Category: Wildlife and Animals

  • Animal Rights group excluded from New Hampshire wildlife Event following dispute

    Animal Rights group excluded from New Hampshire wildlife Event following dispute

    NH trappers show off pelts of animals caught with leghold traps and then killed for their fur. Trapping is torture, according to the NH Animal Rights League. CONCORD, NH – After over six years of participation, the New Hampshire Animal Rights League (NHARL) was not invited back to this year’s Discover Wild New Hampshire Day,…

  • Study challenges use of charismatic wildlife as umbrella species for conservation

    Study challenges use of charismatic wildlife as umbrella species for conservation

    A new study from Indonesia’s Leuser forests challenges the traditional use of charismatic “umbrella species” like tigers and rhinos to represent ecosystem biodiversity. Researchers found that focusing on these well-known species neglects other important wildlife and may not accurately represent overall biodiversity. Instead, the study proposes a data-driven approach using camera-trap data to identify the…

  • Spoon Feeding Animals As Seen Through the Spoon’s Point of View

    Spoon Feeding Animals As Seen Through the Spoon’s Point of View

    The caretakers at Peak Wildlife Park in the Staffordshire Moorlands in England, spoon fed a number of their small animals one at a time, capturing their delightful responses from the spoon’s point of view. The animals, which included lemurs, penguins, kangaroos, chickens, otters, arctic foxes, meerkats, were all very excited for their personal tidbits. Spoon…

  • 4-legged robot to help deter wildlife strikes at Alaska airport

    4-legged robot to help deter wildlife strikes at Alaska airport

    The Alaska Department of Transportation has hired a unique candidate for a very important job — keeping wildlife off the airport runways so planes can take off and land safely. Aurora, a four-legged robotic animal created by Boston Dynamics, will patrol the Fairbanks International Airport for wildlife to both reduce collisions with aircraft and collect…

  • Wild baby season means busy times for St. Francis Wildlife

    Wild baby season means busy times for St. Francis Wildlife

    Springtime means wild baby time in North Florida and South Georgia. That’s why we sought guidance from an expert from St. Francis Wildlife for advice on what to do when someone comes upon a seemingly abandoned wild baby. Wildlife Rehabilitation Manager Hannah Altonji is part of the organization that’s been looking out for the region’s…

  • Cape York wildlife rehab plan takes shape for globetrotting Cooktown advocate

    Cape York wildlife rehab plan takes shape for globetrotting Cooktown advocate

    Cooktown’s Beau Peberdy on the stage presenting at the 2024 Education and Conservation Society of Macropodidae conference in the United States. Photo: Supplied. Cooktown resident Beau Peberdy is getting plenty of stamps on his passport as he juggles his passions for animal rehabilitation and youth mental health. Mr Peberdy has just returned to Cape York…

  • Spring baby season keeps LI wildlife rehabilitators busy

    Spring baby season keeps LI wildlife rehabilitators busy

    On a spring afternoon earlier this month, a call came in to the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center: A woman had found a nest of baby squirrels in the Jeep she’d been working on in Greenport. Worried that touching the nest would cause the mother to abandon her litter, the caller was looking for help…

  • Wildlife rescue center helping to rehabilitate animals

    Wildlife rescue center helping to rehabilitate animals

    Share Noelle Dunlop is the director of development at the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center. She said it is their mission to rescue, rehabilitate and release the orphaned and injured animals they receive.  Credit: Newsday/Alejandra Villa Loarca

  • New documentary highlights LA’s wildlife, mountain lion P-22 and new crossing over 101 Freeway

    New documentary highlights LA’s wildlife, mountain lion P-22 and new crossing over 101 Freeway

    LOS ANGELES (KABC) — When you think of Los Angeles you may picture the bustling city, Hollywood and the millions of people who live here. Southern California is not only home to humans, but incredible wildlife in forests and mountains. Los Angeles wildlife photographer Robert Martinez has been capturing Southern California’s wildlife for 12 years.…

  • A friendly reminder to not feed colorado wildlife in the form of

    A friendly reminder to not feed colorado wildlife in the form of

    Colorado Parks and Wildlife are known for many things like conservation, protecting wildlife, and pretty much anything that has to do with the outdoors here in Colorado. But what about singing and songwriting? Yeah, we didn’t expect it either, but Colorado Parks and Wildlife has dropped a song. Colorado Parks and Wildlife sent out a…