Tag: Wildlife management
Reward offered for tips on killing of bald eagle in Vigo Co
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A $2,000 reward is being offered for information into the killing of a bald eagle in western Indiana.
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Wild population of endangered Mexican wolves keeps growing
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Once on the verge of extinction, the rarest subspecies of the gray wolf in North America has seen its population nearly...
Warming oceans mean smaller baby sharks struggle to survive
PORTLAND, Maine — The warming of worldwide oceans from climate change means baby sharks are at risk of being born smaller and without the...
US states look to step up wolf kills, pushed by Republicans
BILLINGS, Mont. — Payments for dead wolves. Unlimited hunting of the animals. Shooting wolves from the air.
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Crocodile hunt: Search on for escaped reptiles in S. Africa
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Police and conservation officers were searching Friday for an unknown number of young crocodiles that escaped earlier in the...
Government offers plan to release more endangered red wolves
Government wildlife officials released two more critically endangered red wolves into the wild in North Carolina and could place several more captive-bred wolves into...
Review: Elk hunters become the hunted in novel ‘Dark Sky’
“Dark Sky,” by C.J. Box (Putnam)
Steve Price, the billionaire left...
2nd endangered orangutan baby in 2 years at New Orleans zoo
NEW ORLEANS — It’s cute, cuddled, red-haired, and critically endangered — and the second Sumatran orangutan born in two years at the zoo in...
Incomplete polar bear survey halts Alaska oil search bid
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska Native corporation that was hoping to receive a federal permit to look for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife...
2 giraffes in Kenya park electrocuted by power lines
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s wildlife agency says two giraffes were electrocuted on Sunday when they walked into low-lying electric power transmission lines that pass...