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Wildlife in your backyard? Don’t feed animals and have patience
The mountain lion was injured in the Division of Wildlife Resource’s attempts to relocate her and her two cubs out of a Deer Valley backyard. The DWR used a firecracker to try to scare away the mountain lion family. It misfired and injured the mother’s leg. She returned to the Solamere neighborhood days later and…
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Lawsuit Targets Federal Fish and Wildlife Service’s Failure to Protect Endangered Species From Toxic Pesticides
TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed new legal challenges today to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop allowing some of the most dangerous pesticides from threatening up to 97% of endangered species. “From rusty patched bumblebees to Florida panthers, hundreds of plants and animals are really suffering while they wait…
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Indonesia’s Problems With Illegal Wildlife Poaching
By: Ainur Rohmah Photo from Brookings Institution Indonesia, one of the world’s richest countries in wildlife species, is also one of the world’s biggest illegal exporters of endangered wild and protected animals, with activists warning repeatedly about depredation by poachers. But economic factors, coupled with government inattention and lax regulation c…
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10 Ice Age animals: meet the extraordinary beasts that thrived when the world was frozen
What we know as the Ice Age, the last long period during which global temperatures dropped dramatically and the polar ice expanded to cover much of the earth, is more properly called the Last Glacial Period (as there have been multiple ice ages). It started around 115,000 years ago and lasted for over 100,000 years.…
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Wildlife In Need Center introduces new animal ambassadors
SUMMIT — Many people don’t know that Wisconsin is home to the nocturnal southern flying squirrel, but soon they will get to learn a lot more about them — as well as get to meet them — through the Wildlife In Need Center’s animal ambassador program. Both flying squirrels were brought to WINC in Summit…
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Florida wildlife attraction slapped with $9K penalty after multiple animals escape enclosures
Watch FOX 35 live <!–> KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Wild Florida, an attraction offering airboat tours for gators along with a petting zoo, has to pay $9,000 in civil penalties following the euthanization of a rhino that escaped in September 2022 and the death of other animals that escaped earlier that year. The settlement agreement…
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Lifted carcass transportation restrictions help taxidermists
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – To mitigate the spread of chronic wasting disease, hunters used to not be able to move carcasses from unit to unit. 2023 was the first year in a long time hunters in North Dakota were able to transport their carcasses without restrictions. Those transportation requirements were replaced by disposal requirements. Now,…
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Lifted carcass transportation restrictions help taxidermist
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – Last year’s hunting season brought some changes for hunters and taxidermists. In 2023, in-state carcass transportation restrictions were replaced with disposal requirements. The restrictions were set due to chronic wasting disease. With those restrictions now lifted, hunters can move big game carcasses outside of the unit where the animal was harvested.…
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USDA revokes license of West Virginia Wildlife Center, leading to indefinite closure
BUCKHANNON – In March 2020, two gray wolves at the West Virginia State Wildlife Center in French Creek escaped through a small hole in their enclosure and fled from the facility. For hours, the animals wandered southern Upshur County, until they “reached a populated area, posing a risk to people, pets and livestock.” Unable to…
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Discover the Largest National Wildlife Refuge in the United States
The largest national wildlife refuge, spanning more than 19,286,000 acres, is found in northeastern Alaska. Spread over various landscapes and regions, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is approximately the size of the state of South Carolina. Additionally, it is the biggest and wildest publicly owned land throughout the country. About the ANWR Also known…