ByMichael MacDonaldThe Canadian PressPosted January 16, 2022 8:50 amNews: Head of Alberta paramedic union wants more done to protect staffclose videohttps://globalnews.ca/video/embed/8499669/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_8499669_61e717105c0a2&mute&embedAutoPlayThe city of Longueuil, Que., will meet with an animal rescue group to discuss alternatives to culling dozens of deer living in Michel Chartrand Park. The news comes after the city announced in November it had revived a controversial plan to kill most of the deer living in the urban park – Jan 9, 2022

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Fed up with nuisance deer raiding gardens and colliding with vehicles, a town in central Nova Scotia has hired four crossbow hunters to kill up to 20 of the animals inside town limits.

“There been a lot of property damage, and it’s not just gardens,” said Mike Dolter, Truro’s chief administrative officer. “Trees are getting eaten, and they’re adapting to plants thought to be deer-resistant …. We’ve had aggressive deer, particularly in rutting…

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Whales still face many threats, mostly from us, so let us savour this rare congregation of them in the Antarctic Peninsula

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Good news doesn’t get any more in-your-face than this. One thousand fin whales, one of the world’s biggest animals,were seen last weekswimming in the same seas in which they were driven to near-extinction last century due to whaling. It’s like humans never happened.

This vast assembly was spread over a five-mile-wide area between the South Orkney islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. A single whale is stupendous; imagine 1,000 of them, their misty forest of spouts, as tall as pine trees, the plosive sound of their blows, their hot breath condensing in the icy air. Their sharp dorsal fins and steel-grey bodies slide…

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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to revisit part of its decision not to protect Yellowstone National Park’s bison as an endangered species.

The Buffalo Field Campaign and Western Watersheds Project groups have been fighting since 2014 to have Yellowstone’s bison declared endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

They have argued that two separate groups of bison in the park are genetically distinct. Rather than set a population limit of 3,000 animals for the entire park, they said, the limit should be 3,000 for each herd, or 6,000 overall.

The Fish and Wildlife Service, citing a different study, has argued that the herds are not genetically distinct and rejected the listing petition in 2019,the Billings Gazette reported.

The federal agency failed to articulate why it chose one…

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When a group of researchers at Texas A&M’s Natural Resources Institute published the firstpeer-reviewed studythat surveyed the presence of a brightly colored Texas songbird across a huge swath of Texas, the results were astounding: The population of the endangered golden-cheeked warbler in the state was estimated to be 10 times larger than previously thought.

The 2012 study did not advocate changing the species’ endangered status, nor did it imply that conservation measures to protect its habitat were no longer necessary, researcherssaid at the time.https://08e135b45366f99693eb106abf395c4a.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

“Rather,” said Heather Mathewson, the lead researcher, “this study is one of many…

Animal lacking dorsal fin last seen in Antarctic labouring to swim and considered unlikely to survive

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A juvenile humpback whale has been spotted in the Antarctic entangled in fishing gear, leading to calls from conservationists for better protections along migration corridors.

The sighting last Wednesday by scientists aboard the Crystal Endeavour occurred at Mikkelsen Harbour on Trinity Island, on the western side of the Antarctic peninsula.

The researchers from the Colombian Antarctic program, PhD candidate Logan Pallin and Dr Natalia Botero-Acosta, approached the small whale to take a skin biopsy to help determine its genetic origin, sex, cortisol levels and diet.

Pallin noticed the whale’s dorsal fin was missing, and it was trailing fishing gear and…

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A wild duck harvested by a hunter in Colleton County is the first wild bird since 2016 to be found infected in the United States with highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed Friday.

Officials said in a release that the Eurasian H5 type of bird disease was found in an American wigeon and was tested by the Clemson University Veterinary Diagnostic Center in Columbia. and the diagnosis was confirmed by The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
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ByZach FitznerEarth.com staff writer

New research shows that wolves living in Norway and Sweden today are actually Finnish wolves. The research confirms that humans killed off the last of the original Norwegian wolves in the 1970s.

“The original Norwegian-Swedish wolves probably didn’t share their genetics with the wolves in Norway and Sweden today,” explained Hans Stenøien, director of theNorwegian University of Science and Technology(NTNU) University Museum.

A team of scientists led by Stenøien carried out an extensive genetic study on Norwegian-Swedish wolves. “We’ve carried out the largest genetic study of wolves in the world,” said Stenøien.https://458b687950e380f3c4c0baee26706be4.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

The research is part of a report commissioned by the Norwegian parliament on wolves in 2016. After the Norwegian wolf initially disappeared, there were rumors that wolves were released from zoos to re-establish the population but this appears to be false.