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- We can help wild animals
- Fireworks, animals and the environment
- Tales from the Sargasso Sea
- Rat Poisons Pushing Dozens of Endangered Species Toward Extinction, Including Florida Panthers, California Condors
- Alarming trend: More pets caught in traps in British Columbia
- About The Wayward Emperor Penguin and Bird Flu
- Rewilding in action along Washington's Elwha River
- World Vegan Month Call to Action: Deer-Aware Fencing
- Alcohol Consumption Widespread In Wild Animals, Says Study
- Algae bloom kills hundreds of sea lions off California
- Wildlife on the Move: Navigating Florida's Post-Hurricane Threats
- Nearly 100,000 birds dead in botulism outbreak linked to climate change, water diversions
- 'Three Rivers of Woe' - David Quammen on Climate Change, Extinction, and Epidemics
- Elephant Nature Park... Flooding at the Sanctuary
- How Do Colorado's Wolves Feel Being Treated as Unfeeling Objects?
- Indian temple welcomes life-size mechanical elephant in move to protect wildlife
- Manatee Kee's Amazing Story
- North America's Largest Convention Center Installs Life-Saving Bird-Safe Window Film
- Amazon Death Rattle
- Millions of Dollars to Benefit Sage Grouse, Other Wildlife Delivered by Caldwell Canyon Mine Agreement
Archive
- 1 dead swan, 2 floating ducks, and some beer cans in a willow tree
- 8 Good Environmental News Stories You Might Have Missed
- 10 Fascinating Facts About Gorillas
- 10 Ways War Harms Wildlife
- 13 Yellowstone Bison Killed in Collision with Semi-truck on Hwy 191
- 21 Species Declared Extinct By U.S. Wildlife Officials
- 23 Wild Horses Killed During Cruel Nevada Helicopter Roundup
- 39 Wild Horses Died at Brutal Nevada Helicopter Roundup
- 115 Top U.S. Wolf Experts, Scientists Urge Biden Administration to Restore Federal Protections for Gray Wolves
- 200 Wild Horses Will Not be Removed from North Dakota National Park
- 405 Coyotes Slaughtered During Illinois Wildlife Killing Contest
- 50,000 Spanish Galgos/Greyhounds are Killed Every Year
- 1,428 Dolphins Slaughtered in the Faroe Islands Sunday Night
- $78M taxpayer dollars spent caring for wild horses 'removed' from public lands
- A Beef About Beef: Boycott Long Overdue?
- About 'Game' Bird Shooting
- A feather worth more than gold: history of hunting birds for the feather trade
- A Long-sought Win for Pint-sized Pygmy Owls
- A Not-So-Happy 50th Anniversary of Landmark Wild Horse and Burro Act
- About The Wayward Emperor Penguin and Bird Flu
- About Wildlife Rehabbers Who Suffer from Species Biases
- Activists sue BLM for selling wild horses to ‘kill buyers’
- Adidas and the Controversy Over Kangaroo Leather
- Ads Thank Residents For Not Feeding Wildlife
- A Hidden Threat to Bats: Hunting
- Air France Will Finally End Cruel Shipments of Monkeys for Research
- Air pollution threatens key crop pollinators
- Alarming trend: More pets caught in traps in British Columbia
- Alcohol Consumption Widespread In Wild Animals, Says Study
- Algae bloom kills hundreds of sea lions off California
- Algae Blooms, Seagrass Loss, and Manatee Deaths
- Amazon Death Rattle
- And yet ANOTHER Wild Horse Roundup
- Animal-Free Agriculture Is Key to Restoring Biodiversity
- Anonymous People Destroy Hunting Equipment
- Are wild elephants still captured and imported to U.S. zoos?
