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News Articles: wildlife

U.S. bald eagle populations have more than quadrupled in the lower 48 states since 2009, according to a new survey from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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  • Animals

Once Imperiled, America's Bald Eagle Populations Are Soaring

The number of bald eagles in the lower 48 states has quadrupled since 2009, according to a new survey. The findings are a bright spot in an otherwise troubling picture for American birds.

March 25, 2021
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  • Nathan Rott
The tail of a right whale, tangled in blue rope and fishing equipment

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  • Animals

Bittersweet Right Whale Calving Season Brings Mixed Results

The critically endangered whales had more babies than they have in years, but still not enough to save the species. And several died in all-too-common ways.

March 18, 2021
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  • Emily Jones
closeup of Rocky the indigo snake

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  • Animals

Authorities Investigate Killing Of Rare — And Harmless — Indigo Snake

Rocky, a federally protected indigo snake, was killed last month. Authorities are investigating.

March 11, 2021
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  • Emily Jones
The tail of a right whale, tangled in blue rope and fishing equipment

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  • News

Endangered Right Whale Found Dead Off South Carolina Beach

Officials say a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale has been found dead off the coast of South Carolina. 

March 01, 2021
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  • Associated Press
Seaside Sparrow

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  • Environment

In Georgia's Salt Marshes, An Interspecies Smackdown Is Rising

Scientists film a fish killing and eating a seaside sparrow’s hatchlings, an example of how climate change is upending ecosystems.

February 19, 2021
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  • Science Friday
Workers in protective gear wash off a lightly-oiled pelican

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  • Environment

Pelican Oiled By Golden Ray Salvage Rescued, Rehabbed, Released

Crews monitoring the environmental impacts of the effort to cut up and remove the capsized ship found the lightly oiled pelican and turned it over to bird rehabilitation experts.

February 18, 2021
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  • Emily Jones
a gopher tortoise

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  • Animals

DNR Aims To Protect Georgia's Gopher Tortoises With Land Purchase

The undeveloped land will be preserved to protect multiple populations of gopher tortoise that live there.

February 05, 2021
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  • Emily Jones
Cuban treefrog

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  • Animals

Watch For Invasive Cuban Tree Frogs In Georgia, Scientists Warn

The Cuban frogs first appeared in Georgia in 2004. They are raising concerns with the Department of Natural Resources because they are competing with native species for resources.

November 29, 2020
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  • Emily Jones
A macaque monkey in a tree in Fukushima prefecture. After the 2011 nuclear disaster, towns and neighborhoods in Fukushima were left devoid of humans for years, and nature started to reclaim the space.

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  • Asia

In Rural Fukushima, 'The Border Between Monkeys And Humans Has Blurred'

After people evacuated their homes following a nuclear disaster in the Japanese prefecture, nature started to reclaim the space. The humans are trying to return, but it's an uneasy coexistence.

September 10, 2020
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  • Kat Lonsdorf
A wild boar and two of its young roam around Teufelssee, or Devil's Lake, in Germany in August.

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  • World

Wild Boars Are Causing Havoc In Germany, But Humans Are Making It Worse

They're stealing laptops and causing mayhem at children's birthday parties. Authorities warn if the boars rely on people for food, it could have dangerous consequences for both animals and humans.

September 09, 2020
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  • Rob Schmitz
A one-horned rhinoceros and a calf wade through flood water at the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam, India, Thursday. Floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed dozens of people in this northeastern region. The floods also inundated most of Kaziranga National Park, home to a large concentration of the rare rhino species.

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  • World

Floods Put Residents And Vulnerable Wildlife At Risk In India's Assam

Heavy rains in the northeastern region have caused flooding and landslides, killing at least 80 people. Workers are also rushing to save species including the greater one-horned rhino.

July 17, 2020
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  • Sushmita Pathak
Researchers examine an Evening Bat in Macon in 2015.

Help Count Georgia Bats For Science

The state only has a handful of scientists on the payroll who keep track of Georgia’s 16 different bat species. But there are, of course, untold numbers...

May 21, 2020
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  • Grant Blankenship
Workers watch the backfires they set with the flamethrowers mounted on their ATVs at Sprewell Bluff during a recent prescribed burn. The land was part of some 10,000 acres of public and private land maintained by fire in the area.

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  • Environment

How The South Fights Fire With Fire, And What The West Can Learn

It was a superb Spring day in the mountains of west Georgia, with bluebird skies and a light breeze through the longleaf pines, when a helicopter rained...

February 03, 2020
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  • Grant Blankenship
In 2015, Trapper Dan Eaton prepares to release a female coyote, wearing a GPS tracking collar, after working with scientists to include her in a three year study of coyotes in the Deep South.

Seeing Coyotes Everywhere? New Science Explains Why

Three years ago, a coyote with ice blue eyes lay stock still as scientists took her blood, weighed her, and fixed a GPS collar around her neck on a dirt...

January 08, 2020
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  • Grant Blankenship
Then UGA graduate student Mike Hooker takes samples in 2013 from a bear killed in the one day middle Georgia bear hunt. The study Hooker worked on established limits on how many of the 400 or so mile Georgia bears could be killed every year.

Only One Bear Taken In One-Day Middle Georgia Hunt

Georgia has bears in the mountains to the north and in the swamps in the south, but there’s also a small population in the middle of the state, about...

December 27, 2019
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  • Grant Blankenship
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