Postcards of a Vanished Natural World

The fate of the Toolache Wallaby is probably one of the saddest things I've heard. The attractive and social marsupials were endemic...

Quick, name an extinct bird native to Mauritius. I imagine you're thinking of the dodo, possibly the most well known extinct bird there ...

If you have seen the news recently then no doubt you've seen headlines that scientists are on the verge of bringing back the woolly mamm...

Tomorrow marks 99 years since  a bird named Incas died in a Cincinnati Zoo. With his death ,the Caroline Parakeet, last spotted in the wil...

This is a sister blog to my postcards of a vanished world blog. This time I'll be concentrating on the natural world. There will be ...