This video addresses some of the issues facing horses that are slaughtered in Canada and whose meat is sold overseas primarily in Europe and Japan. This is the first in a series of videos on slaughter and why there are horses that end up in slaughter.

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

Ecologists have at last worked out a way of using recordings of birdsong to accurately measure the size of bird populations. This is the first time sound recordings from a microphone array have been translated into accurate estimates of bird species'

Note: This is twice as long as it should be. And at times awfully mushy. Sorry. But it's what came out. And although I usually include the image attribution at the end of the post, this time I want to be sure to give credit and thanks right here at the

Wolves could soon be making a return to Washington state, including the Olympic National Park peninsula... and not just on the silver screen.

Spare a dollar and help send a poor child from a squatter village in Manila, Philippines to school. Your $1 will go a long way. Bundles of Joy is working with an Elementary School in Manila to keep kids off the streets. The school provides uniforms,

Intimate images of the struggle to raise offspring.

Hitching a ride on a Beluga whale's back, a daring diver glides through the icy waters of the Arctic.

Why do hammerhead sharks have such a famously strange-shaped head? One hypothesis is that having eyes on either side of such a wide 'hammer' allows the sharks to see better.

These adorable orphaned babies compared the meerkat - and decided that the cuddly toy version was just like their dead mother