American Wildlife
American Wildlife
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American Bats Face Fatal Disease
The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) plans to take steps this winter to prevent the spread of white-nose disease, a fatal fungal illness that strikes bats in their hibernation…
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America’s Wildlife Heritage Act
American citizens are the collective owners of their nation’s public lands, which amount to about 20 per cent of US territory. But such federal agencies as the Bureau of Land…
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Questions About The Wolf Hunt
Ralph Maughan has a list of very good questions about the wolf hunt now underway in Idaho. And in The New York Times Timothy Egan has an interesting editorial about…
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Siberian Tiger
The Amur, or Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) is the largest big cat in the world, weighing up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds). Unlike the other tiger subspecies, which are…
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Hawaiian Monk Seal
Although Hawaiian monk seals (Monachus schaulinislandi) tend to live far from humans on remote beaches throughout the Hawaiian Island chain, fewer than 1,000 of them remain and their numbers continue…
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Our Favorite ‘Lynx’
I’ve said it elsewhere on this site, but Mongabay.com is the place to go for information about rainforest wildlife and rainforest issues worldwide. The publisher, Rhett A. Butler, travels…
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Burmese Pythons Hunted In Florida
Today In Wildlife News & Wild Animal Facts In the wake of a human death, Florida wildlife officials last week began commissioning “snake hunters” to track down and kill as…
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