Wildlife News

A headless panther was found along the Florida turnpike in central Florida. wildlife officials are seeking information from the public about the panther found decapitated in Osceola County Friday afternoon.

" The World Wildlife Fund used two dogs, brought to Vietnam from the US, to help seek the rare one-horn rhino in forests in southern Vietnam.

Researchers are using a popular breed of dog to learn how rare indigo snakes are faring in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.

An environmental group is threatening to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its failure to respond to a petition involving the Mexican gray wolf.

Nevada game wardens are seeking information about two elk poached in northern Elko County near the Idaho line.

BATON ROUGE The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is alerting hunters that flooding conditions along the Ouachita and Boeuf rivers will reduce the available hunting area within the Boeuf Wildlife Management Area in Caldwell Parish.

Five national and state environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit in New Jersey today to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from beginning a $379 million project to deepen the shipping channel in the Delaware River .

A ninth white-tailed sea eagle has been killed since the project to reintroduce the birds of prey began two years ago.

Federal officials are backing a plan to remove five million pounds of unwanted carp each year from Utah Lake near Provo in an effort to save an endangered fish.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday released a draft assessment of the project and is recommending that it move ahead.

Some of the nation's best hunting for pheasant, quail, turkey and deer today can be found in the vast Kansas prairie.

A judge says the government must keep Yellowstone-area grizzly bears on the list of threatened and endangered species, denying an attempt by federal officials to reverse an earlier court ruling.

As if the endangered desert tortoise doesn't have enough environmental stress in its life: Invasive plants it can't eat are replacing its main diet of wildflowers, and an exploding population of ravens is making snack food of vulnerable hatchlings.

Jamey Mosch Jamey Mosch, who got separated from his hunting group Monday afternoon in the Big Cypress National Preserve, is believed to be between a mile and two miles north of Interstate 75's Alligator Alley near Turner River Road , marked as a vertical, dotted line in the center of this National Park Service map of the area.

GOLD BEACH - With current and anticipated rains and resulting higher flows in the Chetco River, officials with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have decided to reopen the lower river beginning Thursday to fishing for Chinook salmon.

Marc Hayes, left, with the Habitat Division of the Washington State Fish and Wildlife Department, and Steve Hash, with the Oregon Zoo, inspect Oregon spotted frogs before they were released into Dailman Lake on Fort Lewis, Tuesday, Nov.

Rare birds like the black partridge and pheasant have increased by the thousands while populations of Asiatic black bears, leopards, musk deer and rare red deer have swelled in the disputed Himalayan region's pine forests.

Texas Parks and Wildlife have charged Justin Martindale, 27, with hunting without landowner's consent after he shot and killed a deer in Walnut Creek Greenbelt.

DNA taken from 69 crocodiles housed in the moats of the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center showed nearly 50 percent were Siamese crocodiles, which until recently were believed to have become extinct in the wild, researchers said Wednesday.

Thousands of stargazers stayed awake overnight for what was forecast as an intense Leonid meteor shower over Asia this year, but the show fizzled rather than sizzled for many viewers - partly due to cloud cover.

In this April 17, 2002 file photo, a Thai carver works on with ivory of an image of a Buddhist monk in Nakhon Sawan province, Thailand.