Great Lakes Echo (https://greatlakesecho.org/tag/endangered-wildlife/)
The research collaboration among the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan and the Chippewa Ottawa Resource Authority in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan has demonstrated how an advisory program designed for the Anishinaabe is a useful tool for tracking fish consumption in Great Lakes tribes.
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.
A new approach to combating white-nose syndrome involves constructing ventilation systems in bat dwellings.
A recent study done in the Great Lakes highlights the importance of waterbird hotspot conservation.
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.