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Latest Articles
How Belgian animal park Pairi Daiza is helping protect endangered orangutans
31+ min ago (594+ words) A leading Belgian animal park is playing its part in efforts to protect one of the world’s most endangered great apes. International Orangutan Day, marked annually on 19 August, aims to raise global awareness about the plight of orangutans and the…...
Biodiversity blitz in Greater Dandenong
10+ hour, 35+ min ago (30+ words) Dandenong Star Journal Biodiversity blitz in Greater Dandenong September is National Biodiversity Month and the perfect time to explore the great outdoors in Greater Dandenong....
Upland Bird Hunting Forecast
46+ min ago (87+ words) Outdoor Wire Upland Bird Hunting Forecast New this year, Montana upland game bird hunters have a 10-day head start on nonresident hunters. As a result of Senate Bill 514, passed during the 2025 legislative session, nonresident upland game bird hunters using private…...
How old are polar bears? Just when did these fearsome Arctic giants first appear?
2+ hour, 7+ min ago (179+ words) The oldest known polar bear fossils hail from Svalbard and northern Norway and are dated at 115,000–130,000 years old, before the beginning of the last Ice Age. But some biologists think that polar bears diverged from brown bears as early as…...
How did a native Chicago plant disappear forever?
52+ min ago (539+ words) Thismia americana was discovered in Chicago. It hasn’t been seen in over a century, but there’s a reason scientists remain hopeful....
SCI and Litigation Partners Defend Continued Delisting of Recovered Wolves in the Western U.S.
46+ min ago (241+ words) Building on over 20 years of support for science-based management, Safari Club International (SCI) and its litigation partners continue to defend the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decisions in federal court. For decades, the Service has sought to reduce or remove ESA…...
Australia inoculates little penguins from bird flu, triggering anti-vaccine misinformation
2+ hour, 12+ min ago (969+ words) "Not a single little penguin has been found to have 'bird flu'", reads an August 15, 2026, X post by Craig Kelly, a former MP with the centre-right Liberal Party who has previously shared vaccine misinformation debunked by AFP. His post included…...
Land Trust easement protects 38,000 acres in Southern West Virginia
50+ min ago (469+ words) The West Virginia Land Trust has completed what it terms “the largest corporate land conservation project in state history” by securing five permanent land conservation easements covering 38,000 acres of forest land in Monroe, Summers and Fayette counties and spilling into…...
Have your say on latest plans for Noctorum Ridge Conservation Area
1+ hour, 30+ min ago (346+ words) A second consultation on the proposed conservation area at Noctorum Ridge is now underway following extensive public feedback. The consultation could see Noctorum Ridge, which is known for its large mansion houses, become the latest conservation area in Wirral. Following…...
Outdoors with Coggin Heeringa: Dot by dot
52+ min ago (274+ words) From the first luminous notes of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park with George," we realize that the score is a kind of musical pointillism. Just as painter Georges Seurat built his famous masterpiece dot by dot, Sondheim and…...