wildlife

Shark Populations Drop 90 Percent Near Inhabited Islands

by steve casimiro on May 10, 2012 · 0 comments

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As if sharks aren’t having a hard enough time these days, what with people hacking their fins for soup and New Zealanders surfing on their dead bodies, a new census of reef sharks in Pacific waters show that populations have crashed by 90 percent near inhabited islands. “We estimate that reef shark numbers have dropped [...]

Mexican Fishermen Land 1-Ton Shark

by pete thomas grindtv on May 9, 2012 · 4 comments

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Two commercial fishermen in Mexico received the surprise of a lifetime a couple weeks ago when they hauled up a great white shark measuring nearly 20 feet and weighing about 2,000 pounds, according to local news reports. The rare catch of such a large white shark — at 20 feet it’d be among the longest [...]

“Shark Surfing” Incident Generates Outrage

by pete thomas grindtv on May 3, 2012 · 7 comments

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Fishing for sharks is one thing, but surfing on a shark carcass after its capture and posting videotape on Facebook is just begging for trouble. Nobody knows this better than three New Zealand anglers who have spent the past several days apologizing and defending themselves, while the incident remains under investigation by at least one [...]

Wallpaper Wednesday: Elephants, Masai Mara, Kenya

by steve casimiro on April 11, 2012 · 1 comment

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This week’s free wallpaper of a herd of elephants in Masai Mara, Kenya, is provided here in a full range of desktop sizes. This shot is by Kevin Arnold, and you can purchase art-quality prints of it (with or without frames) through the Adventure Journal print store. 1280 x 800 1440 x 900 1680 x [...]

Yellowstone Grizzlies Heading for Conflict with Sheep…Uncle Sam’s Sheep

by sarah gilman high country news on April 10, 2012 · 1 comment

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The recovery of Yellowstone’s grizzly bears has been remarkable. When the species was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1975, there were just 136 wandering in and around the national park. Now, there are more than 600. And though a federal court confirmed in November that the population should remain protected, it’s [...]

Siku, An Overdose of Polar Bear Cub Cuteness

by steve casimiro on April 6, 2012 · 0 comments

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In hindsight, I could have and should have made my fortune by creating the Baby Animal Channel because there isn’t a creature on the planet, including the predators who find them tasty easy pickins, who can resist a baby animal, especially one as stinkin’ cute as Siku. This little grom was born last November in [...]

Declination: When Yosemite Bears Cut Off Escape

by Sinuhe Xavier on April 3, 2012 · 0 comments

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I’ve been going to Yosemite Valley since 1976 when my mom was still pregnant with my little brother, staying in every spot from the funky cots of Curry Village to the sleeping bags of Camp 4 and luxuriating in the down comforters of the Ahwahnee Hotel. It took 25 years to get out.

When Your Dog Is Obsessed With A Mountain Lion’s Deer Kill

There’s a dead fawn outside my front door. It’s been completely and carefully covered in grass, which means that it is a mountain lion kill, which means that the mountain lion responsible is going to come back to finish eating. I would never have noticed it, except that my dog was sniffing and whining and [...]

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Court Protects Endangered Hawaiian Sea Turtles

Endangered leatherback and loggerhead sea turtles around Hawaii may have a better chance of recovery after a federal court recently set strict limits on the longline swordfish fishery in the waters around the islands. “Our settlement ensures that sea turtles can swim more freely and safely in Hawaii’s waters,” said Miyoko Sakashita, oceans director at [...]

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B.C.’s Endemic Caribou Threatened by Wolves, Snowmobiles, and Heli-Skiing

Mountain caribou are unique: They are the only species of deer that move to higher ground in winter, where their long legs enable them to churn through six-feet-deep snow or more to reach winter lichen high up on evergreens. Their biggest threat is wolves — and human beings on snowmobiles. The latter create packed-snow corridors [...]

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Private Landowners Step Up to Help Wildlife Migrate

In October 1983, ahead of an unusually harsh winter, pronghorn in south-central Wyoming began what should have been a routine journey to their winter range near Rawlins, but a five-foot-tall woven-wire fence stood in their way. Rancher Taylor Lawrence said he’d erected it to keep the animals from competing with his cattle for forage. It [...]

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This Is the Winter the Snowy Owls Came South

It took only two hours for me to reach the apparent miracle that was occurring near Flathead Lake in Polson, Montana: Snowy owls had turned up here after flying all the way from the Arctic, and everybody in the town of about 4,000 seemed to know about it. I’d never seen these spectacular, two-foot-tall birds, [...]

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Dirtbag Gourmet: Eating Road Kill

Alison Brierley is a bit of a celebrity in the U.K., and has been featured on cooking shows for her novelty factor. That novelty is that she’s eaten road kill for eight years and sees nothing wrong with it. She says our squeamishness about whether something was killed by a car or an arrow, a [...]

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Dolphin “Stampede” Has the Ignorant Aflutter

In the last week, a video called “Dana Point Dolphin Stampede” has been generating tanker-loads of views and also tons of controversy. Shot from a whale-watching boat based here in my home town of Dana Point, California, it shows hundreds, perhaps thousands, of dolphins swimming around the boat. And perhaps it’s because of the poorly [...]

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Opinion: It’s Time to Stop Feeding Those Jackson Elk

In western Wyoming, feeding elk seems as normal as long winters, Grand Teton views, and oil and gas wells. But of the one million elk that now roam North America, only three percent are fed by government employees, and three-fourths of those animals are fed in Wyoming at the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole [...]

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