From elderly elephants to ice-loving beetles, the pick of this week's images from the natural world

There's an email currently circulating around that features a wolf shot in the Drayton Valley area in Alberta, Canada. There's no doubting that if the photograph is real, it could be one of the biggest on record, though an official weight has yet to be

For longtime vegan Karen Dawn, eating turkeys on Thanksgiving isn't an option. So last year, Dawn started a new tradition, inviting live turkeys into her Pacific Palisades home to celebrate the holiday along with her human guests. She adopted two turkeys

Shortly after the book's release, independent bookstore owner Don Muller (himself an Alaska resident, but decidedly opposed to Palin's often controversial positions on that state's wildlife management) decided that he'd donate the profits from

Tell Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) it is cruel to use two Greyhounds as mascots.

Many thanks for your impressive support! More than 16,500 people joined our appeal to Baxter. With your assistance it was possible to stop the transfer of the long-suffering former laboratory apes to a zoo in Hungary.

Once again, if you're an activist for anything or anyone in an area that challenges the status quo, it's time to be nervous, angry, and loud about what's happening in this country. A little over a week ago, I briefly told you about the two Minneapolis

Now a focus on wildlife is part of the greener, leaner, more nature-friendly zeitgeist. Who can imagine a gardener starting out today who wants to be anything other than organic and wildlife-friendly? As a survey in December's issue of Gardeners' World

One of the world's most endangered marine mammals is getting some help from a small group of eastern Canadian fishermen who are trying to reduce a major threat to the animals by controlling the amount of lethal fishing line in the water

Shropshire Wildlife Trust is delighted to announce that its plans to buy 527 acres at Catherton Common in the Clee Hills have become a reality as the purchase reached completion on Friday 20 November