Invasive Species
A tiny beetle and its deadly fungus is threatening South Africa's trees
South Africa's economic hub has a new, unwelcome resident: a tiny beetle that could lay waste to several tree species found in the suburb and...
one year ago
Invasive Species
As albatross nesting season begins on Midway Atoll, all eyes are on the house mice
In recent years, a bizarre new threat has emerged for the globally outstanding albatross colonies of Hawaii's Midway Atoll: predatory house mice.
2 years ago
Invasive Species
New study: Cats kill more than a million Australian birds every day
You read that right.
2 years ago
Invasive Species
Guam's forests are being slowly killed off – by a snake
Perhaps no other place in the world has experienced such dramatic forest loss as a result of an invasive species.
2 years ago
Poaching
Over a million birds killed on Cyprus for local delicacy
Songbirds on Cyprus are being poached in record numbers.
2 years ago
Endangered
Saving Australia's unique migratory parrot
For Australia's swift parrots, a dire extinction prediction kickstarted an amazing conservation campaign.
2 years ago
Invasive Species
Huge invasive python kills alligator in Florida preserve
The state's invasive snakes continue to make a big splash in their adopted ecosystem.
2 years ago
Conservation
A tiny wasp could save Christmas Island's spectacular red crabs from crazy ants
Have you heard the one about the wasp that kills the bug that feeds the ants that kill the crabs that keep the forests healthy on Christmas Island?
2 years ago
Invasive Species
Eavesdropping on a dangerous beetle in Hawaii
A bug with a worrying destruction record is eating its way into Hawaii.
2 years ago
Invasive Species
Raccoon dog makes a cameo on 'badger cam' in Estonia (VIDEO)
This masked bandit might look familiar, but it's no raccoon!
3 years ago
This colony of the world's tiniest penguins has its own sheepdog guardians
Thanks to a team of maremma sheepdogs, a colony of the world's smallest penguins has been brought back from the brink – a success story that's now...
4 years ago
Uncovering the painful secrets behind the fire ant's burn
Eric Keller is a computer animator by day and a bug nerd by night. But he's found a way to combine his two passions by using his CGI skills to explore...
4 years ago
Rare footage of a Caribbean grouper hunting invasive lionfish
This video showing a Nassau grouper stalking and killing a lionfish in the Cayman Islands might be the best news Caribbean reefs have seen in a while....
4 years ago
Python invasion? Civilian 'python patrols' are probably not the solution
Wildlife officials in Florida, the land of invasive species, have a new plan for controlling the state's Burmese python invasion: civilian python...
4 years ago
Dealing with Pablo Escobar's fugitive hippos … one snip at a time
What does infamous drug baron Pablo Escobar have to do with a hippo invasion in the Colombian countryside? Quite a bit actually. And now the country's...
4 years ago
