The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that part of the recent oil spill in San Francisco Bay has started affecting birds at the Farallon Islands (see oil spill gallery).
Farallon National Wildlife Refuge is a group of islands located 28 miles west of San Francisco. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, it sustains [...]

The piping plover (Charadius melodus) is listed as endangered in the Great Lakes region and is listed as threatened along the Atlantic coast. The plovers return to their breeding grounds in late March or early April and use a depression in the sand for their nests. Unfortunately, the poorly protected nests are often vulnerable to [...]

As I reported back on October 25, the staff at the Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge in California had to evacuate during the recent California wild fires and leave behind three endangered California condor chicks in their remote nest sites. The chicks were equipped with radio transmitters, and the transmission signals indicated that two chicks [...]

Many Americans might be surprised to learn that the National Wildlife Refuge System has nine refuges in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Jamaica Passage. The Caribbean Islands NWR Complex includes Cabo Rojo, Culebra, Desecheo, Buck Island, Green Cay, Sandy Point, Laguna Cartagena, Navassa and Vieques national wildlife refuges.
In today’s New York Times, reporter [...]

Back on October 24, this blog reported on the passage of H.R. 767, also known as the Refuge Ecology Protection, Assistance, and Immediate Response (REPAIR) Act. This important bill now moves onto the Senate, and if it is passed and signed by President Bush, it will allow the government to begin awarding grants to fund [...]

As was reported in the post “Texas Border Fence and Wildlife”, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency recently gave the public a chance to comment on the proposed border wall along the Texas and Mexico border — a wall that will affect endangered and threatened wildlife at the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife [...]

The Statesman Journal in Salem, Oregon recently published an article on one of the most problematic invasive species in the National Wildlife Refuge System — the non-native nutria.
Nutria are South American aquatic mammals that were originally introduced into North America for the fur-farming industry. When it became clear the market for their fur was [...]

The Beaumont Enterprise had an article today about the migrating monarch butterflies that are moving through Texas on their way to Mexico for the winter. The article reports that the butterflies took a more coastal path due to a cold front with winds that pushed them toward the coast.
The article elaborated on how such tiny [...]