Latest Update: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that Wisdom, the albatross, has returned to Midway.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released an updated announcement regarding the impact of the tsunami on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific.
Apparently, the 60-year-old albatross “Wisdom” has not been seen alive as originally [...]

The endangered Delmarva fox squirrel is named for the location of its historic range on the Delmarva Peninsula, which includes Delaware, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and eastern Virginia (DEL-MAR-VA). The largest natural population of the Delmarva fox squirrel is located at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland, although a growing population lives at Chincoteague [...]

Azalea is a female bald eagle that hatched in 2009 at the Norfolk Botanical Gardens in Virginia. Her early life was watched on the Norfolk Eagle Cam, which was located at Azalea’s home nest. Before Azalea fledged in June 2009, she was outfitted with a radio transmitter, and the Center for Conservation Biology is now [...]

A little inspiration for all the environmental educators out there in our National Wildlife Refuge System. This was taken at the Upper Souris NWR 75th anniversary celebration in North Dakota. This cute little girl was playing the Migration Game and learning more about migratory birds and what she can do to protect them. A conservationist [...]

The Friends of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge have been broadcasting images from a live Eagle Cam at a natural nest at the refuge since late 2004. Blackwater NWR is the largest refuge in Maryland and hosts the biggest breeding population of bald eagles on the East Coast north of Florida.
The Blackwater Eagle Cam nest has [...]

The Southeast Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service posted some dramatic photos on their Flickr page showing a Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge prescribed fire near Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the photo below is the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) where the space shuttles are assembled before being rolled out to the [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Northeast Region posted this wonderful photo on their Flickr page showing one of the “shell trees” on Wild Beach at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge / Assateague Island National Seashore (NPS). Visitors like to decorate the remnants of trees, once in the marsh, but now overtaken by the beach as [...]

Travelocity has developed a “Travel for Good” program, where they offer customers the chance to offset the environmental impact of their trips. For this carbon offset program, Travelocity has partnered with The Conservation Fund to plant trees for a greener tomorrow. Every penny donated to the Travelocity carbon offset program goes to The Conservation Fund’s [...]

The Miami Herald reported yesterday that on December 3, Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park in Florida plans to open its gate and welcome endangered wild manatees into the park this winter.

It will be the first time wild manatees will be able to reach the main spring that feeds the Homosassa River since the gate [...]

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is located in southern Georgia and northern Florida and is one of the oldest and best preserved freshwater systems in America. Native Americans called it Okefenoka, meaning “Land of the Trembling Earth”. The refuge was created in 1937 and is almost 402,000 acres in size (roughly 300,000 football fields) of cypress [...]

These colorful sea stars may look passive and harmless, but they are often referred to as the tigers or wolves of the intertidal zone.
As the National Park Service explains:

Sea stars, a sturdy yet flexible predator, are the tigers of the intertidal zone. When a sea star finds a mussel that seems like it will make [...]

This amazing photo shows a large congregation of spectacled eiders wintering in polynyas in the
Bering Sea south of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Polynyas are areas of open water surrounded by sea ice.
Spectacled eiders, which are threatened throughout their range, are large diving sea ducks that spend most of the year in marine waters where they [...]