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Gotta go fast: Ostrich on a side quest: runaway big bird sprints on Thai highway
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (326+ words) A pet ostrich went for a speedy jaunt down a busy Thai highway on Tuesday, before being returned safe and sound to its enclosure at an animal-themed cafe. The six-month-old male ostrich raced along a three-lane highway in Thailand's coastal…...
From tiny cages to forest home: Cargolux completes journey as six rescued bile bears reach Denmark
21+ hour, 59+ min ago (279+ words) With the help of Cargolux, six rescued bears have safely arrived at their new home in Denmark. This was not the first time the Luxembourg-based cargo airline has assisted in a bear rescue mission, but it marked the first relocation…...
Children for conservation: Luxembourg pupils launch mission to help save hedgehogs
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (377+ words) Seven-year-old Sienna, a Year 2 pupil at the International School Michel Lucius, recently sent a letter to RTL with a simple request: help spread the word that Luxembourg's hedgehogs need protecting. The project began after the class read The Hodgeheg, a…...
Heat stress, water shortages: Luxembourg's wildlife suffering through heatwave
1+ week, 1+ day ago (281+ words) With temperatures forecast to go up to 40 C by the end of the week, our four-legged friends are struggling " in animal shelters and at the wildlife station. It is currently high season for wildlife, explains adminstrative director Georg Xander: "In…...
From birds to fish, how extreme heat causes wildlife to suffer
2+ week, 17+ hour ago (618+ words) Like humans, wildlife is increasingly vulnerable as climate change fuels longer and more intense heatwaves, disrupting feeding and breeding, and in extreme cases proving fatal. The human toll of heatwaves is well documented but their'ecological impacts have received less attention....
Indonesia to capture last-known wild Bornean rhino for IVF
2+ week, 1+ day ago (440+ words) Indonesia's government is racing to capture the last-known Bornean rhino in the wild in a bid to preserve the species through in-vitro fertilisation, a government official told AFP on Friday. Just two Bornean rhinos are known to exist in the…...
Gr'newald: Grand Duke Guillaume seeks early return of forest from state management
2+ week, 2+ day ago (478+ words) Grand Duke Guillaume has expressed a wish to reclaim the Gr'newald forest from the Luxembourg state, according to correspondence sent to the Ministry of the Environment. In a letter addressed to Environment Minister Serge Wilmes, the Administration of the Estate…...
Climate change-fuelled storm decimated world's rarest great ape: study
3+ week, 2+ day ago (345+ words) Climate change-fuelled landslides wiped out nearly one in ten of the world's rarest great ape species on Indonesia's Sumatra island, scientists said Wednesday. A single weather event last November pushed the Tapanuli orangutan -- of which there are fewer than 800 left…...
Samples gathered: What the Moselle reveals about the state of our environment
3+ week, 3+ day ago (354+ words) RTL Today Samples gathered What the Moselle reveals about the state of our environment EMBL scientists at Uni. lu gather samples of the Moselle in Grevenmacher (8 June 2026) On Monday morning, scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the…...
Collapsing population: Rescued orphaned elephant highlights Nigeria's conservation fight
4+ week, 1+ day ago (552+ words) As dawn breaks over Nigeria's Okomu National Park, an exhausted wildlife caretaker prepares milk formula for Agbaibor, a months-old orphaned forest elephant rescued after wandering out of the rainforest alone. "The baby elephant has to take two litres of this…...