USA, 101 Freeway: Major Los Angeles highway to undergo weeks of closures for wildlife crossing construction ~enviro Article 554 words 32 votes
Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across sixty mile stretch of rivers ~enviro pollution.water Article 719 words 47 votes
How to move a 1,000-pound rescued manatee (swimming isn’t an option) (gifted link) ~enviro conservation Article 1679 words 6 votes
With little enforcement or legal culpability, social media helps wildlife trafficking thrive in plain sight ~enviro Article 1766 words 16 votes
How to stop an Icelandic whale hunt – Elissa Phillips and Anahita Babaei on chaining themselves to the crow's nests of whaling vessels for thirty-three hours ~enviro Article 643 words 9 votes
When the great apes at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden broke free from their enclosure last winter, the keepers faced a terrible choice ~life work Article 7479 words 19 votes
Inside the world of guide dog dropouts (2019) ~life.pets Article 1690 words, published Nov 11 2019 26 votes
Colombia will try to control invasive hippo population through sterilization, transfer, euthanasia ~enviro Article 370 words 21 votes
The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species ~enviro Article 1376 words 9 votes
The impacts of BirdCast, an AI-powered bird migration tracker ~science biology Article 1453 words 10 votes
Nearly 400 primate skulls headed for US collectors seized in "staggering" discovery at French airport ~enviro Article 390 words 10 votes
Iceland allows whaling to resume – activists say that whales will still suffer agonising deaths despite new regulations and monitoring ~enviro Article 879 words 23 votes
The veery thrush will time its migrations months in advance to avoid dangerous storms in the Atlantic Ocean. How are these birds so attuned to the climate? ~science Article 910 words, published Jul 28 2023 14 votes
Dozens of reindeer have been killed for crossing into Russia, as Norway fixes Arctic fence to stop the Sámi herds crossing the border ~enviro Article 451 words 7 votes
North American bison slaughter left lasting impact on Indigenous peoples ~humanities.history Article 1183 words 31 votes
Finland, Europe's leading producer of fox fur, has begun slaughtering 120,000 foxes and mink to stem an outbreak of avian flu that has hit fur farms ~enviro Article 290 words 8 votes
Tokitae, the star of Miami Seaquarium, dies after half a century in captivity ~enviro conservation Article 608 words 32 votes
White-nose syndrome in bats was detected in Texas in February 2020. Scientists are only now understanding the population loss. ~science biology Article 1863 words 9 votes
East Africa port workers inspired to fight wildlife crime after “game-changing” WildAid campaign ~enviro conservation Article 492 words 9 votes
Campaign launched on Thursday to boycott the Faroe Islands over their highly controversial slaughter of pilot whales and dolphins ~enviro Link 38 votes
Iceland suspends whale hunt on animal welfare concerns until the end of August, likely bringing controversial practice to historic end ~enviro Link 19 votes
Controversial research project in Norway on whales' hearing suspended after a whale drowns ~science biology.marine Article 496 words 8 votes
Europe has lost over half a billion birds in forty years. The single biggest cause? Pesticides and fertilisers ~enviro pollution Article 1005 words 18 votes
The Faroe Islands' annual whale hunt has begun, sparking condemnation from animal rights groups – though it remains a complex cultural issue ~enviro Link 5 votes
Whale hunts have been branded inhumane by activists and authorities as Icelandic report finds they suffer a long and painful death ~enviro Article 690 words, published May 9 2023 12 votes
Walrus Freya killed by Norway gets Oslo sculpture – online campaign earlier raised $25,000 to make the statue ~arts Article 52 words 6 votes
What Denmark's dead hedgehogs tell us about their lives – and how we can help them ~enviro conservation Article 995 words 3 votes
World's oldest European hedgehog discovered in Denmark – posthumous discovery gives conservationists hope for the mammals' future preservation ~enviro conservation Article 753 words 4 votes
In Sweden reindeer herders say their animals are being affected by wind farms and other industry ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1415 words 4 votes
Neuralink is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths ~science Article 2392 words 7 votes
The Norwegians should not have killed Freya the walrus – if we valued the lives of animals, we would not simply exterminate the ones that inconvenience us ~enviro Article 1338 words 6 votes
Is Japan's whaling industry going under as demand sinks? ~enviro conservation Article 956 words, published Nov 7 2017 5 votes
Faroe Islands to provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500 animals after receiving widespread criticism ~enviro Article 38 words 4 votes
Over sixty pilot whales have been butchered alive in the Faroe Islands' first whale slaughter of the season ~enviro Article 811 words, published Jun 14 2022 2 votes
Finland, Sweden and Norway to cull wolf population – conservation groups appeal to EU to take action against slaughter they allege flouts rules ~enviro conservation Article 938 words 9 votes