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Two young spectacled bears, Auki and Amaru, play with their mother Rica at Zurich Zoo on Wednesday. Their father, Raymi, arrived from the United States and carries particularly valuable genetic traits for the conservation of spectacled bears – the only large bear species native to South America.
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The driving of cattle to high Alpine pastures is one of the inevitable events that mark the passing of time in Switzerland. The tradition is very much alive in Urnäsch, canton Appenzell Outer Rhodes, where this photograph was taken.
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A Keystone-ATS photographer on a walk in Porrentruy, canton Jura, captured the image of a halo on Sunday, a meteorological phenomenon that can take several forms.
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Campaign budgets for the June 14 vote on the ‘No to 10 million’ immigration initiative are breaking records in Switzerland.
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On Thursday, a 17-tonne, 57-metre-long wind turbine blade was transported in an unusual convoy as part of the construction of the second wind farm in canton Vaud.
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At the end of August, the Natural History Museum in Fribourg will begin an unusual operation: moving its emblematic whale skeleton into the institution’s new building. Measuring 11 metres long, weighing 1,650 kilograms and more than 170 years old, it will be the first object transferred to the new site.
