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SOUTHWATER Country Park will be planting 500 trees in one hour next Saturday as part of a nationwide record breaking attempt and local volunteers are needed to help meet the target.

Mickey Larkins would rather watch bears than hunt them. But he's seen enough. Larkins, vice president of the Florida Bear Hunters Association, plans to step into the next Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission meeting in February 'loaded for bears.' Larkins, who lives in Bristol, is studying the population of black bears in the Panhandle ...

African authorities raided shops, intercepted vehicles at checkpoints and used sniffer dogs to detect and seize over 3,800 pounds of illegal elephant ivory in a six-nation operation, Interpol and the Kenya Wildlife Service said Monday.

Deer Gun Season opens tomorrow in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The Ohio Division of Wildlife says this years deer population is high, and the herd is as healthy as it's ever been.

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is seeking nominations through Jan. 30 for the fifth annual Thomas L. Quay Award.

An Australian project tapping Aborigines' knowledge to avert devastating wildfires that stoke climate change is the world's best example of linking indigenous peoples to carbon markets, the U.N. University said on Sunday.

Maine's Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife runs an interactive wildlife park in Gray.

The Lake Tahoe community is invited to attend the Tahoe Wildlife Forum on Thursday, Jan.

"Come on, you're just in time for the stampede," Laura Quinn said, as she grabbed her walker and began trudging toward the beach.

A RARE Siberian tiger that Vladimir Putin fitted with a radio-tracking collar is alive and well, the Russian prime minister's spokesman said on Wednesday, easing concerns raised when an environmentalist said the tracking device had gone silent.

Two hunters in western Nebraska's Pine Ridge area have had close encounters with mountain lions in the last week.

Brock Fenton shudders when he thinks of a world without bats. For more than 40 years, Fenton - a professor at the University of Western Ontario and Canada's foremost bat expert - has been visiting an abandoned mine near Renfrew where bats hibernate by the thousands each winter.

After two hours of scouring the beaches of Pongara National Park in the dark night, Joan Ikoun-Ngossa and his patrol finally find a leatherback turtle.

Driving through the verdant timberlands of Oregon's Coast Range, Matt Fehrenbacher pointed out a mountainside where every tree had been clearcut.

After confronting a group of bear hunters over trespassing, a Red Lion man was shot and killed, and another man was wounded Tuesday in Jefferson County.

Federal officials plan to restore migratory bird habitat around a Denver site where uranium and radium were once processed for X-ray equipment and gauges.

A bear that has been causing a path of destruction all over Incline Village and has gained regional media attention is now receiving prayers from a local congregation after it helped itself to a Thanksgiving feast last weekend inside the church.

Top French chefs this week pledged to keep bluefin tuna and other threatened fish species off the menu, whatever the cost.

BOISE, Idaho - A wildlife advocacy group Friday asked President Barack Obama to end aerial gunning of coyotes and other predators, citing an Idaho incident where a shotgun-wielding parachutist illegally fired on a wolf.

Six seals, all killed with a single shot to the head. With nimble handwork, his wife Bartholine cuts them up on the porch of their wood-frame home, saving the best meat for dinner.

In this January 5, 2009 handout photo a female right whale calf is seen off the U.S. coast.

The Department of Conservation says it has laid three charges against a Hauraki Gulf resident whose dogs killed 14 endangered weka at the Kawau Island Historic Reserve in May this year.

With floodwaters easing in northeastern Louisiana, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has reopened the Boeuf Wildlife Management Area.

Kashmira s ownership has been disputed by India and Pakistan since the bloody partition in 1947.

GOOSE LAKE, Iowa- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating the shooting of a trumpeter swan found in Clinton County.

Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign and six Indonesian demonstrators, an activist said.

State game wardens believe poachers may be blame for a string of cases involving rotting carcasses reported in the Missoula area.

One Republican in the race to become Colorado's next governor is pledging to repeal new oil and gas regulations if elected, and the front-runner for the GOP nomination says he would consider abolishing the rules approved on the Democratic incumbent's watch.

At N.C. airport, put tray tables up and watch for coyotes Submitted by SHNS on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 16:29 Airport officials have noted a marked increase in recent months in the number of coyotes crossing the paths of taxiing airplanes.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to buy easements on up to 1 million acres of intact, native tallgrass prairie in Kansas to establish a conservation area.

A Russian environmentalist says a rare Siberian tiger fitted with a radio-tracking collar by Vladimir Putin has vanished.

JIM TANKERSLEY Reporting from St. Tammany Parish, La. By the time climate change pushes sea levels high enough to swallow Cliff Glockner's stilt house northeast of New Orleans, most of the low-lying Gulf islands he fished around as a young man will be gone.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials say there are fewer hunters and fewer white-tail deer being harvested in western Montana this year.

