The huge, 36-stone leatherback turtle that was rescued in a Spanish port over the weekend has died shortly after being released to sea. The marine animal turned up at the Port of Mazarron in the Spanish region of Murcia on Saturday with injuries to its flippers and shell after becoming…
This is the moment caring vets treat a huge, 36-stone leatherback turtle - which is listed as critically-endangered - after it became entangled in a fishing net at a Spanish port and suffered multiple injuries. The large turtle was treated at L'Oceanografic, an oceanarium in the Spanish city of Valencia,…
The horrific injury suffered by this young male seal after an abandoned fishing net cut into his flesh is one of the worst ever seen by the conservationists who rescued him and who were convinced that he would not make it. But as this video of him enjoying a fish…
This is the moment fishermen struggle to free a thrashing shark that was caught in their nets and taken ashore. The footage was filmed at Fish Hoek Beach in the South African city of Cape Town on 9th December. The video shows the moment several fishermen work together to free…
Turkish fishermen have netted a six-foot tall headless bronze statue from an as-yet undetermined historical period. The fishermen cast their nets off the coast of Bodrum in southeast Turkey to a depth of 50 metres, and pulled them in at dawn on 18th November. Initially, the team started celebrating as…
This is the moment Canadian cops arrive to help two fighting stags entangled in a fishing net in a resident’s front garden after apparently clashing antlers. The incident was filmed in the neighbourhood of Fairfield in the city of Victoria in Vancouver Island in the westernmost Canadian province of British…
This is the moment Italian fishermen hose down a small shark after freeing it from their nets and then toss it back into the sea. The incident was filmed off the coast of Manfredonia in the province of Foggia in the south-eastern Italian region of Apulia, and the footage was…
This is the moment fishermen try to free a rare porpoise on the brink of extinction that has been caught up in their net. The ‘critically-endangered’ porpoise known as a vaquita was snarled in the fishermen’s net off the coast of Baja California, a state in north-western Mexico. According to…
This is the moment a Chinese fireman playing football in his downtime accidentally scores a long-range goal by volleying it into a basketball net from far off court. Footage from the Fengxian District fire service in China’s eastern port city of Shanghai shows two uniformed firemen having a kickabout on…
A Bolivian senator has been accused of inventing a village to pocket over half a million GBP to carry out an imaginary farming project for a non-existent indigenous community. According to local media, the director of the Indigenous Fund in Bolivia Rafael Quispe accused the Movement of Socialism (MAS) senator…