- A trillion cicadas will emerge in the next few weeks. This hasn’t happened since 1803
- Avi Kwa Ame and Castner Range Designed as National Monuments
- Beavers Win Legal 'Right to Remain' in England for First Time Ever
- Beloved Mountain Gorilla, Ndakasi, Dies at Virunga National Park
- Biden Administration to Leave Wolves Stripped of Endangered Species Protections
- Biden Budget Fails to Address Extinction Crisis
- Big Win for Sage Grouse in California and Nevada
- Biofluorescence In Amphibians
- Biological carrying capacity
- Black bear myths that may surprise you
- BLM Bans M44s/Cyanide Bombs on 245 Million Acres of Public Lands
- BLM plan to wipe out Lake Mead burros
- BLM removes more than 200 wild horses in opening days of Piceance-East Douglas helicopter operations
- BLM Wild Horse Killers Ride On
- Brian May Responds To Backlash To Badger Cull Documentary
- California Coastal Commission Decides to Issue Death Sentence for Farallones Ecosystem
- California's Habitat Conservation Fund Saved
- Calling Foul on Culling Waterfowl
- Cambodian Wildlife Official Arrested In US For Trafficking Macaques For Medical Research
- Canada Bans Wildlife-killing Strychnine
- Canada Wants To Market Seal Meat As A Seafood Delicacy To Boost Demand For The Controversial Product
- Can Agriculture Prevent Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction?
- Cattle Ranch Converted to Wild Horse Range
- Cattle vs. Grasshoppers in the Wild West
- Celebrating 20 years of Animal Defenders International
- Chessie the Manatee's Incredible Journey
- Childless Skunk and Orphaned Kit = A New Family
- Chinese donkey skin trade remains a serious threat on World Donkey Day
- Coal-Harmed Crayfishes Get 446 Miles of Habitat Protection
- Coconut Controversy: The Heartbreaking Truth Behind Your Coconut Products
- Colorado bill, so-called advocates, betray wild horses
- Colorado Wolves: Hyped Media Derails Neighborly Coexistence
- Condemning Indigenous Hunting Practices: Are We Throwing Stones from Glass Houses?
- Conflicts between wolves and humans are unnecessary
- Congressional War on Wolves: Trust the Science Act
- Conservation Works—and Science Just Proved It
- "Conservationists" don’t want to save birds; they want to kill cats
- Controversial Experiments Threaten Minke Whales
- Court Blocks Logging in Montana's Kootenai National Forest: Grizzlies 1, Logging 0
- Court Orders Reconsideration On Petition To Protect Yellowstone Bison Under Endangered Species Act
- Court Scraps Massive Montana Logging Project Threatening Grizzlies, Old Forests
- Coyotes: the other wild canine
- Debris in Waterways is Dangerous to Manatees and Other Wildlife
- Deer Hunters
- Defanging Nature: How Human Exceptionalism is Destroying the Wild
- Developer Ditches Plan to Dam Arizona’s San Francisco River
- Did an abused monkey pick your coconut?
- Dismantling the Myths used to Justify Trapping Wild Animals
- Dixie Valley Toads Win Final Protection
- Donkey Slaughter Ban is an Historic Decision for the Whole Species
- Dugong Functionally Extinct In China
- Eating Beef Destroys Wild Horses and Causes Global Warming
- Eels, Cocaine and Climate Change
- Elephant Nature Park... Flooding at the Sanctuary
- Elephants call each other by unique names
- Even Low Levels of Recreation Affect Wild Animals' Behavior
- Exciting update on the gibbon release in Sumatra where eight couples have beensuccessfully reintroduced into the wild
- Expressions of Life
- Extinction-Free BBQ
- Famous Tortoise Survivor of World War I Celebrates 106 Years in New Zealand
- Federal Court Restores Gray Wolf’s Endangered Species Act Protection
- Federal judge denies motion to protect wild horses from potential slaughter
- Fireworks, animals and the environment
- First Ever Coyote Awareness Week, March 17-23, 2024
- Fishing Harms Everyone
- Five Facts About Skunks and Kits
- Five Surprising Facts About Hibernation
- Fleeing the Flames: How Wildfires Impact Wildlife
- Flaco and Happy
- Florida Panthers' future hangs in the balance—does government plan to save the rare cat?
- Florida's Endangered Key Deer – is time running out to save them?
- Forest Service plan for Arizona’s Heber wild horses could mean death in 2023
- For snakes sake! Humans need to give these ecosystem engineers a break
- Fossil Fuel Extraction Threatens Africa’s Remaining Elephants
- Foxes are Simply Magnetic
- Fracking Prevented on 35,000 Colorado Acres
- Friends of Animals Joins Outcry against Plan to Eliminate Wild Horses from North Dakota's Theodore Roosevelt National Park
- Friends of Animals Sues FWS for Making Hunting Imagery Mandatory on Federal Duck Stamp
- Giraffes: Africa's iconic species often forgotten in the fight against extinction
- Give Turtles a Brake!
