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Special report

State Of The Animal

In Canada, wildlife face many challenges, as they are hunted, managed, and their food sources and habitats are altered by climate change.  This Special Report has received generous funding from readers to pay for reporting on an issue which, like its subjects,  is often out of sight and out of mind. Please subscribe or make a donation to ensure their story continues to be told.

State of the Animal, Climate change, rainforest, habitat destruction
543 Articles

The massive campaign to air-drop tasty rabies vaccines to raccoons

Raccoons are a main carrier of rabies in the U.S. A government effort wants to distribute millions of tasty vaccines to protect both animals and people.
State Of The Animal
By
  • Emily Mullin
  • News
  • US News
September 28th 2023

Crowding out the cougars

Expanded development on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, viewed as a climate refuge, is encroaching on prime wildlife habitat. As big cats find it harder to avoid people, many are winding up dead.
State Of The Animal
By
  • Liza Gross
  • News
September 21st 2023

Time to have the roadkill talk

It’s the environmental problem no one is paying attention to, argues Ben Goldfarb in his new book, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet.
State Of The Animal
By
  • Jackie Flynn Mogensen
  • News
September 20th 2023

The search for the elusive clown wedgefish

Scientists were writing an obituary for this species when a lawyer-turned-internet-sleuth found evidence of its existence in an unlikely place.
State Of The Animal
By
  • Brian Howey
  • Melody Robbins
  • News
September 14th 2023

Global heating and the curious case of shrinking fish

An analysis of thousands of species finds some invertebrates and plants are also getting smaller, while others are increasing in body size.
State Of The Animal
By
  • Patrick Greenfield
  • News
September 13th 2023

What’s worse for the birds in North Dakota — gas land or biofuel crops?

A new study based on breeding bird surveys found that grassland birds reacted even more negatively to corn and soybean fields than they did to land used for oil and gas development.
State Of The Animal
By
  • Lydia Larsen
  • News
  • US News
August 30th 2023

African penguins could be extinct by 2035

The population has declined dramatically over the past 100 years. In the early 20th century, it is thought that there were probably several million breeding pairs. Today, fewer than 11,000 breeding pairs remain.
State Of The Animal
By
  • Annalise Murray
  • News
August 18th 2023

The weird way that human waste is killing corals

Wastewater fuels blooms of reef-smothering algae. Better engineering and an army of funny-looking fish can come to the rescue.
State Of The Animal
By
  • Matt Simon
  • News
August 17th 2023

This coral does it with the lights on

Scientific wisdom says corals reproduce at night. But on reefs around the Indo-Pacific, sex also happens in broad daylight.
State Of The Animal
By
  • Chloe Glad
  • News
August 8th 2023

Crows and magpies are using anti-bird spikes to build nests

A Dutch study identifies several examples of corvids’ "amazing" ability to adapt to the urban environment.
State Of The Animal
By
  • Ian Sample
  • News
July 20th 2023

‘Not so alien’: biologist busts myths and explores enigma of the octopus

David Scheel’s study of mysterious creatures separates misconceptions from the often more extraordinary facts.
State Of The Animal
By
  • Nicola Davis
  • News
July 18th 2023

When ‘divorce’ is for the birds

Affairs or lengthy spells apart commonly spell divorce for human couples — but it seems similar factors play a role in breakups among birds.
State Of The Animal
By
  • Nicola Davis
  • News
July 14th 2023

Driven out by decades of conflict, native giraffes return to Angola

In a message of hope, the animals were brought in from Namibia to establish a group in their historical homeland.
State Of The Animal
By
  • Graeme Green
  • News
July 12th 2023

Human activities affect wildlife — even in nature reserves

New research finds that tropical mammals suffer the impact of deforestation even if they live in protected areas.
State Of The Animal
By
  • Helena Horton
  • News
July 4th 2023

Fruit flies have shorter lives when exposed to dead ones

Researchers at the University of Michigan suggest their insights might prove useful for helping people who are routinely surrounded by death, such as combat troops and health-care workers.
State Of The Animal
By
  • Ian Sample
  • News
June 27th 2023

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