Rat poison used on illegal marijuana farms may be sickening and killing the fisher, a rare forest carnivore that makes its home in some of the most remote areas of California, according to a team of researchers led by University ...

Biology - Ecology

Jul 13, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 8 |

Trapped in a steel cage barely big enough to hold her, the large squirrel was not happy, pawing at the bars and trying them with her teeth. Matt Whitbeck and Cherry Keller of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were glad to ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 29, 2013 not rated yet 0

A small population of rattlesnakes that already is in decline in southern Illinois faces a new and unexpected threat in the form of a fungus rarely seen in the wild, researchers report. The finding matches ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 21, 2012 not rated yet 0

A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit from conservation groups that want to block wolf hunting and trapping that have killed more than 500 of the predators across the Northern Rockies in ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 15, 2012 3.4 / 5 (5) 26

(AP) -- Wildlife biologists on Friday will evacuate two species of minnows from the shrinking waters of a West Texas river in the first of what could be several rescue operations involving fish affected by the state's worst ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 16, 2011 not rated yet 0

(AP) -- The Obama administration is taking steps to extend new federal protections to a list of imperiled animals and plants that reads like a manifest for Noah's Ark - from the melodic golden-winged warbler ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 29, 2011 not rated yet 1

(AP) -- A federal judge has ruled the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can reconsider the critical habitat designation of two threatened fish species in New Mexico and Arizona after a probe found political interference likely ...

Biology - Ecology

May 07, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

Conservationists welcomed a US appeals court ruling that grizzly bears still need protecting, after federal authorities sought to have them taken off an endangered species list.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 23, 2011 3 / 5 (2) 4

In a study published online this month in the Journal of Heredity, NOAA researchers and others, using DNA testing to fill in a missing link in the lives of killer whales that seasonally visit Washington's Puget Sound, have d ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 21, 2011 not rated yet 0

On May 1, USDA Forest Service, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Memphis Zoo, and other partners released seven young Louisiana pine snakes on a restored longleaf ...

Biology - Ecology

May 07, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 2

(AP) -- Conservation groups are asking a federal judge in Missoula to block fall wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana.

Biology - Ecology

Aug 21, 2009 not rated yet 0

(AP) -- American wildlife officials and ranchers are raising questions over a plan to release a rare North American gray wolf to its historic range in northern Mexico: Will it stay south of the border and ...

Biology - Ecology

Aug 13, 2009 3 / 5 (2) 0

(AP) -- A decision involving the iconic polar bear could determine whether protecting endangered species might also help save the earth from global warming.

Biology - Ecology

May 08, 2009 2.3 / 5 (3) 1

A draft plan to conserve habitat for endangered and threatened fishes in the California Bay-Delta while continuing to divert water for agricultural and personal use in central and southern California has critical missing ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 05, 2011 not rated yet 0

(AP) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday denied a request by environmental groups to halt wolf hunts that are scheduled to begin next week in Idaho and Montana.

Biology - Ecology

Aug 26, 2011 not rated yet 2