Group Says Florida Officers Killed 34 Snakes by Mistake
A harrowing video shows wildlife officers killing 34 legally owned snakes and a pregnant Boa constrictor at a Florida reptile sanctuary.
A harrowing video shows wildlife officers killing 34 legally owned snakes and a pregnant Boa constrictor at a Florida reptile sanctuary.
The United States government has launched an initiative to protect wildlife sanctity. This pilot program will install corridors for animals along busy roads. State and local governments, as well as several Native American tribes are set to use $350 million from the infrastructure fund to construct these corridors. Wildlife signs will be installed to notify [...]
Spring is on its way to Montana and Glacier National Park is preparing its landscape for visitors eager to see its stunning views and captivating wildlife. Snowplows and excavators have made their way onto the expansive property to clear the trails of their last remnants of winter. So far, the crews have made their way [...]
An Australian man has been charged with kidnapping a platypus and showing it off around town. The 26-year-old, whose name has not been released, is accused of capturing a platypus in the state of Queensland, taking it on a train in Brisbane, and then toting it around a shopping center to show it off. “According [...]
Earlier this year, researchers in the Bahamas wanted to get a better look at the ocean floor—and decided the best way to do that was to strap cameras to a bunch of sharks. At the time, the scientists were looking for new patches of seagrass, a type of ocean vegetation that many species rely on [...]
What makes an animal worth saving? Are certain species more deserving of protection just because we find them cute? That’s the question posed by a new bill that’s currently making its way through Congress. Called the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, the legislation would provide funding to animals most in need of conservation—not just the ones [...]
There’s been a lot of public lands news in the media this week, but the latest announcement deserves some special attention. Last Thursday, the Biden administration proposed a new rule that could change the way the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) stewards its 245 million acres of land. If approved, the rule could change the [...]
Experts are mystified by a series of dolphin beachings that has killed several of the mammals and appears to have injured or weakened many others. About 40 melon-headed whale dolphins washed up on shores east of Tokyo over the last few days, and that’s just the most recent incident. This school of dolphins did get [...]
Two tiger cubs orphaned in India are getting ready to be reintroduced to the wild. But at just eight months old and without a mother to protect them, how’s it possible to do that safely? The answer: nice and slow. The cubs were rescued about a month ago when their mother, a wild tigress known [...]
An orangutan named Zoe in a Virginia zoo named has been taking lessons in mothering from the human zookeepers who care for her. Zoe wasn’t able to nurse her first child, so, when her youngest baby was born recently, staff came up with an idea: Why not have a zookeeper who also happened to be [...]