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 Owl brought for recovery at the Agamon Wildlife Rehabilitation Center (AWRC) in Hula Lake - KKL, April 9, 2024.

Owl injured in evacuated northern town is nursed back to health by KKL-JNF

 An African elephant.

Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to 'roam free' in Germany

 wo male bighorn sheep grazing on Wild Horse Island in Montana.

Feds bust Montana man for super-sheep semen scheme

 Flinders University animal behavior lecturer Dr. Diane Colombelli-Négrel with a fairywren

Mother wrens bond with their young before chicks hatch - study

Tiger Quoll 2011

Endangered spotted-tail quoll captured after 130 years of disappearance

 A baby gopher tortoise.

Florida man arrested for possession of threatened tortoise

 Artibeus jamaicensis, the Jamaican fruit bat

How bats evolved to avoid cancer - study

Personnel of Ecuador's Galapagos National Park (PNG) and the Agency for the Regulation and Control of Biosecurity and Quarantine for Galapagos (ABG) take a sample from a bird after the PNG said that three birds had died of avian flu on Genovesa Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. September 18, 2023.

Three birds confirmed with bird flu on isolated Galapagos Islands

 A swarm of bees

5 million bees released after truck overturns on Toronto highway

 A wasp is seen carrying a cigarette butt in the Ramon crater.

Taking a puff: Wasp spotted holding cigarette in Israel's Mitzpe Ramon

By ZIV REINSTEIN/WALLA!
 A rare spotless giraffe born at Bright's Zoo is seen in Johnson City, Tennessee, US.

World's first spotless brown giraffe cub takes the world by storm

 Wildlife seen near the area of the Sha'ar HaShomron and the Nahal Raba quarry in Israel

New industrial zone threatens to destroy Israel's most vulnerable wildlife

A humpback whale breaches off in the coast of Ilhabela, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil July 22, 2023.

Brazilian citizen scientists see humpbacks return decades after mass killings

By REUTERS
 A colorful display of organic vegetables.

Is organic food good for health? Maybe, but it upsets flying mammals

 Giant Panda Ai Bao holds her baby panda with mouth after giving birth to twin at Everland amusement park in Yongin, South Korea, July 11, 2023.

Giant panda in South Korea gives birth to healthy twin cubs

 The Northern Snakehead, also known as a "Frankenfish"

Northern Snakehead 'frankenfish' terrorizes unsuspecting fishing fans

By Walla!
 Cook's Petrel, from New Zealand, is an endangered species and is one of the seabirds most at risk from plastic exposure. During its migrations it crosses the Pacific Ocean, and its wintering areas are severely affected by the “big garbage island” of the North Pacific.

Levels of microplastics in the Mediterranean a threat to wildlife

 A turtle

Turtle goes for a ride on a train in Washington DC