A Pace, Fla., hunter died after he fell from a tree stand over the weekend in the Blackwater River State Forest about 5 miles west of Munson, the Pensacola News Journal reports.

Georgia wildlife biologists say North Atlantic right whales are returning to Georgia and Florida coastal waters for the winter.

Animal protection advocates are asking a federal judge to block the government's planned roundup of thousands of wild mustangs in Nevada next month, saying the helicopter-aided gathers are illegal because they "traumatize, injure and kill" some of the animals.

Three of the UK's leading scientific research bodies united to warn of the need for action to cut carbon emissions, as they said evidence for "dangerous, long-term and potentially irreversible climate change" was growing.

Preliminary deer harvest numbers are in from the opening weekend of the gun-deer hunt.

In this Nov. 17 photo, Mike Samsel holds up an Ohio whitetail deer he shot in Ashtabula County in 2007.

Hendry County - Site Of December FWC Meeting CLEWISTON, FL. -- The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will meet in Clewiston Dec.

State investigators have arrested and charged 12 men with illegally purchasing and possessing live foxes and coyotes without permits and an additional 46 people received citations in the sting.

A major hurdle to the full dualling of the A11 was lifted today after it emerged that two conservation bodies had withdrawn their objections.

Watch an excerpt from the book - The holiday season kicks off this weekend in the Lake Metroparks.

The Massachusetts government has a new outdoors blog. The Great Outdoors blog will tell readers about outdoor activities, wildlife and local farms.

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The W. Va. Division of Natural Resources expects to see roughly 300,000 hunters in the woods the first three days of gun deer season.

The Catalina Island Conservancy is introducing a contraception plan for its female bison with a vaccine that will control the buffalo population.

Staff are "SAS of firefighting" "Last thing you want" in fire season RANGERS regarded as the "SAS of bushfire fighting" are among more than 200 parks and wildlife staff facing the axe under savage cutbacks ordered by the NSW Government.

Exotic and endangered animals from an abandoned wildlife sanctuary were sold to a hunting safari in the Northern Territory, it has been revealed.

The state of Wyoming filed a federal lawsuit Friday seeking to block the National Park Service from further restricting snowmobile numbers in Yellowstone National Park.

But state wildlife officials say don't forget to stay safe. Department of Natural Resources experts say they can't remind hunters enough to follow the four basic firearm rules: treat every weapon as if it were loaded, always point the muzzle in a safe direction at all times, be certain of the target and what's beyond it and keep your finger outside ...

A headless panther was found along the Florida turnpike in central Florida. wildlife officials are seeking information from the public about the panther found decapitated in Osceola County Friday afternoon.

" The World Wildlife Fund used two dogs, brought to Vietnam from the US, to help seek the rare one-horn rhino in forests in southern Vietnam.

Researchers are using a popular breed of dog to learn how rare indigo snakes are faring in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.

An environmental group is threatening to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its failure to respond to a petition involving the Mexican gray wolf.

Nevada game wardens are seeking information about two elk poached in northern Elko County near the Idaho line.

BATON ROUGE The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is alerting hunters that flooding conditions along the Ouachita and Boeuf rivers will reduce the available hunting area within the Boeuf Wildlife Management Area in Caldwell Parish.

Five national and state environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit in New Jersey today to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from beginning a $379 million project to deepen the shipping channel in the Delaware River .

A ninth white-tailed sea eagle has been killed since the project to reintroduce the birds of prey began two years ago.

Federal officials are backing a plan to remove five million pounds of unwanted carp each year from Utah Lake near Provo in an effort to save an endangered fish.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday released a draft assessment of the project and is recommending that it move ahead.

Some of the nation's best hunting for pheasant, quail, turkey and deer today can be found in the vast Kansas prairie.

A judge says the government must keep Yellowstone-area grizzly bears on the list of threatened and endangered species, denying an attempt by federal officials to reverse an earlier court ruling.

As if the endangered desert tortoise doesn't have enough environmental stress in its life: Invasive plants it can't eat are replacing its main diet of wildflowers, and an exploding population of ravens is making snack food of vulnerable hatchlings.

Jamey Mosch Jamey Mosch, who got separated from his hunting group Monday afternoon in the Big Cypress National Preserve, is believed to be between a mile and two miles north of Interstate 75's Alligator Alley near Turner River Road , marked as a vertical, dotted line in the center of this National Park Service map of the area.

