The Island Free Press in North Carolina is reporting that the Defenders of Wildlife and the National Wildlife Refuge Association, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, have filed suit to stop the Bonner Bridge replacement at Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
As this blog reported on December 20, [...]

The “Ding on the Wing” newsletter of the Ding Darling Wildlife Society recently announced the creation of the iNature Trail at Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge in Florida.
From the Ding Darling Wildlife Society:
Designed to appeal to the next generation’s techie side and get them outside, the Refuge iNature Trail along Wildlife Drive has [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently posted a photo of the pad fire that occurred at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, while the space shuttle Atlantis was getting ready to be rolled out to the launch pad. According to the USFWS:

The Pad Fire was started by a lightning strike on the Merritt [...]

WPTV.com reports that more alligators are being seen at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, as alligators seek out water during the intense drought.

Spardello and Sondra Pastore have been coming to the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge for more than a year, but they’ve never seen anything like this. The water levels are so low, [...]

The Epoch Times reports that half of the large Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia and Florida is burned.

“The total size of the Refuge is 192,044 acres and half of it is burned off. So far 40 percent of it is contained but it is not enough. If drought and wind continues and we [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with The Nature Conservancy to prepare for climate change at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge on the North Carolina Coast. Sea-level rise is eroding the shoreline and destroying habitat at the refuge.
This video is part of the Service’s “50 Stories, 50 States, 50 Days” storytelling series featuring [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has set up a website to provide information regarding the floods and fires that are plaguing national wildlife refuges in the South.
The USFWS reports that “in the Mississippi Valley, 27 refuges in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee are either flooded or soon will be. A major concern [...]

USA Today reports that wildlife in southwestern Louisiana — including black bear mothers and their cubs — will be affected as the Morganza Spillway is opened and the Atchafalaya Basin floods (see Atchafalaya NWR).

“A tremendous volume of water is going to be flushed into the basin,” Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham [...]

The Outer Banks Sentinel reports that efforts to control a fire on Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina is being hampered by the loss off the state-owned CL 215 “Super Scooper.”

The North Carolina Forestry Service is great at its job and “we are very appreciative of their efforts,” said Crews. But state budget [...]

Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge, which was established in 1964, is located 25 miles west of Daytona Beach in Florida. The refuge provides habitat for migrating and wintering birds and contains 21,574 acres of freshwater marshes, 5,800 acres of Cypress and mixed hardwood swamps, 2,400 acres of uplands, and more than 1,000 acres of lakes, [...]

In recognition of the one-year anniversary of the BP Gulf oil spill, HBO is premiering “Saving Pelican #895,” a documentary that looks at the intense effort that goes into saving just one bird that was impacted by the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
More than 7,000 birds were killed as a result of the April [...]

On Thursday, BP agreed to spend $1 billion this year for a variety of clean-up projects in the Gulf of Mexico, as the area tries to recover from the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
As part of the agreement, five Gulf states will get $100 million each and the federal government will get $200 million. [...]