Heroic green heron parents endured days of hipster music and foodies when their eggs were about to hatch. Now two chicks are learning to eat regurgitated fish and walk on branches of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.
Keep reading Green heron nest survived Googa Mooga
MT’s only wildlife sanctuary may close because it’s not meeting federal regulations, but it won’t say which ones.
Keep reading Closing MT’s only wildlife rehab center, home to bear, lynx, Ted Turner’s magpie?
Ol Pejeta Conservancy asks the public for $35k to buy a drone to protect what may be the world’s last four northern white rhinos from poachers.
Keep reading Rarest rhino species may be saved by crowdfunded drones
A ton of new websites promise to find you a local dog sitter. Care.com and its ilk end up inundating you with a depressing number of emails. DogVacay lets you find local dog lovers who open their homes. But I found a dog sitter I love on Yelp.
Keep reading How to find a dog-sitter online, sorting through the DogVacay, Care.com and Yelp options
James Cameron found nothing more than shrimp on his dive to the Mariana Trench. Richard Branson hopes to see more when he visits the deepest spot in the Atlantic this year.
Keep reading Explorers hope for less boring critters on upcoming seafloor trench dives
The movie imagines the elusive animal really does survive, only a big drug company wants to kill it off for a magic potion it secretes.This is by no means the movie wildlife watchers would make about the fantastic hope that a living thylacine represents.
Keep reading The Hunter: Crushing the fantasy if the Thylacine wasn’t extinct and someone wanted to kill it off again
Thousands of virtually extinct scimitar-horned oryx survive on TX hunting ranches. But only 110 TX oryx are in the species survival plan that spans 211 institutions worldwide. The species doesn’t need Texas hunters.
Keep reading What 60 Minutes’ Love Letter to TX Canned Hunts Got Wrong
Social media may be great for overthrowing dictators and stuff, but what people really like online are animal causes.
Keep reading On the internet, everyone knows you love dogs
Birders are overly eager for their starring role in The Big Year, the first big budget movie on bird watching. Even with Steve Martin, competitive birding can’t be cool.
Keep reading Birders hoping (in vain) The Big Year will make them cool
Four workers at a NC lab that tested flea and tick drugs have been indicted for felony animal cruetly–a US court first. Then again, these women were particularly heartless. My beagles still show signs of abuse.
Keep reading NC lab workers who abused beagles (including mine) indicted
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