Jeffrey Lendrum spent three decades living as the so-called “Pablo Escobar of eggs,” smuggling the fragile shells from the nests of falcons and other birds of prey to wealthy international clients.
Read more
The food market where China’s deadly virus surfaced was a smorgasbord of exotic wildlife ranging from rats and wolf pups to species linked to previous pandemics such as civets, according to vendor information and a Chinese media report.
Read more
A male tiger noses the bloodied carcass of its latest kill in a Thai national park, extraordinary footage conservationists are hailing as a rare spot of good news for the endangered big cats.
Read more
Dozens of injured koalas arrive at the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park’s makeshift animal hospital each day in cat carriers, washing baskets or clinging to wildlife carers.
Read more
Wildlife experts expressed disappointment Friday on the heels of a New Yorker’s indictment on charges that he trafficked dozens of wild cats native to Africa.
Read moreThe Sierra Club sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Army Corps of Engineers in federal court, claiming they plan to expand state roads through endangered Florida panther habitat without proper review.
Read more
Tiger burns in Australia’s bushfires? It’s a 2012 photo from Indonesia. Young girl rescues koala? Actually an artist’s impression. Social media is packed with powerful images of Australia’s bushfires — but many are fake.
Read more
Snipers took to helicopters in Australia on Wednesday to begin a mass cull of up to 10,000 camels as drought drives big herds of the feral animals to search for water closer to remote towns, endangering indigenous communities.
Read moreWildlife officials in Arizona said they have shot three mountain lions that fed on human remains found near a popular hiking trail.
Read moreThe Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center et al. sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in federal court, claiming it illegally approved the Griffin Half Moon Timber Sale of 9.8 million board feet of timber in the Ashland Resource Area, home to protected Pacific fishers and great gray owls.
Read moreSeagrass meadows in many places are imperiled by coastal development, overfishing, runoff from farm waste, and the growing threat from climate change.
Read more
A dozen koalas have been rescued from the path of bushfires raging near Sydney, conservationists said Tuesday, as devastating blazes increasingly encroach on critical habitat
Read moreA federal court in Idaho dismissed all of a family’s personal injury claims and certain other claims relating to their son’s accidental detonation of an M-44 or “cyanide bomb” that had been placed near their home. The detonation of the device, used by the U.S. Division of Wildlife Services to kill predators, injured the boy and killed his dog.
Read more
Thick reindeer fur boots and a fur hat covering most of his face shielded Niila Inga from 4 below zero Fahrenheit winds as he raced his snowmobile up to a mountaintop overlooking his reindeer in the Swedish arctic.
Read moreA federal court in Montana ruled against a neighborhood group seeking to halt a ceremonial tribal bison hunt. The group members claimed they have trouble renting cabins because “the killing field is unpleasant” and that the hunt “robs them” of the opportunity to enjoy watching or photographing the bison.
Read more
A dog in South Africa has befriended a baby giraffe that was abandoned at birth, rescued and taken to a local orphanage.
Read moreA federal jury found a California man guilty Thursday of attempting to smuggle live U.S. corals to Mexico, in violation of domestic and international laws protecting the threatened marine organisms.
Read more
Bison migration in Yellowstone National Park can significantly alter the timetable and conditions for springtime vegetation growth, according to a study released Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Read more
A tiny deer-like species not seen by scientists for nearly 30 years has been photographed in a forest in southern Vietnam, a conservation group said Tuesday.
Read moreThe Justice Department said Friday that Dow Chemical Company has agreed to pay $77 million to restore wildlife habitats damaged by toxic chemicals released from its facility in central Michigan.
Read more