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China Keeps Finding Massive Sinkholes Teeming With Strange Wildlife
China is one of the world’s most biodiverse countries. Its vast territory contains an unparalleled range of ecosystems — from tropical jungle and coral reefs in the south, to icy, high-altitude deserts in the north. But the country is also home to a unique, little-known habitat that is just starting to reveal its secrets: the…
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Philanthropist and schoolchildren team up to plant Coronation Garden for Food & Nature
The project is one of thousands of Coronation Gardens for Food and Nature that have been pledged this year. The scheme is empowering communities to grow food and help wildlife by creating space for nature in gardens and shared greenspaces. Pupils from Loddington CE Primary School planted plum, cherry, and crab apple trees in the…
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Feds expand migratory big game initiative into Idaho, Montana
Officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture are expanding into Idaho and Montana a program that offers financial incentives to ranchers and agriculture producers who voluntarily participate in conservation programs for migratory big game animals. The department is expanding the migratory big game initiative pilot program from Wyoming into Idaho and Montana, according to a…
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Feds expand migratory big game initiative into Idaho, Montana
Officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture are expanding into Idaho and Montana a program that offers financial incentives to ranchers and agriculture producers who voluntarily participate in conservation programs for migratory big game animals. The department is expanding the migratory big game initiative pilot program from Wyoming into Idaho and Montana, according to a…
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Guide showcases geology, ecology, wildlife of CT shoreline
Connecticut Sea Grant and the Connecticut College Arboretum are pleased to announce the publication of Connecticut’s Sandy Shores: An Introduction to the Geology, Plants and Animals, a 130-page guidebook with dozens of color photos and illustrations along with explanatory text about the ecology, geology, common species and why Connecticut’s sandy beaches differ from many others along the…
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NCRB: Injuries, deaths due to animal attacks increased by 19%
The number of people dying or getting injured due to animal attacks increased by 19 per cent in 2022 compared to 2021, according to the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) report. Crime in India 2022 released by the central government on December 4, 2023 showed that as many as 1,510 deaths and injuries were recorded…
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Chupacabra or coyote in California?
CLOVIS, Calif. (KMPH) — A California man recently took to Nextdoor for answers regarding an animal he caught on video. The Clovis resident says this animal has been terrorizing his chickens and he doesn’t know what it is. Some people in the comment section on Nextdoor are saying it’s the mythical creature, Chupacabra. What is…
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Celebrate a ‘Wild Winter Day’ with the critters of the Wildlife Learning Center
What to Know Wildlife Learning Center in Sylmar Saturday, Dec. 16 $25; an add-on sloth education station experience is available Sloths have become nearly as popular, or at least as often seen, as reindeer during Christmas. Finding sloth-covered jammies is a cinch, and sloth ornaments? Plenty of people have one or two on their trees.…
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Texas’s Coldest December Ever Turned the State into a Popsicle
Texas is usually a relatively balmy place to be in the month of December. While the residents of many other states spend the holidays shivering, Texans often do their Christmas shopping in short sleeves. A terribly cold December rarely happens, and although it does snow in Texas, the white stuff usually doesn’t hang around very…
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US Woman Eats Roadkill Because She ‘Doesn’t Want Animals To Die In Vain’
Manders Barnett began her nomadic saga in July 2019. (Photo Credits: Instagram) Manders Barnett kicked her wildlife technician job after she met a man who had been living a nomadic life and travelling on horseback for six years. A 32-year-old US woman named Manders Barnett, who lives outside 24/7 and consumes roadkill after turning it…