Category: Around the Web

April 15, 2021

USGS report details greater sage-grouse decline

Greater sage-grouse populations have declined significantly over the last six decades, according to a new report by the U.S. Geological Survey. The report documents an 80% rangewide decline since 1965...

April 14, 2021

Watch: A wolf’s point of view

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to see the world from a wolfs perspective? For the first time, researchers have released footage taken from a wild wolf’s...

April 13, 2021

A banner winter for right whale calves

North Atlantic right whales produced more offspring last winter than any year since 2015. That’s good news for researchers who became particularly concerned three years ago when they recorded no...

April 12, 2021

Fund helps research into disorder killing Florida panthers

A grant from the Fish & Wildlife Foundation will help scientists’ efforts to understand a puzzling disorder affecting Florida panthers (Puma concolor coryi) and bobcats (Lynx rufus). The $150,000 grant,...

April 9, 2021

Wind energy company invests in California condor breeding

A wind energy company is working with federal wildlife managers to breed California condors as a proactive step to supplement any potential losses of the giant birds from turbine collisions....

April 8, 2021

Tahoe bears carrying unknown disease exhibit fearlessness

A new disease is causing strange behavior in young black bears in California and Nevada. Videos and other reports have appeared around Lake Tahoe and in California documenting young bears...

April 7, 2021

Wildlife entangled in COVID litter

A fish caught up in a latex glove. A fox entangled in a face mask. A penguin with one in its stomach. From Brazil to Malaysia, researchers have cataloged incidents...

April 6, 2021

Database lays out diets of the world’s carnivores

What does a red fox eat? What about a dhole? A hyena? A stoat? PhD students at the University of Sussex in the UK have assembled research into the diets...

April 5, 2021

Invasive species cost humans billions a year

Invasive species have been on the rise around the world over the last decade, and so has the amount of money lost to them. In addition to the ecological problems...

April 2, 2021

Watch: Restoring an American icon

The American chestnut was once a common and abundant tree species that occupied 200 million acres in the eastern hardwood forests of North America and provided wildlife with food and...