Whooping crane efforts resume after COVID cutbacks
Efforts to restore endangered whooping cranes (Grus americana) to the wild have resumed after COVID-19 precautions brought the program nearly to a halt. Fourteen ...
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USFWS and partners recover wandering red wolf
A red wolf swam away from an island wildlife refuge in Florida in April and turned up several miles away on the mainland three days later. The four-year-old male ...
Urbanization may lead to Puerto Rican boa decline
Increasing urbanization in Puerto Rico may cause declines in the territory’s endangered boa population. The Puerto Rican boa (Chilabothrus inornatus) is the ...
Roads are major cause of Texas ocelot deaths
Roads have deadly consequences for ocelots in Texas, playing an outsize role in mortality for a small population of the endangered cat. As urbanization in the area ...
Watch: After 20 years, Bulgarian saker Falcons breed again
Reintroduction efforts have resulted in the first breeding pair of saker falcons in Bulgaria since the early 2000s. Between 2015 and 2020, 80 saker falcons (Falco ...
Ted Turner’s N.M. ranch welcomes Mexican wolf pack
Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch in New Mexico will host a translocated pack of Mexican gray wolves. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with the ranch as it ...
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 ...
A win-win for farmers and wildlife?
Researchers are proposing what they hope will be a mutually beneficial solution both for low-income farmers in developing countries who are trying to protect their ...
Condors to soar over Pacific Northwest again
The California condor will return to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in a century. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service and the Yurok ...
Australia’s wildfires had a devastating toll
A year after Australia’s devastating 2019-2020 wildlife season ended, biologists are getting a grim picture of the impact on wildlife. Scientists say more than ...