In the turquoise waters off La Ventana, a sleepy coastal town on Mexico’s Baja peninsula, Claudio Rios, 41, monitored the radio of a fishing boat. It was late March. His eyes scanned the horizon, one hand loose on the wheel as the Sea of Cortez swayed beneath him. “It smells like orcas,” he said: pungent…
In the middle of a spring afternoon near Lowden-Miller State Forest, Daniel Skinner poured a small pile of dried, yellow corn onto the ground. Shouldering his .308 Remington rifle equipped with a thermal scope, he disappeared into a camouflaged ground blind in the middle of a cornfield. For eight hours, he waited for a white-tailed…
As Miriam Horn writes in her engaging, often lyrical account of his life, “Homesick for a World Unknown,” Schaller “transformed scientific practice,” achieving an extraordinary intimacy with his animal subjects by “assimilating to their rhythms and rules, endeavoring to see the universe through their eyes.” He also became a relentless advocate for conservation, fighting to…
Doug Allan, a cameraman whose skill at capturing candid scenes of penguins, bears, walruses and other animals that populate the earth’s polar extremes — both above and below the ice — earned him a brace of awards and the unbounded admiration of the renowned nature documentarian David Attenborough, who worked with him on many films,…
Scientists once thought it would take a century or more for animals to return to deforested land in the tropics. Now, new research has found ecosystems can recover in mere decades. “It’s been a huge surprise for all of us,” said Timo Metz, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, and first…
Shorouk Express Spanish police announced on Saturday they had raided a unlicensed animal sanctuary and rescued hundreds of exotic creatures including leopard tortoises, iguanas and geckos. The Civil Guard said the shelter was organised by an NGO that solicited donations on social networks to care for the animals. But the facility in Ávila province, west…
Shorouk Express Spanish police on Saturday said they made an arrest after finding 250 dead animals, mostly dogs, in a filthy warehouse that local media dubbed “the breeding ground of horror”. The Civil Guard said the illegal site in the northwestern village of Meson do Vento had “extremely poor” hygiene and animal welfare conditions, with…
Shorouk Express Do you live in the countryside in Spain and fancy having your own chickens, cows and/or sheep? Unfortunately, even this involves a degree of bureaucracy if you want to avoid possible fines. Like most things in Spain, things are not always as straightforward as they seem and always require a lot of bureaucracy…
Shorouk Express Another day, another wave of misguided sensationalist British newspaper headlines about the Spanish tourism sector. More specifically, outrage about new rules set to be implemented on the Balearic island of Mallorca that, according to several outlets, mean tourists will be “treated like animals”. The headlines, pushed by some English-language tabloids in Spain and…
By Ellen Welti, a group ecologist engaged on grassland bugs and vegetation. She is a part of the Nice Plains Science Program, based mostly within the prairies of north central Montana. She runs observational monitoring concentrating on grasshoppers, dung beetles, wolf spiders, plant composition, and plant biomass. Her analysis matters embrace the operate of bugs…
