Wildlife News

PAICE, Margaret Ann Westlake, 68, of Ostrander, formerly of Steubenville, died Saturday, May 18, 2013, at her home with her loving husband at her side.

Prince Charles and Prince William are hosting a conference to call for a global partnership to stop illegal trade in wildlife.

Alligators continue to be spotted in people's yards and neighborhoods in Morgan City, a problem police have been dealing with for about a month, which could be due to several different factors.

With several extensive research projects on northwest Colorado mule deer populations under way, biologists say they want to update the public on those efforts.

State and federal authorities are offering a $3,000 reward for information about whoever shot and killed a whooping crane along the Red River in northwest Louisiana.

The state of Alaska on Monday proposed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar plan aimed at determining the true oil and gas potential in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Clark Kelly plans to spend a lot of time on the links this spring. The Illinois farmer is plowing the Hend-Co-Hills Golf Course near tiny Biggsville into a cornfield.

A record-setting Burmese python was killed with a knife in a rural section of southern Miami-Dade County, after it wrapped itself around the leg of the man trying to capture it.

While nobody thinks the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can slow or stop global warming, wildlife conservation advocates say the agency must do more to try and save polar bears from extinction.

Regina Busse of Omaha and Wahoo native Tim Davison are two of 12 semifinalists for the job of hosting a series of webisodes on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom TV YouTube channel.

Willows Hedgehog Rescue is running the competition as a follow up to Hedgehog Awareness Week, when it ran a number of awareness and fundraising events The competition is offering one lucky school the chance to win hedgehog related goodies, a hedgehog home, and 10 kilos of hedgehog food, as well as bird feeders, bird food, a bat box, and advice on ... (more)

Prairie people looking for an exotic holiday destination need not journey to far-flung corners of the world.

Parts of the farm landscape that look overgrown and 'scruffy' are more important in supporting wildlife than they first appear, according to new research published today in Ecology Letters.

The White Bluffs bladderpod has been named a protected species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Once again, summer beckons with its palette of green, luring those with an affinity for the woods into her warm embrace.

There was a big focus on the plight of turtle doves at the annual Wild About the Wensum event at Pensthorpe Wildlife and Gardens, near Fakenham, on Saturday.

Hickenlooper signed Saturday created a special license plate Colorado motorists can buy to help fund river protection.

About 150 students from 24 Northern California schools gathered Saturday at Sacramento State for the 29th annual Nature Bowl competition.

Visitors who click on the Friends of Island Beach's osprey cam are often entranced by the sight of the osprey pair keeping watch over their clutch of four rust-and cream-colored eggs.

The long -awaited day for the public unveiling of a pair of giant pandas at the Toronto Zoo has finally arrived.