Recent Wildlife Articles
Plastic Bottles on Fishing Nets Cut Dolphin Deaths by 88%
The Trash That Saves Lives: How Plastic Bottles Are Keeping Dolphins Out of Fishing Nets It sounds like the setup to a bad joke — a marine biologist walks into a fishing village with a bag of empty soda bottles — but what researchers discovered when they strapped those bottles onto gillnets off th
Yellowstone's Last Original Wolf Pack Is Running Out of Time
The Last Pack Standing: Mollie's Wolves Have Left Yellowstone, and the Clock Is Ticking There is a trail camera strapped to a tree deep in the Sunlight Basin of northwest Wyoming, and it holds footage that has rattled the scientific community, inflamed the ongoing American wolf debate, and sent sh
$10K Bounty Targets Hunters of Yellowstone's Oldest Wolf
A $10,000 Bounty, a 12-Year-Old Wolf, and a Hunting Season Set to Explode The debate over wolves in the American West has never lacked for heat, but what is unfolding in Wyoming this summer has pushed the temperature to a new extreme. A Texas social media influencer has posted a $10,000 cash bount
Hunters and the Public Agree on National Parks Wildlife
Americans and Hunters Are Speaking With One Voice on National Park Wildlife — Washington Isn't Listening There's a political narrative that's been treated as settled fact for years: hunters and environmentalists are adversaries, occupying opposite ends of a culture war that has carved up the Ameri
The 10 Most Dangerous Animals in North American Backcountry
The 10 Most Dangerous Animals in North American Backcountry Image credit: Flux.1 Spending time in the backcountry is one of the most rewarding pursu
What to Do When a Mountain Lion Comes to Your Town
What to Do When a Mountain Lion Comes to Your Town Image credit: Flux.1 Mountain lion encounters in suburban and rural areas have become increasingl
Alaska's Ocean Monitoring System Is Being Shut Down Early
America's Ocean Eyes Are Going Dark — And Alaska's Fishing Industry Is Paying the Price The Gulf of Alaska is one of the most productive fishing grounds on Earth. It is also, right now, one of the least understood. As salmon populations crater and snow crab stocks struggle to recover from a histor
When Dog Training Became a Federal Crime
How an obscure Farm Bill amendment nearly ended hunting with dogs in America — and the fight to stop it It happened at the worst possible moment. The House Committee on Agriculture had been grinding through markup sessions for over eight hours. Members were worn out, the room had that stale, end-o
The 10 Gnarliest Freshwater Fish in the World
The 10 Gnarliest Freshwater Fish in the World Image credit: OpenAI Beneath the surface of rivers, lakes, and swamps around the world lurks a surpris
A Man Is Dead. A Bear Did It. Glacier Hasn't Seen This in 27 Years.
Glacier National Park is dealing with its first fatal bear attack in nearly three decades, and the details are grim. A male hiker was found dead on May 6, his remains located just a couple miles up Mt. Brown Trail, about 50 feet off the path in what officials described as a densely wooded area fill
