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The Environmental Protection Agency took a first step Monday to ban two poisons used to protect livestock against wild animals.
Dairy farmer Ken Nobis reaches into a tall mound of what looks like topsoil and grabs a clump, which he looks over and quickly sniffs before crumbling it.
Authorities have seized dozens of animals and charged 18 men from four states with releasing trapped foxes, coyotes and bobcats into fenced enclosures to be chased down by dogs.
Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the wilderness is encroaching. Packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, the 73-year-old says, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. And she says fox, rabbits and snakes infest the meadows near her tumbledown cottage.
Banning the trade in endangered wildlife can actually result in increased trade in the animals and their parts, a report published Thursday said.
Advocacy groups are asking the government to ban two poisons widely used for killing wildlife.
Oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez 17 years ago extends farther into Alaska's tidal waters than previously thought and could be causing long-term harm to wildlife, a study concludes.
Plans are in the pipeline for beavers to be released into the Scottish wild for the first time in 500 years. Wildlife bodies have asked the Scottish Government for a licence to allow about 20 beavers to be set free in Argyll in 2009.
n a dark highway near Anchorage, Specialist Steven Cavanaugh of the Army, who had survived 300 missions in Iraq, was critically injured in December when his vehicle hit a moose. Specialist Cavanaugh died Dec. 6.
In light of the recent spill in San Francisco Bay, this hearing examines the oil spill threats, risks, and vulnerabilities posed by large non-tank vessels.
A look at Appalacian trail night life, including humerous references to poop and a special brew used to lure animals toward cameras, "the stink".
Northern Territory scientists are celebrating the remarkable success of a major marsupial re-location project.
Since it's almost the end of the year, National Geographic rounded up the best wildlife photos, as decided by a panel of experts. There were four main categories, animals, landscapes, people, and photo essays, that received 150,000 submissions from around the world.
The EPA has a choice, to do its job and veto the Yazoo Backwater Project which will damage wildlife and wetlands, or it can let this plan go through.
Beavers have been busy since November chewing up trees within sight of downtown Cleveland.
This used to be a dangerous island, populated by bears, lynxes and other animals which have since disappeared. Now a Scottish landowner is setting up a nature reserve to bring them back – but not everyone is happy.
For time beyond memory on this remote bay of neon fish and underwater gardens, people have avoided the masalai, taboo waters, where a monster octopus might lurk or spirits dwell in coral caves. Now it's science that wants no-go zones in Kimbe Bay, and it's because of a new fear.
Indiana's great outdoors is about to get greater because a local nature conservation group has raised $60.8 million to protect imperiled landscapes statewide. "We are just trying to protect the state for future generations," said Betsy Smith, director of philanthropy for The …
A conservation group says new species of giant spitting cobra, measuring about 2.5 metres and possessing enough venom to kill at least 15 people, has been discovered in Kenya.
Wildlife carers have released a flock of endangered Baudin's black cockatoos into the wild, south of Perth.
Depending on what a state panel decides today, the Florida manatee may be downgraded from endangered to a threatened species. The proposal before the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has sparked an international frenzy and fierce lobbying before the vote.
A ship belonging to the anti-whaling Sea Shepherd group has been renamed in memory of wildlife conservationist Steve Irwin.
Bringing back animals which were hunted to extinction in Britain - including the wolf, lynx, beaver and wild boar - would not be difficult, according to a new report.
New research shows some of Australia's flying foxes face a grave threat from extreme temperatures expected to become more frequent with climate change.
Scientists conducting tests on two tasmanian devils have found one from Tasmania's west coast resistant to the devil facial tumour disease.
Yet more incompetence and corporatism from the Bush administration, this time regarding 7 sensitive imperiled species.
MORE than a dozen seals have been found dead around Tasmania, most of them believed shot. The discovery of nine Australian fur seals on the Ile de Phoques and Taillefer Rocks, between Triabunna and Freycinet, is a blow to hopes that breeding was restarting on the island.
An east coast wildlife park owner says some of the promised Federal funding for the tasmanian devil should go towards the construction of secure enclosures.
Officials and rangers of the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department have released 40 alligators into River Chambal, their natural habitat, to increase the number of endangered species of alligators.
The status of the tasmanian devil has been upgraded from vulnerable to endangered.
Some positive environmental news, for a change...
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