A 4-year-old female bear started aggressively searching for food in a Montana national park, so it was killed, rangers said. The bear was euthanized June 5 in West Glacier in Glacier National Park, the National Park Service said in a news release obtained by McClatchy News. “The bear consistently attempted to enter vehicles and buildings […]
Virginia Man Fined for Killing Protected Birds Using Illegal Poison
A Virginia man has been sentenced after pleading guilty to killing multiple birds of prey, including a federally protected bald eagle. According to WTOP’s Kate Ryan, William Custis Smith of Hallwood used a banned neurotoxin to poison raptors near a waterfowl area he built to attract ducks for hunting. Investigators from the Virginia Department of […]
Pregnant Pilot Whales and Calves Slaughtered in Faroe Islands Hunt
LEYNAR, FAROE ISLANDS – Sea Shepherd has confirmed the death toll from yesterday’s pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands (known as the Grindadráp, or “Grind”) has reached 246 individuals, far surpassing the whalers’ initial estimate of 100. Among them were at least 30 pregnant females, whose unborn calves were left to suffocate inside their […]
Owner Details Dog’s Bloody Struggle With Huge Alligator
A dog named Zeus survived a harrowing attack by a hungry alligator in Florida, WFLA reported. Zeus’s family reported that their beloved pup became aroused by a noise in their yard on the night of June 2, so he walked out of his doggie door to investigate. Without warning, a large alligator pounced over the […]
Ecological crisis in Brazil’s Pantanal fuels human-jaguar conflict
Roberto Carlos Conceição Arruda recalls the moment in 2002 when an ordinary morning routine took a harrowing turn. It was around 8 a.m., in the remote mountainous region of Serra do Amolar in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state, and Arruda, better known as Beto, then 29 years old, had left his house to fetch […]
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Wolves and Rivers: How One Species Can Transform an Ecosystem [VIDEO]
When any species is removed from its original ecosystem, the changes felt by that natural habitat may be unnoticeable at first. But as that one single change causes a domino effect, ripples of change are scattered across vast channels of that ecosystem, causing drastic alterations in the natural balance that once existed. A perfect example […]
“Incredibly emotional”: moving footage shows orphaned gorillas returning to wild after 10 years of rehabilitation
Love is in the air after four female gorillas, rescued from the illegal wildlife trade, were rehomed to the wild in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It’s hoped that the translocation, which is the largest release of eastern lowland gorillas in Africa, will provide a vital genetic boost to the isolated population of eight gorillas […]
After terror attacks, Mozambique nature reserve faces ‘new reality’
BERLIN — Islamist fighters affiliated with ISIS have left a Mozambican wildlife reserve following a series of deadly attacks that claimed the lives of at least 10 people, including two wildlife rangers, according to the head of the country’s National Administration of Conservation Areas. “We still have a challenging environment, but we have clear indications […]