Posts Tagged Wildlife

Sea turtle comeback in a corner of the Caribbean

In this May 2, 2013 photo, a leatherback turtle heads back into the ocean after burying her clutch of eggs in the sand at daybreak on a narrow strip of beach in Grande Riviere, Trinidad. In years past, poachers from Grande Riviere and nearby towns would ransack the turtles’ buried eggs and hack the critically threatened reptiles to death with machetes to sell their meat in the market. Now, the turtles are the focus of a thriving tourist trade, with people so devoted to them that they shoo birds away when the turtles first start out as tiny hatchlings scurrying to sea.  (AP Photo/David McFadden)

GRANDE RIVIERE, Trinidad (AP) — Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northeastern coast of Trinidad while villagers await wearing dimmed headlamps in the dark. Their black carapaces glistening, the turtles inch along the moonlit beach, using their powerful front flippers to move their bulky frames onto the sand.

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Rabies confirmed in bat found in Albuquerque

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico health officials are urging parents to tell children not to handle wild animals.

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Arkansas Game and Fish Commission leases land

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has signed a 99-year lease for nearly 19,000 acres on the Maumelle River Wildlife Management Area.

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Mexican wolf captured again after straying in NM

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It’s strike two for a Mexican gray wolf that was released into the wild just weeks ago.

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Texas Fishing Report

Here is the weekly fishing report as compiled for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for May 15 and also available on the Internet at http://www.txfishing.com:

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