A wildlife group has said it has “zero confidence” in the police taking action against illegal hunting after a mature stag was shot and killed. The deer, known as an imperial due to the number of its antler points, was shot at Bicknoller Quarry on Thursday. Bobbie Armstrong from Somerset Wildlife Crime said: “Sadly, the

Last Friday afternoon, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management quietly issued a plan to allow 90,000-pound trucks to crawl across one of the most remote and intact ecosystems in the world to look for oil. This planned seismic survey is a key step in the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to open the Arctic National Wildlife

Punzalan works the educational booth during the Hollister County Fair in Pinnacles National Park. Photo: Courtesy of Arianna Punzalan Arianna Punzalan spent her childhood hiking the hills of Central California. As she grew older she developed an interest in endangered species and even adopted a manatee; in high school, she preferred biology classes. Above all, Punzalan knew she wanted

White-breasted Nuthatch. Photo: Jocelyn Anderson/Great Backyard Bird Count If the winds are right, a morning on the berm overlooking the Cape May Canal in New Jersey could yield thousands of migrating birds flying past from a hundred or more different species. But in late October of 2018, dozens of individuals from an utterly unexpected species

Hunters killed a total of 328 bears in the first segment of New Jersey’s black bear hunt, more than were bagged during last year’s entire hunt and in what could be the final year for the hunt. The state’s Division of Fish & Wildlife says 42 bruins were culled on Saturday, the sixth and concluding

Sun sets on a prescribed burn in Nebraska. Burn crews are able to contain a prescribed burn accurately and consistently within the targeted area. Photo: Ed Hubbs The staggering scale of this year’s western wildfire season has driven home in dramatic fashion the consequences of misguided policies informed by a zero-tolerance attitude toward fire. More

Animal welfare campaigners today urged councils to ban hunts from their land. Fox hunting was outlawed in February 2005 following a vote in Parliament. But trail hunting, where where riders and hounds follow a scent along a pre-determined route, is allowed. It is meant to replicate a traditional hunt but without a fox being chased, maimed or

Bald Eagle. Photo: Howard Arndt/Audubon Photography Awards TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST, ALASKA — “The Roadless Rule was one of the best protections for a climate resilient forest ecosystem—important for birds, fish, and people, now and into the future,” said Natalie Dawson, executive director, Audubon Alaska. “Removing these protections is shortsighted and irresponsible. And the entire process was done

Bald Eagle. Photo: Howard Arndt/Audubon Photography Awards TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST, ALASKA — “The Roadless Rule was one of the best protections for a climate resilient forest ecosystem—important for birds, fish, and people, now and into the future,” said Natalie Dawson, executive director, Audubon Alaska. “Removing these protections is short-sited and irresponsible. And the entire process was done

When Prince Harry was seeking to impress Meghan Markle in the early days of their courtship, he took her on a surprise trip to Botswana, the African country he used to call his ‘second home’. There they celebrated her 36th birthday in a $2,000-a-night deluxe tent at the Meno a Kwena safari camp on the

Black-and-white Warbler. Photo: Brad James/Audubon Photography Awards In a single day, more than 1,000 migrating birds collided with buildings within a small area in downtown Philadelphia, killing a particularly large number of Parula, Magnolia, Black-and-white, and Black-throated Blue Warblers, Common Yellowthroats, and Ovenbirds as well as smaller numbers of many other species. Birds collide with

A study shows grey wolves in Banff National Park don’t live much longer than those in the rest of Alberta because many are being hunted or trapped when they leave the protected area. The paper that documents the survival of Banff wolves over three decades was published this week in the journal Global Ecology and

To seabird scientists, it was an ominous sign when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced, back in January, that it was putting together a plan to ramp up the lethal control of Double-crested Cormorants. The birds eat about a pound of fish per day and are much maligned by fishing groups. But they’re a

Those lucky enough to have secured one of the limited tags will get to participate in a new hunting opportunity. October 19 not only marks the date of the waterfowl opener in the Panhandle Region, but also the opener of Idaho’s first ever swan season. In August, 50 tags were issued first-come, first-serve for this

Yesterday Adam Harris and I made the two-hour run from Al Ahsa to one of the best areas in the Eastern Province for finding an interesting array of desert, grassland, and migratory birds. We arrived to Haradh just past seven and headed directly to the pivot field where last year we had seen our primary

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An unprecedented die-off of over 5,000 Cape fur seal pups on a Namibian beach is being probed by the country’s fisheries ministry. The pups were found dead at Pelican Point near the port of Walvis Bay. The pups were born prematurely and died almost immediately, said Naude Dreyer, a marine biologist at Ocean Conservation Namibia,