Wildlife

INPA releases Red Book for Butterflies detailing extinction, endangerment threats

Dr. Dotan Rotem, an open space ecologist at the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, explained that "butterflies are excellent bioindicators of the health of the ecosystem."

|ByESTHER DAVIS
A Levantine Vernal Copper (Tomares nesimachus) butterfly
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reacts during a briefing during a visit to the Australian Government National Situation Room in Canberra, Australia, January 9, 2026.

Three people missing as bushfires destroy homes in Australia's southeast

Three people are unaccounted for as bushfires continue to devastate Victoria, Australia, with 30 active blazes and catastrophic fire conditions. Firefighters battle intense heat and winds.

|ByREUTERS
A white-tailed ptarmigan in a snowy meadow in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Colorado’s color-changing wildlife face new risks as snow vanishes

Four of them live in Colorado: snowshoe hares, white-tailed ptarmigan, short-tailed weasels and long-tailed weasels.

|ByJONATHAN SHIKES/THE DENVER POST/TNS
Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, Neptune Islands, South Australia, Indian Ocean.

Scientists warn great white sharks in danger of disappearing from Meditteranean

The Mediterranean white shark population is classified as Critically Endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

WATCH: Baby Kangaroo rescued from croc-infested floodwater in Australia

The baby kangaroo was rescued from crocodile-infested flood water in Queensland Australia

MARCH 13, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS
A joey looks out from its the pouch of its mother, Chuck the kangaroo, in her enclosure at a zoo in the western Siberian city of Barnaul March 29, 2014. The zoo bought Chuck in 2013, believing it to be male until staff observed the cub in its pouch this month, local media reported.

Israeli Border Police rescue deer being held illegally in captivity

The word for baby deer could also refer to a baby gazelle, which is an endangered species and highly protected.

MARCH 12, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A baby deer is seen being rescued by Israeli Border Police, on March 12, 2023.

Rare songbird spotted in Israel for second time ever

The black-faced bunting does not usually appear in Israel as it does not nest in the region. However, we could be seeing new migration patterns.

MARCH 6, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The rare black-faced bunting.

Biomass of humans and cattle dwarfs that of wild mammals

Wild land mammals weigh less than 10% of the combined weight of humans and are outweighed by cattle and other domesticated mammals by a factor of 30.

FEBRUARY 27, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Fallow Deer, Forest of Dean

The reproductive system of naked mole rats could help human fertility - study

Unlike humans and other mammals that become less fertile with age, naked mole rats never stop having babies.

FEBRUARY 22, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
A naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) female

Sea butterflies spotted in Eilat for first time in 29 years

Sea butterflies are not known to sting or harm humans.

FEBRUARY 6, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Sea butterflies.

Fireworks are damaging to wildlife, environment, pets, study finds

A study at Curtin University found that fireworks have bad ecological effects around the world.

FEBRUARY 1, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Fireworks display.

Leonardo DiCaprio names newly discovered snake species after special someone

The new species was discovered in the Panamanian jungle and exclusively eats snails and slugs.

JANUARY 30, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Leonardo DiCaprio

The North African Ostrich makes a comeback from near extinction

This sub-species of ostrich, also called 'red-necked ostrich', almost went extinct in the wild but was recently reintroduced in Israel.

JANUARY 23, 2023ByZIV REINSTEIN/WALLA!
Ostriches look at an egg inside an enclosure at an ostrich farm near the village of Kozishche, some 300 km (186 miles) southwest of Minsk, October 6, 2011.

Australian park rangers say 'Toadzilla' could be world's biggest toad

Dubbed "Toadzilla," the cane toad was spotted by "shocked" park ranger Kylee Gray during a patrol in Conway National Park in Queensland.

JANUARY 20, 2023ByREUTERS
Cane toad dubbed "Toadzilla" and believed by Australian park rangers to be the world's biggest toad is held by Queensland Department of Environment and Science Ranger Kylee Gray, in Conway National Park, Queensland, Australia January 12, 2023.