We had some really great threads last year, with the following four nominated for the Thread of the Year award in this January's Environment Site Awards ceremony.
Wildlife and Biodiversity ForumIn the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.
- John Sawhill, The Nature Conservancy
Wildlife scientists have re-opened the cryptic case of a carnivore that resembled a striped coyote and vanished from its Australian haunt nearly 80 years ago.
The Tasmanian Tiger is long gone. Just another animal wiped off the face of the earth due to the white settlers relentless hunting. Also interesting to note that there are no true-blood Tasmanian Aboriginals alive either. White settlers wiped them out too.
The whole issue of whether or not the last living Thylacine actually died in 1936 has probably been ongoing since that time. There are a number of videos that have appeared since then suggesting otherwise – including: