I've just signed an urgent petition at Avaaz.org to protect whales. Read more below, or click this link to join me in signing:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/whales_under_threat_14/98.php?CLICKTF

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Dear friends,

The International Whaling Commission has ( Read more... )

on my balcony - a hawk-moth, to be more precise, a Hummingbird hawk-moth, according to Wikipedia. It was drinking from my Borage plant's flowers for the longest time, during which I took about 80 pictures of it from various angles and directions! They turned out rather well, so here are six of the best. What an amazing, beautiful and elegant ( Read more... )

This looks like a place I need to visit!!!

For the non-German speaking people: At "Noctalis - World of Bats" in Bad Segeberg/Germany, you can see various bats in indoor replicas of their natural habitats (cages, woods, attics) and learn about them and their world interactively. Ooh look, webcams! An internship there would be very very cool - I'd ( Read more... )

Oooh I need to go on holiday to Thailand sometime: there was just a documentary on TV about a village called Kok Sa-nga in Thailand, also known as King Kobra Village because many people there have King Kobras as pets, and some also do show fights or dances with them. And yes, they are still poisonous. The documentary was very fascinating ( Read more... )