#Monarch butterfly may be added to endangered species list

#Monarch butterfly may be added to endangered species list

“#Monarch butterfly may be added to endangered species list” The beloved monarch butterfly is being considered — again — for federal designation as an endangered species. Environmentalists are urging the Trump administration to grant the orange-and-black butterflies protection under the Endangered Species Act in light of a rapid decline in their numbers. Conservation group Xerces…

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#Invasive lizards threaten wildlife in Georgia

#Invasive lizards threaten wildlife in Georgia

“#Invasive lizards threaten wildlife in Georgia” Georgia wildlife officials are trying to eradicate an invasive lizard that consumes the unhatched eggs of a number of local animals. The Argentine black and white tegus, which can grow up to four feet long, has been spotted in Toombs and Tattnall counties in the southeast part of the…

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#Endangered marmot avoids extinction on ski slopes

#Endangered marmot avoids extinction on ski slopes

“#Endangered marmot avoids extinction on ski slopes” Vancouver Island marmots are hitting the slopes in a race to save their species, which even wildlife conservationists call “unbearably cute.” The woodland rodent, a cousin of squirrels and groundhogs, can be found throughout North America, Europe and Asia, but the critically endangered Marmota vancouverensis, the largest of…

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#Squirrel gets drunk off fermented fruit in Minnesota backyard

#Squirrel gets drunk off fermented fruit in Minnesota backyard

“#Squirrel gets drunk off fermented fruit in Minnesota backyard” This squirrel’s drunk as a skunk. A boozehound rodent was caught looking hilariously wobbly after getting wasted off of a fermented pear in Minnesota, wild footage shows. Video shows the half-cocked critter is stumbling and nearly toppling over sideways — before steadying himself on the edge…

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#Owl set free after being found in Rockefeller Center Christmas tree

#Owl set free after being found in Rockefeller Center Christmas tree

“#Owl set free after being found in Rockefeller Center Christmas tree” Rockefeller the owl is free again. The tiny brown-and-white speckled Saw-whet that inadvertently traveled from Oneonta to Manhattan aboard this year’s Rockefeller Christmas tree was released back into its natural habitat on Tuesday night. Workers with the Ravensbeard Wildlife Center in Saugerties, where Rockefeller…

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#Wolves rebound, lose protections. Now future up to voters

#Wolves rebound, lose protections. Now future up to voters

“#Wolves rebound, lose protections. Now future up to voters” YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — The saucer-sized footprints in the mud around the bloody, disemboweled bison carcass were unmistakable: wolves. A pack of 35 named after a nearby snow-dusted promontory, Junction Butte, now were snoozing on a hillside above the carcass. Tourists dressed against the weather…

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