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24/08/2024

https://whitleyaward.org/2024/05/02/cameroons-aristide-kamla-wins-2024-whitley-award-for-pioneering-work-to-save-african-manatee-habitat-from-invasive-species/

UK charity the Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) recognises Aristide Kamla from Cameroon with a Whitley Award for his landmark work to restore the habitat of the African manatee in Lake Ossa.

22/04/2024

Happy Earth Day, Everybody!

16/01/2024

Right now, is considering letting a pesticide that's lethal to bees back onto fields - despite the Gov's own scientists saying it should stay banned. Want him to make the right decision and protect bees? Add your name:

02/12/2023

Thanks to Greg Collins, we can recollect his share from precisely 11 years ago. Here comes a tiny crab and his anemone again, courtesy of Shutterstock and somewhere in SE Asia! (Earth Times)

25/09/2023

It's the dumbo octopus again (rare though it is!) The many Grimpoteuthis species represent only very few sightings at the depths where they live. Credit the remote vehicle of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (in Hawaii and IFL Science/Earth Times.

Spooky season is almost upon us, and it seems like this Dumbo Octopus was getting in the mood by reflecting light from our technology. Looking appropriately ...

15/09/2023

The squid, Grimalditeuthis bonplandi, was only discovered in 2005, and has now been established as a worldwide member of the benthic community. Here is is deep below the Galapagos, but is of Least Concern. Congrats. and credit to Schmidt Ocean Institute/ The Guardian's Week in Wildlife/ Earth Times.

12/09/2023

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09/09/2023

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31/08/2023

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is on us again, with some distressing shots. This one is natural, with a snow leopard catching an unusual and equally-rare prey - a Near-Threatened Pallass' cat, Otocolobus manul. Credit to Donglin Zhou/the Wildlife Photographer of the Years' 59th competition and The Guardian/Earth Times.

25/08/2023

In South America, as elsewhere, the illegal trafficking of organisms is rife. This is one of the 3 Colombian varieties of Ramphastos ambiguus, the colourful, but Near-Threatened yellow-throated toucan. Photographed back in safe hands at La Reserva Bio Park in Colombia, with credits to The Guardian's Week in Wildlife/Anadolu Agency/ Earth Times.

24/08/2023

21/08/2023

Not up to his usual standard, but she is one of a disappearing generation. The female common blues, Polyommatus icarus, have reached to the sun, but their males are all dead and the egg-laying is almost done, today, at Hawthorn Dene in Durham County, by our old, old friend, JW. Dowey/ Earth Times.

09/08/2023

In India, the Nature in Focus Festival has produced a number of remarkable shots, including this interspecific action. Our closest relative, the bonobo (Pan paniscus) has a habit of collecting pets, along with several other primates. The mongoose pup was not for eating while the photographer was Christian Ziegler/2023 Nature inFocus Photography Awards/ The Guardian/ Earth Times.