What a week. The global biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia (COP16) had just concluded. And then Trump got re-elected as President of the United States. Clearly the latter puts an enormous damper on the former. That is, if one believes that the Cali conference actually made significant progress in terms of tackling the biodiversity crisis. […]
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91-Year-Old Man Faces Fine After Killing Bald Eagle
A man from Sparta, North Carolina, pleaded guilty on Friday to shooting and killing a bald eagle, a bird protected under federal law. Robert Garner Gambill admitted to fatally shooting the eagle on June 5, near the Farmers Fish Camp Road Bridge, which is located along the New River in Alleghany County, not far from […]
Incredible video shows a baby hawk nearly becoming eagle food. It becomes family instead.
Sometimes, life can unexpectedly snatch you away from safety and thrust you into imminent danger. Other times, life can just as quickly turn a dire circumstance into a heartwarming miracle. Such was the case for a baby hawk who went from being dinner to being adopted by a family of bald eagles near the city […]
Colorado’s Standley Lake baby bald eagles survive after years of tragedy
Three baby bald eagles at Standley Lake survived to become juveniles and are learning to hunt and live on their own after years of tragedy and mishaps, Westminster officials said this week. A nesting bald eagle pair first made a home at the reservoir in 1993, hatching their successful offspring in 1996. While the pair […]