This commentary is from Will Staats, who lives in Victory, Vermont. He is a professional wildlife biologist who has spent nearly 40 years working in conservation for both the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department and the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. He is a lifelong ranger-hunter-trapper. The current distrust of the Vermont Fish & …
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State environmental officials said on Wednesday they now “strongly suspect” that bird flu is responsible for the deaths of large numbers of seabirds that wash ashore on the island’s shores. “Highly pathogenic avian influenza, which very rarely infects humans, is suspected to be the cause of bird deaths along the Massachusetts coastline,” the Massachusetts Department …
Editor’s Note: This is part one of the sixth article in an occasional series profiling Kentucky’s watersheds. The Cumberland River, Part One: The Lower River Basin Elk on land between the elk and bison prairie of the lake (U.S. Forest Service photo) About 700 miles long, the Cumberland River rises in southeastern Kentucky near the …
Since May 14, the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network has battled a bird crisis, with 140 weak and emaciated brown pelicans arriving downtown by truck as of Wednesday. According to Lauren Gonzales, communications manager for the Wildlife Care Network, 70 percent of those pelicans have managed to survive, with most of them seeing an improvement …
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As we chatted, Bob Massey fished with his son in an Iroquois County pond. Why not? After nearly 34 years with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (Department of Conservation), Massey retired last month as a wildlife biologist in the district (Kankakee, Grundy, Iroquois counties) with numerous other positions. He was a natural disease specialist …
We are not separate from nature. We are part of it. Whatever happens to the air that spotted owls breathe, and the water and soil that nourishes the forests they inhabit, also happens to the air we breathe, the trees that filter the carbon we produce, the water we drinking, the climate that affects it …
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MISSOULA – Searching for wildlife can be quite difficult at times, as there are more than 1,300 endangered or threatened species in the US alone. Endangered species are those plants and animals that have become so rare that they are in danger of extinction and when a species is so rare it can be very …
SOUTHPORT, NC (WWAY) — A woman in Brunswick County works to care for all of God’s creatures, one possum at a time. Anna Bolduc is a certified wildlife rehabilitator and runs Bolduc’s Wildlife Rescue in Southport, where she takes care of injured and orphaned animals. She is licensed to care for small mammals such as …
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I grew up watching wildlife documentaries and David Attenborough was always a favorite in our household. So when I started my photography journey, I naturally fantasized about photographing exotic wildlife in beautiful locations: polar bear cubs in Spitsbergen, emperor penguins in Antarctica, snow leopards in the Nepalese mountains. Funnily enough all cold weather locations, but …
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