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Photographs released from a Tanzanian wildlife area show a leopard cub suckling on a lioness. Yes, you have read that right. An incredibly rare sight: A 5-year-old lioness, fitted with a GPS collar so that researchers can track her, feeds a leopard cub in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania. Photo: Joop van der Linde/Ndutu Safari Lodge via AP The photographs were take

Published right before International Tiger Day (in the Year of the Tiger), a surprise report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimates that the population of tigers has increased by 40% since 2015, and is now anywhere between 3,726 to 5,578 worldwide. This means that there are more tigers than we previously knew about – a result of monitoring improvements. Accord

Babies need care and compassion if they want to thrive. This is true of both humans and animals; we all need our families to comfort us and help us grow. Unfortunately, sometimes we are separated from our mothers. That is what happened to a baby elephant named Dok Geaw. He is one year and nine months old, and until recently he was completely alone. This little guy was rescued and brought back

Staff at a South African reserve found the bloodied head and limbs of at least two poachers who broke in to hunt rhinos. The suspected poachers strayed into a large pride of lions, the owner of the reserve said. Photo: RayMuzyka Over the last few years, the Sibuya Game Reserve near the town of Kenton-on-Sea in south-eastern South Africa has faced several acts of intrusion by poa

In Russia’s Rostov region, a cat called Murka became the mother of five hoglets whose mother recently died in an accident. Murka feeds five hedgehogs and a kitten. Photo: Ekaterina Semenova Murka’s owner, Ekaterina Semenova, told the correspondent of KP – Rostov-on-Don about the big heart of an ordinary cat. According to her account, about three weeks ago workers were mow

Hikers walking through a canyon in Lake Powell between Arizona and Utah stumbled upon a rare sight. A swimming owl. Owls are not known for swimming in water, so when the hikers saw the birdie doing just that, they were flabbergasted to say the least. As confirmed by National Geographic, on the rare occasion when owls do get to swim, it’s never by choice. Beside the fact that their fea

National Geographic magazine has just launched an informative and shockingly revealing campaign called Planet or Plastic? and it is something that we all need to see and learn from. Many of us are aware that there is far too much of plastic waste in our environment. We all feel a little guilty when throwing yet another single-use plastic wrapping straight into the trash, knowing that we are co