By Tim Radford Human-induced climate change promises to make life a lot harder for one of Australia’s most charismatic species—the koala. The herbivorous marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus), unique to the world’s largest island, is rarely seen. It moves slowly, lives high in the canopy on a diet of eucalyptus leaves, sleeps for up to 20 hours […]
The highly secretive arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture known as Wildlife Services killed more than 3.2 million animals during fiscal year 2015, according to new data released by the agency. The total number of wolves, coyotes, bears, mountain lions, beavers, foxes, eagles and other animals killed largely at the behest of the livestock […]
As the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) proposes to remove the Yellowstone area’s grizzlies from the Endangered Species List, two bears were killed on Sunday evening in separate car accidents in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. According to KTVQ, a CBS affiliate in Billings, Montana, the first bear was a female adult black bear that was […]
There’s a nationwide buzz in the air about saving bees and other pollinators, but the pesticide industry has been working hard to silence this growing call for reform. Bees, vitally important to food production, are dying at unsustainable rates — an unprecedented average 30 to 40 percent of all honeybee colonies each year. In the face of […]
A new analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity and For the Fishes finds that 6 million tropical marine fish, which are imported into the U.S. each year for the pet trade, have been exposed to cyanide poisoning. The findings come ahead of the release of Disney/Pixar’s Finding Dory, which is likely to fuel a […]
By David Kirby Paul Spong deftly threads the June Cove through the churning tidal waters of Broughton Strait, skirting granite outcrops topped with evergreens, until we enter the bottle-green expanse of Blackfish Sound. Rounding a rocky headland on Hanson Island, we pull into a sheltered cove surrounded by thick stands of cedar, fir and spruce. […]
A video of a Pakistan fisherman is going viral after saving a sea turtle entangled in a plastic bag in the Arabian Sea. Rahim jumps into the water to help the struggling turtle. Photo credit: WWF, Facebook Amir Rahim was on a tuna fishing boat about 180 nautical miles off the coast of Karachi, Pakistan, […]
June 16 is World Sea Turtle Day and while we all know they’re pretty, that the younglings rush to the water after they hatch and that they often become victims of plastic waste, there’s so much more to these guys. Their age, anatomy and physical abilities are astonishing and undeniably justify giving these guys their […]
By Animal Welfare Institute Norway is now the world’s leading whaling nation, killing more whales in the past two years than Japan and Iceland combined. A new report released Monday calls on the international community to respond to Norway’s systematic efforts to weaken management rules and improve market conditions for its whalers. Frozen in Time: […]
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