by Beth Holmes | Oct 10, 2022 | Conservation, Environmental hazards
Australia intends to set aside nearly a million square miles of land to protect endangered species. This summer, an environmental report card by the Australian government showed the country as one of the worst for species decline. They’ve lost more mammal...
by Beth Holmes | Sep 26, 2022 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Lobstermen and the state of Maine are challenging a judge’s decision to restrict fishing that threatens severely threatened whale species. North Atlantic right whales were once the preferred target for commercial whaling. They swim slowly and at the surface,...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 6, 2022 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Manatees are starving in Florida waters, only five years after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) took them off the Endangered Species list. In the 1960s and ’70s, the West Indian manatee, which is native to Florida waters, was down to only a few hundred...
by Admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Conservation
In the late 1960s, a survey by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) found fewer than 500 breeding pairs of bald eagles in the lower 48 states of the United States. The bald eagle, which has been the national bird of the United States since 1787, nearly went...
by Admin | Feb 8, 2021 | Conservation
New species get found every day, but usually they’re insects, or some variety of LBB (Little Brown Bird), a fern or—if you’re very, very lucky—a previously unknown shrew. But just recently, a few incredibly lucky scientists got to announce the discovery of a whole new...
