

N.S. wildlife charity warns public of rise in donation scams --- A charitable wildlife rehabilitation organization in Seaforth, N.S., told the public it does not solicit donations or goods door-to-door in a Friday Facebook post. The founder of Hope for Wildlife told [...]

A dog named Zeus survived a harrowing attack by a hungry alligator in Florida, WFLA reported. Zeus’s family reported that their beloved pup became aroused by a noise in their yard on the night of June 2, so he [...]

Great Shark Snapshot meets Shark Week + Jaws --- UK-based charity the Shark Trust is always pleased to receive photo and video contributions from divers and snorkellers to reinforce its shark and ray database, but for the past three summer it [...]

A troubling scene has unfolded in Iraq’s Ibn Najm marsh, northeast of Najaf, where dead fish have been discovered in large numbers, floating lifeless on the water’s surface. According to Al Jazeera, Iraqi authorities have launched an urgent investigation [...]

Every winter, Australia’s “humpback highway” hums to life. Thousands of humpback whales migrate from Antarctic feeding grounds to tropical breeding areas along Australia’s east and west coasts. Dr Vanessa Pirotta, a Sydney-based whale scientist, says that peak “blubber to [...]

For the first time ever, Chinese biologists have successfully rescued, rehabilitated, and reintroduced a Yangtze finless porpoise back into the wild stretches of the great river. A critically-endangered species of cetacean, the family that includes dolphins, porpoises, and whales, [...]