1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (791+ words) Scotland's nature agency has denied ignoring scientific evidence after refusing a licence for the killing of hundreds of young seabirds on a Hebridean island. NatureScot rejected the application this year for the annual Guga hunt on Sula Sgeir - an uninhabited…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (858+ words) A tiny snail found in only one lake in the UK has been dubbed as precious as an Egyptian artefact as conservationists bid to save it. Several British zoos are setting up so-called ark populations of the glutinous snail, one…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (471+ words) Groups of youths using catapults are "lamping" and killing sleeping parakeets in a south-east London park, an animal rescue worker has warned. Rae Gellel, director of the Greenwich Wildlife Network, said 43 ring-necked parakeets have been recovered dead from Priory Gardens…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (419+ words) A horse almost died after being fed dangerous foods by campers near a farm, prompting a warning friom the animal's owner. Julie Kershaw said people had been throwing unsuitable into into her field on the Syke Moors in Rochdale over…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (425+ words) A wildlife trust said some species had been spotted in nature reserves this summer for the first time in years. Volunteers for the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust recorded a great white egret near Ware and more than 300 Chalkhill blue…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (436+ words) A mounted head of an animal that was bought at auction has been officially verified as an extinct Tasmanian Tiger specimen. James Cranfield, a natural history collector from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, spent £62,600 buying the taxidermy earlier this month from Auctioneum, in…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (170+ words) A mob of meerkats have died after a network of their tunnels collapsed during "sudden heavy rain". Tropical Birdland in Desford, Leicestershire, confirmed on Monday one meerkat was rescued, but staff discovered the rest of the mob had died as…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (382+ words) A pregnant hedgehog died after being "kicked around like a football" in West Yorkshire, prompting an appeal from an animal rescue charity. Castleford Hedgehog Rescue said it had taken the hedgehog in on Friday night after the charity was told…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (192+ words) Animals at London Zoo are being checked and measured as part of its annual weigh-in day to monitor their health and wellbeing. Zookeepers will need to coax every bird, reptile, fish and mammal - from the largest rodents in the world…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (439+ words) A total of 21 white storks have been released into the wild as part of a charity's aim to reintroduce them in the county. Yan Swiderski, founder of the Cornwall Stork Project, released the storks from the project's base at Hamatethy,…...