Bison have started to migrate out of Yellowstone National Park and into southwestern Montana where they could be the target of hunters attempting to reduce the herds’ population size by up to 900. Yellowstone spokeswoman Morgan Warthin told the Associated Press the bison have moved into the Gardiner basin as part of their yearly migration. […]
Tag: extinction
Petition: Protect Cheetahs from Trophy Hunting
There are only 7,100 cheetahs left in the wild. They have vanished from 91 percent of their historic range in Africa and are extinct in Asia except for a small population of about 50 in central Iran. There are 100 individuals or less in 79 percent of cheetah populations. Cheetahs are threatened by hunters who […]
Petition: Save Rare Clouded Leopards From Extinction!
Since 2015, it has become known that tigers and lions weren’t the only big cats being threatened by poachers. Because tiger populations have dropped so much, poachers are turning to another big cat to drive to extinction — the clouded leopard. The animals are killed for their skin and bone for the leopard bone trade. […]
Antarctica’s Most Numerous Penguin Has Suffered Huge Declines, Expedition Finds
One month ago, I arrived with a team of scientists at Elephant Island, Antarctica—a lonesome, 29-mile-long hunk of glacier and granite off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. The island was chronicled by a member of Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1916 expedition as “about as inhospitable as one could well imagine,” and it hasn’t changed much […]
Petition: Protect African Lions from Trophy Hunters!
The story of Cecil the Lion brought to light the horrible tragedy that is trophy hunting. An American dentist paid an obscene amount of money to kill a lion that was being observed and was beloved around the world. He shot the lion with an arrow and let him suffer for a full day until […]
Audubon Pennsylvania Receives Grant to Further Forest Conservation
Audubon PA this week received over $183,000 in grant funding from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) that will be used to partner with private land owners in order to create and maintain healthy forest habitats for birds in the Appalachian mountains of Pennsylvania. The grant will allow Audubon PA to develop infrastructure to […]
Global consumer demands fuel the extinction crisis facing the world’s primates
A ceaselessly growing human population and an ever-expanding world economy based on the unsustainable demands of a few over-consuming nations, have already caused habitat degradation, forest fragmentation, and forest loss that are unprecedented in human history. Throughout the tropics, large tracts of forest have been converted to monocultures by industrial agriculture and degraded by the […]
N.C. Gov. Cooper seeks help for critically endangered red wolf — just a dozen or so in the wild
RALEIGH, N.C. — The fight over the critically endangered red wolf has returned to court as North Carolina’s governor sought immediate help for the dozen or so remaining in the wild and federal biologists planned to transfer wolves into the recovery area for the first time in years. In late November, Gov. Roy Cooper sent […]
