The Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska is a crown jewel of our nation's public lands. Wild salmon, grizzly bears, bald eagles, and wolves thrive among the millions of acres of lush, ancient forests and healthy, intact watersheds.
From the Louisville Zoo, comes the announcement today about Mojo, a 3-year-old patas monkey previously owned by NASCAR superstar Stewart and Krista Dwyer. When Stewart and Dwyer noticed Mojo maturing and becoming aggressive, they sought help,
There is no good reason to own a wild animal, says animal welfare advocate and former actor Tippi Hedren.
"It's usually an impulse buy by somebody who wants something other than a dog or a cat," said Hedren by phone from her home in California.
"You don't see the Americans killing the bald eagle, or the Chinese slaughtering the panda, or New Zealanders butchering the kiwi," Animal Liberation ACT spokesman Bernard Brennan said.
"We are the only country that kills our national emblem. There's
-- Wild bison advocates will gather in Helena, Montana, Wednesday, May 14th, on the lawn of the State Capitol, 1301 East Sixth Avenue, to draw attention to Governor Brian Schweitzer's role in the largest wild bison slaughter since the 1800s and to ask
Researchers are studying the feces of threatened animals living on Emas National Park in Brazil, for clues on their behavior and what can be done to protect them. The project's analysis of the jaguar feces showed that they rarely moved outside the
You are taking a walk in the woods when, all of the sudden, you almost step on something. You look down and see it's alive. It's furry, and it peers up at you with tiny eyes behind a little robber's mask. It is, you realize, a baby raccoon.
The tiger's carcass bore 18 bullets. Its limbs were hacked, and its claws, lower jaw and canines were missing.
The dead tiger was lying for around 15 days and the decomposed body was found only on Wednesday by the forest department in a coffee
Valerie Jane Goodall showed her colours early.
The British-born scientist's first toy was a stuffed chimpanzee and even as a small child she loved to explore nature, once disappearing for hours and explaining later that she had been hiding in a
Conservationists are worried that the world's largest population of wild orangutans in Borneo in south-east Asia will die out within three years.
That's because the trees that they live in are being cut down in order to grow palm oil, used for soaps
This black bear - seen Sun., May 4 - is one of the many that are frequently spotted this time of year along Highway 4 between the West Coast and Port Alberni.
We were hiking the banks of the rushing Murtle River in Wells Gray Park when we spotted it -- an adolescent black bear snuffling and foraging for berries in the bush about 50 metres away. It was our first close bear encounter, and so, following well-
A large, gray wolf frequently seen by visitors to Denali National Park has a good chance at survival after a snare was removed from its neck late last week.
The wolf was one of two that escaped snare traps set legally by trappers outside of the Denali
Wild animals, including elk and moose, were seen in large numbers on the highway along the St. John River in eastern New Brunswick province fleeing the worst flooding in 35 years, authorities said Saturday.
Swollen by heavy rains and melting ice packs
Seeing the baby camel at the Helsinki Zoo is a bewildering experience. Its eyes are beautiful, as if designed by Disney, but other than that it is all legs. The four-day-old camel foal is hairy, long-limbed, and clumsy.
When it squeaks, its mother,
