Category: Around the Web

Although Pollinator Week just ended, bees in Arkansas are still going strong, and so is an ambitious research project documenting them, the University of Arkansas’s Research Frontiers blog reports. TWS...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recently voted to hold off on this year’s black bear hunt. Last year, the state’s first bear hunt in 21 years — as...

North Dakota has enjoyed a booming economy in the past decade, but it has paid for that growth with vast stretches of ecologically rich grasslands, The Washington Post reports. The...

A federal judge has blocked U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from releasing Mexican gray wolves (Canis lupus baileyi) into New Mexico without first acquiring permits from the state. The injunction, which...

Earlier this week, 50 federally endangered Pacific pocket mice (Perognathus longimembris pacificus) were released in California’s Laguna Coast Wilderness Park as part of a project led by scientists at the...

With a warming climate and less sea ice during the summer, researchers are looking at polar bears’ behaviors during this warmer time of year as well as how they spend...

Jon Nelson, a wildlife curator at the High Desert Museum, and staff with the Oregon Zoo believed they spotted a Sierra Nevada red fox (Vulpes vulpes necator) den and fox...

A proposal to create a new national park in South Okanagan, British Columbia, is the source of varied public opinion. The provincial government released a proposal last year on potential...

With all six turtle species in the United States listed as either federally threatened or endangered, it’s important to think about human actions and lifestyle changes that can help conserve...

The Outer Banks of North Carolina is home to several threatened and endangered species such as the piping plover (Charadrius melodus), American oystercatcher (Haematopus palliates) and leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) and...