Northern Cardinal. Photo: Douglas Chewning/Audubon Photography Awards This audio story is brought to you by BirdNote, a partner of the National Audubon Society. BirdNote episodes air daily on public radio stations nationwide. Transcript:  This is BirdNote. Male Northern Cardinals, Scarlet Tanagers, and House Finches all have striking red plumage that’s thought to play a role in attracting

Katie Percy travels through Maurepas Swamp Wildlife Management Area in Laplace, Louisiana. Photo: Dominic Arenas/Audubon Growing up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Katie Percy gained a deep appreciation of the surrounding environments and ecosystems—longleaf pine savannas, bottomland hardwood forests, barrier islands, high marsh habitat, and coastal beaches. Though Percy spent most of her youth enjoying nature

A distressing image of a sick trophy hunter posing with a dead lioness was shared on a Tripadvisor-style site for big game hunting. Discount African Hunts, popular with Brits, operates in Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe – offering hunters the chance to kill animals – some endangered – for thousands of pounds. Some of

Donald Trump Junior’s hunting expedition to Mongolia last summer, where he had the distinction of killing a rare breed of sheep, cost taxpayers at least $76,859.36, according to documents unearthed by a watchdog group. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW,originally received Secret Service documents in March that showed that Secret Service protection

Two Māoriiwi, or tribal groups, are campaigning for a portion of the New Zealand government’s new COVID-19 economic stimulus package to help save their treasured, ancestral Raukūmara Forest from being overrun by introduced pests. The Raukūmaras stretch across around 200,000 hectares (494,000 acres) of national park and private land along the North Island’s East Cape.

Supporters of the Deferred Act​ion for Childhood Arrivals pro​gram react to the Supreme Cour​t’s ruling outside the court i​n Washington, June 18, 2020. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/The New York T​imes/Redux Today is Juneteenth. On this day, 155 years ago, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, bringing news to the last enslaved African Americans that they were

The Manatee Viewing Center in Apollo Beach, Florida. The center is entirely ADA accessible. Photo: Syren Nagakyrie When Syren Nagakyrie moved up to Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, they were in need of some quality time in nature. So they did what many nature lovers do: They searched for hiking opportunities to get to know the land.

Beaù might only be 8 months old, but this puppy knows exactly how to get what she wants. Beaù loves dogs and humans alike, and if she isn’t cozying up to her mom Kayleigh Burrowes, she’s spending time with her next-door neighbor. “She’s is so hyper all the time and loves snuggles,” Burrowes told The

Earlier this month, Roland Rydstrom opened the blinds to let the morning light into his home in Anchorage, Alaska. He was getting ready to sit down to work, but what he saw out the window was quite a distraction. A mother moose and her twin calves lay in his backyard, basking in the sun. Roland

One of Uganda’s best known mountain gorillas, Rafiki, has been killed. Four men have been arrested, and they face a life sentence or a fine of $5.4m (£4.3m) if found guilty of killing an endangered species. Investigations showed that Rafiki was killed by a sharp object that penetrated his internal organs. There are just over

Three years ago, Marie was working at her family’s veterinary clinic when a breeder walked in with a gray kitten named Pitoe. She could immediately tell something was different about the little animal. The kitten had a very round, short body and appeared to be having trouble moving around. Instagram/pitoethecat Scans revealed that the kitten

The passing of time isn’t measured merely in months and years, but in loving memories made along the way. Just ask this good dog named Ruger. He’s made plenty. Corie Bliss Ruger was just a puppy when he was adopted by Corie Bliss and her family more than a decade ago. He’s brought them joy

Wild Turkeys. Photo: Adam Bass/Audubon Photography Awards This spring, as Wild Turkey hunting season kicked off, Louisiana State University turkey biologist Bret Collier started receiving concerning reports from the field. “My graduate students following turkeys were sending me messages saying that they’d never seen this many people around,” he says. When Collier checked in with

Black-footed Albatross. Photo: Kat Paleckova/Audubon Photography Awards June 19—in addition to Juneteenth, commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States—is also the inaugural World Albatross Day. For the first time starting this year, organizations around the globe will be honoring these mighty yet threatened seabirds. Albatrosses can be found plying the South Atlantic and

