(EnviroNews World News) — A video featuring a man walking with, and later riding a tamed Yellowstone grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) through the pristine forests of Montana, has accrued over four million views thus far. The man, Casey Anderson, rescued the bear, that he later named Brutus,…
(EnviroNews Polls) — On March 3, 2016, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) proposed a new rule that would delist the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) grizzly bear, and advocate the hunting and elimination of at least 200 of the region’s approximately 715 specimens. The move fueled…
(EnviroNews Polls) — In December of 2015, several environmental groups, spearheaded by WildEarth Guardians, won a pivotal lawsuit against Wildlife Services, a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agency, for its wolf-killing program in Washington State. On February 3, 2016, WildEarth Guardians, in concert with four other groups, filed…
(EnviroNews World News) — Washington D.C. — Friends of Animals (FoA), the non-profit, international animal advocacy organization, announced on May 19, 2015, that they had filed a legal petition with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) compelling the agency to rescind its registration of the sterility-inducing pesticide porcine zona…