Category: Around the Web

Kenya’s worst drought in decades is taking its toll on the country’s famous wildlife. A recent report found that hundreds of animals, including elephants and endangered Grévy’s zebras have died...

As the climate warms, North American birds are becoming smaller. In a study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles found that over...

A butterfly nonprofit is paying to ship 12 monarch butterflies from Wisconsin to Texas, where they hope the insects will migrate to Mexico. Friends of Butterfly Gardens Inc. is funding...

What’s making the latest strain of bird flu so deadly? Avian influenza used to mostly affect poultry, and while it continues to decimate poultry populations around the world, the latest...

Gopher frogs have been slowly disappearing from Georgia’s southern pinelands for decades. Now, biologists are working to replenish the species. State biologists have been collecting egg masses from the few...

A godwit’s round-the-world flight from Alaska to Australia may have set a migratory bird distance record. Researchers say the bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) was tagged with a GPS chip as...

A new series “My Wild Land,” launched by the Wyoming Migration Initiative at the University of Wyoming, documents ranchers across Wyoming who are helping conserve big game populations on working...

Canada lynx don’t vary much in color. They usually have coats of silvery gray that turns reddish brown in the summer. But researchers recently documented a lynx that’s completely black....

Wildlife populations around the world have plummeted in the last 50 years, according to a report from the environmental organization WWF International. Looking at over 5,000 species, the group’s Living...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has announced a $9.4 million injection of funds to manage the spread of chronic wasting disease—an illness that’s deadly...