The other side of human behavior towards beavers:
A video of Treat Day at the Something Wild beaver rescue center in Mississippi.
Worth watching for the sounds they make when happy and surprisingly good table manners—and it has a lovely ending.
https://t.co/3PNT6VgHlR
Look how they treat their hounds
After they’ve run for these monsters hour after hour.
This is in public—they don’t care—the cruelty is shameless.
A complete ban on hunting with dogs is way overdue @andyburnham this has no place in a civilized country.
Yet again, a suspended sentence for an animal abuser 😡
CONVICTED | He Chased, Beat And Stamped On Defenceless Ducks While His Friends Laughed — Then Posted It On Snapchat
Owen Rayner, 20, of Staincross, Barnsley, chased three Mallard ducks around a lakeside, struck them repeatedly with a large stick and stamped on at least three of them as they desperately tried to flee. Two older teenagers watched and laughed as it happened. Rayner filmed it and posted it on Snapchat.
RSPCA Inspector Keith Hogben — a man with 27 years of experience — described it as one of the worst deliberate acts of cruelty on innocent defenceless animals he had ever witnessed. He said the fact those involved were laughing as they carried out the attack showed how little respect they had for living creatures.
Rayner admitted an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 for intentionally killing or causing injury to three ducks. The court heard the attack was deliberate, prolonged and carried out purely for amusement.
He was sentenced to an 18-week suspended prison sentence, 150 hours unpaid work and over £500 in fines and costs.
Ducks feel pain and fear just like any other living creature. They were chased, beaten and stamped on for entertainment.
And once again — no prison time. 😡😡
Credit: UK Crime Watch.
@DrTOMontgomery My heart is breaking for these beautiful beings so cruelly targeted by mindless thugs many just children and I despair of what this country and world is becoming and a deep sadness for how the beauty and wonder of the natural world is disrespected and ignored.
This is the second report I've read this week of swans being brutally attacked in Britain.
Swans raise their young with enormous care and teach them well. This sickening behavior makes me wonder if parents, schools and the wider community are raising children well enough.
Nowhere safe to go
The slow loris clings helplessly to a powerline
As the forest burns
And their future dies
Sunda slow lorises are endangered due not only to destruction of their habitat but also to the pet trade—many suffering brutal tooth extraction and short lives of misery.
They are nocturnal and arboreal and completely unsuitable as pets.
🎥: Emily Thompson. Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Time to say goodbye:
This is a Cerulean paradise flycatcher, one of the rarest birds in the world.
For more than a century it was believed to be extinct—known only from a single specimen collected in 1873—until one was found in the last fragments of its ruined forest in the 1990s.
The few found since live only on the island of Sangihe, Indonesia, where the Baru Gold Corp has finally obtained permission to mine the island.
On September 8, 2026, the CEO, Terry Filbert, issued this statement: "Baru’s team of mining and finance professionals boasts extensive experience in starting and operating gold and coal assets. Baru is positioned to become Indonesia’s next gold producer."
The locals have fought this for years, fearing for their settlements and water supplies, but they and this beautiful and unique little bird don't matter to the Indonesian government as it continues its large-scale environmental destruction.
Before you kill the last of us
It won’t fix the droughts
The cheap imports of mystery meat
The fool in the White House
Or any of what's happened
It just means a pointless extinction
To appease the angry cattlemen
We hope you'll remember this
Before we go.
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The first confirmed dolphin death from H5 bird flu in Australia.
It's a dreadful way to die. The virus is often predominately found within the brain causing meningoencephalitis, and we've seen dolphins at sea displaying distressing neurological signs including circling, inability to right themselves, and subsequent drowning.
https://t.co/ImGmlLRok7
Fifty tourists surround an endangered whale shark.
It's all day, every day, swarming, touching, disturbing—who cares about the impact—preventing feeding, proven stress and increasing boat strikes.
Report from a dive instructor in 🧵