How Arctic Animals Will Be Scrambled by Climate Change
by Maddie Stone / Motherboard Northwest Alaska harbors some of the largest tracts of untouched wilderness in the United States. But its wild animals face an uncertain future. A new study predicts that...
View ArticleRewilding: UK Considering Reintroducing Lynx to Kielder Forest
from the BBC A forest in the North East is being considered as a new habitat for wild lynx which have been extinct in Britain for more than 1,300 years. The Lynx UK Trust is holding a consultation into...
View ArticleBrazil: Indigenous Amazonian Killed By ‘Loggers’
from Survival International Ka’apor Indians formed an indigenous ‘army’ to combat illegal logging in their forest. An indigenous health worker in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has been killed in an ambush...
View ArticleMilan Expo Opens to Riots on the City’s Streets
from EuroNews The opening of the long-awaited Milan Expo on Friday was marred by violent clashes between Italian police and protesters. Police fired tear gas and used water canons in an effort to...
View ArticleHorribly Bleak Study Sees ‘Empty Landscape’ as Large Herbivores Vanish at...
A rhino at a private game reserve in South Africa in 2013. (Christophe Beaudufe/AFP via Getty Images) by Fred Barbash and Justin Wm. Moyer / The Washington Post They never ate anybody — but now, some...
View ArticleWorld on Course to Lose 1 in 6 Species to Climate Change
by Glenn Scherer / Mongabay Renowned biologist E.O Wilson, assessing Earth’s sixth great extinction now underway, described the future as a shrinking keyhole through which all species must pass as...
View ArticleWild Animals Dying Off, Facing Extinction, Due to Endless California Drought
by Darryl Fears / Santa Fe New Mexican About 4,000 mule deer have disappeared from a mountain range near Reno between late last year and now, likely because of drought. Our level of concern is very...
View ArticleWhales in Gulf of Mexico Face Endangered Status as Drilling Moves In
Associated Press / The Guardian A Bryde’s whale and seagulls feast on anchovies. Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA With as few as about a dozen of the mammals left, federal regulators say a unique...
View ArticleTexas Man Pays $350,000 to Kill Endangered Black Rhino in the Name of...
Getty Images from AP A Texan who bid $350,000 to hunt a black rhinoceros in Africa in what was billed as a conservation fundraiser has killed one of the endangered animals. The Dallas Safari Club...
View ArticleCatastrophic Collapse of Saiga Antelope Leaves 120,000 Dead in a Month
by Jennifer Baker / Revolution News An aerial survey conducted as part of a national monitoring program earlier this year estimated that the saiga antelope population numbered approximately 250,000...
View ArticleHot Water Kills Half of Columbia River Sockeye Salmon
Federal and state biologists say unusually warm water in the Columbia River Basin may wipe out at least half of this year’s return of 500,000 sockeye salmon, including this one found on the lower...
View ArticleTribe in Idaho to Draft Recovery Plan for Wild Reindeer
by Laura Zuckerman / Yahoo! News Woodland caribou in the Selkirk mountain range of British Columbia, Canada are shown in this handout photo released to Reuters November 29, 2011. REUTERS/U.S. Fish and...
View ArticleNumber of Fish in the Sea has Dropped by Nearly Half Since 1970
by Tim Chester / Mashable Image: 2/Gerard Soury/Ocean/Corbis The number of fish and other species in the sea has been almost halved since 1970, according to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund...
View ArticleKenya: “World Rhino Day” and the Race Against Time to Save the Last White Rhinos
from aljazeera Laikipia, Kenya — As the sun rises over Ol Pejeta wildlife conservancy, spreading the purple bruise of Mount Kenya’s pointed shadow across the sky, Sudan the rhinoceros leaves his pen...
View ArticleAfter 60 Million Years of Extreme Living, Seabirds are Crashing
from the guardian Every day for sixty million years, seabirds have performed mind-boggling acts of derring-do: circumnavigating the globe without rest, diving more than 200 meters in treacherous seas...
View ArticleIndonesia: Beloved Elephant Yongki Killed by Ivory Poachers, Sparks Outrage
from EcoWatch The brutal killing of a beloved elephant in Indonesia has sparked online anger, similar to the global outrage from the killing of Zimbabwe’s Cecil the lion. According to AFP, it’s...
View ArticleThe Badass Beaver-Like Mammal That Outlived the Dinosaurs
by Becky Ferreira / Motherboard Kimbetopsalis simmonsae fossils. Image: Tom Williamson When we think of the extinction event that occurred 66 million years ago, we tend to focus on the staggering death...
View ArticleGerman Elephant Hunter Will be Named and Shamed, Vows Zimbabwe Taskforce
from the guardian A Zimbabwean conservation group has vowed to identify a German hunter who shot one of the largest elephants seen in the country, so the man can be publicly vilified like the killer of...
View ArticleIndia: Indigenous Live in Tiger Reserve and Tiger Numbers Increase, New Data...
from Survival International Startling new data reveals tiger numbers have increased rapidly in the first reserve in India where local tribes have won the right to stay. The information, which the...
View ArticleFinally, Some Good News For Manatees And Green Sea Turtles
by Merrit Kennedy / NPR West Indian manatees and some colonies of green sea turtles have been in danger of extinction for decades. But scientists have some good news about the much-loved sea creatures,...
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