Animals

By Glenn Watkins, National Wildlife Federation In honor of Save the Frogs Day, April 30, we’re celebrating species of frogs that depend on a very unique habitat—vernal pools. Save the Frogs Day is April 30. Photo credit: Peter Pearsall / USFWS Vernal pools are shallow depressional wetlands that appear seasonally in meadows and woodlands and […]

In case anyone needed a reason to spend hours on end looking at pictures of adorable penguins, we now have a valid excuse: scientists need us to. Researchers from the University of Oxford studying penguins in Antarctica are conducting the largest ever census of penguins and have launched the latest version of their project, PenguinWatch […]

By Orietta Estrada A massive fish kill in the Queule River Estuary in Chile last week has left fishermen overworked, residents in fear and thousands of tons of dead sardines floating along local shorelines. According to a statement on the website Chile’s National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (SERNAPESCA), the entire area has been declared a […]

Regulators from the U.S. Pacific Fishery Management Council have banned sardine fishing off California, Oregon and Washington to allow the struggling species to recover. Sardine stocks are at historic lows and might get worse. This is the second year in a row that the West coast fishing regulatory body was forced to take this action. […]

[Editor’s note: Evidence has been mounting that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been silencing its own bee scientists who have raised the alarm about the deadly impact that pesticides, particularly neonicotinoids, have on bees. Last month, for example, the Washington Post reported the story of Jonathan Lindgren, a USDA bee scientist, who filed […]

A beloved black rhino living in Zimbabwe’s Matopo National Park was euthanized after suffering from “unimaginable pain” from multiple poaching wounds, Zimbabwean wildlife authorities said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcfDWQmQA0I The 8-year-old rhino was named Ntombi, which translates to “girl” in Zimbabwe’s Ndebele language. The well-known rhino, who was reportedly featured in the 2012 Animal Planet series Karina Wild on Safari, was also the mother of […]

The wild tiger population has increased for the first time after more than a century of constant decline. A Bengal tiger resting in Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India. There are more than 2,500 Bengal tigers left in the wild, making them the most numerous tiger subspecies. Photo credit: Staffan Widstrand / WWF The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its first-ever analysis on the effects of three common pesticides—chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion—on endangered and threatened species and designated critical habitat nationwide. The resounding conclusion? Pesticides are terrible for them. According to the report, malathion and chlorpyrifos harms an astounding 97 percent of the 1,782 animals and […]