This is good news for kids looking for jobs in this challenging economic environment. Ths U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering summer environmental jobs for kids. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the country’s 553 National Wildlife Refuges, hopes to hire more than 2,000 young people this year, as it did in [...]
Sadly, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concluded that the eastern cougar is extinct and recommends it be removed from the endangered species list. View the press release: “U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concludes eastern cougar extinct“. “We recognize that many people have seen cougars in the wild within the historical range of the eastern cougar,” said the [...]
I am lost for words as I read about three endangered whooping cranes shot dead. The bodies of the whooping cranes were found and reported by hunters near Albany, Georgia, on December 30, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said, according to the article, “Feds offer reward after endangered whooping cranes shot“. They were part of [...]
What does an owl eat? I’ve always assumed they eat mice and rats, but I never would have thought that rat poison would play a factor in their demise. The article “Supertoxic rat poisons threaten owls, other wildlife” opened my eyes to the threats that owls and other wildlife face from poisons designed to kill [...]
The wolverine is a magnificent and solitary animal. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will look at wolverine habitat to determine critical habitat, and the wolverine will be added to a candidate list of endangered and threatened species, according to the article, “Wolverines to be added to candidates for endangered and threatened species list“. “Currently, [...]
Scientists from The Nature Conservancy in Tennessee are competing for $250,000 for their work in saving bats by building a better bat cave, according to the story, “A Radical Idea to Save America’s Bats“. They are working to build an artificial bat cave in which bats will hibernate naturally while researchers test new treatments on them [...]
The new Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge is America’s 553rd National Wildlife Refuge. It’s exciting as it will be more than 20,000 acres and located near New York City and Philadelphia. You can learn more about it on The Nature Conservancy website. I’ve included the press release below from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Stroudsburg, [...]
The Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge in Alabama is currently 2,997 acres. I’m a big advocate for land preservation and am very happy to hear that this refuge could expand to eventually more than 200,000 acres - that’s 312 square miles! A proposal (once on page, scroll down) by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would allow [...]
Scientists will be rescuing sea turtle nests and eggs in the Gulf of Mexico to protect them from the BP oil spill. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is calling the plan the “Sea Turtle Late-Term Nest Collection and Hatchling Release Plan”. Eggs, mostly of endangered loggerhead sea turtles, will be taken to Florida [...]
For threatened wildlife in Gulf, it may be too little too late. BP will be liable for billions of dollars of damage to compensate for wildlife killed from the oil spill, according to the article, “Oil spill: How much is a pelican worth?”. “What concerns us most is the animals we can’t see,” Rowan Gould, acting [...]
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