Wildlife Today

AP - It’s a white-collar worker’s nightmare: giving a presentation that gets you fired.

AP - Alicia Istanbul woke up one recent Wednesday to find herself locked out of the Facebook account she opened in 2007, one Facebook suddenly deemed fake.

An international team of scientists has identified a nesting population of leatherback sea turtles in Gabon, West Africa as the world’s largest. The research, published in the May issue of Biological Conservation, involved country-wide land and aerial surveys that estimated a population of between 15,730 and 41,373 female turtles using the nesting beaches. The study highlights the importance of conservation work to manage key sites and protected areas in Gabon.

With world population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, large investments in ecological infrastructure services need to be made, and fast, if more in the way of food, water, energy and social crises are to be avoided, asserted UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner as the latest bi-annual meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development opened in New York City last week.

Louise Gray takes drastic steps to rediscover her body’s potential by getting fit the natural way - on a beach in Kenya.

The actress Imogen Stubbs was terrified of catching malaria. Then she was persuaded to join a trip to Kenya’s Maasai Mara.

Where to catch the UK’s great wildlife spectacles each month of the year.

Here are some of the most spectacular places to see the natural world at its most vivid.