The giant panda, tiny tamaraw buffalo, riverine rabbit and Iberian lynx all have something in common: they join a growing list of animals on the brink of extinction. A newly published studyin the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences lists 515 animal species with fewer than a thousand individuals remaining. Overall, the report is

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Photo: Michael Quinn/NPS What Janice Brahney saw through her microscope shocked her. A biogeochemist at Utah State University, Brahney was trying to understand how dust, carried on the wind into wild areas of the Southwest, influenced the nutrient makeup of soil there. But when she looked at the magnified dust

Brandt’s Cormorant. Photo: Steve Torna/Audubon Photography Awards WASHINGTON – “The Senate’s bipartisan vote to pass the Great American Outdoors Act is a sign of the unquestionable benefit it will have for people and nature,” said Sarah Greenberger, senior vice president for conservation policy, National Audubon Society. “There is no more important time than now to make

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Tuesday overturned an Obama-era rule that barred hunters in Alaska national preserves from baiting bear traps or killing denning bear cubs and wolf pups or other practices that have been condemned by environmental and wildlife protection groups. Under the new National Park Service rule, effective July 9,

When someone first decides they want a dog, they often settle on a few things right away: what dog breed they want, if they want a boy or girl, and if they want a puppy or an older dog. Sure, some people are happy to just go to a rescue and find any cute dog

We independently pick all the products we recommend because we love them and think you will too. If you buy a product from a link on our site, we may earn a commission. When The Dodo’s own Taylor Celentano went to her vet to see why her dog, Ryder, was having tons of gas problems,

Scarlet Tanager. Photo: Johann Schumacher/Alamy This audio story is brought to you by BirdNote, a partner of the National Audubon Society. BirdNote episodes air daily on public radio stations nationwide. Transcript:  This is BirdNote. In summer, the forests of the eastern United States are home to a bounty of birds. Birds – intriguing, attractive, mellifluous, or

This is Corks — an incredibly happy and loving dog with an insatiable passion for life. To see him now, however, you might never guess the sad story of his past. Brooke Wilson Late last year, Corks was found as an abandoned and wounded stray. Vets believe that he may have been dragged behind a

The Chinese government has officially removed pangolin scales from a list of approved ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine, a momentous move that could bring an end to the large-scale illegal trade in the scaly anteaters, conservationists say. The eight species of pangolins are together one of the most widely trafficked animals in the world, with

Least Tern with downy young. Photo: Kenton Gomez/Audubon Photography Awards Last week, amid a global pandemic, widespread police brutality in response to Black Lives Matter protests, and the Trump administration’s continued attacks on protections for birds, the Mississippi coast received another blow—Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall on the Gulf Coast as one of the earliest

In a move that environmentalists warned could further imperil hundreds of endangered species and a protected habitat for the sake of profit, President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation rolling back an Obama-era order and opening nearly 5,000 square miles off the coast of New England to commercial fishing. “We’re opening it today,” Trump

We independently pick all the products we recommend because we love them and think you will too. If you buy a product from a link on our site, we may earn a commission. There’s nothing cuter than watching a little puppy figuring out how to play. But there’s one thing that comes with all that

Fish & Game New Zealand fervently defend the “sport” of duck shooting for which the season just began in late May (it was pushed back from March due to COVID-19 restrictions). However, organizations are concerned about New Zealand’s native bird species. Animal rights organization SAFE says the sport is “inherently cruel” and should be banned.

Mike Digout has never been a big fan of Canadian geese. But this spring his views changed after meeting one remarkable mother goose caring for a very large family. Mike Digout Since work from home started, Digout has been taking walks along the Saskatchewan riverbank near his home in Saskatoon and bringing along his camera to capture the

Dutch mink farms have begun a government-ordered cull over concern that animals infected with coronavirus could transmit it to humans. Infected mink have been found on 10 Dutch farms where the animals are bred for their fur, according to the country’s Food & Wares Authority. “All mink breeding farms where there is an infection will

Animals have always had a way of finding Calvin Tucker, ever since his very first rescue in 2017. A little gray kitten showed up outside his workplace looking for help, and though Tucker didn’t even like cats at the time, something about the cat moved him. “The way he looked at me, it touched my