LACEY, Wash. - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday it will review the protected status of the marbled murrelet in response to a petition from the timber industry and others. Several groups, including the American Forest Resource Council and

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed an endangered listing for two rare Hawaiian birds, the Akikiki and Akekee, under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA). The proposal includes listing 48 animals and plants that inhabit the Island of Kauai, and

Unprecedented progress has been made towards the conservation of the Critically Endangered Yellow-eared Parrot in Colombia. A total of 80 nests, both natural and artificial, were reported and monitored by ProAves as well as the successful fledging of a fa

European Parliament Offers to Help India Save Wild Tigers BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 24, 2008 (ENS) - In advance of the Europe-India summit in Marseille next Monday, the European Parliament today passed a resolution calling on both parties to renew e

Romance does not come cheap at London Zoo. At a cost of £5 million, the zoo's tigers are to get a new home in the hope it might finally encourage them to breed. A public appeal is being launched to raise the funds to replace the current tiger paddock.

Dear Editor, On the afternoon of Sunday, September 21, our pleasant sail home from the Gulf Islands was cut short by a group of vessels which were surrounding several transient Orcas, between Moresby and Stuart Islands. There were approximately hal

AVALON -- It could be days or weeks before officials know what caused the death of a True's beaked whale that became stranded in Avalon. The whale first appeared along the beach at 23rd Street and passersbys managed to help it back into the ocean. But t

Officers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are investigating the death of an American crocodile on the University of Miami campus. The animal's headless and tailless carcass was discovered in a campus canal Wednesday afternoon.

Mobile phone technology is helping Queensland scientists unlock the mystery of why koalas bellow. The deep grunts and bellows of male koalas are a distinctive sound in Australian forests in spring, but researchers still don't understand what they mean.

KINGSTON, Wash. -- The three pods of killer whales that live in Washington's inland waters have made a visit to central Puget Sound. Howard Garrett of Orca Network, a group that tracks whale sightings, tells the Kitsap Sun that says observers spotted a