Tag Archives: Wildlife
Scotland gets its Own Wildlife A&E Hospital
A £3.5 million wildlife rescue centre has been created in response to a rising number of sick, injured and orphaned wild animals requiring treatment.
The SSPCA (Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) has seen a 75 per cent...
Cardin to Chair Hearing on Wildlife, Wetlands
WASHINGTON – Bills to protect wetlands, migratory bird habitat and restore the Delaware River basin are among measures to be discussed at a Senate hearing chaired by Sen. Ben Cardin.
Cardin is chairing the hearing Tuesday in Washington...
Wildlife Officials to Survey Ohio River Anglers
South Charleston: Starting Sunday, wildlife officials in three states will be surveying anglers about what they’re catching in the Ohio River.
The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, the Ohio Division of Wildlife and the Kentucky...
100 Years of Kentucky Fish and Wildlife
One-Hundred years ago yesterday, March 12, 1912, is an important date in the history of the restoration and management of fish and wildlife resources in Kentucky. A century ago the Kentucky General Assembly created the Kentucky Game and Fish...
Wildlife Prairie State Park Opens for Season
Sunday marked Wildlife Prairie State Park’s opening day for the season, and Robin Moore couldn’t have been happier with her first visit to “a little treasure in the Midwest,” as she later described it.
Kevin Moore had...
Poachers Kill 200 Elephants in Cameroon
A wildlife group says poachers in Cameroon have slaughtered at least 200 elephants for their tusks in what appears to be an unprecedented massacre.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare on Thursday accused an armed gang from Sudan of killing...
Wildlife Grants for Waterways Work
Community wildlife projects around South Yorkshire can benefit from a share of £25 million being made available by the Government.
The cash pot is being made available for schemes that ‘clean up England’s rivers and encourage local wildlife...
Trek to Highlight Need for Wildlife Corridor
Tampa wildlife photographer Carlton Ward Jr. returned home from a shoot in Africa a few years ago and was disappointed to find that formerly open lands in his home state had become suburbs.
Not long afterward, Kentucky wildlife biologist Joe...
Agricultural Pollution
A wide range of contaminants can reach the river either via groundwater or through drainage ditches, including artificial fertilizer residues, insecticides, herbicides, pesticides and farmyard waste, all of which are potentially very harmful....
A Third of Dinosaur Species Never Existed?
Many dinosaurs may be facing a new kind of extinction-a controversial theory suggests as many as a third of all known dinosaur species never existed in the first place. That’s because young dinosaurs didn’t look like Mini-Me versions...
