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Now that fall is upon us, it’s important to be mindful of what this season means for our wildlife neighbors. Animals begin to migrate and forage for food in preparation for winter, deer enter the mating season and less daylight hours mean there’s an increased risk of animals getting hit by cars. In fact, according […]

Officials are delaying a decision to declare the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct, months after grainy photos and videos emerged that purported to show the bird.

Do you put up bird feeders to feed the birds over the winter? Do you enjoy watching and even recording what birds come to your feeders?

Federal wildlife officials said Monday they are delaying a long-awaited decision to declare the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct, months after grainy photos and videos emerged that purported to show the bird flying through a Louisiana forest.

The Fish and Wildlife Service describes the moment as a wake-up call. Many of the species have not been seen in decades, and scientists have now ruled that they are extinct.

Federal wildlife officials said Monday they are delaying a long-awaited decision to declare the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct, months after grainy photos and videos emerged that purported to show the bird flying through a Louisiana forest.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will hold off on its decision to declare the ivory billed woodpecker extinct but says 21 other species are extinct

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN

In our Pyrocene age, enormous wildfires aren’t merely damaging ecosystems but transforming them.

On Aug. 15, a small wildfire was detected in the hills above West Kelowna, in British Columbia. The landscape was parched and the wind was fierce, and over the next few days the modest blaze exploded into a raging conflagration. It raced down into the valley and toward Okanagan Lake. Wind blew red-hot embers across the water, sparking new fires around the city of Kelowna.