GOLD BEACH - With current and anticipated rains and resulting higher flows in the Chetco River, officials with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have decided to reopen the lower river beginning Thursday to fishing for Chinook salmon.

Marc Hayes, left, with the Habitat Division of the Washington State Fish and Wildlife Department, and Steve Hash, with the Oregon Zoo, inspect Oregon spotted frogs before they were released into Dailman Lake on Fort Lewis, Tuesday, Nov.

Rare birds like the black partridge and pheasant have increased by the thousands while populations of Asiatic black bears, leopards, musk deer and rare red deer have swelled in the disputed Himalayan region's pine forests.

Texas Parks and Wildlife have charged Justin Martindale, 27, with hunting without landowner's consent after he shot and killed a deer in Walnut Creek Greenbelt.

DNA taken from 69 crocodiles housed in the moats of the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center showed nearly 50 percent were Siamese crocodiles, which until recently were believed to have become extinct in the wild, researchers said Wednesday.

Thousands of stargazers stayed awake overnight for what was forecast as an intense Leonid meteor shower over Asia this year, but the show fizzled rather than sizzled for many viewers - partly due to cloud cover.

In this April 17, 2002 file photo, a Thai carver works on with ivory of an image of a Buddhist monk in Nakhon Sawan province, Thailand.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 7:15 a.m. Read more: State , Education , Outdoors , Tourism , Environment , Colorado , Division of Wildlife , Denver , Environmental Groups , Rocky Mountain , Wolves DENVER a ' The effects of climate change and loss of habitat on wolves and other carnivores are on the agenda at a four-day conference in Denver.

State wildlife officials are treating a West Palm Beach pond where two piranhas were discovered last month.

An Okeana man is suing a Butler County sheriff deputy and a state wildlife officer for violating his civil rights by moving his guns, girlfriend's sex toys, and his porn during a search of his home.

A Czech wildlife photographer has captured a rare - - and particularly one-sided - clash between a crocodile and a herd of hippopotamuses on the River Nile.

Colorado wildlife officials say an unusually wet spring and summer in the Eastern Plains has helped improve nesting habitat for pheasants, boosting their number to the highest in years.

A federal judge says the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation should have considered the environmental impacts before moving forward with a plan to protect a threatened California fish species.

A donation from a late Joplin couple has been used to save part of a southwest Missouri habitat for a threatened bird species.

Idaho wildlife officials are thinking about extending the wolf hunting season in certain hunting zones across the state.

Florida wildlife officials are urging boaters to be on the lookout for manatees that are migrating to warmer waters for the winter.

Nico Courteney with the pygmy hippo he shot south of Darwin while spotlighting for pigs.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and environmentalists reached an agreement Friday that scraps a rule the agency had used to kill or permanently remove any wolf that killed three heads of livestock in a year.

TERRI Irwin has been criticised over a bushfire at "Steve's Place" - the land where the Crocodile Hunter is believed to have been buried.

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says he has the best interest of polar bears at heart, but he doesn't intend to let the federal government's expanded protection for bears get in the way of the state's continued prosperity.

Stimulus spending and other emergency measures have set the stage for global economic recovery, but nations must push ahead with free trade and investment to ensure growth, President Barack Obama and fellow Asia-Pacific leaders said Sunday.

Flooded North Louisiana waterways are leaving more than a mess and hardship for people who are displaced from their homes.

Published: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 5:58 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 5:59 p.m. Florida manatees are on the move to warm-water sites to spend the winter, prompting a reminder from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to be watchful and use caution in waters used by manatees.

Other admissions included a Florida cottonmouth, two double-crested cormorants, four mourning doves, four eastern cottontails, and a Florida snapping turtle.

State officials are encouraging hunters in the Delhi area to kill every fallow and Sitka deer they see so they can be tested for potential disease.

Right now, the alligator that escaped from a wildlife officer after show-and-tell at an elementary school is most likely relaxing in a muddy pond, wildlife experts said Friday.

Antlerless Elk Hunting will close for Most General License Holders in HD 270 Hunting District 270 will close to antlerless elk hunting for most hunters with a general elk license at one half-hour after sunset on Saturday, November 14th.

The study was published online Oct. 21 in the journal Behavioral Ecology. Hunter wanted to know how predators know a skunk is a skunk.

PANAMA CITY BEACH - An Atlantic spotted dolphin rescued from Ida's waves earlier this week died Thursday, apparently of old age.

Most tourists don't know it, but they owe their enjoyment of the Cheyenne Bottoms wetlands to Jan Garton's tenacity.

It's open season on escaped exotic deer near Delhi in northeastern in Louisiana.

