Wildlife News

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has received notification from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Tennessee that more than $1 million has been allocated for the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program .

A "stocktake" of UK nature suggests 60% of animal and plant species have declined in the past 50 years - and one in 10 could end up disappearing.

UK wildlife is "in trouble", with almost 2,000 species of birds, animals, insects and plants known to have declined in the past half century, experts have warned.

When habitat needs to be protected to ensure the survival of a species inhabiting this "blue marble", government and industry often balk and backpedal.

For the Talking Records project, 10 helpers were faced with over 5,000 cards recording the plants and flowers of Lancashire, some dating back hundreds of years.

New Mexico State University is seeking to help ranchers with wildlife management and brush control amid a dangerous fire season.

The state's alligator-release program has been an overwhelming success, and now there are so many of the reptiles in Louisiana that even recreational hunters can apply to harvest them.

PAICE, Margaret Ann Westlake, 68, of Ostrander, formerly of Steubenville, died Saturday, May 18, 2013, at her home with her loving husband at her side.

Prince Charles and Prince William are hosting a conference to call for a global partnership to stop illegal trade in wildlife.

Alligators continue to be spotted in people's yards and neighborhoods in Morgan City, a problem police have been dealing with for about a month, which could be due to several different factors.

With several extensive research projects on northwest Colorado mule deer populations under way, biologists say they want to update the public on those efforts.

State and federal authorities are offering a $3,000 reward for information about whoever shot and killed a whooping crane along the Red River in northwest Louisiana.

The state of Alaska on Monday proposed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar plan aimed at determining the true oil and gas potential in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Clark Kelly plans to spend a lot of time on the links this spring. The Illinois farmer is plowing the Hend-Co-Hills Golf Course near tiny Biggsville into a cornfield.

A record-setting Burmese python was killed with a knife in a rural section of southern Miami-Dade County, after it wrapped itself around the leg of the man trying to capture it.

While nobody thinks the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can slow or stop global warming, wildlife conservation advocates say the agency must do more to try and save polar bears from extinction.

Regina Busse of Omaha and Wahoo native Tim Davison are two of 12 semifinalists for the job of hosting a series of webisodes on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom TV YouTube channel.

Willows Hedgehog Rescue is running the competition as a follow up to Hedgehog Awareness Week, when it ran a number of awareness and fundraising events The competition is offering one lucky school the chance to win hedgehog related goodies, a hedgehog home, and 10 kilos of hedgehog food, as well as bird feeders, bird food, a bat box, and advice on ... (more)

Prairie people looking for an exotic holiday destination need not journey to far-flung corners of the world.

Parts of the farm landscape that look overgrown and 'scruffy' are more important in supporting wildlife than they first appear, according to new research published today in Ecology Letters.