The imperilled northern spotted owl has won a reprieve. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) moved Tuesday to reverse a Trump administration decision that would have opened millions of acres of the owl’s West Coast forest habitat to potential logging, arguing that Trump political appointees acted on inaccurate science. “You can’t remove over a […]
At least 126,000 gallons of crude oil have gushed from a pipeline just five miles off the Southern California coast Sunday, wreaking still-unknown devastation on local wetlands and fouling Huntington Beach. “It’s terrible,” Jon Ely, a 58-year-old Huntington Beach resident, told the Los Angeles Times. “This stuff is not going to come up. It’s goo, […]
The mysterious deaths of 63 endangered African penguins are being attributed to an unusual cause — bee stings. The birds were found dead Friday morning on a beach outside of Cape Town, South Africa, according to AFP and a South African National Parks (SANParks) Table Mountain National Park Facebook Post. “After tests, we found bee […]
More than 100 birds have been found covered with oil following a spill linked to Hurricane Ida‘s path through the Gulf of Mexico late last month. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) said Thursday that the birds were impacted by a spill at the Alliance Refinery in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. “The number of […]
Researchers have caught an extraordinary event on camera: a Seychelles giant tortoise killing and eating a tern chick. The incident, documented in the journal Current Biology Monday, is so surprising because tortoises are generally assumed to be vegetarians. “This is completely unexpected behaviour and has never been seen before in wild tortoises,” study leader Dr. […]
A golden, thick-billed bird thought to have died more than 1.5 years ago was seen alive on the slopes of a Maui volcano last Wednesday. The discovery is giving researchers hope for the critically endangered species, Newsweek said. The kiwikiu, or Maui parrotbill, is recognized as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]
What happens to us as the wild world unravels? Vanishing, an occasional essay series, explores some of the human stakes of the wildlife extinction crisis. Our small family knew bobolinks from a bird refuge four hours away. Each spring my partner and I made the trip to Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge with our daughter […]
Harpy eagles are the largest eagles in the Americas and one of the largest eagle species in the world, with adult females weighing as much as 22 pounds. But these massive birds are running out of room and food, a study published in Scientific Reports Wednesday has found. These apex predators are extremely vulnerable to […]
Some birds have mastered living in the scorching, dry environment of a desert. But even desert-adapted birds can’t handle extreme temperatures like those seen during heat waves. A heat wave is said to occur when unusually high temperatures prevail for several days in a region. During one heat wave that lasted eight days, all of […]
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