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      ‘Being so helpless is hard to describe’: can rescuers win the race against time to save an orphaned orca?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 12:19

    Experts are trying everything from drums to whale calls to lure kʷiisaḥiʔis – or Brave Little Hunter – out of the Canadian lagoon she has been trapped in since the stranding death of her mother

    As a two-year-old orca calf circled a lagoon off the west coast of Canada on Monday, she heard a comforting sound resonating through the unfamiliar place in which she found herself: the clicks and chirps of her great-aunt.

    But the calf, named kʷiisaḥiʔis (pronounced kwee-sahay-is, which roughly translates as Brave Little Hunter) by local First Nations people, could not locate another whale in the shallow waters. The calls, broadcast from speakers placed underwater, were part of a complex and desperate operation still under way to try to save the stranded calf.

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      ‘We’d like to shoot them all’: growing army of wolfdogs raises hackles across Europe

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 06:00

    Experts say the hybrids risk ‘polluting’ the genetic stock, but scientists disagree on how to deal with them. In Piedmont, Italy, the sight of a blond wolfdog signals the risk of another new litter

    • Photographs by Alberto Olivero

    From the moment the rangers first saw him on their trail cameras, the problem was apparent. The wolf, spotted deep in the woods of Italy’s Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park, was not grey like his companion, but an unusual blond. His colouring indicated this was not a wolf at all, but a hybrid wolfdog – the first to be seen so far into Piedmont’s alpine region. And where one hybrid is found, more are sure to follow.

    “We thought he would go away,” says Elisa Ramassa, a park ranger in Gran Bosco who has tracked the local wolves for 25 years. “Unfortunately, he found a female who loves blonds.”

    Elisa Ramassa and fellow ranger Massimo Rosso search for wolf tracks in Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park

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      From a graceful turn to a dangerous toy: the World Nature Photography awards 2024 – in pictures

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 03:04


    The World Nature Photography award winners have been announced from a pool of entries from all corners of the globe – including a baby elephant in Kenya and an owl-like plant in Thailand. The top award and cash prize of $1,000 went to Tracey Lund from the UK for her image of two gannets under the water off the coast of the Shetland Islands. Lund and her fellow winners were drawn from thousands of images

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      Brown bear that attacked five people shot dead, says Slovakian minister

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 16:24

    Drone used to identify animal that went on rampage in northern Slovakia this month, says Tomáš Taraba

    A brown bear has been killed by an armed patrol after drone technology identified it as the animal that injured five people during a rampage in a town in northern Slovakia this month, the country’s environment ministry has said.

    The environment minister, Tomáš Taraba, said the bear, which left a 49-year-old woman and a 72-year old man needing hospital treatment and three other victims including a 10-year-old girl with cuts and bruises, was shot dead late on Tuesday.

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      Is it a hedgehog – or a hat bobble? It can be surprisingly difficult to tell the difference

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 15:33


    A woman rushed a pompom to a wildlife hospital, thinking it was an injured baby hedgehog. These cases of mistaken identity happen more often than you might think …

    Name: Baby hedgehog.

    Age: Unknown.

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      Northumberland’s Farne Islands reopen to tourists after bird flu outbreak

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 12:19

    Boats had been barred from landing since July 2022 owing to virus, which has ravaged populations of seabirds

    The puffins started arriving two weeks ago – and now there are thousands of them fizzing around in a mad frenzy. They have joined kittiwakes, guillemots, razorbills, fulmars and shags. Soon Arctic terns will arrive after their epic journey across the world from the Antarctic.

    This week humans arrived after a two-year ban from the Farne Islands in Northumberland, one of the UK’s most important sanctuaries for breeding seabirds.

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      ‘Two brothers driven by nature’: family pays tribute to victims of cougar attack

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 10:00

    Taylen Brooks, 21, was mauled to death and his brother Wyatt suffered serious injuries in big cat attack in California woods

    Relatives of a 21-year-old man who was mauled to death by a mountain lion that also wounded his younger brother over the weekend in California are grateful that they didn’t lose both siblings – but they are also heartbroken that the rare attack tore apart a pair who shared a remarkably tight bond, according to a family statement.

    Before respectively dying and being badly injured in what was California’s first fatal cougar-on-person attack in two decades, Taylen Robert Claude Brooks and 18-year-old Wyatt Jay Charles Brooks were “close as any two brothers could be” and fought their animal assailant fiercely as they desperately attempted to save each other, their family and authorities said in an emotional statement released jointly.

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      Yorkshire estate known as world’s first nature reserve gets Grade II listing

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 06:00

    Eccentric Victorian owner of Waterton Park, near Wakefield, made pioneering decisions to protect wildlife

    A Yorkshire parkland regarded as the world’s first nature reserve – which was created by an eccentric pioneering 19th-century environmentalist – has been given a Grade II listing.

    Historic England said Waterton Park, near Wakefield , was the earliest known example of a landscape designed specifically to attract and protect native wildlife.

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      Lizard peninsula recovery project aims to save ‘microhabitats’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 06:00

    Natural England-backed scheme at most southerly tip of UK will nurture lichens, liverworts and wildflowers

    The landscape at the most southerly tip of mainland Britain is expansive and grand: rolling heath and grasslands, spectacular cliffs, crashing waves.

    But a recovery project funded by Natural England is focusing on unique and vital “microhabitats” found in sometimes overlooked spots on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall.

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