The Associated Press published an interesting story about the toughness of endangered whooping cranes.

After the poisonous snake slithered into the whooping crane family’s marshy grounds and sank its fangs into the chick’s neck, death seemed certain.
The bird’s head quickly turned red and swelled to the size of a basketball. He refused to eat for [...]

Hawaii News Now reports that Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) has announced a deal whereby the James Campbell Company will sell valuable North Shore land (1,100 acres at $22 million) to the federal government to be protected as part of the currently 160-acre James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge. The land includes two miles of pristine coastline [...]

Tired of snow and ready for spring? Then visit the Red Wolf Howling Safari schedule and plan to attend one of these fun events in North Carolina this summer.
Join Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge staff on a Howling Safari for an unforgettable evening where you can learn about endangered red wolves, found only in the [...]

Volkswagen is working with CarbonFund.org to plant a forest that will offset CO2 emissions released by cars. The VW forest will be located in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley in northeast Louisiana, and will be planted on a 1,100-acre piece of land, which will eventually expand the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge.
Volkswagen says the [...]

The Houston Chronicle reports that wildlife officials are worried that a lack of blue crabs may cause another die-off of endangered whooping cranes:

The world’s last remaining natural flock of endangered whooping cranes, which suffered a record number of deaths last year, will probably see another die-off because of scarce food supplies at its Texas nesting [...]

The Merced Sun-Star published an article today highlighting the expected benefits that will come from a new Visitor Center at San Luis National Wildlife Refuge near Los Banos, California. The Visitor Center, which is being funded with stimulus money and is expected to open in 2011, will include a 1,500-square-foot exhibit hall and a 1,000-square-foot [...]

As this blog previously reported, sometime between Saturday, November 28, and Tuesday, December 1, the most successful breeding whooping crane in the wild was shot and killed near Cayuga, Indiana. The original reward for information that could lead to an arrest has now increased as the Defenders of Wildlife, a national non-profit conservation organization, and [...]

St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge is in Franklin County, Florida, and is an undeveloped barrier island just offshore from the mouth of the Apalachicola River in the Gulf of Mexico. The island is a haven for endangered and threatened species, including bald eagles, sea turtles, indigo snakes, gopher tortoises, and wood storks. In addition, the [...]

The Florida panther is one of the most critically endangered large mammals in the United States with about 100 cats remaining.
According to the Friends of the Florida Panther Refuge:

Although we call them Florida panthers, these shy cats once roamed throughout the entire Southeast from east Texas to the Atlantic and north to parts of Tennessee. [...]

Seacoastonline.com reports that 13-year-old Noah Lanckton of Brookline, Massachusetts told his family and friends that for his bar mitzvah, he wanted them to “donate to the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge” in Maine. As a result, Noah was able to donate $940 to the refuge, and the refuge staff says the money will be used [...]

Operation Migration is a nonprofit group that has been working with various nonprofit and government partners to create a migrating flock of whooping cranes between Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin to two different Florida national wildlife refuges. You’ve probably read about how their ultralight aircraft leads the cranes down south and teaches them how [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently alerted readers to the start of the Tour de Turtles, which is a marathon where 11 sea turtles equipped with satellite transmitters are tracked to see which will be the first to travel 1,628 miles from its nesting site. The “race” began on August 1 and within nine [...]