The Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a complaint last week on behalf of a Wyoming resident in an attempt to stop an upcoming coyote-killing contest. The “Wyoming Best of the Best” involves teams of hunters vying to kill as many coyotes as possible from sunup to sundown. Non-hunting participants place bets on the teams they […]
In last eight years, nearly 70,000 birds have been killed in the New York City area to make the skies safer for air travel. On Jan. 15, 2009, three minutes after takeoff from New York City’s La Guardia Airport, U.S. Airways Flight 1549 hit a flock of Canada geese just northeast of the George Washington […]
Ninety-five false killer whales were stranded off the coast of Hog Key in Florida’s Everglades National Park over the weekend. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) wrote in a Facebook post this morning that 82 animals are now confirmed dead and 13 are unaccounted for. Earlier reports put the death toll at 81. https://twitter.com/NOAAFish_SERO/status/821063024467386368 […]
In an unforeseen move by the famous circus, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey owners have decided to shut down “The Greatest Show On Earth” forever after plummeting ticket sales no longer allowed the show to be viable. Kenneth Feld, chairman and CEO of Feld Entertainment, which owns Ringling Bros., announced the closure to performers […]
After five weeks of patrolling the Southern Ocean, Sea Shepherd has located the Japanese whale poachers‘ factory whaling vessel in the Australian Whale Sanctuary with a dead minke whale on its flensing deck, the first to be documented since the International Court of Justice ruled against their whaling operations in the Antarctic in 2014. Japanese […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that three of the nation’s most-used neonicotinoid pesticides pose significant risks to commercial honey bees. But in a second decision, which represents a deep bow to the pesticide industry, the agency refused to restrict the use of any leading bee-killing pesticides despite […]
By Shreya Dasgupta Global trade has made it easier to buy things. But our consumption habits often fuel threats to biodiversity—such as deforestation, overhunting and overfishing—thousands of miles away. https://twitter.com/EcoWatch/status/810981827246690304 Now, scientists have mapped how major consuming countries drive threats to endangered species elsewhere. Such maps could be useful for finding the most efficient ways […]
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has declared the rusty patched bumble bee an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). This is the first-ever bumble bee in the U.S., and the first wild bee of any kind in the contiguous 48 states, to receive ESA protection. This landmark decision was made […]
Curbing global greenhouse gas emissions is the “single most important” action needed to protect polar bears, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) urged Monday. No safe haven for polar bears in warming Arctic. via @EcoWatch https://t.co/TlLyTv6MLr ACT NOW to #SaveTheArctic: https://t.co/G3PwrlgHFw pic.twitter.com/UFmd4C2IFJ — Money For Change (@moneyforchange_) October 4, 2016 Writing in a conservation […]
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