Wildlife
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Dozens of volunteers form a barrier in Golden Bay in an effort to prevent more whales from stranding themselves after hundreds died there on Thursday night
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Urgent plea issued for locals to drop work and school commitments and head to the remote beach to save surviving whales
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Experts say decline to coverage of only 7.19 acres of forest could be due to late winter storms last year that knocked down more than 100 acres of trees
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Elephant conservation Ivory is not beautiful, it’s barbaric
Nicky CampbellI grew up with a piano in my bedroom, but now the thought of ivory fills me with revulsion. The UK needs to impose a total ban on the trade of elephant tusks
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A 1.5m-long carpet python manages to regurgitate an entire tennis ball after it was found swollen in a residential yard
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Company founder has urged Utah governor to stop trying to undo the decision by former president Obama to create the Bears Ears National Monument
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Letters: We ask people to create 13cm square gaps in the bottom of their boundary fences and walls to join up usable habitat
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Elephant conservation 如果你是一头大象……
Charles Foster/作者: 查尔斯.福斯特拥有超乎人类理解范围的敏锐感官、清晰的“自我”意识、严格的母系社会……大象的世界看起来比人类的精彩得多!《化身为兽》的作者写道。(翻译:金艳/chinadialogue) -
The dorado catfish travels 11,600km from the Andes to the mouth of the Amazon and back, but is threatened by dams and mining
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Granddad, originally from Australia, was in his mid-90s when he began suffering from organ failure
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Weatherwatch Their numbers vary enormously from year to year, but warmer weather will provide wasps with more favourable conditions
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More than half of people surveyed had never seen a hedgehog, once common in UK gardens
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Country diary: Kinder Scout, Peak District Walking along the western escarpment, it feels like the land has been brushed by exoticism
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Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 9 February 1917: On the snow now lies a line of footprints – the ‘seals’ of an otter
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Explorer Benedict Allen and Frank Gardner hop in a dugout canoe to chase rare birds – and revisit old haunts – in Papua New Guinea
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Northumberland nature reserve community at odds over application to import six of the mammals from Sweden
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An otter family, a diving kingfisher and the Amazon coral reef are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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Charity calls for tougher legislation to prevent shooting, poisoning andtrapping of birds such as peregrine falcons, red kites, buzzards and hen harriers
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Zakynthos has some fascinating wildlife, but the Greek island’s biggest stars, its loggerhead turtles, are dying out – partly because of their popularity
Country diary With a head-pumping strut, the cattle egret struts around the cows