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In 1923, wardens began protecting a 35-acre Texas island where the state’s last reddish egrets survived; one family lived there full time in a two-room hut, and today it holds the world’s largest nesting colony

Welcome to the Island Where Egrets Rule A century after wildlife wardens began protecting a small island in Texas, the 35-acre site has become the world’s largest nesting colony for Reddish Egrets. Green Island sits in the Laguna Madre, a coastal lagoon in southern Texas. In 1923, Audubon Texas signed its first sanctuary lease with […]

In 1958, 58 feral pigs were removed from Clipperton Island, helping a seabird colony grow from 650 to more than 137,000

In 1958, Clipperton Island was a very different place from the huge seabird colony it would later become. The tiny Pacific atoll had once supported thousands of breeding birds, but decades of human occupation had left a heavy mark. Feral pigs, introduced when people settled on the island, had multiplied and were feeding on land […]

Meet Carol Ruckdeschel: 84-year-old ‘wildest woman in America’ who has been living on an island for the 53 years in order to preserve nature for the future

What would you do for the love of nature? Apparently, live on a remote island with no roads for 53 years, preserving it for the world. Every year, 84-year-old Carol Ruckdeschel walks along the beach on Cumberland Island, Georgia. Donning her white boots, hair in pigtail braids, she takes notes of her home in a […]

Watch: F-16 burst into flames after crash-landing at Greek island airport; pilot safe

Image of crash (Resolution improved using AI) A Hellenic Air Force F-16C Fighting Falcon executed a successful emergency landing at Zakynthos International Airport on Thursday afternoon after suffering an unspecified technical issue mid-flight.The incident occurred on July 9 when the fighter jet, belonging to the 116th Combat Wing, was forced to divert to the southern […]

Shooting in US on fourth of July: 8, including 4 children, injured in Brooklyn’s Coney Island

8 people, including 4 children, injured in Brooklyn on July 4 (Representative image) At least eight people, including four children, were injured in a shooting in Brooklyn’s Coney Island late on Friday during on Fourth of July, the New York Police Department (NYPD) said.Police responded to reports of gunfire at around 10:37 pm local time […]

A 5,000-year-old ritual circle was hidden under a Scottish island; archaeologists found it without digging

Archaeologists have been excavating the area for ancient secrets since the 1980s Archaeologists have uncovered what could be a 5,000-year-old ritual circle hidden beneath peat on a Scottish island, all without digging into the ground.Using advanced geophysical scanning equipment, researchers from Historic Environment Scotland (HES) detected a ring of buried pits beneath Machrie Moor on […]

10 largest island countries in the world: Indonesia, Japan, Papua New Guinea among the biggest island nations | World News

Standing back from a world map, the outline of land against water starts to look less tidy than it first appears. Some countries are stretched across hundreds or even thousands of fragments, scattered like broken glass across vast stretches of ocean. Others sit almost entirely on a single mass of rock but still qualify as […]

Video shows moment Hellfire missile cripples tanker bound for Iran’s Kharg Island

The United States military disabled the Botswana-flagged oil tanker M/T Lexie in international waters after the vessel allegedly ignored repeated warnings and continued sailing towards Iran’s Kharg Island, the US central command said. It also released the video from when a US aircraft struck the ship.According to the central command, the US fired a Hellfire […]

Taiwan Military Activity: Taiwan detects Chinese military aircraft, naval vessels near island for second straight day

Taiwan’s ministry of national defence said it detected four sorties of Chinese military aircraft and six naval vessels operating around the island until 6 am local time on Sunday.The ministry said three of the four aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered Taiwan’s southwestern and southeastern Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).In […]

Dozens arrested at Tommy Robinson march in London; Elon Musk calls Britain ‘prison island’

Tommy Robinson march in London London witnessed one of its largest security operations in recent years as tens of thousands gathered for far-right activist Tommy Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom” march alongside a massive pro-Palestine Nakba Day rally.The demonstrations prompted a £4.5 million policing operation amid fears of violent clashes between rival groups.According to The Independent, […]