THE animal world suffered a significant loss last week when Lonesome George, a giant tortoise, died at the ripe old age of 100. And sadly it looks like George was the last in a dying breed as experts believe he was the only survivor of his species. Giant tortoises used to be a common sight on the Galapagos Islands until the late 19th century when they were hunted for their meat to the point of extinction by sailors and fishermen.
...Even though it's now protected numbers are still nosediving. Greater Bamboo Lemur... of reports of sightings in Arkansas and Florida began to trickle in. If a population does exist, i...
CUSTOMS officers discovered more than 100 sea horses after opening a box marked "live tropical fish" at Stansted Airport. Inside they found two bags of cloudy water, one containing the thumbnail-sized creatures and the other containing 60 sea anemones.
... said the dwarf sea horses, which are a protected species, had been sent to the UK from Florida, whe...
...The creatures, a protected species, were sent from Florida, where they are fo...
SOME are as old as the pyramids. Others were fully grown in the Bronze Age. The yew trees of Wales include the oldest living thing in the country. It is in the grounds of St Digain's Church in the village of Llangernyw, halfway between Abergele and Llanrwst. Thought to be up to 4,000 years old, it could be older than the great pyramid of Giza.
..."These ancients survived, protected by churchyards and in our current dark time of glo... deforestation and the extinction of many species, the Great Yew Trail is a guide to some fantastic ...Dafydd Ap Gwilym's yew at Strata Florida Abbey in Ceredigion is believed by some to mark th...
It's Thursday, July 30, as we look out across the blue Atlantic from our top-floor hotel room window for the last time. Three days in Fort Lauderdale have passed quickly. We call for our car and say our farewells - they are a friendly bunch here and we'll remember this hotel with affection.
... (we're surrounded by 100,000 acres of protected wildlife reserve) and dinner, at Manny's Original ... a host of animals and more than 125 bird species. At the centre of the gardens is the 205ft Gothic ...
THE DYFI Valley today joins the ranks of world-famous sites including Mount Olympus in Greece and Ayers Rock in Australia as the first biosphere in Wales. Biosphere reserves are sites recognised by Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) which demonstrate successful approaches to conservation and sustainable development.
... Amazon in Brazil and the Everglades in Florida. But the Dyfi is the only one in Wales and only th... area for juvenile sea-bass and mullet species, and helps support other important migratory fish,..."It qualifies as a Special Protected Area (SPA) under the EU birds directive because th...
SO THERE'S nothing south of Miami but the muddy bays of the Everglades - and a few alligators, right? Wrong. Arcing out into the Gulf of Mexico like a flick of paint, the 45 islands that make up the Florida Keys offer as many thrills and spills per square mile as Disneyworld.
...Although urbanised, it has its own species of toy deer (the Key Deer), which stand 2ft high a...Now a protected national marine sanctuary, the island is an essent...
TIGER WOODS has been often referred to as a magician, but an ability to make himself disappear wasn't something we thought he possessed. Sure, there have been reports. Some say that he's holed- up in a sex addiction clinic in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. There's another suggestion that he's hiding in JP McManus's Sandy Lane complex in Barbados. A few stories last week had it that he's been seen playing golf in the dark in Windemere, Florida. Others insist that he's not left his yacht, Privacy. Yet more rumours say that, wherever he is, he's spending his days and nights trying to reach his wife, Elin, on the phone in an attempt to haul their marriage back from the precipice. Or the rocks below the precipice. Given that the entire media world is looking for him, it's extraordinary that ...
... outsider wondering why Woods is such a protected species and why others, like John Daly, are not. D...
In the darkness I can barely see my legs below me, never mind any black mambas or crocodiles. Changwe - my Zambian guide, and a bat- catcher extraordinaire - asks me to keep my headlamp switched off. My feet crunch into a deep leaf litter with every blind step, and occasionally I stumble over fallen logs or scratch my head on branches. Outside the forest, under the moonless sky, a dew is forming on the dry grass as sunrise approaches. The rains have been late again this year, but in Kasanka National Park the fruit is flourishing in abundance and attracting one of Africa's greatest and least observed wildlife spectacles: the arrival of the bats.
... Straw-coloured fruit bats are a migratory species living in large, conspicuous colonies on the edges..., a bat biologist from the University of Florida, first saw the nightly migrations when she was a P... they are the country's most highly protected mammal. It is illegal to intentionally kill, injur...
SPORT Who moved from Glasgow to St Andrews after just failing to get to Austria and Switzerland?
...It's a protected beach and he had to return it. 3. AL Kennedy. 4. D... Playboy Playmate was found dead in a Florida hotel room at the beginning of the year?. 7 Katie ... are all names for the same endangered species of sharks. 9. First the company replaced instant c...
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