WildWatch

10/14/2026

Trophy hunting sucks. Period. 😡

Trophy hunters have been getting it from Ricky Gervais for more than ten years, and he has never once dressed it up politely.

Most of it started in the spring of 2015. A photograph went round of a hunter posing beside a giraffe she had killed, and on 13 April he answered it with a question rather than an insult: "What must've happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal & then lie next to it smiling?" It ran and ran for weeks after that. Five days later came this one: "The trophies I'm proudest of are the memories of all those times I didn't kill a beautiful, majestic, endangered species for no reason." The line on the picture turned up a couple of weeks after that, in the middle of the same run.

In November 2018 Humane Society International gave him the first Cecil Award, named after the lion shot in Zimbabwe in 2015, for everything he had been doing on social media to end trophy hunting.

None of it is just talk, either. He gave a million pounds to animal charities in 2023 and two and a half million in 2025.

For a man who earns his living being rude about people, he has handed an awful lot of his own money to the animals.

10/12/2026

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This isn't just an Oregon phenomenon, it's affecting the entire span of North American coast, from Alaska to Mexico.

10/08/2026

Ships heading into Boston Harbor kept hitting whales. Two were struck in the last six weeks before the lanes were finally moved. The shipping lanes, drawn up in 1973, ran straight across Stellwagen Bank, where most of the whales feed. Only about 400 North Atlantic right whales were left in the world.

David Wiley had the numbers to prove the lanes were the problem. He ran research at the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and he mapped 25 years of whale sightings against the route the ships took. Almost 62,000 of those sightings fell inside the old lanes. A strip of water a little to the north had about 12,000.

So NOAA and the Coast Guard asked for the lanes to be moved. That call belongs to the International Maritime Organization, and it signed off in December 2006.

The new route took effect on July 1, 2007. It swings the leg that runs east and west 12 degrees to the north. Each lane also got half a mile narrower, down to 1.5 miles.

For a ship's captain the change was small. The trip got 3.75 nautical miles longer, which works out to somewhere between 10 and 22 minutes.

By NOAA's math the move lowered the risk of a ship strike by 58 percent for right whales. For all the big baleen whales together, the drop was 81 percent. American shipping lanes had never been redrawn to protect an endangered animal before. Ships still come and go from Boston every day. They pass a little farther north of the whales now.

10/06/2026

Who would’ve guessed? Science is amazing.

10/05/2026

Just a great outfit. They rehab thousands of wild animals every year. 👍👍🥰

10/03/2026

😲!!

09/29/2026