“I was just stunned …” When retired animal rescuer Susan Hicks heard a sudden crash from inside her home, her first thought was that something terrible had happened. She hurried…
“I was shocked.” Recently, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Long Island, New York, noticed a surprise visitor: a fluffy cat hiding beneath one of their delivery trucks. For weeks,…
“That’s the kind of dog he is.” When Jill Dyché, executive director of the Los Angeles–based rescue Outta the Cage, learned that one of their pups, Milo, had just lost…
In May, nature photographer and ornithologist Tomasz Sczansny was walking through Poland’s Upper Silesia region when he heard something unexpected: the sharp territorial call of a male Eurasian scops owl.…
A couple in Fife have transformed their home into a hedgehog hospital, rescuing and rehabilitating hundreds of the spiky mammals in need. Sharon and Andy Longhurst run the Burntisland Hedgehog…
The hybrid bird is the product of two species whose habitat ranges began to overlap a few decades ago, potentially due to climate change, researchers said. For the first time,…
From the BBC comes the story of a dedicated scientist who has spent decades in China’s mountain forests to protect one of the nation’s most extraordinary animals. The golden snub-nosed…
This is a saltmarsh sparrow, an Endangered bird that nests in coastal salt marshes. At Jacob’s Point salt marsh in Rhode Island, a group of citizen scientists is working to…
Conservationists and zookeepers are celebrating the birth of a healthy baby bonobo, our closest living relative. Heartwarming photos show Yuli, the bonobo mother, cradling her newborn at Twycross Zoo in…
A wandering elk that captured hearts across Central Europe has been safely captured in Austria and released near the Czech border. The young male, nicknamed Emil, was tranquilised on Monday…