- Grandma FahMui has left us
- Grizzly Bears Still Trapped in Their Own Endzone
- Harp Seal Hunt Begins [AGAIN] on April 6, 2023
- Have we gone overboard on banding birds?
- Hawaii is The First State to Ban Shark Fishing
- Healthy Ecosystems Need Birds, but Billions Fatally Strike Our Windows Every Year
- Holding the Proverbial Line: New Zealand's Possums
- How Do Feathers Work, And What Can They Tell You?
- How Does Habitat Fragmentation Harm Wildlife?
- How Domestic Sheep Threaten the West’s Wild Bighorns
- How Do Colorado's Wolves Feel Being Treated as Unfeeling Objects?
- How Eating Animals Harms Wildlife
- How Food Waste Hurts Wildlife
- How organic gardeners keep the ‘bad’ bugs at bay
- How the Media Failed Freya the Walrus
- How to Kill a Wolf in Society
- How To Kindly Coexist With Extra Small Animals, Including Uninvited House Guests
- How Wolf Removal Can 'Unravel' Key Ecological Systems
- Huge Victory for Ocean Defenders as Seismic Blasting Halted in Atlantic
- Humane Deer Control? Don't Buy the Myth
- Humans vs. Woolly Mammoths
- Humboldt Martens Receive Long-awaited Endangered Species Act Protection
- Hunt Havoc: The Human Cost of Hunting with Hounds
- Hunt Official Charged Following League Against Cruel Sports Webinars
- Hunting Birds with Cruel Glue Traps is Now Illegal in France
- Hunting Tradition: Treaties, Law, and Subsistence Killing
- Iberian Orcas and Boats
- I'm Ace
- Indian temple welcomes life-size mechanical elephant in move to protect wildlife
- In the Eyes of the Hunted, There’s No Such Thing as an “Ethical Hunter”
- I study elephants. Here's why I support their right to liberty
- Is There Hope for Ending New Zealand's War on Possums?
- Judge Allows Wild Horse Roundups to Continue, Despite 13 Deaths
- Keystone Species: The Key to a Healthy Environment
- Killing Hundreds of our National Mammal [Bison] Annually is a Bunch of Bull
- Killing of Native Wildlife by Federal ‘Wildlife Services’ Declined Sharply in 2020
- Killing neck snares: simple design, significant suffering
- League Against Cruel Sports' Activity Booklets for Kids
- Let's Celebrate: There's a new elephant mum in our midst!
- Live Bullfrogs Will No Longer Be Sold Or Imported Into California
- Living with Bears: Embracing a Miracle of Nature
- Lulu's 82 Years in Tanks
- Making a Killing: An Overview of the Extent, Scale and Cost of Trophy Hunting in Great Britain
- 'Major Victory': Court Tosses Out Trump Interior's Gutting of Century-Old Protections for Migratory Birds
- Manatee Kee's Amazing Story
- Marvelous Mules: Special Care Considerations
- Maryland has become the eighth state to ban Wildlife Killing Contests
- Meaningful Actions against Biodiversity Loss: Lights Out for Bugs and Birds
- Medicine Residue Is Everywhere in Our Rivers and Lakes—and Fish Are Behaving Strangely
- Meet a Manatee: Deep Dent
- Mendocino Board of Supervisors Votes 3 to 2 to End Contract with USDA Wildlife Services
- Mice, Hedgehogs and Voles Need Conservation Champions
- Millions of Dollars to Benefit Sage Grouse, Other Wildlife Delivered by Caldwell Canyon Mine Agreement
- Monkeys falling dead from trees as intense heat hits Mexico
- Monkeys Infected With Transmissible Diseases Are Trucked Across U.S.
- More than 4,000 New Elephants in Kenya Proves Anti-Poaching Efforts Work
- More Than 5,000 Cranes Die in Israel as Victims of Animal Agriculture - Avian Flu
- More Than 200 Million Pounds of Pesticides in U.S. Are Applied to Crops Grown to Feed Animals on Factory Farms
- Mt. Rainier White-tailed Ptarmigan Protected Under Endangered Species Act
- My Beloved Cat Oscar Survived a Snare set for 'Wild' Animals
- Nearly 100,000 birds dead in botulism outbreak linked to climate change, water diversions
- Neptune's Pirates Coming to Television
- Nevada Lands and Wildlife Win!
