In a recent workshop aimed at sharing best practices with industry players in the postal and courier industry, Pos Malaysia highlighted a ten-fold increase in the interception of parcels containing wildlife at the Pos Malaysia International Hub. The numbers have risen from just three parcels in 2019 to 32 parcels by July 2023.   All interdictions took…

Expansion in tick populations in eastern North America over the past several decades has changed veterinary medicine. Tick-transmitted diseases are emerging in locations where they previously did not exist, and in areas where they did exist, substantial increases in prevalence are occurring.1-3 The proliferation of diagnostic tests for tick-vectored diseases and the development of topical…

Eight mussel species have been delisted: the flat pigtoe, southern acornshell, stirrupshell, upland combshell, green-blossom pearly mussel, tubercled-blossom pearly mussel, turgid-blossom pearly mussel, and yellow-blossom pearly mussel. All of these mussels were previously found in the US Southeast, ranging from Mississippi and Alabama to Tennessee and Virginia—and in the case of the tubercled-blossom pearly mussel,…

By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST  Managing wolves or any animal is a dicey subject.   Some people want wolves protected and kept on the Endangered Species List forever, and others would prefer them managed hard and kept in check ‘so they don’t eat all the elk’ and stay away from livestock. There might be a…

When the Utah Legislature last March approved $20 million to construct new highway crossings for wildlife, state policymakers continued their long and impressive history of investments in this vital infrastructure. Numerous studies throughout the West show that over- and underpasses designed specifically for animals reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions while restoring the migration patterns of deer, elk,…

Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels Angelenos love Halloween. Every year as the days start to get noticeably shorter, disembodied hands erupt from flower beds and grinning skeletons settle in to lounge on front lawns. Witches, demons and ghouls pop up on rooftops and fences, and ghosts appear hanging from tree boughs. This creepy decor is…

Kathy Halmaka has quite a crew to feed. At Unity Farm Sanctuary in Sherborn, Massachusetts, she cares for three very excited cattle — Audrey Heifer, Pal McTrouble and Elliott Steer — as well as Dudley, a shaggy white Scottish highland steer weighing in at almost a ton. Pumpkins are an occasional indulgence for the cows,…

Starks said that because of improved water quality and better land use practices, Kansas now has habitats that could sustain mussel populations again. In both of the state’s releases, the mussels were stocked on private property. That’s because 98% of land in Kansas is privately-owned, Starks said. The state has an agreement with the federal…

DURANGO – Halloween decorations can create a real scare when antlered wildlife get tangled up in them, and that’s only a small fraction of the human-created hazards deer, elk and moose can encounter in yards each fall. All of these hazards can be prevented by the public doing its part. Colorado Parks and Wildlife asks…