On Tuesday, April 23, Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network began receiving a large influx of California Brown Pelican patients. Birds arriving are emaciated and dehydrated with many more reports of deceased pelicans being found all over Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. The SBWCN team is going into emergency response mode and is working to monitor…

This rendering shows what the wildlife crossing will look like when completed. Rock Design Associates / National Wildlife Federation When freeways are built through their natural habitats, animals often end up suffering—and so do humans on the road. Every year, more than one million wildlife-vehicle collisions occur across America, resulting in 200 deaths and 26,000 injuries to…

Unplanned urbanisation, rising dog population and the surge in the local intrusion into the wildlife habitat has forced the wild animals especially leopards and bears to enter into residential areas of Kashmir. The frequent entry of wild animals in the residential areas of the valley has resulted in the increase in the human-animal conflict besides…

You can learn a lot of things while skimming across the Everglades in an airboat with TV host Jeff Corwin. One of those things is that a dragonfly to the face at 25 mph will wake you up faster than a cup of coffee. Another nugget of knowledge from the Corwin experience is that half…

A red fox killed with a cyanide bomb. A gray wolf gunned down from an airplane. A jackrabbit caught in a neck snare. These are just a few of the 1.45 million animals poisoned, shot, and trapped last year by the euphemistically named Wildlife Services, a little-known but particularly brutal program of the US Department…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday warned that animal-human conflicts pose a danger to the very existence of forests and wildlife, a balance has to be struck which takes care of the rights of both stakeholders. “There has to be a balance between the rights of the stakeholders. We cannot take a lopsided view. Forests and…

Hawkesbury City Council is joining with WIRES to raise awareness in the Hawkesbury about preventing injuries and fatalities of native animals and treating native animals that are injured. Key steps to help our wildlife: Give way to wildlife Be prepared Locate surviving joeys Prevent further accidents Put WIRES in your contacts – 1300 094 737…

It is all hands on deck and volunteers around the clock this baby season at the WildCare Wildlife Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in California as lingering winter storms and spring yard cleaning disrupt nests. “So weather really screws us up,” Animal Care Director Melanie Piazza explained.  “When there are weather events, it can double or triple our patient intakes, so you get a…

The For-Mar Nature Preserve and the Michigan DNR say wild animals don’t exist to be props in a selfie. GENESEE TWP, Mich. (WJRT)- Wildlife experts are reminding everyone this year: leave animals alone. The reminder comes after a video in North Carolina, released by the state’s Wildlife Commission, shows a group of people taking pulling…