One of the last places it was safe for families to feed ducks falls for the frenzy to eliminate Canada geese.
Keep reading Atlanta’s Duck Pond cracking down on Geese
 This VA squirrel has white, gray and rusty fur at all different lengths and angles. Can you figure out what’s wrong? Keep reading Reader question: what’s up with this squirrel’s raggedy fur?  Great egrets hunt Japanese koi at Green-Wood Cemetery, where a South American monk parrot may have gotten sick from a raccoon. Keep reading Natives and non-natives mix it up at Green-Wood Cemetery  Europeans have embraced outdoor classes for little kids to reconnect them to the natural world. West coast parents have swarmed outdoor pre-K where toddlers stomp through rain, snow and mud. Now a teacher is bringing the Forest School philosophy to Brooklyn’s big park. What will the kids find in the urban woods? Keep reading Can outdoor education work in a New York City park?  After years of fertility treatments, we got pregnant the day we adopted two beagles. Keep reading We gave laboratory beagles a home, they gave us a baby  BP is funding recovery of the endangered sea turtles “I think the consensus in the turtle community is that there’s no harm keeping healthy animals safe. That was the emphasis of our request for funding. I think that was by far the most important thing in our mind,” says George. Keep reading How is the Money BP Pledged to Help Turtles Being Spent?  Which would you rather have the NYC health department spending its limited resources on? Preventing rabies in one of the world’s busiest parks–or providing some old ladies in the practically suburban part of Queens with a free pest removal service? Keep reading Hey, Let’s Take All the Unpopular Raccoons and Move them to NYC Parks!  Some NY bat populations are down 95% because of white nose sydrome, which first appeared in 2006 and now reaches halfway across the country. The little brown bat and northern long-eared are the hardest hit. Keep reading NY Epicenter of Bat Disease  “[New York state conservation officials] just held a summit and decided to pluck them out of the wild, but where to put them?” says Kasimoff, one of only a handful of people across the state that can care for bats, which require a special license because they can carry rabies. Kasimoff currently is minding 30 bats at the Bat World Big Apple, a shelter she runs out of her home on Long Island as part of Bat World International. New York state in particular wants to save the little brown bats–if any are left. Keep reading NY Considers Capturing Bats to Save Them  Mickey, the gentle black squirrel I got as a patient last week, seems to be recovering nicely, though is still a bit off. She came from a community garden in Queens suffering from a malocclusion, swollen thumbs, mites and a wobbly posture. After I clipped her teeth–which I am totally proud of–she eats voraciously and messily. Two good signs for her recovery today. She’s finally taking some interest in grooming herself. That’s good because if she doesn’t clean herself up, I have to and neither of us like that. She’s not used to eating with only bottom teeth and she’s a huge slob. She can only have soft foods like peanut butter, avocado, banana and honey. The second good sign is that she’s chattering her teeth at me. In squirrel talk, she’s telling me that she’s a bad ass. And probably tired of me wiping her face off. Now she just has to grow some top teeth and maybe close up that gaping hole in her chin and she can go back in the wild. Where to Go to See Special SquirrelsPlenty of Wildlife Lives in NYC. Found Out Where To see more animals go to animaltourism.com |
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