Via The Wildlife Society blog, we learn of a new study that shows birds in Australia are shrinking because of warmer temperatures. Of course, there’s always a silver lining: Scientists commenting on the study said this was both good news and bad. It was “alarming”, they said, that global warming may be causing evolutionary change, but…Continue Reading…
A conservationist tries to make sense of a town grief-stricken over a wild turkey that got a little too comfortable among humans. People in Easton, MA are so torn up about “Freddie” that a facebook page was created. It has over 1500 fans. There was also a memorial for the bird, with flowers, all of…Continue Reading…
If the animal rights crowd thought they could skulk around the Utah wilds and sterilize the big game, they better think twice, because the hunters there are on to them: According to the AP: Some sportsmen have expressed worry that animal rights groups will begin giving birth control to deer so their population levels will…Continue Reading…
It seems that all that frantic fence-building along the U.S.-Mexican border is proving no match for determined drug cartels. The wildlife, on the other hand, may be having a tougher time. To document and chronicle this largely ignored story (it’s been two years since Congress, at the height of illegal immigrant hysteria, enacted the Secure…Continue Reading…