Great Lakes Echo (https://greatlakesecho.org/tag/endangered-wildlife/)
A federal grand jury has accused a man of smuggling three Burmese pythons from Canada into the United States. The man faces up to 20 years in prison and a maximum $250,000 fine if convicted.
In July, the International Union for Conservation of Nature listed the monarch butterfly as endangered for the first time in history. Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Michigan, first installed a pollinator garden in 2018. With the recent news of the monarch’s decline, the zoo is encouraging people to build wildlife habitats of their own.
Ultrasonic acoustic detectors are being used to detect and identify the northern flying squirrel that is endangered in Pennsylvania.
In a small back room of an aquarium in a Michigan suburban mall lies a tank of endangered corals native to places more than a thousand miles away.
It’s hard to count what you can’t see.
A new predator has emerged for piping plovers in the Great Lakes.
A single pair of the shorebirds nested along the lake last summer for the first time in 60 years. They’re an encouragement to the wildlife managers who are reclaiming the plover’s old habitat.
Scientists in Wisconsin are raising the next generation of this endangered fish. Some of these sturgeon could someday grow to lengths of up to eight feet and weigh 800 pounds.
A recent study looks at a failed conservation attempt.
An extreme example in an Ontario river shows these mollusks are more sensitive to pollution than we knew.