Watch: Biologists work to sustain disappearing Texas bird
About 1 million Attwater’s prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri) once occupied the coastal prairies of Texas and Lousiana. Now, less than 1 percent ...
Louisiana
Oil spill funds aid Louisiana rookery
Cleanup funds from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill are rebuilding a pelican rookery on a barrier island off the Louisiana coast. Queen Bess Island supports the ...
Hybrids — and maybe a full red wolf — found in former range
Red wolves (Canis rufus) were thought to be extinct in the wild, outside of a reintroduced population in North Carolina. But a pair of recent studies have found ...
Airstrip to land at Louisiana refuge
Louisiana’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the Grand Isle Independent Levee District are planning to build an airstrip on the Elmer’s Island ...
U.S. appeals court will not rehear dusky gopher frog case
On Feb. 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied a petition filed by a group of Louisiana timber and commercial development businesses for a full ...
Whooping cranes hatch in Louisiana for first time since 1930s
A few years ago, biologists in Louisiana — covered from head to toe in white whooping crane costumes — released juvenile whoopers into the White Lake Wetlands ...
Natural Wetlands are First Choice for Egrets
While human-influenced wetlands such as flooded rice fields and ponds are available to great egrets (Ardea alba) in Louisiana and South Carolina, they still prefer ...
“Teddy” Bear to be Removed from Endangered List
More than a century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt was on a hunting trip in Mississippi where he refused to shoot a Louisiana black bear that one of the guides ...