The Oasis Valley speckled dace is a distinctive fish, with an elongated body covered in black freckles over a gold or silver-hued surface. Unfortunately for this rare species of dace, they only reside in a single spot on the planet: The springs which feed Nevada’s Amargosa River. Now the Oasis Valley speckled dace is at […]
Last week, conservationists at the Hudson River Estuary Program (HREP) in New York hooked a massive, monstrous-looking fish less than 100 miles outside of Manhattan. The creepy find was announced in a Facebook post Wednesday by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation NYS DEC). Officials discovered that the gigantic catch was an Atlantic […]
MANITOWOC, Wis. (WFRV) – Families and wildlife enthusiasts gathered in Manitowoc to see salmon released into the wild. At the Lincoln Park Zoo, more than 11,500 Coho Salmon were raised over the last year to kill an invasive species of fish threatening the Great Lakes called Alewives. During the summer months, those fish often wash […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has released two conservationists who worked to save the endangered Asiatic cheetah before spending five years in prison on espionage charges, local media reported on Tuesday. A report by the Tehran newspaper Etemad said authorities had released Niloufar Bayani and Houman Jowkar on Monday night, who were part of a […]
When tour guide and wildlife photographer Gaurav Ramnarayanan set out on safari on the evening of January 24, 2024, he wasn’t looking for tigers. The 25-year-old was leading a private tour in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Kaziranga National Park, a 430 square-kilometer wildlife reserve in India’s northeastern Assam state. While it’s home to […]
SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. government said Thursday it plans to spend more than $1 billion over the next decade to help recover depleted populations of salmon in the Pacific Northwest, and that it will help figure out how to offset the hydropower, transportation and other benefits provided by four controversial dams on the Snake […]