Health officials in the Mexican state of Chihuahua fail in their effort to deal with a rat plague by sending in hundreds of cats.
Originally from BBC News
Health officials in the Mexican state of Chihuahua fail in their effort to deal with a rat plague by sending in hundreds of cats.
Originally from BBC News
Scientists show how European fishing policies are driving some of the bushmeat trade in west Africa.
Originally from BBC News
Millions of tons of sediment-heavy water are being sent through the Grand Canyon in a bid to help local wildlife.
Originally from BBC News
Brown bears migrated south through North America much earlier than first thought, new research suggests.
Originally from BBC News
On Southern Maryland’s tip is what crabbers and researchers hope will be the future of the bay: a network of watermen-operated crab nurseries that can operate with little staff and a minimum of funds.
If it works, it could help stall – or halt – the collapse of the Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population. Spawning-age populations of bay crabs fell 80 percent over the 1990s. So far, the lab crustaceans are growing to be healthy adults, with a survival rate of 20 percent to 30 percent after they’re pitched into the Chesapeake Bay. Their wild peers survive at a rate of just 0.301%.
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Planting Chestnut Trees In Madison County, VA (fredericksburg.com)
Students from Orange County, VA are doing their part to re-establish chestnut trees in Madison County, VA. I remember my grandparents talking about how plentiful the chestnut trees were before they were destroyed by blight in the 1930’s.