Dumbo, an Asian elephant at Planckendael animal park, has died aged 48. She was the matriarch of the herd at the zoo in Mechelen and her health had been worsening in recent weeks. Zookeepers found her dead in her enclosure earlier this week. The elephant had lost the sight in one eye and suffered...

The sun is out and for many of us it is a four-day weekend. However, many of Belgium's coronavirus restrictions are still in place. "Police will carry out extra alcohol, drug and speed checks this weekend," a federal police spokesman said. "These checks are also the opportunity to check if a...

Friday is International Biodiversity Day - and the Africa Museum is holding a special webinar. A documentary film, The Last Male on Earth, will be shown at 20.00 followed at 21.30 by a live panel of international experts discussing: How far should people go to save an endangered species? Is armed...

Belgium has lifted its ban on visits to a second home, just in time for the long Ascension holiday weekend. But the governor of West Flanders has warned that the Belgian coast is "not ready" to deal with a large influx of people and has urged second home owners to stay away for now. Belgium's...

If crowdfunding goes well, Belgium will get its first beer jacuzzi by the end of the year. The Good Beer Spa is meant to open on Brussels’ inner ring road at Madou. The owners are opening a space offering a soak in wood-panelled hot tubs. A second room in the space that became available gave them...

As if the coronavirus was not bad enough, Flanders is facing a drought this summer. The Flemish Drought Committee is expected to issue an orange alert, advising provincial governors to control wasteful use of water and ban the extraction of water from streams and small rivers. Dry summers are...

A man living in Geel in Antwerp province got the surprise of his life when he found a Eurasian eagle owl nesting on his windowsill. Jos Baart lives in a third floor apartment in the centre of town, which makes the situation even more unique. Eagle owls are Europe’s largest species of owl and are...

Now that temperatures are rising, the first fire involving alcohol-based disinfecting gel in Belgium is a fact. It happened in a residential garage in Dendermonde, East Flanders. To be fair, the fire was caused by a combination of products, but the hand gel exacerbated the situation. “Don’t put...

Internet service provider Telenet says it is working to fix a major technical fault that has deprived several thousand customers in Brussels of their internet, television and phone since Monday afternoon. The network outage has affected customers in Molenbeek, Saint-Josse and Brussels-City (...