Here at EcoWatch, we love red wolves. Seriously, I challenge you to watch this video of “Four Weeks Young” wolves at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, North Carolina and not fall in love: Red Wolf Adventures “Four Weeks Young” www.youtube.com That’s why we were so sad to report this spring that there […]
On World Animal Day, we celebrate all the furry, scaly, winged and finned creatures that inhabit our planet. On this international day of action, participants aim to “raise the status of animals in order to improve welfare standards around the globe,” according to organizers at the UK-based charity Naturewatch Foundation. The occasion was first celebrated […]
A federal judge restored endangered species protections for grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park on Monday, The Huffington Post reported, putting a permanent halt to plans by Wyoming and Idaho to launch the first Yellowstone-area grizzly hunt in four decades. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen had already placed a temporary restraining order on […]
Thousands of scientists have signed two letters opposing changes to the Endangered Species Act proposed by the Trump administration that critics say would weaken protections in favor of developers, Reuters reported Monday. The proposed changes were announced by the Interior and Commerce Departments in July, and include axing the “blanket rule’ granting threatened species the […]
A federal judge on Thursday halted the first Yellowstone-area grizzly bear trophy hunts in four decades. Wyoming and Idaho’s grizzly hunt was set to begin this Saturday, Sept. 1 and would have allowed a potential kill of 23 bears outside of Yellowstone National Park. But U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in Missoula, Montana granted a […]
Conservation groups say the United States is playing a role in the significant decline of wild giraffe populations by allowing their skin, bones and other body parts to be sold on the U.S. market. From 2006 to 2015, the U.S. imported approximately 40,000 giraffe parts and products, thought to represent nearly 4,000 individual giraffes, according […]
A German cruise operator is under fire after one its employees shot a wild polar bear dead on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago after the animal injured a cruise ship guard. The incident occurred Saturday after the tour ship MS Brennan docked on the island, Norwegian authorities confirmed. In a statement, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises said the guard, whose […]
Monday the National Marine Fisheries Service designated 17,500 square miles of ocean as protected critical habitat for Hawaii’s false killer whales, a dolphin species whose numbers have dwindled to around 150 in the wild. The new rule, responding to legal action by the Natural Resources Defense Council, designates critical habitat from a depth of 45 […]
A week after House Republicans announced legislation intended to weaken the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the Trump administration joined the attack with a proposal environmentalists say would favor developers over vulnerable plant and animal species. The Interior and Commerce departments, which house the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, […]
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