- New Mexico Town Cancels Contract U.S. Government's Wildlife Services
- New Research by Born Free USA Calls for End to Trapping as Crushing Cruelty is Uncovered
- New York Bans Wild Animal Killing Contests Becoming the 10th State To Do So
- North America's Largest Convention Center Installs Life-Saving Bird-Safe Window Film
- Now I am Become Death: Mexican Wolf Asha
- Ode to a Turkey
- Of Mice and Men
- On Behalf of the Bears
- Orangutan Rakus Treats His Own Wound
- Oregon Becomes Ninth State to Prohibit Wildlife Killing Contests
- Outlook on the emerging field of wild animal welfare research
- P-22, California’s Beloved Mountain Lion, has Died
- Palm Oil in Common Household Products Is Destroying the World's 'Orangutan Capital'
- Parrots Do Not Make Good Household Companions
- Pathogens Can’t Read Permits
- PAWS Welcomes A New Resident: Bobcat Rumi
- Pesticides: Existential Danger
- Plants and their pollinators are increasingly out of sync
- Playful Bear Cubs at Four Paws Bear Sanctuary
- Poacher Who Killed 500 Elephants Gets 30 Years in Prison
- Poisoning the Solution: Lisa Owens-Viani and the Campaign to Save Raptors From the Ravages of Rodenticides
- Pool Parties Aren’t for Everyone - Protecting Wild and Companion Animals from Swimming Pool Dangers
- ‘Possum Purge’: To Cleanse and Purify
- PPE May Save Human Lives, but It's Deadly for Wildlife
- Prairie Dogs Moved Out of Bulldozer's Way
- Protecting Wolves, One Health and Humanity: Stop Crying Wolf! Cry for the Wolves
- PUMA To Stop Using Kangaroo Leather For Shoes
- Publix Drops Coconut Milk Tied to Monkey Labor
- Qualities and Virtues Wolves and Humans Share
- Rabies Strikes Cape Fur Seals: Unprecedented Threat to South Africa's Coastal Haven
- Racing Turtles to Extinction in Minnesota
- Rat Poisons Pushing Dozens of Endangered Species Toward Extinction, Including Florida Panthers, California Condors
- Reindeer Population in Canada Gets U.S. Protection
- Relief for Washington State Bears: No Spring Hunt in 2022
- Reno, Nevada, City Council Passes Resolution Condemning Wildlife Killing Contests
- Respecting Pigeons
- Rewilding in action along Washington's Elwha River
- Rhino Poaching Increases In South Africa After Deadly Year
- RIP Tolstoy… a tragic end to a majestic Big Tusker
- Roundup Eradicates Wild Horse Herd in Colorado
- Sabotaging Hunts, January 2024 Roundup
- Saving the Purple Martins from extinction in 2024
- Saving Turtles and Tortoises From Extinction
- Saving Wild Animals in Need. . . and Sometimes in Secret
- Secrets of the Elephant Trunk
- Semi-truck Kills 7 Wild Horses during Another Cruel Nevada Helicopter Roundup
- Shocking Federal Report Finds 50% Wetlands Loss
- Sperm Whales Have Culture Too: Strong Evidence That Clans, Culture, and Dialects Are Not Unique to Humans
- Spring cleaning can save lives of wildlife
- State Judge Issues 'Dramatic Decision' in Striking Down Wisconsin Wolf Hunt
- Stop Capturing and Selling Painted Wholly Bats
- Stop the Annual Slaughter of Yellowstone's Wild Bison
- Suit Scores $32.6 Million for North Carolina Species
- Take a Hike, Not a Life
- Tales from the Sargasso Sea
- Ten Grim Climate Scenarios When Global Temperatures Rise Above 1.5 Degrees Celsius
- The Amazing Mosquito!
- The Big Lie That’s Destroying the Wild Horses of the American West
- The Concerning Future of Long-tailed Macaques
- The Cost of a Pet Monkey? Too Much.
- The Costs of a Wall: The Impact of Pseudo-Security Policies on Communities, Wildlife, and Ecosystems
- The Donkey Skin Trade—Everything You Need To Know
- The Endangerment of the World's Turtles
- The Expanding Frog Trade
- The Lord God Bird and Dozens of Other Species Declared Extinct in 2021
- The Magic Rabbit
- The Murder of Freya
- The Mystery Snail: Balancing Compassion and Conservation
- The Role of Animal Experimentation in Endangering Species
- The Secret Behind Tigers' Orange Coloring
- The Thing About Wasps
- The Tragic Tale of the Malay Tapir
- The Tule River Tribe of California recruits an old ally in its fight against wildfires: Beavers
- The undamming of American rivers is an idea whose time has come
- The Wildlife Trade’s Contributions to This—and the Next—Pandemic
- The 'Wolves in School' Program
- They shoot prairie dogs, don't they?
