In the latest episode of Higher Calling Wildlife® we talk with Adrian Donian of Buffalo Kloof Conservancy in South Africa about their amazing conservation work involving everything from white and black rhinos to cheetahs. Joining us is Jake Hill, a […]
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A first-of-its-kind, eight-year study has found widespread and frequent lead poisoning in North American bald and golden eagles impacting both species’ populations. The paper, “Demographic Implications of Lead Poisoning for Eagles Across North America,” was published in the journal Science. Led by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, Conservation Science Global, Inc., and U.S.
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) released the findings of an independent panel reviewing the circumstances and cause of an escaped prescribed fire at Bastrop State Park. The findings of the review, also known as a facilitated learning analysis,
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Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s Outdoor Fund have provided help for a desert bighorn sheep guzzler project. Why a water guzzler? Nevada is the driest state in the nation. By the January 29, 2022, project date, this region had gone more
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Research from the Monterey Bay Aquarium and partner institutions published in Nature Scientific Reports challenges the notion that great white sharks are the most formidable predators in the ocean. The study “Killer Whales Redistribute White Shark Foraging Pressure On Seals”
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As we enter the 2022 Year of the Tiger, World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) latest report on tiger conservation highlights that a century-long trend of wild tiger decline has finally been reversed — a rare and hard-fought conservation success story. In
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A bipartisan bill that would help address the chronic problem of pollution leaking from abandoned hardrock mines was introduced today in the U.S. Senate. Lead bill sponsors Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Senator James Risch (R-ID) were joined by Senators
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The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation provided $180,000 in funding from its Torstenson Family Endowment to help continue critical elk migration corridor mapping across the West. The grant to the University of Wyoming assists west-wide corridor mapping work, conducted collaboratively by
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The Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF) recently concluded its 45th convention, Sheep Week®, with record amounts raised again for wild sheep conservation. At this premier event for raising dedicated funding for state, provincial, territorial, and tribal wildlife agencies through the auctioning
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A cutting-edge study to examine the lives of Eastern wild turkeys has crossed the Sabine River from Louisiana into East Texas. Louisiana State University (LSU) researchers with the cooperation of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) and help from
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A Penn State University has discovered the omicron variant of the coronavirus in whitetail deer according to a report in Time magazine. According to a new study (which has not yet been peer-reviewed) published on bioRxiv, researchers at Penn State
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COVID-19 has been found in whitetail deer in Texas and numerous Midwestern states. And contrary to social media chatter, it’s not the coronavirus common to certain animals. It’s the same COVID-19 impacting people around the world. In this special edition of Higher
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“Live Animals” Thirteen boxes with green and white stickers announcing this was organic, living cargo arrived at the headquarters of Cooper Lake Wildlife Management Area in Northeast Texas. The decal had an icon of a dog, a turtle and even
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Should we poison feral hogs? For the last five years, various plans to poison feral hogs has been on tap for Texas but various challenges have changed the original plans. Click to listen. In the final installment on our series
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The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation provided $180,000 in funding from its Torstenson Family Endowment to help continue critical elk migration corridor mapping across the West. The grant to the University of Wyoming assists west-wide corridor mapping work, conducted collaboratively by
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Hog attacks are increasing in Texas. With four attacks in under two years, the trend of major hog-human conflict is rising. In this episode of Higher Calling Wildlife on the Waypoint Podcast Network, host Chester Moore and hog expert Jeff
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A new study provides strong evidence that exposure to light pollution alters predator-prey dynamics between mule deer and cougars across the intermountain West, a rapidly growing region where nighttime skyglow is an increasing environmental disturbance. The University of Michigan-led study,
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Last week, my story The Lost Turkeys drew a strong, positive response from readers. There were comments across numerous media platforms but the best part was getting photos of other color-phase birds. Natural anomalies always captivate people and getting outdoors
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The Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF) have announced partnering with SITKA and the support of the company’s Ecosystem Grants program to a critical research project on aoudad. Aoudad, endemic to the Atlas Mountains of Northern Africa, are a non-native species first
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The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) announced confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) in two spotted hyenas at a zoo in Colorado. These are the first hyenas confirmed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus
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