Resurgent otter populations are killing valuable pet fish, police in Wiltshire have warned, amid claims that wildlife groups are releasing them in inappropriate locations. Otter populations have had a resurgence since the middle of last century, when pollution nearly wiped them out. They are now a protected species found across the country after a reintroduction […]
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Do you know why US Wildlife Services slaughtered almost 2 million wild animals last year?
In 2021, an obscure US government division had a busy – and merciless – year, murdering almost 1.75 million animals around the country at a pace of about 200 per hour. The latest yearly toll from Wildlife Services, a division of the United States Department of Agriculture, has inflamed conservationists, who have branded the kills […]
Tiger savagely attacks caretaker after entering enclosure without authorization
On Tuesday, the injured victim of a tiger attack at Wooten’s Airboats in the Everglades was taken to the hospital. The attacked employee, who was not permitted to be with the animal, suffered injuries to both arms and was taken to the hospital by emergency medical services, according to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. “Preliminary […]
The RSPCA has brought together two adorable newborn otters to aid in their rehabilitation
The RSPCA has paired up two lovely newborn otters to aid with their recovery. Eve and Juniper, two orphans who would have been unable to survive in the wild alone at such a young age, have been placed together by staff at the RSPCA’s Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre near Nantwich. Eve was spotted in a […]
Reintroducing sea otters can be beneficial to marine ecosystems
According to a recent analysis, returning sea otters to the Oregon coast is viable and beneficial to the state’s marine ecosystem if optimum reintroduction policies are followed. However, the voracious appetites of sea otters for particular crustaceans may have “insignificant” effects on local fisheries. Sea otters have a disproportionate impact on the ecosystems in which […]
B.C. police far more likely to shoot animals than people
When Chetwynd RCMP officers were called to a rural property in May 2018, they found two dogs calmly lying in an enclosure with three dead goats. The woman who had called police hadn’t seen the attack on her family’s pet goats and didn’t know the dogs, but she was afraid of what they might do […]
Otters Test Positive for Covid
Otters at a Georgia Aquarium have tested positive for COVID, an aquarium official shared. The animals are expected to make a full recovery. Numerous Asian small-clawed otters tested positive, PEOPLE reported on April 18. “They began exhibiting mild respiratory symptoms such as sneezing, runny noses, mild lethargy, and some began coughing,” the aquarium wrote in a […]
Furry engineers: sea otters in California’s estuaries surprise scientists
When Brent Hughes started studying the seagrass beds of Elkhorn Slough, an estuary in Monterey Bay on California’s central coast, he was surprised by what he found. In this highly polluted estuary, excessive nutrients from agricultural runoff spur the growth of algae on seagrass leaves, which kills the plants. Yet in 2010, Hughes noticed that […]