Tag: species

  • ICYMI: Turtle Transfer, Parks Reopen & Giant Lizards in Georgia

    ICYMI: Turtle Transfer, Parks Reopen & Giant Lizards in Georgia

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    Mexico seizes a dispatch of 15,000 freshwater turtles, some of these endangered species, even en route to China.  The US Fish and Wildlife Service licenses endangered species status to Pacific fishers from the southern Sierra Nevada, but denies it from the bulk of the mustelid’s range, from Northern California to the Canadian border.  The US death toll in the…

  • ICYMI: Australian Apocalypse, Farewell to Paddlefish & Baby Whales

    ICYMI: Australian Apocalypse, Farewell to Paddlefish & Baby Whales

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    Catastrophic bushfires in Australia burn off an area larger than Portugal. Twenty-six people have died, along with a billion animals could have perished–maybe more– even leaving some species about the verge of extinction. Australian authorities are likely to kill 10,000 feral camels because they are competing with humans for scarce water. Smoke from the fires…