Laura's Animals / Wildlife Blog

The UN recently launched a project to protect the migratory flyways of waterbirds throughout Africa and Eurasia. The project, Wings Over Wetlands, is the largest international conservation effort to date ... Read More

What's a Mammal? (NPR) — November 18, 2006. Photo © / .

More than 170,000 pairs of black-browed albatrosses breed on Steeple Jason Island in the Falkland Islands. Wildlife photographer Frans Lanting and ecologist Carl Safina have journeyed to the island to ... Read More

Three million barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) are under threat of losing valuable roosting habitat in South Africa. The barn swallows breed throughout Europe and migrate thousands of miles to South ... Read More

A WWF report released today details the devastating effects climate change will have on the world's bird populations. A shift in the annual timing of breeding and migration has already ... Read More

Tennesse is home to a vast network of over 8000 caves. These caves contain unique organisms that have adapted to the dark, nutrient poor environment of the underground world. Biologist ... Read More

Conservation is as important below ground as it is above ground. Underground ecosystems such as caves and groundwater systems are habitat for a wide variety of rare and endagnered animals. The ... Read More

The Philidelphia Zoo has announced plans to stop exhibiting elephants. The zoo's elephants will be sent either to the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore or to an elephant sanctuary in central ... Read More