Daily world news about wild animals and endangered species. Includes information on animals in Africa, tigers, elephants, and all wildlife, plus news on animal welfare and wildlife conservation.
(ENDANGERED SPECIES) ALASKA — A baby polar bear was rescued by Fish and Wildlife officials after being separated from her mother and sibling. Officials hope to find the mother, but they are looking for a permanent home for the cub in the meantime. Read more about the rescue and efforts to find the cub’s family. — Global Animal
(WILDLIFE/PHOTOS) MISSISSIPPI —The floods aren’t just forcing people out of their homes, but animals, too. While deer wander down city streets and cows wade out of the expanding water of the flooded river, some wild animals like the cotton mouth snake are taking up residence in abandoned houses. See pictures of wildlife escaping the rising water, and read how animals are affected by the flood.
(WILDLIFE) The coyote ignites the imagination of one culture after another. Seen as a trickster by some, ‘God’s Dog,’ by others, and Wile E. Coyote by scores of children, read how this mysterious creature keeps many secrets close to what Mark Twain called its ‘long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton.’ – Global Animal
ANIMAL NEWS – A leopard attacked a boy who fell over a railing in the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas. The boy survived the attack and the Amur leopard, an endangered species, was unhurt.
GRAY WOLVES/ENDANGERED SPECIES – In a hotly contested and shortsighted move, the Interior Department has caved to pressure from ranchers and hunters to allow regular wolf hunts, in addition to outright killings of ‘problem wolves’ that attack cattle. Gray wolves have been brought from the edge of extinction to a total and still tenuous population of just 5,500 in eight states in the Northern Rockies. What is the purpose of taking almost 50 years to reintroduce and revive a species hunted to near extinction, a necessary predator in the chain of life, only to open them up to hunting? Apex predators are necessary to naturally balance deer and elk populations. When an apex predator is removed, other problems arise.
We share conservationists’ frustration at this decision. It’s the sort of shameful move that comes from the failure to learn from mistakes. Add to that the weakness of the very governmental bodies there to be stewards of nature and a pandering to hunters and ranchers. The decision to remove wolves from legal protection is a multi-faceted assault – on wolves and all wildlife, and citizens who care about fellow beings in the natural world. – Global Animal
ENGLAND (ANIMAL WELFARE) – The new royal couple seem to have a soft spot for animals, asking guests to donate to the Zoological Society of London, which helps save elephants in Thailand and rhino in Kenya.
FLORIDA (VIDEO/WILDLIFE) – Getting up to use your bathroom and finding a 7-foot alligator curled around the toilet is no way to wake up (or a very fast way). Alexis Dunbar found an unwelcome weekend guest in her bathroom – a 7-foot alligator. The gator, who had been eying Dunbar’s cats for a few days, crawled in through the doggie door and was trapped. What we don’t understand is why the alligator had to be destroyed.
NEW ZEALAND (ANIMAL WELFARE) – Animals are too often on the losing side of a battle for habitat. This time, 23,000 rabbits were killed by a grinning Ray Moffat and a clan of farmers who killed the bunnies in a grisly Easter hunt.
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