In this Sept. 1, 2009 photograph, villagers walk on railway tracks in the background as a herd of wild elephants relax in a marshy area at Deepor Beel wildlife sanctuary, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India.

A troublesome female grizzly bear has been killed by state game managers in northern Wyoming.

Maine wildlife officials say a federal judge has upheld Maine's trapping regulations by denying a request by animal protection advocates to curb some trapping in northern Maine in order to avoid harming Canada lynx.

Environmental groups are suing the federal government to return a type of flying squirrel to the endangered species list.The small nocturnal squirrel is only found in higher elevations of West Virginia and one county in Virginia.

A Pasco County man was bitten by an alligator that had parked itself under his car.

Wildlife officials say they spent hours searching for a monkey on the lam in the Tampa area and couldn't locate the animal.

State officials are honoring five landowners for promoting conservation and wildlife habitats on their properties.

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State wildlife officials have sold more than 10,000 mentored hunting licenses. Wisconsin's mentored hunting program allows 10- and 11-year-olds to hunt with an adult within arm's reach.

After nearly 40 years of struggling for survival, the brown pelican is coming off the endangered species list.

Vladimir Putin has made headlines by championing the endangered Siberian tiger - posing with a cuddly cub and placing a tracking collar on a full-grown female in the wilds of his country's Far East.

Carrabelle resident Andrea Mathis couldn't imagine why her dog barked all night Saturday - until she went outside in the morning and found an injured black bear lying in her yard.

A polar bear is seen walking along the road as the Olympic Flame arrives in Churchill, Man.

This harvest meets the North Fork of the Flathead River Subunit quota of two and closes this sub-unit to all wolf hunting.

Wildlife groups and state officials are teaming up to prevent collisions as wild animals cross Interstate 70 between Golden and Glenwood Springs.

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game closed the McCall-Weiser wolf zone Monday.

Floods, droughts, heat waves and severe snowstorms could be more frequent in the Yangtze River Basin in the next 50 years as the area sees average temperatures rise by 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius, said a report released here on Tuesday.

The Nebraska Wildlife Federation has awarded the 2009 Professional Conservationist Award to the director of a group that helps manage one of the state's most scenic rivers.

If you Google Churchill, Manitoba, you will not get all the data about the town you're researching, like the fact that only 962 people live here, or that it's right on the shore of Hudson Bay in the province's North, and thus as chilly a place as subarctic can be.

State wildlife officials say a Troy resident shot a grizzly bear in self defense while hunting in the Cabinet Mountains.

A coalition of environmental and Native American groups sued two federal agencies Monday to stop the mass slaughter of bison that migrate outside Yellowstone National Park in search of food.

State wildlife officials plan to collect 650 deer heads from hunters in eastern and southern Indiana next weekend to test for bovine tuberculosis.

A waterways wildlife survey has revealed a huge increase in sightings of the elusive water vole in the South West.

New uses of genetic testing can help track how animal diets may change due to global warming and are helping crack down on wildlife smuggling, experts said on Saturday.

TV and radio star Paul O'Grady has created his first work of public art - a penguin dressed up as an old lady.

COLUMBUS -- Ohio's youth deer-gun hunting season will be Nov. 21-22, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife.

A Pasco County man was bitten by an alligator that had parked itself under his car.

BILLINGS - A 41-year-old Florence shot and killed a young mountain lion after it stalked his father on a hunting trip near Boulder.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has awarded a $6,283 grant to pay for forage and grass seed to replant 287 acres of private lands burned in the Deer Ridge and Siskiyou wildfires in Jackson County.

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders today applauded state lawmakers for approving an $11 billion overhaul of California's water system that he said would ensure reliable supplies for Southern California long into the future.

Nikki, the 18-year-old Indian Rhino, is expecting again. Scientists at the Cincinnati Zoo's Linder Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife collected sperm from Vinu, a 38-year-old male Indian Rhino at the Bronx Zoo, back in 2005.

Teton County Attorney Steve Weichman says he's working on legislation that would require permitted backcountry users to carry bear spray when they're in grizzly country.

Mike Ford won't forget the first black bear he saw near his home in Red River County, about 120 miles east of Dallas.

The instant a black dot appears on the horizon, someone calls out, "We've got a bird out there," and all chatter stops.

Cabela's Inc., the Sidney, Neb.-based outdoor outfitter, on Wednesday announced the sale of its wildlife-art division, Wild Wings LLC, to RDE Acquisition Company for an undisclosed amount.

File photo of a 12-foot Burmese python that was captured in the backyard of a home in south Miami, Florida.

