Wildlife Management

A 34-year-old woman in New Jersey was attacked by a black bear last week as she walked from her Sussex County home to her mailbox. The attack took place on Wednesday, May 11 at approximately 4:30 p.m. According to local reports, the woman saw two or three bears before she found herself engaged in “a...

In October of last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared that 23 species of birds, mussels, bats, and fish had gone extinct. One of those species, the ivory-billed woodpecker, had been on the Endangered Species List since 1967 but hadn’t been officially seen since 1944. The key word here...

On May 10, a U.S. Army soldier passed away at the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) near Anchorage, Alaska, due to injuries sustained in a bear attack. According to a press release from JBER, the 673d Security Forces Squadron initially responded to the incident and Alaska Wildlife Troopers are...

City officials, game wardens, and animal control authorities in Dallas, Texas, are reeling after an urban coyote dragged a 2-year-old boy off his front porch in the early morning hours of May 3, 2022. The boy’s name is Landon Thomas, and the injuries that he sustained during the attack sent him to a...

Foxes have gotten a lot of bad press lately—from biting a congressman to breaking into the Smithsonian National Zoo and killing 25 flamingos to carrying the highly pathogenic avian influenza. So here’s a clip of some foxes getting into a bit of good trouble. In some instances, wildlife interacting...

MeatEater viewer Shanen Pitzer came across this gruesome scene while foraging morels in Illinois. While beavers are known for being incredibly resourceful engineers, the talented sawyers of the animal kingdom, they didn’t get that way by accident. Or maybe they got that way because of accidents...

Twenty-five American flamingos and one Northern pintail duck were killed at the Smithsonian National Zoo this week in what appears to be a lone-fox attack. Three additional flamingos were injured and are receiving treatment at the Zoo’s veterinary hospital, officials announced in a press release...

Six people are facing a slew of criminal charges after a multi-agency investigation tied them to more than 100 poaching-related violations in Vermont and New Hampshire. According to the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department (VFW), which headed up a joint investigation with assistance from New...

On Mar. 12, 2022, officers with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) pulled over a 31-year-old man named Andrew Chao. Upon inspection of the vehicle, they found a live white sturgeon in the trunk of his small sedan. The fish, so large that it barely fit the confines of Chao’s trunk...

Hunters and conservationists across the country are celebrating after attempts to outlaw black bear hunting in California fell flat for the second year in a row. In a 4-0 vote during an April 21 meeting, members of the California Fish and Game Commission voted to deny a petition from the Humane...

In 2019, Nathanal L. Knox plotted and implemented a scheme that was sure to land him some money. This year it landed him a seat in the courtroom, too. According to a press release from the Department of Justice, Knox placed advertisements on at least 38 Facebook pages, including Hunt Florida, Ohio...