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But while wildlife officials in Africa continue to do their part to keep poachers at bay, U.S. federal agents have begun to dismantel important elements of the illegal trade of wildlife elsewhere.

Veterinarians and wildlife officials in the Sunshine State are asking pet owners to watch out for toads after a dog in Valrico, Florida, experienced seizures and paralysis on Sunday night, following an encounter with a bufo toad.

Traffic says wildlife officials in the Malaysian state of Sabah, where the records were seized, have too little money even to fuel their patrol boats to pursue smuggling vessels.

Not exact matches

For the ninth consecutive year, the success rate of deer hunters in North Dakota in 2017 was below the 70 percent threshold that state wildlife officials consider a good season.

Since our founding in 1896, Mass Audubon has joined with partner organizations, scientists, government officials, conservationists, and community activists to protect and maintain the natural heritage of Massachusetts for people and wildlife.

These core areas emphasize responding and providing support in times of emergency, nursing animals back to health, returning animals back to their environments or providing a home for those that are deemed non-releasable by wildlife officials.

Waukesha County culvert extension project threatens Butler's garter snake Madison (AP)-- State wildlife officials say a road project in Waukesha County might end up killing a rare snake.

Madison (AP)-- State wildlife officials say a road project in Waukesha County might end up killing a rare snake.

Her findings, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology on June 5, could help wildlife managers target their efforts to prevent outbreaks and potentially help public health officials prevent disease in human populations as well.

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.

In most cases, he says, military officials simply believe that military exercises are more important than protecting wildlife.

«This research highlights a common problem in the illegal wildlife trade — the invisibility of trades that have not been researched and are not recognised in official government databases.»

When wildlife officials began noticing elevated mercury levels in waterfowl in the lake's wetlands, at around the same time geoscientists found highly elevated mercury in the depths of the lake, they all thought a connection between the ducks and the deep brine layer was likely.

Judges say wildlife officials have been slack on science in assessing the need for exterminating wolves, wolverines and cormorants

Since its discovery in 2006 in an upstate New York cave, white - nose syndrome has infected 11 species and killed more than six million bats in 23 states, wildlife officials said.

(Reuters)- Bats in Wisconsin and Michigan have been infected with a disease that has killed millions of the mosquito - eating mammals elsewhere in the U.S. and could have a detrimental impact on farming and forestry, wildlife officials said on Thursday.

Many locals enjoy having the monkeys in the park, but wildlife officials are concerned about overpopulation caused by human feeding, the nonnative animals» ecological impact and the potential for interspecies disease transmission.

An unprecedented wintertime outbreak of West Nile virus has killed more than two dozen bald eagles in Utah and thousands of water birds around the Great Salt Lake, state wildlife officials said on Tuesday.

Calling it a «sobering and daunting crisis,» U.S. government officials announced today a national strategy to combat the surging trade in elephant ivory and other wildlife products.

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.

Federal wildlife officials later scrutinized the image their camera caught, comparing the animal's markings with jaguars spotted elsewhere in Arizona in recent years.

(Reuters)- An unprecedented wintertime outbreak of West Nile virus has killed more than two dozen bald eagles in Utah and thousands of water birds around the Great Salt Lake, state wildlife officials said on Tuesday.

In the latest 161 - page document, dated March 9, EPA officials include several new studies highlighting how a warming planet is likely to mean more intense U.S. heat waves and hurricanes, shifting migration patterns for plants and wildlife, and the possibility of up to a foot of global sea level rise in the next centurIn the latest 161 - page document, dated March 9, EPA officials include several new studies highlighting how a warming planet is likely to mean more intense U.S. heat waves and hurricanes, shifting migration patterns for plants and wildlife, and the possibility of up to a foot of global sea level rise in the next centurin the next century.

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.

Seven wildlife crime law enforcement officials in Kyrgyzstan have received a Citizen Ranger Wildlife Award for their courage in the fight against illegal hunting in the country's snow leopard habitat in 2016.

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.