- 'Three Rivers of Woe' - David Quammen on Climate Change, Extinction, and Epidemics
- This is the Beginning of the Story...
- Thrill Kill: Recreational Animal Slaughter in the U.S. (2023)
- Time to Stop Trapping 'Furbearers': Promote One Health-Focused Wildlife Stewardship
- Tiny Bear Cubs Rescued Before Being Sold
- To Save Planet, Solve Twin Crises of Climate Change and Species Loss Together, Say UN Scientists
- Too Little Accountability for Labs Using Horseshoe Crabs
- Traps are injuring and killing pets, new data released
- Tule Elk at Point Reyes National Seashore May Be Killed to Appease Ranchers
- Ugandan Farmers Create Ingenious, Harmless Repellent to Save Crops and Elephants
- Undercover Investigations Expose Brutal Wildlife Killing Contests
- UN Warns Human Activity Pushes Over 1 in 5 Migratory Species Toward Extinction
- U.S. Forest Service Restores Critical Protections to Tongass National Forest
- USFWS Grants Foothill-Yellow Ledgged Frogs Endangered Species Protections
- US Government Sued Over 'Unethical Destruction' of Wolf Population
- Utah's Wild Horses Saved From Brutal and Dangerous Surgical Sterilizations
- 'Voracious' Appetites - New Zealand's Possums are 'Pests'?
- Washington Wildlife Commission Cancels Spring Bear Hunt
- We are who eats us: A cultural argument to protect large carnivores
- We can help wild animals
- We Found 33 Amphibian Species During Our Costa Rica Ecotour
- What It’s Like to Watch a Harpooned Whale Die Right Before Your Eyes
- What you can say in defense of America’s wild horses
- What You May Not Know About Ryder
- What You Need to Know About The Shark Fin Trade
- What's on the Horizon for 2024?
- Where Do Tule Elk Stand Now?
- WHO Report: Wildlife Exploitation Likely Caused COVID-19 Pandemic
- Why Did National Park Service Rangers Kill a Newborn Bison Calf?
- Why Do We Grieve One Kind of Cow but Not the Other?
- Why is biodiversity critical to life on Earth?
- Why was Colorado's Precious, Promising First Wolf Pack Decimated?
- Why wild animal suffering matters
- Wild donkeys and horses dig wells that provide water for a host of desert species
- Wild horse birth control or sterility? Tainted horse groups push for drugs amid warnings
- Wild Horse Nonprofit Acquires 3,335 Acres of Bently Pine Nut Land
- Wild Horse Roundups and Removals are Failed Methods
- Wild Horse Wipeout
- Wild Horses in Nevada Roped, Dragged by Government Contractors
- Wild horses remain under threat; Secretary of the Interior Haaland unconcerned
- Wild horses and wild horse management - Non-profit organizations wrong: chemical use on wildlife populations is flawed
- Wild horses vs livestock on U.S. public lands
- Wildlife on the Move: Navigating Florida's Post-Hurricane Threats
- Wildlife Services and the Bloomsburg Town Council Scrapped Their Goose-killing Contracts for 2022 and 2023
- Wildlife Trafficking 101: Everything You Need to Know
- Wilderness and Grazing: Time to Send the Cows Home
- Wildlife Crossings - How They Protect Individuals, Species, and Ecosystems
- Wild Rats—Scapegoats or Villains?
- Will Icelandic Whaling Actually be Ended?
- Window Collisions Deadlier For Birds Than Previously Thought
- Wolf Killing and the Legacy of Conquest
- Wolf Packs Suffer When Humans Kill Their Leaders
- Wolves Will be Wolves, So Let's Manage the Humans
- Wonder's Wonderful Life
- World's Largest Land-based Wildlife Slaughter... Kangaroos
- World Vegan Month Call to Action: Deer-Aware Fencing
- Wyoming Wolf: The Canadian Perspective
- Yes America we do have WILD horses, but not likely for much longer
- Zoos Don’t Conserve Wild Animals, They Consume Them
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