"It’s a bit because people are feeding them, and they’re getting into the dumpster now too. But I’ve never seen them like this before."
There seems to be a large red fox population in the region around Nuiqsut, Alaska. When I last traveled there for work, I counted 5 red fox during a 1.5 hour-long car ride.
Patrick Jones, wildlife biologist for the state Department of Fish and Game, said he has heard of dogs killing moose, caribou and a days-old musk ox calf, but nothing like this attack.
By the early 1900s, trapping and poisoning had killed off most wolverines in the Lower 48, and today, fewer than 300 remain, mostly in Washington,...
‘Thousands’ perish amid calls for a state of emergency in the region, with fears anthrax vaccine is a cause of death.
Biologists are investigating a surprising connection between two animals that aren’t exactly well loved in parts of Southeast. Gustavus locals suspect wolves are picking off deer at a popular hunting spot on an island near the mainland.
A tick species that was discovered for the first time in the U.S. on a Hunterdon County farm last year has survived the winter.
Biologists flew over southern British Columbia last week to count the number of caribou in the last remaining herd that migrates from B.C. to the U.S. — and what they saw stunned them.
Invasive species are a more important issue as increasingly warm winters and wetter summers help grasslands and forests in the North grow like never before, changing the very fabric of the North’s ecosystem.
Wolverines are thought of as shadowy solitary carnivores, few and far between as they wander B.C.'s
The federal government is spending $5.7 million over three years to eradicate introduced deer on six islands on Haida Gwaii.
A hunter from Fort Resolution, N.W.T., is angered by what he claims is the harassment of caribou hunters by officers from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
Muscle tapeworm cysts in caribou meat.
Warmer winter temperatures are bringing Arctic Ground Squirrels out of hibernation
“If black bears are starting to stir, brown bears could be, too,” a state Fish and Game official said.
More than 658,000 reindeer are up for vaccination in order to prevent another outbreak of the deadly bacteria infection.
Rising ocean levels are causing waves to break on the statues and platforms built a thousand years ago. The island risks losing its cultural heritage. Again.
Coyotes have killed at least three dogs in Seward, and police are trying to trap the predators before they get more.
The death of an elk in eastern Finland has been blamed on chronic wasting disease, which has never been seen in the country before.
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