Osceola County animal control officers are putting their traps away after Health Department officials decided last week to halt a practice of trapping and killing wildlife when a rabies case is discovered.Before Friday, whenever a rabies case was confirmed, traps were set in the area where the rabid animal lived.

«Many citizens and public officials have voiced concerns about the public health issues and wildlife issues involved in hoarding large numbers of cats in the wild.

Oregon wildlife officials shot and killed two wolves from a helicopter Wednesday in an attempt to reduce killings of cattle by...

[8] In attendance were more than 200 veterinarians, animal control officials, wildlife conservationists, and animal advocates — each with a different perspective on feral cats in general and TNR in particulaIn attendance were more than 200 veterinarians, animal control officials, wildlife conservationists, and animal advocates — each with a different perspective on feral cats in general and TNR in particulain general and TNR in particulain particular.

I'll bet if I contacted officials in Brookhaven, NY, Wheaton, IL, and Benzie County, MI (communities listed in the Alley Cat Allies story), they'd tell me all about the numerous «threats» posed by free - roaming cats — wildlife killed and injured, rabies, toxoplasmosis, etc..

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.

Mariners share the concern of wildlife officials and environmental groups, said Dick McKenna, executive director of the Marine Exchange of Southern California, which monitors all vessel traffic in and out of the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports.

Declared an official wildlife reserve in 2006 by the government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the Tobago Cays Marine Park is home to an array of colorful fish, sea turtles and other fascinating marine creatures — a perfect destination for snorkeling or scuba diving.

With a stable, peaceful democratic government and English as its official language, families can enjoy the time of their lives in Belize as they explore ancient lost cities, see wildlife up close and in person, splash in the crystal clear waters of the Caribbean and enjoy plenty of fun in the sun.

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.

The companies are also working with FWS officials to come up with ways to identify species, not yet in commerce, that might become invasive; this risk assessment could be a stopgap approach to screening out potential wildlife diseases and would «say to the pet trade: «Beware — don't deal with these,»» Meyers says.

Lee Kramer, a licensed alligator trapper, helped a wildlife official capture an alligator on a florida golf course in 1988.

There are promising signs, including a set of meetings, described in March by China Daily, between Chinese and American officials pursuing ways to cooperate in stemming the trade in illicit wildlife products, including totoaba swim bladders (which often get to China through the United States).

Using documents, emails and interviews with former wildlife officials, the AP in articles published last year documented more than four dozen eagle deaths in Wyoming since 2009, and dozens more in California, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Nevada.

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 wildlifIn 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 wildlifin the Gulf fails to properly consider how dumping wastewater containing chemicals from fracking and acidizing operations would impact water quality and marine wildlife.

In this corner of Georgia, where temperatures have been over 100 and rainfall has been off by more than half, fish and wildlife officials are worried over the health of the shinyrayed pocketbook and the oval pigtoe mussels, both freshwater species on the endangered species list.

Elected officials — Democrat and Republican alike — who are onboard with President's Obama's «Green» assault in the name of halting «climate change» — are complicit in destroying the rural fabric, environment, and wildlife that is the grandeur of America, including the slaughter of our nation's bald and golden eagles.

Photo: cbrown1023 / cc Earlier this week, residents in East Brunswick, New Jersey reported seeing a black bear wandering through their suburb, so wildlife officials were dispatched to pick him up — but the bear proved no easy catch.

The Wildlife Conservation Society is congratulating Thailand officials for their exceptional enforcement of wildlife protection laws in the...

But elsewhere in Asia, work is moving ahead to turn another area more associated with conflict than conservation into a sanctuary for at - risk elephants.A year and a half after Sri Lanka's quarter - century civil war ended, officials have announced plans to use more than 100,000 acres of jungle — the former stronghold of the Tamil Tigers separatists — to help protect wildlife, The Guardian reported today.

Even Kentucky wildlife officials were skeptical that the animal Troyer had shot was a free - roaming wild wolf — after all, the species hadn't been spotted in the state since the mid-1800s.

And to take your mind off wildlife for a moment, go to the official site for the Serengeti National Park, where, on the home page, you'll find a beautiful shot of the land around Seronera, a small hamlet in the park.