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The Grand Rapids, Michigan, resident was convicted of torching a Michigan State University animal research laboratory in 1992. Now Rod Coronado says he has turned to legal forms of animal activism to advocate for the rights of wolves.
This long-lived native species is getting cleaner, but its numbers are still kept in check by overfishing, parasites and dams.
A little blue butterfly is raising big questions about how to help animals adapt to a changing climate.
Study says food, water, elevation, vegetation, remoteness are suitable. Recolonization could bring political and cultural problems similar to those involving wolves.
The Michigan Butterfly Network will soon be sending volunteers out to survey the state’s butterflies.
Michigan has been the hotbed of the endangered Karner blue butterfly. But now a changing climate threatens the blue bug.
Once nearly extinct in the Great Lakes region, piping plovers are on the rebound.
They used radio tracking, GPS loggers and aerial imagery to follow a dozen turtles on a Lake Huron island.
A bipartisan bill that is still in draft would remove federal protection of the gray wolf in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
A fight over logging restrictions is delaying federal protection of the northern long-eared bat, a Great Lakes species already decimated in the American Northeast.