Northumberland’s Farne Islands reopen to tourists after bird flu outbreak | Wildlife
Puffins started arriving two weeks ago and are now milling about in their thousands. They joined kittiwakes, murres, toucans, fulmars and shags. Arctic terns arrive shortly after completing their epic journey across the globe from Antarctica. Humans arrived this week after a two-year ban on the Farne Islands in Northumberland, one of the UK’s most […]
Wildlife center staffers dress up as red foxes to feed cub
Workers at a wildlife center in Virginia are outsmarting an orphaned newborn red fox in its care by dressing up as its mother. Video shared by Richmond Wildlife Center Facebook Page On Tuesday, executive director Melissa Stanley was pictured wearing a large furry fox mask with a moving toothy mouth and rubber gloves as she […]
20/20 vision for wildlife habitat conservation
A good forestry education teaches students the importance of the long game and the truth of the Greek proverb: “A society grows when it plants a tree on which the old man never sits in the shade.” A good engineering education teaches that science and mathematics are great tools in the toolbox, but that they […]
Plans for mine near GA wildlife refuge proceed, environmentalists call it a ‘death warrant’
A company’s plan to mine minerals near the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp and a federally protected wildlife refuge moved closer to final approval Friday as Georgia regulators released a draft permit for the project. , opponents say it could cause irreparable damage to natural monuments. The Georgia Department of Environmental Protection said it will […]
NV lithium mine prompts US wildlife service to assess endangered status of tiny snail
Federal wildlife officials list the small snail, found only in high desert springs near a giant lithium mine being built along the Nevada-Oregon border, as an endangered or endangered species. They agreed to conduct a full year-long investigation to determine whether they should. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says in a study published Thursday […]
Kenya Wildlife Services Confirms Fatal Hyena Attack, Student Protests For Campus Safety
NAIROBI, KENYA – DECEMBER 11: A spotted hyena walks through grassland in the Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya, on December 11, 2007. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) OAN’s Elizabeth Bolbelding4:27 PM – Tuesday, February 6, 2024 The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) says one person has been killed and two others seriously injured by a hyena […]
Wildlife advocates push back as Louisiana eyes revival of black bear hunt
A move is underway that wildlife advocates hope will persuade the state to abandon plans to overturn Louisiana's nearly 40-year ban on hunting black bears. Jeff Dawson, executive director of the Louisiana Humane Society, said in late December that the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries had begun the process of allowing hunters to kill […]