An exploratory committee comprised of parks supporters today filed a proposed statewide ballot measure, called the a oeCalifornia State Parks and Wildlife Conservation Trust Fund Act of 2010,a which would create a stable, reliable and adequate source of funding to protect state parks and conserve California wildlife.

One of the first set of studies to examine what tourists and recreation enthusiasts actually think about coral reef ecosystems suggests they are a rare exception to controversies over human use versus environmental conservation a ' their stunning beauty is so extraordinary that almost everyone wants them protected in perpetuity.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has released recommendations for protecting wildlife during wind energy development, including restrictions in sage grouse habitat and in big game winter range and migration corridors.

RAMONA, Calif. a " Fifty-four feral cats captured on San Nicholas Island are settling in at a wildlife center northeast of San Diego.The Navy decided to remove the cats from San Nicholas, one of two Channel Islands owned by the Navy, to help nesting seabirds.

The state has decided to acquire 1,500 acres from a nonprofit conservation group to more than double the size of a southeast Texas state park.

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will conduct a workshop this weekend for women who want to hunt with muzzleloaders.

A man who caught a 14-foot python in a Florida drain pipe was charged with perpetrating a hoax after wildlife officers discovered he owned the snake and put it in the pipe in order to stage the capture.

Pheasant hunting season is under way in Nebraska and wildlife officials say it's off to a challenging start in some parts of the state.

Each spring, sage grouse gather on their "lekking" grounds to engage in a cacophonous courtship ritual.

Photo of the ram taken by a Chevron employee days before it was poached. Courtesy DE BEQUE, Colo.

Bubba and his human partner, Jeff Gier OCALA, Fla. -- Bubbaa s at it again. This time the 9-year-old canine officer tracked down a 70-year-old hunter from Lakeland who had lost his way in the Ocala National Forest.

In a bipartisan push to save Lake Tahoe, members of Congress from Nevada and California introduced a $415 million, eight-year bill Tuesday aimed at restoring the ailing lake.

A Raymondville man has been fined $500 for poisoning wildlife in Texas County in an effort to kill coyotes.

Surveying undulating grasslands that disappear into the western Kansas horizon, retired farmer Joe Govert pointed out parcel after parcel no longer enrolled in a federal program that pays property owners not to farm environmentally sensitive land.

What difference does this classic predator-prey interaction make to biodiversity? A large and unexpected one, say wildlife biologists from Michigan Technological University.

A Langoor monkey hangs from a branch of a tree in Dachigam national park 25km from Srinagar.

Seven new grants from a company building a huge natural gas pipeline will help protect bird habitats in Indiana.

A pilot program aimed at helping eradicate giant, nonnative Burmese pythons from South Florida has ended with 37 of the invasive constrictors being killed, wildlife officials said today.

Authorities say about 30 gallons of diesel fuel spilled into Yaquina Bay as a wooden fishing boat sank.

Conservation groups and the U.S. Forest Service have fought for decades over management of the country's largest national forest.

Hunters reached the five-wolf limit in eastern Idaho's Upper Snake Wolf Zone, prompting state wildlife managers to close the season there.

The population of endangered green sea turtles at SeaWorld in San Diego grew by 82 in October when the eggs hatched on Shipwreck Beach without human help.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is accepting applications through the end of business today for a new $3.7 million conservation grant program.

The world's fastest man adopted the animal kingdom's fastest sprinter today, as Usain Bolt welcomed a new baby cheetah named "Lightning Bolt" into his life.

AAJ Technologies' collaborative online permit system was awarded the Organization of Fish & Wildlife Information Managers "Web-Based Technical Application Award" at their 2009 annual conference.

Nov. 1 - A group of Maasai warriors in southern Kenya have turned from hunting lions to protecting them as part of a wildlife project.

Tens of thousands of migrating waterfowl, one of the nation's largest populations of breeding bald eagles and the endangered Delmarva fox squirrel all call Cambridge's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge home.

A 15,000-acre swath of woodland teeming with bobcats, black bears, rattlesnakes and other wildlife will soon be protected as Ohio's first new state forest in more than a decade.

BUTTE, Mont. -- The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks has determined that the shooting of a cougar by a 14-year-old elk hunter from Anaconda was justified.

BARCELONA, Spain a " Negotiators from nearly 180 countries hope to nail down the outline of a plan to provide tens of billions of dollars a year to fight climate change, in their final round of talks before a decisive conference in Copenhagen next month.The five-day meeting beginning Monday will resume work on the draft of an agreement to replace ...

Bishops Itchington will soon be home to a new wildlife reserve, thanks to a grant of almost A 50,000. The villagea s parish council was awarded A 49,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to start the Yellow Land Natural Heritage Project this week.