Today’s World Animal Day, celebrated across the globe since a 1931 convention of ecologists in Florence, Italy, conceived of it as a way to highlight the plight of endangered species. They … [Read full article]
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Funding More Fire Suppression Won't Do The Trick
A firefighter pauses at the $2013 Rim Fire in Yosemite National Park, August-September 2013 (Calfire photo on facebook). President Obama released the federal budget for 2015 last week. Overall, it … [Read full article]
100,000 Bears Killed In Eastern US States
The following analysis breaks down multiple bear death totals. Over 100,000 bears, – 100,103 to be exact – have been killed in annual hunts in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, … [Read full article]
It's Open Season On Gray Wolves In Wyoming [VIDEO]
Wildlife lovers may already know that the U.S. Department of the Interior has removed the gray wolf (Canis lupus) from it’s endangered species list — leaving the wolves vulnerable to … [Read full article]
U.S. Manatee Deaths Hit Record Level in 2010
In concluding the International Year of Biodiversity, the good news is that manatees are still with us, the bad news is that manatee deaths in U.S. waters continue to climb. … [Read full article]
Stop Refuge Hunting
This is a call to action from the Earth Island Institute I received via email. The California Department of Fish and Game is quietly studying a plan that could end the … [Read full article]
Hunt Regulatory Authority to be Like FIFA?
Yes, the international soccer organization FIFA. Apparently, hunting has become very unpopular with the general public. To try to pull people over to its side, the Hunt Regulatory Authority in … [Read full article]
Pangolin Trade Much Worse than Expected, Seized Notebooks Show
Reporting from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia last week, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) shared some disturbing news with the world. Endangered pangolins (aka scaly anteaters) are being massacred at a … [Read full article]
Huge Turtle Species Survived 50 Million Years, until Humans Came Along
A giant turtle species that scientists thought had gone extinct 50,000 years ago actually survived until recently on a small Pacific island. Apparently, though, it didn’t take long for … [Read full article]
Python Hunting Made Legal in Florida
Select hunters have been given permits in Florida to hunt and kill non-native pythons in the wild. Experts say the alien constrictors number in the tens of thousands in Everglades … [Read full article]
Journalists Arrested, Attacked with Clubs for Filming Seal Slaughter
Sealers wielding clubs for the purpose of killing seals attacked two journalists, one from the UK and one from South Africa, who were filming the brutal Namibian seal cull last … [Read full article]
Incubating Hope: An Egg Found In Maine Brings New Hope to the Audubon Society
[social_buttons] As a child, eggs were special one day of the year: Easter. Back then an egg was a treasure. But since my parents stopped hiding eggs for me, eggs … [Read full article]
Groups Convince Syrian Hunters to Stop Targeting Rare Bird
When researchers from the Syrian Society for Conservation of Wildlife and RSPB noticed that hunters were shooting down sociable lapwings, one of the world’s rarest bird species, they immediately reached … [Read full article]