#Spooked terns abandon 2,000 eggs after drone crash

#Spooked terns abandon 2,000 eggs after drone crash

“#Spooked terns abandon 2,000 eggs after drone crash” Enlarge Image “Drone owners are attracted by the nesting colonies of birds, and then their actions destroy it,” said a warden for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Nick Molsberry. Getty Images About 2,000 tern eggs in California were abandoned after an illegal drone flight over…

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#Canadian woman busted for selling polar bear skulls to agent

#Canadian woman busted for selling polar bear skulls to agent

“#Canadian woman busted for selling polar bear skulls to agent” A 26-year-old woman from Canada has been busted for allegedly selling two polar bear skulls to an undercover agent and trying to cross over into Quebec with “numerous undeclared wildlife items” including crocodile feet and a three-toed sloth, federal officials said.  Vanessa Rondeau, the owner…

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#White dolphin seen swimming off California coastline

#White dolphin seen swimming off California coastline

“#White dolphin seen swimming off California coastline” A white Risso’s dolphin was spotted Friday by a group of whale watchers off the Southern California coastline. In a Sunday video from Dana Point’s “Dana Wharf Whale Watch,” a man on a microphone is heard pointing out the rare animal in a pod of what Fox 35…

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#Monster sturgeon caught in Detroit River

#Monster sturgeon caught in Detroit River

“#Monster sturgeon caught in Detroit River” A US Fish and Wildlife Service crew got the shock of their lives when, while on patrol on the Detroit River, they reeled in a nearly 6-foot-10, 240-pound sturgeon, likely over 100 years old. The fish, believed to be one of the largest ever caught in the United States,…

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#Genetically modified mosquitoes being released in Florida

#Genetically modified mosquitoes being released in Florida

“#Genetically modified mosquitoes being released in Florida” Thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes have begun to be released in Florida this week as part of an effort to combat a disease-spreading species of the insect. The buzzy project, from British biotech company Oxitec, aims to curb the population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which can spread diseases…

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