Routine turtle rescue becomes Thanksgiving mission
Thirty Kemp’s ridley sea turtles were on the back to the sea — by air — when the rescue mission hit a few snags. Flying on the day before Thanksgiving, the plane met ...
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Is conservation even more expensive than we thought?
When Christoph Nolte created a high-resolution map of land value in the U.S., he wasn’t interested in buying and selling real estate. He was interested in ...
Report documents plastic threats to sea life
A report from the environmental organization Oceana has documented nearly 1,800 U.S. incidents of marine mammals and sea turtles swallowing or becoming entangled in ...
Rehabilitated jaguar released in Yucatan after car strike
A jaguar struck by a car in Mexico was released into a biological reserve after 100 days of rehabilitation. The animal, hit several months ago, was quickly ...
Do wolves limit CWD’s spread?
Could wolves help limit the spread of chronic wasting disease? Researchers in Yellowstone National Park are studying the “predator cleansing effect” to see what ...
Florida catches record number of pythons in the Everglades
Contractors in Florida have caught a record number of Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades. Less than a year after two state agencies decided to combine forces ...
Artificial Intelligence helps Canadian researchers study bears
Biologists at the University of Victoria have teamed up with software experts to use facial recognition technology to identify individual grizzlies (Ursus arctos ...
Waterfowl killed after mistaking wet roads for wetlands
Hundreds of migrating ducks and other waterfowl were struck by vehicles in northwest Iowa after mistaking wet parking lots and roads for wetlands. “I counted over ...
Watch: Elk respond to massive Colorado fire
The Cameron Peak Fire is the largest wildfire in Colorado history at nearly 209,000 acres. Colorado Parks and Wildlife has 30 elk (Cervus canadensis) with GPS ...