It was in the wide, sun-baked open grasslands of South Africa’s Kruger National Park that death crept up. A poisoned elephant corpse, marinated in farm pesticides, was a killing ground for 123 vultures, nature’s cleanup crew par excellence. The tragedy, one of the deadliest poisonings in the park’s history, reveals a harrowing truth: poachers aren’t ...
Wildlife rescue teams across the world are stretched thin, racing against heat waves, oil spills, vehicle strikes, and expanding urban edges. Yet a steady stream of volunteers keeps showing up, hauling crates at midnight and bottle-feeding patients at dawn. What draws certain people to this demanding work, and why do some seem wired for it? ...
In wildlife clinics and shelter back rooms, recovery often looks like quiet patience: a fox curled in a towel-lined crate, a hawk perched on a makeshift rail, a beaver nosing a puzzle feeder. The surprising twist is that many of the tools speeding those recoveries are not high-tech devices but quick builds you could make ...
