Hacker News with Generative AI: Wildlife Conservation

Red squirrels 'to vanish from England' unless vaccine against squirrelpox funded (theguardian.com)
Red squirrels will soon disappear from England unless the government funds a vaccine against squirrelpox, one of the biggest groups set up to protect the species has warned.

Wildlife Conservation, England, Vaccines, Endangered Species

7 points by pseudolus 4 days ago | 0 comments

'That's a bloodbath': How a federal program kills wildlife for private interests (npr.org)
A federal program kills hundreds of thousands of wild animals a year. Documents obtained by NPR show that many of those animals were killed in places where no damage to livestock was reported.

Wildlife Conservation, Government Programs, Environmental Issues, Animal Welfare

21 points by thunderbong 41 days ago | 5 comments

For ranchers in Costa Rica, jaguars and pumas become unexpected allies (mongabay.com)
Since 2013, a joint project between Costa Rican conservation authorities and wildcat NGO Panthera has worked to tackle the problem of jaguars and pumas preying on ranchers’ livestock.

Wildlife Conservation, Costa Rica, Human-Wildlife Conflict

55 points by PaulHoule 43 days ago | 18 comments

US man, 81, sentenced to six months for creating giant hybrid sheep for hunting (theguardian.com)
An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced on Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in central Asia and the US to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota.

Wildlife Conservation, Animal Welfare, Crime, Law Enforcement, Genetics

58 points by wwarner 51 days ago | 34 comments

You could push it to extinction: social media is putting rarest wildlife at risk (theguardian.com)
From breeding spots overrun by visitors to photographers disturbing endangered species, experts say the rarer the find is, the bigger the problem

Wildlife Conservation, Social Media, Endangered Species, Environmental Impact

5 points by beardyw 56 days ago | 0 comments

Wildlife Conservation, Owls, Environmental Policy

19 points by rntn 140 days ago | 17 comments