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Hawaii conservation groups file white-tip shark lawsuit
HONOLULU (AP) — The National Marine Fisheries Service was asked in a lawsuit filed in Hawaii to protect Pacific oceanic white-tip sharks, which are listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. The environmental law firm Earthjustice filed the lawsuit on behalf of several conservation...
Game and Parks closing overnight camping through May 8
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is barring people from camping overnight at state parks, state recreation areas and wildlife management areas as part of the effort to limit the spread of COVID-19. The ban begins Monday and runs through May 8, with a possible extension. The...
Cadaver dogs offer clues to wagon trains on old Idaho trails
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — It’s a hunt for dead bodies. Cadaver dogs will be out combing and sniffing Idaho’s sagebrush land at the City of Rocks National Preserve for the scent of decomposing humans. They aren’t employed to solve a recent crime, the Post Register reports, but to add...
Tiger among animals officials find in search of Texas home
MERCEDES, Texas (AP) — Authorities seized animals including a white Bengal tiger, bobcat, kinkajou, porcupines, llamas, emus and deer after finding them at a South Texas residence while executing a search warrant last week. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Sammy Parks said Friday that the...
‘Tiger King’ animals rescued in 2017 at Colorado sanctuary
KEENESBURG, Colo. (AP) — The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado, has for several years been home to dozens of animals rescued from the roadside zoo in rural Oklahoma featured in the newly released Netflix documentary, "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness." Thirty-nine tigers and three black...
51-year-old Asian elephant named Reba dies at Phoenix Zoo
PHOENIX (AP) — A 51-year-old Asian elephant who lived at the Phoenix Zoo for more than two decades has died. Zoo officials announced Thursday that Reba had been treated for inflammation and arthritis over the years and was humanely euthanized earlier this week after a “recent and irreversible...
Biologists wade through Utah ponds in search of frog eggs
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Biologists with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources spent Monday afternoon wading through ponds near Diamond Fork Canyon with one goal in mind: to find frog eggs. More specifically, the DWR wildlife biologists were looking for eggs belonging to the Columbia spotted frog, a native...
Group: U.S. pushing through Idaho grazing plans
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials are using the coronavirus pandemic to force a through long-delayed Idaho livestock grazing allotment decision in critical sage grouse habitat for a powerful agribusiness, an environmental group says. Wildlands Defense is asking the Bureau of Land Management to delay its...
Coyote attacks 5-year-old child in San Francisco-area park
DUBLIN, Calif. (AP) — A 5-year-old girl was hospitalized after a coyote attacked her in a San Francisco Bay Area park, officials said. The girl was walking with her family when a pack of five or six coyotes approached and one of them bit her. The girl’s family quickly intervened and the animals...
Alaska officials to residents: Don't feed the moose
Alaska wildlife officials have a message for residents: Please don’t feed the moose. State Fish and Game officials said Wednesday they’ve seen an uptick in people feeding moose such foods as carrots and apples after a heavy snow season that left many of the animals thin and nutritionally vulnerable....
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