Tag: translocation

When translocated short distances, many crocodiles waste no time returning to the areas where people perceived them as problems in the first place. “Pretty much right away, were like ‘I’ve...

When the Enbridge pipeline burst into a Michigan creek in 2010, Josh Otten was ready to help with the cleanup, especially since he knew wildlife was being affected. “I was...

The Bronx Zoo has translocated six bison to the Osage Nation in an effort to bolster the herd in part of Oklahoma. The animals will join a herd comprising of...

Two decades of Gunnison sage-grouse translocation have revealed that when it comes to survival, you can’t teach an old grouse new tricks. Tony Apa has been involved with boosting Gunnison...

By the 1980s, more than 80% of populations of Chiricahua leopard frogs in Arizona and New Mexico had disappeared. The amphibians faced habitat loss, predation by invasive fish like bass...

The swift fox (Vulpes velox) disappeared from the landscape of the Fort Belknap Indian Community in Montana over 50 years ago, due largely to poisoning as part of a coyote...

Coyotes have woven their way into the ecological fabric of urban life in many North American cities, but they can also cause conflicts with people. “Their intelligence and adaptability makes...

Sea otters translocated to new parts of the Pacific half a century ago have mostly burgeoned into healthy, sustaining populations despite having a nearly 90% death rate in some areas...

Translocations have overwhelmingly produced the types of results that wildlife managers intended, according to a new review. Whether it’s bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) being shifted back into montane ecological niches...

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 searches...