[I've posted the response
from wildlife officials to readers who asked why the captured python was killed.]
Because of white nose syndrome, mounting public pressure and scrutiny
from wildlife officials have become a major motivator for wind energy companies to figure out how to prevent bat deaths.
Not exact matches
Residents and environmentalists argued that the development would destroy valuable oak savannahs, high quality wetlands and
wildlife - a concern recently echoed by
officials from the Army Corps of Engineers, village
officials said.
Schaller: (laughs) As far as the
wildlife refuge, I got a whole page of quotes by everything
from presidents down to oil company executives, but the number of lies and the amount of ignorance that's displayed is horrendous in our government
officials.
He thinks they probably still have enough room to roam in the U.S. to persist here but may always need a helping hand
from federal
wildlife officials, who are breeding the animals in captivity to rebuild the population, which struggled even before border security intensified.
The scientists, including several retired former
officials from the Alaska Department of Fish & Game, the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish &
Wildlife Service, said in a letter to Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington that drilling for oil and gas in the refuge would be «incompatible with the purposes for which the refuge was established,» protecting fish and
wildlife populations and the environments in which they live.
More than 10,000 migrating birds in the U.S. have died
from an outbreak of avian cholera caused by reduced water flowing through marshlands of Oregon and California, according to federal
wildlife officials.
Oregon
wildlife officials shot and killed two wolves
from a helicopter Wednesday in an attempt to reduce killings of cattle by...
Declared an
official wildlife reserve in 2006, the Tobago Cays Marine Park is teeming with beautiful marine life,
from bright and colorful fish to magnificent sea turtles.
Pressed by hunting and habitat loss along its range
from Florida west to coastal Texas and north to the Carolinas, the species was so depleted that by 1966 federal
wildlife officials deemed it was in danger of vanishing and extended legal protections to the reptile.
On June 19th, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service crushed a ton of seized illegal ivory in New York's Times Square, and last week top
officials from the United States and China focused on combating
wildlife trafficking at the annual Strategic & Economic Dialogue.
More than 10,000 migrating birds in the U.S. have died
from an outbreak of avian cholera caused by reduced water flowing through marshlands of Oregon and California, according to federal
wildlife officials.
In a letter sent to EPA
officials last week, attorneys for the Center for Biological Diversity warned that the agency's draft permit for water pollution discharges in the Gulf fails to properly consider how dumping wastewater containing chemicals
from fracking and acidizing operations would impact water quality and marine
wildlife.