Isle Royale wolves down to two
A population of just two aging wolves — father and daughter — are the only wolves remaining on Michigan’s Isle Royale, spelling trouble for the apex predator ...
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Bison reintroduced to Canada’s oldest national park
In the first week of February, 16 plains bison set foot in Banff National Park for the first time in more than a century. Employees with Parks Canada loaded the ...
Male elk linger while females disperse after reintroduction
Male animals typically roam farther than females, defending large territories or traveling in search of mates. But in some cases, all it takes to reverse that ...
Endangered ferrets thrive in their ancestral home
This past September in Meeteetse, Wyoming, biologists panned spotlights over a moonlit prairie dog town. Each flash of emerald eyeshine marked a captive-bred ...
JWM Study: Following New Zealand’s rare forest bird
At night, in the dark forest of New Zealand’s mainland Bushy Park reserve, you might look up and see a splash of bright yellow in the trees. Pay close attention ...
Hundreds of endangered toads released in Wyoming
On June 1, 900 captive-bred Wyoming toads (Anaxyrus baxteri) hopped into the wild at three sites along Wyoming’s Little Laramie River, marking the largest-ever ...
Epic wolverine journey ends in North Dakota
Wildlife managers at the North Dakota Game and Fish Department knew the dead wolverine was special even before they performed a necropsy. It was the first wolverine ...
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 ...
Coyote Sterilization Program in N.C. Protects Red Wolves
A sterilization program to stop coyotes from hybridizing with the only wild population of red wolves in the world has been successful so far, according to new ...
How Pennsylvania Manages Its Wild Elk
Tens of thousands of hunters and wildlife advocates across Pennsylvania recently met at the Great Outdoor Elk Expo to discuss management and conservation of the ...