by bpckle | Aug 16, 2026 | In the Media
Loggerhead turtles abound this season but rollback of Endangered Species Act protections could threaten future
Wildlife groups in Florida are celebrating record numbers of sea turtle nests this season, but experts warn Donald Trump’s recent gutting of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) could reverse decades of their recovery from the edge of extinction.
With more than two months of the summer nesting season still to run, loggerhead turtles have already made 13,770 nests, hundreds more than recorded in any previous year, along an 8.5-mile stretch of shoreline monitored by the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, on Florida’s Atlantic coast.
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by bpckle | Aug 16, 2026 | In the Media
Ahead of Fat Bear Week, avid fans are glued to the spectacle of brown bears devouring salmon at Brooks Falls in Alaska
One of this summer’s biggest onscreen hits has had big beasts, great escapes and choppy waters, but it’s not Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – it’s a livestream of Alaskan brown bears catching salmon.
The Brooks Falls bearcam at Katmai national park in the US was watched 7.3m times between 22 June and 4 August – up 70% from the same period last year and more than double the views it attracted in 2024.
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by bpckle | Aug 16, 2026 | In the Media
Leonie Aspin shares her wonder of nature and honours the memory of her partner by travelling from New Zealand to rural WA each year as the wildflowers bloom.
by bpckle | Aug 16, 2026 | In the Media
The Northern Territory is one of the last places in Australia still free of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, but experts say it’s only a matter of time before it arrives. Now they’re enlisting the help of local birdwatchers and conservationists to help slow its spread.
by bpckle | Aug 16, 2026 | In the Media
Marathon organisers across the United States are rethinking when they hold events due to warmer temperatures.
