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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has released recommendations for protecting wildlife during wind energy development, including restrictions in sage grouse habitat and in big game winter range and migration corridors.
A little prairie grouse could give the wind energy industry big fits.
The number of animals poisoned, shot or snared by the U.S. Department of Agriculture more than doubled last year, and environmentalists who are critical of the killings are renewing their effort to cut the program's funding.
Conservationists say livestock grazing poses a threat to a wide variety of fish and other wildlife across more than three-fourths of their dwindling habitats on federal land in the West.
Growing pressure from poaching and human encroachment in Zimbabwe has driven hundreds of elephants to migrate from the country and at least one leopard to stalk an upmarket Harare suburb, conservationists said Monday.
Legislation aimed at stopping the slaughter of wildlife that are munching on crops has passed the state Senate and now goes to the House.
Conservationists argue in a new report that U.S. taxpayers should stop subsidizing a $100 million program that kills more than 1 million wild animals annually, a program ranchers and farmers have defended for nearly a century as critical to protecting their livestock from predators.
Grizzly bears tear down a tent in the Alaskan wilderness. Another bear sinks its huge fangs into a mannequin dressed like a camper and drags it away. Black bears rip up an empty van.
Conservationists said Tuesday they were planning a big push to protect Borneo's orangutans, pygmy elephants and other endangered wildlife by purchasing land from palm oil producers to create a forest sanctuary.
Climate change threatens to kill off up to a third of the planet's species by the end of the century if urgent action isn't taken to restore fragile ecosystems, protect endangered animals and manage growth, scientists warned Wednesday as a wildlife summit opened.
Farmers in "America's Salad Bowl" are turning into hunters — stalking wild pigs, rabbits and deer — to keep E. coli and other harmful bacteria out of their fields.
The world's largest land-based census of wildlife began Wednesday across a huge swath of northwestern Namibia, World Wildlife Fund officials said.
Hundreds of reptiles including some endangered species were rescued from traffickers and released into their natural habitat in Cambodia, a conservation group said Thursday.
Global warming could force elk and mule deer from much of the American West. Wild trout could disappear in lower Appalachian streams. Two-thirds of the country's ducks may disappear.
Dennis Slaugh and his brother were riding all-terrain vehicles when they noticed what looked like a survey stake, marking federal land in Utah's rugged Cowboy Canyon.
A Tennessee elk and bison ranch and a national deer farmers' group are challenging Kentucky's law banning deer or elk from being transported into the state.
An Australian teenager blamed the influence of marijuana for his decision to steal two crocodiles and a monkey, local media reported Wednesday.
The Environmental Protection Agency took a first step Monday to ban two poisons used to protect livestock against wild animals.
Dairy farmer Ken Nobis reaches into a tall mound of what looks like topsoil and grabs a clump, which he looks over and quickly sniffs before crumbling it.
Authorities have seized dozens of animals and charged 18 men from four states with releasing trapped foxes, coyotes and bobcats into fenced enclosures to be chased down by dogs.
Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the wilderness is encroaching. Packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, the 73-year-old says, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. And she says fox, rabbits and snakes infest the meadows near her tumbledown cottage.
Banning the trade in endangered wildlife can actually result in increased trade in the animals and their parts, a report published Thursday said.
Advocacy groups are asking the government to ban two poisons widely used for killing wildlife.
Oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez 17 years ago extends farther into Alaska's tidal waters than previously thought and could be causing long-term harm to wildlife, a study concludes.
Animal rights activists win campaign to rehouse India's suffering elephants - Times OnlineThe elephant may be one of the national emblems of India, but animal-rights activists have long lamented the squalid conditions that most of the country's captive jumbos endure.
Confused birds mistake road for waterDrivers on New Zealand's south island are having to dodge birds which have begun crash-landing on roads.
Brown pelican comes back from the brink of extinctionBrown pelican comes back from the brink of extinction The brown pelican, Louisiana's state bird and perhaps its best known symbol, has recovered from near extinction after pesticide threats in the 1970s and is being removed from the federal government's list of endangered specie …
Garrett rejects Traveston dam Australian Federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, has rejected the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam project near Gympie, claiming the impact on threatened species would be "too great".
GNW: Deer Surprises Workers at Auto Repair ShopA deer made a startling appearance at an auto repair shop off of the busy I-25 and Evans intersection.
Sharp-toothed shark acts as midwifeVisitors to Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World were stunned to see one shark give another shark an impromptu caesarean section.
Villagers confine rare turtle, offer prayersHundreds of poor Hindu villagers in eastern India have refused to hand over a rare turtle to authorities, saying it is an incarnation of God, officials said on Tuesday.
Female crabs 'exchange sex for protection'Female fiddler crabs have sex with their male neighbours in exchange for protection against wandering male intruders, say Australian researchers.
Genomic zoo to unlock animal secretsAn ambitious plan to map the genomes of 10,000 vertebrates has been unveiled, which could change the way we treat disease, protect ecosystems and understand human development.
Heartbreak Highway - Defenders of WildlifeWe need to save our wildlife before it is too late.
Pooch to sniff out toad threatThe Department of Environment says a dog trained to detect cane toads will be a vital tool in assessing high risk freight entering Western Australia's Kimberley.
Giant snake capture in Florida was a hoaxA man who caught a 14-foot python in a Florida drain pipe is charged with perpetrating a hoax after wildlife officers discovered he owned the snake and put it in the pipe to stage the capture.
Sydney's Bush Rodents to 'Bully' Black RatsAn experiment to re-introduce eradicated native bush rats to the Sydney region is underway in an attempt to reduce the city's black rats from bushland.
Frog embryos 'smell' predatorsFrogs learn to recognise the smell of their enemies while they are still developing as embryos, say scientists.
Worsening Australian Timor Sea oil spill disaster - fire breaks out on leaking Oz oil rigFire broke out yesterday on the oil rig, which has been leaking oil into the Timor Sea for 10 weeks (100x100 km) . Oil field operator PTTEP Australasia said the West Atlas rig and Montara well-head platform were on fire.
Chinese Fruit Bats Demonstrate Unusual Sexual Behavior Never Before Seen in Adult AnimalsNew research published in the online journal PLoS ONE demonstrates for the first time that a non-human adult animal species regularly engages in oral sex behavior.
Bogong tour 09 takes over Parliament HouseTo work in bogong moth season in Parliament House is to be surrounded by death, corpses and confused survivors huddled in clumps in corners.
Scientists discover gene that 'cancer-proofs' rodent's cellsDespite a 30-year lifespan that gives ample time for cells to grow cancerous, a small rodent species called a naked mole rat has never been found with tumors of any kind—and now biologists at the University of Rochester think they know why.
Snake-smuggler fails to slip past customsA man has been arrested in Norway for attempting to smuggle snakes about his person in a case that has brought a very literal meaning to the term "trouser snake".
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Leaping wolf snatches photo prizeWildlife Photography Awards.
Male redbacks' risky foreplay ritualForeplay can be a matter of life or death for the male redback spider in a courtship ritual that appears even more demanding than previously thought.
Wily Coyote Survives Wild RideA coyote struck by a fast-moving car near the Nevada-Utah border apparently got trapped by the vehicle's grill and rode for several hours all the way west to the foothills east of Sacramento.
Fresh hope for crow thought to be extinctAn Indonesian crow long believed to be extinct has reappeared on a remote, mountainous island.
Yellowstone Park's celebrity wolves are dying in Montana's wolf hunt; state reconsiders tactics The wolf hunt in Montana hasn't gone as planned, with wolves in the state's wilderness area along the northern border of Yellowstone National Park taking the brunt of the hunt.
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