Laura's Animals / Wildlife Blog

For the fourth consecutive summer, the area covered by Arctic sea ice has shrunk, raising concerns that the effects of climate change are threatening the vast and unique Arctic wilderness. ... Read More

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The WWF has published a case study of the marine turtles that nest on the remote Turtle Islands in the Sulu Sea. The study reveals that the collection of turtle ... Read More

The black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes), one of North America's most endangered mammals. The ferret was thought to be extinct by 1979 but in 1981 a small population was rediscovered. By ... Read More

The Amazonian rainforest is a mosaic of some of the world's most diverse assemblages of plant life. Yet a species of ant (Myrmelachista schumanni) has found a way to maintain ... Read More

A recent meeting of top scientists—experts in amphibian biology—paved the way for the future protection of amphibians around the globe. The Amphibian Conservation Summit, held on September 17th-19th, brought together ... Read More

A recent study by entomologist Robert R. Dunn published in Conservation Biology indicates that insect extinction rates could be on the increase. The study estimates that 44,000 insect species have ... Read More

Commercial fishing for cod in the waters of the Grand Banks off Canada's east coast has been banned since 1994 due to a collapse in the cod population in the ... Read More

Eight bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) were washed into Mississippi Sound during Hurricane Katrina. Earlier this month, a team of NOAA marine biologists and aquarium scientists located the stranded dolphins and ... Read More

A grizzly bear at the Bronx Zoo has put a bear-proof canister through a grueling half-hour of battering and prying. The canister, designed to hold food for backpackers, was filled ... Read More

Charles Foley, a researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Society, has been hoping to catch a glimpse of a white giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) for over a decade. Foley, who studies savanna ... Read More

Last week, researchers, officials from the United Nations Great Ape Survival Project, and government ministers from countries throughout Africa and Asia met for fives days in the Democratic Republic of ... Read More

New Orlean's Aquarium of the Americas escaped significant damage during Hurricane Katrina but in the days following the hurricane, the aquarium has suffered significant losses of animals. Fish at the aquarium ... Read More

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan addressed an intergovernmental meeting that is to discuss the protection of great apes: "The great apes are our close relatives. Like ... Read More

The Audubon Relief Effort, lead by Lincoln Park Zoo President and CEO Kevin Bell, is providing much needed relief and assistance to the animals, staff, and facilities of New Orlean's ... Read More

KALIMANTAN, Indonesia. A study by TRAFFIC and the WWF revealed that "between 200 and 500 Bornean Orang-utans originating from Kalimantan, are traded each year on Kalimantan, Java and Bali". Current ... Read More

Numerous zoos and aquariums have been affected by Hurricane Katrina. Though detailed information is not yet available, the following reports give some information about the staff, animals, buildings, and resource ... Read More

Wildlife experts plan to transport four black rhinos (Diceros bicornis) from South Africa’s Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park to the Zululand Rhino Reserve. Conservationists hope that the transferred rhinos will help form a ... Read More