In late 2021, I stood in a forest about two hours from Mexico City and watched as a river of butterflies passed overhead. They were monarchs — the iconic, Halloween-colored butterflies — and they were coming here from the US to rest for the cold winter months. Nearly all of the monarchs east of the […]
Tag: Grizzlies
Conservation Groups File Lawsuit to Protect Elk Hunting, Wildlife Corridors and Old Growth Forests in Montana
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Native Ecosystems Council and Council on Wildlife and Fish filed a lawsuit in federal court in Montana against a road-building and commercial logging project on public lands in the Big Belt Mountains of Montana. The challenged Wood Duck project is located in a wildlife corridor that is critical for […]
Technicians counting salmon expect to see grizzlies
In the middle of the fast-flowing Chilkoot River, an Alaska state employee sits on a small perch over a narrow, fence-like structure and stares down into the rush of water. Eagles look on from the trees overhead as the river thunders around boulders nearby. The worker’s back is turned to a female grizzly bear creeping […]
‘Aggressive’ Bear Tracked by Dogs and Euthanized for Biting Runner in Utah
A bear that attacked a runner in Utah on Wednesday has been euthanized. The man had been trail running in Big Cottonwood Canyon, about 12 miles southeast of Salt Lake City when the adult female black bear came out of the bushes and bit his arm. The bear was later tracked by the Utah Division […]
Photographer’s Video of Two Brown Bear Cubs Playing Like Human Kids Is Everything
Just like human siblings, animal siblings can get along one minute and then fight the next minute, even if sometimes it’s just for fun. Isaac Spotts is an amazing wildlife photographer who normally captures animal moments in Yellowstone, however during a recent visit to Alaska, he caught an amazing interaction between two brown bear cubs, […]
Canada: grizzly bear hunting quietly reinstated in Alberta
The Canadian province of Alberta has quietly reversed a two-decade ban on hunting grizzly bears, in what conservations described as a “slap in the face” amid continuing debate over the future of the threatened species. Alberta first banned the hunting of grizzly bears in 2006 after the population of the species, which once reached as […]
Rare “Grolar” Bears of Canada’s Arctic Studied
A unique family of bears stands as a testament to the changing face of wildlife Conservation. Known as “grolars,” these hybrids are the offspring of polar bears and grizzly bears, marking a rare intersection of species in a rapidly transforming environment. Recent research, detailed in the journal Conservation Genetics Resources, has shed new light on […]
Chilling video shows grizzly chase moose at Montana campsite where bear killed camper
A wildlife podcaster and bear biologist captured chilling video of a grizzly chasing a moose at the same Montana campsite where a bear once killed a camper. Wes Larson, host of the Tooth and Claw podcast that covers animal attacks, posted the footage to his social media accounts on Saturday, June 15. “Last July we […]