CHATHAM, Mass. — Rescuers worked to free five whales stranded on a Cape Cod beach Saturday. The pilot whales were beached on a sandbar in the southern part of Chatham Harbor, across from the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, according to Brian Sharp, director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s Marine Mammal Rescue and Research […]
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First wild-born litter of endangered red wolf pups since 2018 in North Carolina
A litter of red wolf puppies was born in the wild for the first time in four years. Last week, the six pups were discovered in North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. The good news gives the species, which is now designated as endangered, some hope. “As the sights and sounds of spring began […]
Florida panthers critically endangered as numbers fall below 200
I’m driving through southwestern Florida with photographer Carlton Ward Jr, on a busy highway outside of Naples. The roadways are lined with palm and pine trees, and the early humidity is oppressive. As he drives, backcountry supplies and camera equipment rattle in the backseat. We’re tracking down the elusive Florida panther. Scientists estimate that about […]
Feds plan to open more of the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge to the public
In eastern Collier County, where hardwood hammocks, cypress domes and wet prairies provide ideal habitat for an abundance of wildlife, lies the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge has had little public access aside from two short hiking trails since it was established in 1989. Now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants […]
National Park Service Allowing Trophy Hunting at Grand Canyon Puts More than Bison at Risk
Though she ascended to the Presidential cabinet with the distinction as the nation’s first Interior Secretary of Native American descent and with a track record as an animal protection advocate, Deb Haaland may be at the helm when the policy of forbidding sport hunting at America’s national parks is unraveling. And she may do it […]
All U.S. States Fail to Protect Animals from Cruel Trapping, Says New Report
Global animal welfare and conservation nonprofit, Born Free USA, has released a damning new report entitled Crushing Cruelty: Animal Trapping in the United States. The report updates work carried out in 2017 and is the result of extensive research into the regulatory landscape of trapping on a state-by-state basis. This research informed the production of […]
America’s last wilderness is about to go to the highest bidder for oil drilling
Those who argue for oil drilling in the Arctic national wildlife refuge, a place of stunning wild beauty in far north-east Alaska, seldom call it what it is – a refuge. Instead, they reduce it to an acronym: ANWR. They talk about “opening it up”, as if it is closed. It’s not. It is public land. […]
Trump’s border wall construction threatens survival of jaguars in the US
By the 1960s, the North American jaguar had vanished from the southern US borderland after being hunted to extinction. Yet in the mid-1990s, there was a remarkable discovery: the jaguar had reappeared in the Sky Islands of Arizona, a region of rugged linked mountain ranges spanning the US and Mexico border that boasts the highest […]