This video says about itself: Whales and Orcas Feeding Together | BBC Earth 31 May 2018 Normally rivals, whales join orcas to take advantage of their of their fish stunning skills and go on a feeding frenzy.
On a visit to Pt. Reyes this week, we came upon this beautiful bobcat. One of my favorite wilderness haunts in northern California, Pt. Reyes did not disappoint. Bobcat, Pt. Reyes When we came upon this bobcat, it was in a field where we had seen a bobcat about two years earlier. Since the pandemic […]
The Bobcat — Jet Eliot
Press Release Center for Biological Diversity After 90 Percent Decline, Federal Protection Sought for Monarch Butterfly Genetically Engineered Crops Are Major Driver in Population Crash WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety as co-lead petitioners joined by the Xerces Society and renowned monarch scientist Dr. Lincoln Brower filed a legal petition […]
Endangered Protections Sought For Monarchs After 90% Population Loss —
Press Release from Senator Jeff Merkley Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced a $1 million investment to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s (NFWF) Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Conservation Fund, and the establishment of a Pollinator Conservation Center at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Both projects are […]
$1 MILLION AND DEDICATED POLLINATOR CENTER TO ADDRESS MONARCH BUTTERFLY DECLINE —
A new study confirms previous research that it was climate change that killed off Woolly Mammoth. Read more at Climate change drove sloths, mammoths to extinction, say scientists (+video) – CSMonitor.com.
Climate Change Killed Off Woolly Mammoths —
Center for Biological Diversity News Release SILVER CITY, N.M.— Grant County commissioners voted 2-1 against renewing a contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program last Thursday because the federal agency, which kills carnivores on behalf of the livestock industry, ignored requirements within its last contract. “USDA’s unwillingness to stay within guardrails that […]
Rural New Mexico County Votes to Stop Funding Federal Wildlife-Killing —
EarthSky reports The Canadian territory Yukon – and Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, a First Nation band – said late last week (June 24, 2022) that miners in the region have discovered a whole, 30,000-year-old mummified baby woolly mammoth. It’s only the second one ever found in the world. And it’s the first and most complete discovery of […]
Baby woolly mammoth – beautifully preserved – found in Yukon —
Nature reports The group has adapted to hunting on glacial ice, which suggests some members of the species might survive as the Arctic heats up. An isolated population of polar bears has been discovered in southeast Greenland1, which is free of sea ice for most of the year. Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) typically need sea ice […]
Polar bear population discovered that can survive with little sea ice —
Teracolus (Colotis) eris The Banded Gold Tip is a common and widespread butterfly that can be found in corners of all South Africa’s provinces. While reaching their highest densities in forest and savanna, they have a wide habitat tolerance, avoiding only succulent karoo, fynbos and mountain grasslands. They’re very fond of settling on flowers, fluttering […]
Banded Gold Tip Butterfly — de Wets Wild
NPR reports The world’s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United States. The stingray, captured on June 13, measured almost 13 feet from snout to tail and weighed slightly under 660 pounds, according to a statement […]
World’s Largest Freshwater Fish Is almost 660 pounds —
Have you ever wanted to visit the enchanted Galapagos Islands? Well now you can and it won’t break the bank. Here is exactly what I just did, and how you can do it too.
Galápagos on a Budget — Wanderlust and Wildlife
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