wildlife service

It's official: No eastern cougars left in North Carolina

Outdoor Recreation News  Thu, 03/03/2011 - 12:46

The cougar apparently no longer exists in the wild in the Southern Mountains. It probably won't put an end to the sightings, but the U.S.

Fish & Wildlife Service has made it official: the eastern cougar is extinct.


 

New protections set for Twain's jumping frog

Outdoor Recreation News  Tue, 03/16/2010 - 23:42

This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service shows a California red-legged frog.


 

Discordant decisions: A protected habitat is proposed for endang...

Outdoor Recreation News  Sat, 10/24/2009 - 08:51

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has proposed designating some 200,000 square miles of lands and waters along the north coast of Alaska as "critical habitat" for endangered polar bears .


 

Drought wiping out Kenya wildlife

Outdoor Recreation News  Fri, 10/16/2009 - 08:18

Kenya Wildlife Service rangers on Oct. 8 inspect the carcass of a baby elephant that died from the prolonged drought in east Africa.


 

Kenya, Ethiopia authorities seize massive piles of bloody elepha...

Outdoor Recreation News  Wed, 09/30/2009 - 18:16

Authorities in Ethiopia and Kenya have seized more than 2,600 pounds of bloodstained ivory from about 100 illegally killed elephants at airports, the head of Kenya's Wildlife Service said Wednesday.