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The Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards, co-founded by professional photographers Paul Joynson-Hicks and Tom Sullam in 2015, unsurprisingly celebrates the latter while promoting wildlife conservation. This year’s finalists, announced at the start of the month, feature MORE

Happy Labor Day, News Viewers, a day off for many humans; a day dedicated to the American Worker; a day initially set aside to honor the labor movement. While we may think parades, grilling, protesting MORE

When migratory bird ecologist Brian Evans first started hearing about dead birds across Washington, D.C., in mid-May, he “wrote it off,” says Evans, who’s on staff at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Migratory Bird Center. MORE

It’s Monday and we’re in the middle of the Dog Days of Summer, the steaming hot 40 days in July to August of every year where the stars align and dog, earth and sky meet. MORE

Thousands of ex-racehorses being sent to slaughterhouses, BBC investigation claims An investigation for BBC1’s Panorama, to be broadcast on Monday evening, will claim that “thousands” of ex-racehorses – “most, but not all” of which were MORE

Hey All, it’s the Monday after the new show “Billionaires in Space,” and we find ourselves asking why the billionaires are choosing NOW to leave earth, before they’ve paid any taxes, and by the way, MORE

Happy Monday, humans of the planet, and welcome to Free Range. . . . . Since Free Range is about the planet and all things on it, in it, around it, under it. . . MORE

Good morning, News Viewers and Happy Monday; this is Free Range Free Chat, our open thread with the free-wide-open ranging themes of animals (including people and bugs), the environment (including the physical and political) and MORE

Hiya from Free Range Free Chat, our open thread about all things living on this planet, and all things planet related as it supports that life.. Today is Memorial Day of 2021, a day set MORE

Ranging freely lately, the cicada, a creature that is outside of range of fuzzy, fluffy, cute or even slightly attractive. They emerge from the bowels of hell every 17 number of years and carpet the MORE

Last spring, people opened their windows to a symphony. Swallows burbled, doves cooed, and sparrows chirped—and to many listeners, these passerine performers had never seemed so loud. For nature lovers, wearied by the tragedy of coronavirus and lockdown MORE

National Pet Day, April 11, 2021 Happy Pet Day, one day late, where we celebrate all things pet and pet adjacent. We have the expected pets pictured but as we know, people love animals, and MORE

When it comes to animals, kids and books, what do we know? According to Axios, information from a new online tool called Epic gives us information. “Children prefer owls to chickens and chickens to hedgehogs. Kids MORE