USFWS delays request to poison mice on Farallon Islands
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has temporarily withdrawn a request to use toxicants to eliminate invasive mice from the Farallon Islands off the coast of California. The ...
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Watch: Predatory lizards drive anole extinction
Lizard research on tiny experimental islets in the Bahamas shows that prevailing ecological theory regarding the role of predators in ecosystems may not always be ...
Yellow jacket ‘super nests’ appear in Alabama
Biologists in Alabama are warning of a proliferation of enormous yellow jacket nests — some as big as a Volkswagen Beetle — as warming temperatures allow more ...
Colorado investigates wolf sightings
Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists are working to confirm two recent reports of what is believed to be the first credible gray wolf (Canis lupus) sighting in ...
Arctic fox breaks records with over 2,000-mile journey
An Arctic fox fitted with a tracking device recently moved at the fastest rate ever recorded for the species on its 2,000-mile journey from Norway to Canada. The ...
Fungus that causes WNS detected for first time in California
The fungus that causes the deadly white-nose syndrome in bats has been detected for the first time in California, although officials say they have seen no ...
Watch: Tiny Manitoba town draws 70K yearly — in snakes
Thousands of tourists come out to a small town in Manitoba every year to witness garter snakes emerge from hibernation. But while the human crowds can be large, ...
Lead ammunition banned for hunting wildlife in California
Lead ammunition is now banned for hunting wildlife in California. The new regulation is actually the final phase of a California law passed in 2013. The regulation ...
Piping plovers benefited from Hurricane Sandy
The damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy to human communities has been well documented. But for piping plovers, the powerful storm in October 2012 was a boon. ...