There’s a certain moment that happens when you spend enough time outdoors. It usually comes quietly. You realize you’re not the biggest thing around anymore. Not the loudest. Not the one setting the rules. That feeling tends to show up in places where predators still exist. Real predators. Bears moving through timber without a sound. […]
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A lawsuit challenges an Alaska program that allows killing bears as a way to rebuild a caribou herd
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Conservation groups sued Monday over a state program in Alaska that authorizes killing brown bears and black bears as a way to increase the size of a once-significant caribou herd in the southwest part of the state. The groups allege the program lacks a scientific basis and is unconstitutional. The lawsuit […]
Easterly winds and clear skies are cue for charismatic waxwings to cross to UK
By November in the UK, autumn bird migration is more or less over. Our summer visitors, such as warblers, chats and flycatchers, are far to the south in Africa. Meanwhile, many winter visitors – mostly waders and wildfowl – have arrived from their breeding grounds to the north and east. Nevertheless, as the British Trust […]
Yellowstone Visitor “Lucky to Be Alive” After Approaching A Pack of Wolves While Bystanders Watched In Horror
This year, there has been a noticeable increase in visitors making dangerous decisions in America’s national parks. Some incidents are harmless enough, while others—including a case where two park visitors narrowly avoided being gored by an angry bison—cross a line into genuinely dangerous territory that could cost someone their life. That’s exactly what happened in […]
Petition: Protect America’s Deer From Fast-Spreading Diseases
A shocking number of deer are dying from two brutal diseases. In Ohio, the rate of disease spread is so bad that one local told reporters he found 14 dead deer in less than a mile stretch on his property. Diseases like chronic wasting disease (CWD) and epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) have posed a small […]
Can this zebra escape a deadly crocodile’s jaws? Watch heart-wrenching, tense, BBC footage of a perilous battle at the river’s edge
Each year, zebra herds are forced to cross crocodile-infested rivers in search of food and water. In this gripping BBC Earth video, see how these powerful animals use teamwork and courage to survive one of nature’s most dangerous tests. Crocodile vs zebra: watch the BBC Earth footage River crossings are dangerous, with predators lurking […]
Trump officials reveal plan to roll back regulations in Endangered Species Act
The Trump administration presented a new plan to roll back regulations in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) on Wednesday, a move experts fear will accelerate the extinction crisis if adopted. The proposed changes would allow the federal government more power to weigh economic impact against habitat designations, remove safeguards against future events – including the […]
Avian Flu Wipes Out Nearly Half of Breeding Elephant Seals at World’s Largest Colony
The beaches of South Georgia, a remote splinter of ice and rock in the South Atlantic, should be a place of deafening, chaotic life. Normally, the shores host the planet’s largest gathering of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina. They are the largest seals on Earth, and they come by the tens of thousands to fight, […]