Both black vultures & turkey vultures are rapidly expanding U.S. range and numbers Feeling down about global warming, chemical pollution, and reports about loss of species? See the vultures circling overhead? Both black vultures and turkey vultures are rapidly expanding in numbers and range across the U.S. Turkey vultures have even appeared in southeastern Alaska […]
Sonoran desert pronghorn: safer on a bombing range than in a refuge
Fastest land animals in North America, yet not quite faster than a speeding bullet, nor more powerful than the gun lobby SONORAN DESERT NATONAL MONUMENT, Arizona––Why is the endangered Sonoran desert pronghorn safer on the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, strafed and bombed day and night since 1941 by 20 squadrons of U.S. Air […]
Is the ivory-billed woodpecker––declared extinct five times––still with us?
Or have scientists just held a seance? TALLULAH, Louisiana––“Multiple lines of evidence indicate survival of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Louisiana,” insist a nine-member team in a newly posted paper by that name. The lineup of co-authors, headed by Steven C. Latta, director of conservation at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, […]
Animal-friendly energy: solar takes flight, wind power gets the bird
But even bird conservationists favor wind over fossil fuels & nukes CHEYENNE, Wyoming––Charged with killing at least 150 bald and golden eagles over the past decade at wind farms in eight states, the NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy on April 5, 2022 pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act. […]
CITES doomed the vaquita, sold the elephant in the room, & worse
U.N. Environment Assembly calls for yet another report on “the interlinkages between animal welfare, the environment and sustainable development” after ignoring a mountain of others produced at least since 1950 LYON, France––This is not just a fish story, nor just a fish-and-elephant story, nor even just another story about the failures and shortcomings of […]
See the video exposé that sent Jack Hanna into demented retirement––free!
The Conservation Game Directed by Michael Webber, featuring Tim Harrison, founder, Outreach for Animals If you have not yet seen The Conservation Game, the acclaimed exposé of exotic cat exhibition and trafficking that sent longtime animal exhibitor Jack Hanna into retirement due to alleged dementia, there will never be a better time to watch it––free––than […]
Northern Rockies persecution plus verdict could send wolves our way & yours
Will Yellowstone wolves follow Wile E. Coyote’s roadmap? SAN FRANCISCO, California––If gray wolves could read, the gray wolves of Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana would already be on the run south and west from the Northern Rocky Mountains into every adjoining state with mountains, elk, deer, and other wolf prey. In legal terms, Judge Jeffrey S. […]
Starving Florida manatees need more than just lettuce for Christmas
Feeding the manatees helps. Not feeding the algal blooms that kill seagrass would help them more. CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida––The holiday season good news from the Indian River Lagoon region along the Florida east coast is that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on December 7, 2021 at last approved a Florida Wildlife Commission plan to […]
European zoos consider killing “surplus” gorillas
The algebra of zoo management is Harambe times X-number equals what amount of public outrage cutting into profits? AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands––Is the European Association of Zoos & Aquaria heading full speed toward the 2016 Harambe debacle at the Cincinnati Zoo times a dozen? Or a hundred? Or any number in between? Did someone among the 340 […]
Animal friends Kim Crumbo, David Amess, & Ali Laoual Abagana remembered
Rewilding Earth board member, Member of Parliament, & giraffe advocate at CITES Crumbo presumed dead in Shoshone Lake, Yellowstone National Park Conservationist Kim Crumbo, 74, remembered by Project Coyote founder Camilla Fox as “a true environmental hero for wildlife and wildlands,” has been missing and presumed dead since September 20, 2021, when the remains of […]
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