Experience the Beauty of Exotic Animals in Their Natural Habitat at the Wild Animal Sanctuary
A visit to the Wild Animal Sanctuary will warm your heart, put a smile on your face and bring out the joy of being a wondrous child in you.
A visit to the Wild Animal Sanctuary will warm your heart, put a smile on your face and bring out the joy of being a wondrous child in you.
AP | MARY PEMBERTON | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Four years after being placed on the Endangered Species List, the dwindling sea otters of southwest Alaska on Wednesday were...
Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green
Glacier National Park could lose all its glaciers, Joshua Tree National Park all its Joshua trees and Saguaro National Park all its saguaros, according to a new report on climate change from NRDC.
Panthera | Posted 09.30.2009 | Green
The 'lion encounter' industry is only that -- an industry. Churning out cubs for photo opportunities is a great revenue earner but none of those cubs are set free.
Vail Daily. | Vail Daily | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home
A pillow is probably not on the list of official tips on fending off hungry predators, but it worked for Vail resident Sally Rebehn when a bear follow...
Scott Dodd | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
"The national parks are the first time in human history that land has been set aside -- not for kings or noblemen or the very rich -- but for everybody, and for all time," Burns said.
Allison Daily | Posted 09.24.2009 | Denver
It is a hard line to draw when we want to preserve and protect our wildlife and yet hold onto our own safety. We moved into land that originally they inhabited.
Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green
We were feeling the love for dolphins this week -- In honor of plans for The Cove to show at the Tokyo International Film Festival in October, check ...
nytimes.com | Pete Browne | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green
"The project aims to bring attention to the plight of gorillas," said Lillian Nsubuga, a spokeswoman for the Uganda Wildlife Authority, "and any money...
treehugger.com | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
Earlier this week a new journal article was released that calculated the amount of land needed for energy production under various future energy and c...
Panthera | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
In many countries around the world, working to save wildlife is viewed as a lowly position with little to no recognition accompanied by a meager and inconsistent paycheck.
AP | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green
EUCLID, Ohio — An Ohio woman who found a fawn in her flower garden has been accused of beating it to death with a shovel. Dorothy Richardson, 75...
Michael Markarian | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green
Club members killed the protected birds of prey by shooting, trapping, poisoning, clubbing, baiting birds into glass panels, and even baiting birds with pigeons rigged with fishing hooks.
Reuters | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green
More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly 17,000 now threatened with extinction, the Internation...
Panthera | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green
As few as 3,500 snow leopards may still roam the harsh, forbidding mountains of Central Asia. No one knows for sure.
Michael Markarian | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics
Spending federal money to build a tunnel for turtles is not a fleecing of taxpayers. It's a wise solution to a pressing problem.
Michael Markarian | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green
The Sportsmanship in Hunting Act would ban the remote shooting of live animals over the Internet and the trophy shooting of exotic mammals held captive inside fenced enclosures.
Sheila Shayon | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living
The relationship between human and animal is being looked at anew.
Michael Markarian | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green
You're about 287 times more likely to be murdered, raped, robbed, or assaulted if you're outside a national park.
Michael Markarian | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
There have been well-known cases of exotic species that should never have been introduced in the U.S. Whether they are the zebra mussels, the snakehead fish, or the Gambian rats that caused the 2003 monkeypox outbreak.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 06.06.2009 | Green
If it sounds like I'm gushing, that's because I am.
Michael Markarian | Posted 05.14.2009 | Green
The new bill introduced by Congressman Henry Brown (R-S.C.) and Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam) is a good deal for endangered species and for taxpayers.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 04.03.2009 | Home
This legislation promises good science now, and for the next 4-8 years; and hopefully restored guarantees of good science later, even under less humane executives than Obama.
Cheri Shankar | Posted 04.02.2009 | Green
As we encroach on the forests and up into the mountains, we continue to displace hundreds of thousands of creatures that have lived for a millennium in harmony with their surroundings.
Andrew Wetzler | Posted 03.27.2009 | Green
It is simply incoherent to say that the Endangered Species Act's definition of "species" is "beyond Congress' intent." How do we know? Because Congress wrote the definition.
Brett Greene | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver