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...
by Admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Conservation, Sustainability
In the Oaxaca region of Mexico, iguana has been and still is a commonly eaten meat in the smaller towns. You find it on restaurant menus, usually in tamales or stew. If you order it, don’t mind the raised eyebrows. It’s thought to be an aphrodisiac. But one local...
by Admin | Sep 7, 2020 | Conservation, Environmental hazards
The golden eagle, once native to nearly the entire Northern hemisphere, has lost most of its range. The IUCN estimates there to be between 170,00 and 250,000 of the large predatory birds left in the world, completely extirpated from much of their former ranges. But a...
