animals

The hunters are out. Our picture, taken in Vermont, shows a store where they go to weigh their kill. The state places limits on what kind of deer may be hunted and when. For example, in Vermont, they may be hunted only between 3 and 11 December of this year.

This month on Spotlight Audio: Travel to romantic Ireland. Practise similar sounds you might confuse. Dialogues at a Christmas market. Better reading in English. And much more.

Wolves are a rare species in western Europe, but in eastern Europe they are more common. At one time, wolves roamed the entire continent. They began to disappear when human settlers cleared the forests for agriculture. Should wolves now be brought back? 

The northern white rhinoceros is almost gone. Seven of them remain: four in Kenya, two in the United States, one in the Czech Republic. More than ten years have passed since the last of them reproduced. Fortunately, there's more than one way to make a rhino.