Wildlife and conservation of Canada and the USA.
Recent North America news
- New Mexican reserve and nest box success offer hope for eventual reintroduction of endangered thick-billed parrots to the U.S.
- New fungus linked with the death of 100,000 bats in USA
- High numbers of deer lead to high numbers of reptiles and invertebrates
- President Bush signs up to protect albatrosses
- eBay bans ivory sales in response to IFAW report
- Black-tailed prairie dogs return to historical site in Arizona
- The search for the Ivory-billed woodpecker goes on. Wildlife Extra questions why?
- Mississippi Man Sentenced for Killing Bald Eagle
- Beavers are good for birds
- Virgin birth of a shark confirmed
- International shark protection needed to protect Atlantic Porbeagles, Mako and others
- Bluefin tuna migration patterns revealed for Mediterranean and Western Atlantic populations
- Black bears moving into to towns, getting fatter, dying younger
- Orca killing Sea otters means Bald eagles kill more birds
- Two Hawaiian Birds on Brink of Extinction to be listed under US Endangered Species Act
More North America news
- Leucistic Ibis, American robin, Western kingbird and Western scrub jay
- Oregon spotted frog released into the wild to halt population crash
- Whales recorded off New York
- Us senate introduce bill to conserve rapidly disappearing migratory birds
- World’s marine mammals under threat from noise pollution
- Critically endangered California Condor dies from lead poisoning
- US plans to slow ships down to protect critically endangered North Atlantic Right whales
- Research on blue whales near shipping lanes off California after spate of deaths.
- Bubonic plague outbreak amongst Black-footed ferrets and prairie dogs in South Dakota
- Splitters identify new species of Goliath grouper
- Are we facing a new ‘Mass Extinction’?
- Ocean 'dead zones' multiply from 4 to 400
- Cold War-era uranium processing plant reopens as nature preserve
- Florida’s wildlife to be paved over by 2060
- 10% of US rarest waterfowl found dead
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Rare White Killer Whale Spotted in Alaskan WatersA very rare and unusual white kilelr whale has been photographed off the Aleutian Islands.
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The world's smallest cetacean is sinking towards a man-made extinction.The Vaquita porpoise, the smallest cetacean, is found only in the Gulf of Carolina. The population numbers just 2-300, and is under threat from fishing nets.
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Princess Cruise Lines pay $750,000 over the death of a Humpback whale in Alaska.Princess Cruises agreed to pay out $750,000 in fines after one of it's ships was involved in the death of a pregnant Humpback.
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Canadas rarest mammal, the Vancouver Island marmot, is making a strong recovery.Vancouver Island Marmot numbers have increased by 70 this year thanks to a captive breeding programme. The species, whose numbers had declined to around 80 individuals 8 years ago now numbers approximately 225
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US Army project foiled by Ivory-billed woodpecker.
A judge in the US has ordered a halt to a US army engineering scheme that would have taken billions of gallons of water from the swapms where the Ivory-billed woodpecker is thought to be clinging on.
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Endangered Western Pond turtles released in to the wild.58 highly endangered Western Pond turtles are being released back into the wild where they hatched after spending some months in safekeeping at Oregon Zoo.
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Millipede with the most legs is rediscovered after 80 years.The worlds leggiest millipede has been rediscovered. Illacme plenipes, which has up to 750 legs, has been spotted in a tiny patch of San Benito County, California, the first time it had been seen since 1926.
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Many new species and new records of marine species discovered in Hawaiian IslandsThe Census of Marine Life has discovered many new species, including crabs, corals, sea cucumbers, sea quirts, worms, sea stars, snails, and clams.
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Spate of Blue whale deaths off CaliforniaSeptember 2007. Three Blue whales found dead in 2 weeks off California.
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New genus of cricket discovered in Arizona.Researcher in Arizona discovered a new genus of cricket, and potentially 3 new species of cricket in a cave in a remote corner of Arizona.
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North America's rarest mammal, the Black-footed ferret, was rediscovered 25 years ago.September 2006. It is 25 years since the Black footed ferret was rediscovered, having been decalred extinct in 1979. Thanks to a hugely succesful breeding programme, there are now more than 550 ferrets in the wild, up from just 18 in 1985.
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$10,000 Reward For Locating Live Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission are offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads a biologist from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission or The Nature Conservancy to an ivory-billed woodpecker nest, roost cavity or feeding site in Arkansas. Get your Binocs out!
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Articles about wildlife of North America
Popular news stories from North America
- 2 new cave millipedes discovered in Grand Canyon.
- First beaver in New York for 200 years.
- Seven more Californian condors relased in Arizona.
- Red knot numbers plummet by 70 percent in 3 years.
- Rattlesnake Roundups.
- Black-footed Ferrets Return to Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota.
- When is a worm not a worm? When it’s a jellyfish….
- Populations of many of the US most commons birds have crashed.
