Wildlife and conservation of Canada and the USA.
Recent North America news
- First California condor egg in Pinnacles National Monument for 100 years
- Proposed US legislation would prevent millions of bird deaths
- Hundreds if pelicans stranding in California & Oregon
- US “State of the Birds 2010” report shows climate change threatens hundreds of species
- Common pesticide identified as major threat to frogs worldwide
- Musk ox population decline due to climate warming, not humans
- USA in favour of resuming Humpback hunt
- Endangered Newell’s petrel threatened by luxury resort in Hawaii
- Huge new national park to be established in eastern Canada
- Huge INTERPOL investigation into illegal wildlife trade across 18 countries
- Bringing bison back to North American landscapes
- Polar bear species just 150,000 years old
- Jaguar amongst a host of wildlife photographed just 30 miles south of US-Mexico border
- Leucistic junco in Virginia
- 3 California condors killed by lead poisoning
More North America news
- Deadly bat ‘White Nose Syndrome’ spreading across USA
- Kentucky Man Sentenced for Poisoning Hawks and Vultures
- Hawaii considers strict law to halt killing of endangered monk seals
- Record 40,499 Sandhill cranes counted in southern Arizona
- Top 10 tiger trouble spots in 2010
- Monarch butterfly numbers hit all time low
- Canada to kill up to 50,000 seal pups as Winter Olympics begin
- Hawaiian False killer whale numbers in steep decline
- Leucistic Bald eagle from Oregon
- Extinct in the Wild, Kihansi Spray toad breeding and on display at Bronx Zoo
- Lead paint still killing thousands of rare seabirds on Midway Island – outrage must end now say conservation groups
- Join America’s Great Backyard Bird Count
- Lynx killed in Colorado 10 years after release
- Unprecedented number of cold-related manatee deaths in Florida
- New photos of Ivory-billed woodpecker claims
Related News Articles
Almost one year after the death of the last known wild jaguar in the USA in Arizona, The Sky Island Alliance have released the first photographs of a northern jaguar in the Mexican State of Sonora.
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2000 sea turtles rescued from unusually cold sea off FloridaThe unusually long spell of cold weather in Florida has required a mass rescue of sea turtles throughout the state. More than 2,000 sea turtles have been rescued so far.
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There are approximately 100 panthers in Florida today, up from a low of 20 to 30 individuals 22 years ago. This number is still dangerously low and vehicle strikes are a major cause of death for the panther.
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Record number of manatee deaths in Florida in 2009There are thought to be around 3200 Manatees living in Florida, so this represents some 12.5% of the population - Clearly an unsustainable rate.
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Huge Blue whale killed by a ship in California.A huge, 72 foot long, female Blue whale has been killed by a collision with a ships propeller off California.
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One of the world's rarest cats has been shot dead June 2009. A reward of up to $15,200 is being offered for information.
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First fishers born in Washington since reintroduction began US Biologists have confirmed the first sightings of newborn fishers in Washington State since restoration of the state-endangered species began two years ago.
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Possible new population of North Atlantic Right whales discovered off GreenlandThe recordings in the Cape Farewell Ground raise the possibility that the eastern North Atlantic right whale population may still exist.
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Wild Jaguar collared in ArizonaWhile there has been some evidence, including camera trap photos, of a few jaguars in Arizona in the last decade, this accidental development is very exciting for conservationists.
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White-nose syndrome spreading through bats in North East America – Now in PennsylvaniaDeadly Whitenose syndrome spreading into bats in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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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 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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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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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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The 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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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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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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The Nature Conservancy have increased the reward for finding an Ivory-billed woodpecker to $50,000. 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.
