European Wildlife

Wildlife’s winners and losers of 2021 – and how extreme weather set the tone — Natural History Wanderings

The BBC reports Wildlife across the UK is increasingly suffering the impacts of extreme weather events and natural disasters, says the National Trust as it publishes its annual reckoning of UK wildlife “winners and losers”. The conservation charity also warns some of the landscapes it cares for are being altered forever as climate change makes some forms […]

Wildlife’s winners and losers of 2021 – and how extreme weather set the tone — Natural History Wanderings
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An unlikely wildlife rebound in Chernobyl — Natural History Wanderings

Anthropocene magazine reports Chernobyl Exclusion Zone now boasts large mammal populations on par with those of other protected areas in the region. Read story at  An unlikely wildlife rebound in Chernobyl

An unlikely wildlife rebound in Chernobyl — Natural History Wanderings
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European Swift — biodiversitynews.org

European common swifts winter in central and southern Africa before migrating north in spring Swifts are even more swift than scientists thought, with new tracking technology showing the migrating birds cover an average of 570 kilometres (354 miles) per day, 70 kilometres more than previously estimated. New tracking data also recorded one individual travelling 830 […]

Weekly round-up: May 23 — biodiversitynews.org
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Swedish, Finnish and Russian wolves, new research

This 2015 video is called Return of the European Wolf. From Uppsala University in Sweden: Swedish, Finnish and Russian wolves closely related November 10, 2020 The Scandinavian wolf originally came from Finland and Russia, and unlike many other European wolf populations its genetic constitution is virtually free from dog admixture. In addition, individuals have migrated […]

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