The Gila trout was one of the original species listed under the Endangered Species Act in 1973. At that time, its range had been reduced to only four streams within the Gila forest. Through recovery efforts, federal officials decided in 2006 to downlist the trout to threatened status. However, wildfires burning around the West this [...]
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Federal maritime officials have approved a plan to protect whales in and around San Francisco Bay. The plan is a result of an increase in accidents involving whales and cargo ships. Migrating blue, fin and humpback whales have been lured close to California’s shore by plentiful krill, the shrimp-like organisms they eat. They then come [...]
At the height of the tourist season a vast red tide algae bloom is threatening the multimillion dollar shellfish industry on the Atlantic seaboard of Ireland. In mid-July the bloom spread into Donegal bay, closing two beaches, and moved across Mayo, into Kerry and Cork and in parts of Clare and Galway. The bloom has [...]
Over the past two months, the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program has documented three dolphins that have been struck by boats. Two of the dolphins were recently born calves. Mote’s Stranding Investigations Program has also recovered several large sea turtles that had been struck by boats. These incidents offer a strong reminder that we share our [...]
After 24 years of litigation, U.S. District Judge Alan Gold has given the okay to an $880 million plan to improve Everglades’s water quality. The federal approval came just over a week after the latest plan was submitted by the South Florida Water Management District, the lead state agency on Everglades’s restoration efforts. This key [...]
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