The Guardian reports on how the successful rewilding of wolves helped correct the Yellowstone ecosystem Twenty-five years ago this month, wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone, America’s first national park and an ecosystem dangerously out of whack owing to the extirpation of its top predator. Read article at A rewilding triumph: wolves help to reverse Yellowstone […]
From The Rocky Mountain Collegian (Serena Bettis): Most loud sounds heard around Fort Collins late at night are typically from partying college kids or trains — not wild animals. This is not the case for Coloradans living in Moffat County, where Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials confirmed a wolf pack sighting Jan. 19, according to […]
One of only five white rhinos left in the world, mountain gorillas in the wild and threatened gray wolves are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world. A northern white female rhino named Najin, one of only five sub-species left on the planet, rubs against a tree at Ol Pejeta conservancy in […]
The Washington Post reports on the struggles of reintroducing Gray Wolves to Yellowstone at https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/gray-wolves-were-reintroduced-in-yellowstone-25-years-ago-its-been-a-struggle-but-today-they-survive/2020/01/17/12515f3a-3703-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Charlotte Edmond, Formative Content 17,000 pairs of big eyes. 17,000 pairs of big ears. 17,000 sets of big teeth. With thousands of wolves now roaming continental Europe, Little Red Riding Hood better watch out. Image: European Commission After […]
One of the most successful conservation stories is the return of the wolf to many European countries. In some areas of Europe there have always been stable populations. Yet, in the majority of countries the wolf had disappeared. Because wolves sometimes prey on livestock like sheep and cattle, there has been a conflict with humans […]
We are a nation inhabiting diverse amount of flora and fauna. So, there is greater reason for us to conserve them in their natural habitat. Globally, a lot of faunal Indian species (e.g. Gray Wolf (Canis lupus pallipes), Kalij pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos) have been categorized in IUCN red list as “least concern”, but in India […]
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