AVMA News
AUGUST 15, 2024
For the first time in North America a case of rustrela virus infection, also known as staggering disease, has been identified in a wild mountain lion. Researchers are encouraging further investigations to determine just how prevalent the virus is in area wildlife.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 23, 2012
Outcry is growing against one of California’s top wildlife officials after a photo of him holding a dead mountain lion surfaced online last week. Hunting mountain lion is legal in Idaho, but illegal in California.
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Animal Person
AUGUST 29, 2009
Though I wrote about the mountain lions of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge a couple of times, it was never with the breadth and depth that Deb Durant of Invisible Voices has.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
Motomco’s Material Safety Data Sheet for “Hawk” warns that the product “is extremely toxic to fish, birds, and other wildlife” and that “dogs and predatory and scavenging mammals and birds might be poisoned if they feed upon animals that have eaten this bait.” Thanks for your concern for wildlife, Syngenta.).
Critter News
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
The wildlife official in question is the President of the California Fish and Game Commission. He is a proponent of trophy hunting and was photographed with a dead mountain lion in Idaho. Full story here.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC) is often held up as the best system of wildlife management and conservation in the world. But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
Despite the eyesore that is this mine, the wildlife continues to thrive in this harsh environment. In addition to the hundred or so species of birds I regularly find here, there are Desert Foxes, Bobcats, Mountain Lions, Desert Bighorn Sheep and Mule Deer. Here are a few of the birds we spotted last weekend.
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